How do you grow?

[Sharon in Colorado]

What makes you grow?

[sport]

I voted outside. When you get to 54 there is not a lot inside that you have not explored.
That does not mean that I am not still evolving but it is only in little ways.

[Sharon in Colorado]

Interesting - I'd like to bump this up to see if we could get more results.

[Coriander74]

I voted outer...

This is because I put my energy and heart into something (this diet, my dreamcatchers, my education)... and it ends up teaching me a LOT about myself, which in turn helps me to grow :)

Very cool poll!

[Lay-Lay]

I think there should have been a selection for all of the above, but I put outer. I love to read and study new things and then meditate on how that it can help me in my life and/or others and how those things make me feel.

[fiddler]

Sharon,

Sorry, I don't understand the question?

Don't we all grow from our inputs (our environment)?
How does one grow inner vs outer?

I guess I need some more education.

Cheers,
Fiddler

[Sharon in Colorado]

There were 29 views but only 4 votes! I'm a little surprised, but maybe like Fiddler, some people didn't understand.

Inner - looking inside yourself and getting into your psychology. Going to workshops, reading about psychology, the mind, meditation, what makes you tick, etc.

Outer - looking outside yourself either with spirituality or a mentor, etc. Praying, focusing on others, giving, etc.

[Sharon in Colorado]

LOL now there are 47 views but still only 4 votes.

What's up people!

[Lay-Lay]

well if I had known that was what you were looking for I wouldn't have voted because it would have been all of the above, LOL.

[Coriander74]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I get it now :D

I vote all of the above LOL... there is an equal amount of nourishment from outer sources as well as from my own mind, at least for me :)

[misslinda]

Awesome question Sharon!


I voted inner b/c I know that's what it comes down to but I tend to lean towrads outer first then work towrads inner. Perhaps b/c I need the "phsical" element to [see] what improvements I can make until I can work diligently with the more intricate inner issues.

These days I am getting quicker at looking towards my inwardness for the solutions.

:)

[JEN]

Its inner for me. Atleast right now anyway. Ive just recently (since being raw) discovered meditation and how wonderful it is.

[Narz]

both of them

[rawpriestess]

WOW, Sharon, I guess I missunderstood the question, I voted inner, because I thought you were referring to inner work, for the soul, the spirit and the mind, vs outter work, the physical body.


I read daily meditations, work with my spirituality daily, and never do anything for my physical body except feed it, and allow it to eliminate, that's about it. LOL

But I'm always reading some book, website, or meditating, LOL

Working on one's self is never finished, as far as I'm concerned, anyway, you know I'm a spiritual Pisces, with a Virgo rising, so spiritual and nit picky about self, that's me!!!

[Sharon in Colorado]

Thanks for the responses.

The key word was 'searching' ... I see people searching in so many different ways. Not for physical healing, but for spiritual wellness and growth.

[sport]

I am still sticking with outer because I consider myself to be a non spiritual being.

[Sharon in Colorado]

I am still sticking with outer because I consider myself to be a non spiritual being.


I actually consider myself outer as well, but I look to a spiritual being outside of myself for guidance instead. I feel that the Creator is much more powerful then I'll ever hope to be and I recognize that I function better as a person when I seek that being.

[Rawdiva]

I voted inner. Good thread

[raw-a-go-go]

by letting go and trusting that it will all be alright.

[Dawn39]

I said outside

[Boz]

I voted outer.

At the same time, I feel as though there should be a balance of the two.

My vote really goes to inner/outer :)

[Conscious Midwife]

I think a lot of views might have been due to fast scrolling where we missed the poll trying to get to the post. At least that was my situation.

I voted inner, what is within me is what I give out into the universe. So within my being is where I do my work. The outside stuff still has to be filtered from within.

My response to situations is always relative. Relative to perception, relative to my history, relative to the sum total of how I originally processed and assimilated all that is now within my being.

Edited for abundant typos