Self Improvement has become mainstream. In the last few years, since I have been writing articles and submitting them to article sites, Ive noticed that the category of Self Improvement has been showing up lately when it was never there before. To me, this is very good news.
But what does it really mean to Self Improve? What are we really improving when we self improve? And what self are we improving?
We each have two selves our wounded self and our core Self. Our core Self is our true self, our natural soul self our essence. Our core Self is our passion, our joy, our gifts and talents, our ability to love, our creativity. We come into this life as our core Self, and when this Self is loved and valued by our parents, we continue to naturally grow our God-given gifts and talents and manifest the fullness of our beings. This Self wants to improve by learning the skills necessary to fully express itself.
But when this Self is not seen and valued in the way we needed, we create an alternative self, a self we hope will have control over getting the love we need and avoiding the pain we cant handle a self to help us feel safe. This is our false self, our...