I have been working on a couple of personal growth points this week.
The first is consciously working with the reality that I (and no-one, for that matter) will ever be the strongest in any situation/circumstance.
Physically, as a kid I was bullied by bigger kids, for instance. That was an era when self defence was being promoted, and that definitely is good to know a little of, but the best combination - for me - is basic self defence skills and the ability to scream for help and/or run adequately until others can help.
I remember my adoptive father commenting on US ads on how to bulk up, or learn martial arts, along the lines of: “what if you are facing up to someone who is doing the next lesson or strengthening step?”
Similarly, in the psychic world there are skills I consider everyone should know - such as protection, although the vast majority of times that provides a barrier to disharmonious influences rather than attack (let alone the much, much, MUCH rarer actions/events described as evil), but there are also things one should do to have a healthy level of psychic strength and wellbeing - much as having a certain amount of basic physical strength and/or muscle tone or condition is a good thing.
There are actions people can undertake to strengthen themselves psychically (basically, grow spiritually), but there are people who are more evolved than you and thus they will inherently be stronger than you (I relayed the experiences of Dawn Hill during a couple of what I would term uncooperative rescues in one of her books in this post).
The main reason, it seems to me, that most people have a problem with that is they want to be “the best” in something in life.
I came across that with competitive dinghy sailing as a kid. Being good at that gave me confidence, and a counter to life issues (including being bullied by students [which was allowed by incompetent or sociopathic teachers] or teachers), and I could have improved my ability further ... but it would have taken a great deal of time, energy, and effort, and would have taken me away from doing things that could have a constructive effect on the world.
So ... I set a target standard of ability that I considered reasonable, and aimed for that - and that is what I have done with other aspects of life, such as physical, psychic, or spiritual strength.
What is new this week is that I am also consciously, rather than tacitly, acknowledging that there are others who are stronger and/or better than me in those areas, and there always will be.
The second point comes out of watching the third season of “Dark Winds”, and that is a greater appreciation of the life circumstances that can lead people to make poor or even bad life choices.
In much the same way that I didn’t “get” heavy metal (not just symphonic - although I certainly don’t like all metal) until I heard Nightwish’s “Amaranth”, it wasn’t until watching this third season - as a continuation of the previous two seasons (it wouldn’t have worked had I tried to watch it on its own) - that I “got” in a much deeper way HOW people can make decisions that seem OK at the time, even thought they aren’t.
I’m not changing my values (and I am certainly not making the spiritually fatal mistake of allowing people off the hook through toxic forgiveness), but I am being less judgemental about how I assess others human weaknesses (i.e., one part of their humanness - and there are other parts, such as compassion) against those values.
In other words, I have grown a little spiritually, and thus am stronger than I was last week.
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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).#PsychicABetterWorld and may all that I do be of value and actively BPM used for and by the nonphysical BPM
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