Illumination

This stage will go even deeper then the previous one. It’s where I’ll discuss the shadow, how to do shadow work, and explain how our mindset is “brain-set” based on early conditioning, external influences, and then how it’s perpetuated by our level of self-esteem set in childhood and what we commit ourselves to as we get older. Those like myself may have resisted committing to something like a career because their desire for freedom exceeded their need for security. Whereas many others commit to roles, relationships, and careers not because they choose to, but because they feel obligated to, yet believe they are making conscious choices.

The commitments we make literally shape our identity, so the more conviction we have in our commitments and the earlier we start making them, the more identified we become with who we think we are. For most of us, the self-image we develop isn’t congruent with the true self, and is created out of fear and unresolved wounds and defences we don’t have conscious awareness of. The later in life we start the process of transformation, the more challenging it is to let go of the false self we have become identified with.

However, those who struggled or resisted to embody a solid sense of self, may welcome this process with less resistance and find it liberating from the moment they get a glimpse of their true nature, because they recognise the truth of it over the inconsistency of the false self.