The Colorful Personality and The Inner Self
“Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness.” — El Morya
During the past, several months we have been presenting workshops on a number of topics. The most popular, by far, is Colorful Connections – Adaptive Skills for Interpersonal Synergy, which essentially teaches participants how to identify their own personality types, the personality types of others and then how to adjust have more effective interaction. This program is SO popular it was our first training DVD.
Our system uses Jungian Psychology which defines the personality in terms of colors that package combinations of introversion/extroversion; thinking/feeling and sensing/intuition. It’s a great system and it’s fun to teach because it’s conceptually simple and highly applicable and useful. It is also useful to be reminded that we are talking about the personality — and to understand the role of the personality in relationship to our soul, or inner self.
Personality is the engine of the ego. Our personality develops as we get older and learn different ways of building energy, gathering information, getting what we need, learning new things and generally interacting with people. The personality is the gateway into and out of our soul and it’s function is to filter, protect and connect. One of the first steps in self awareness is to understand how our own personality is functioning, and how strong it is, because it can often take over and actually DISconnect us from our inner self.
Yet, the personality has a vital function:
“Spiritual teachings sometimes counsel a need to let go of the ego. In our view, though, ego and personality are essential players in our theatre of life. Personality is the vehicle for Spirit to evolve through form. Soul sparks the potential that exists within the personality.
We don’t want the ego to disappear – we want it to be open to divine guidance so the two may work together in alignment.
And so the path of personality aims to build a healthy, skilful ego. Ironically, only a strong, mature ego can take responsibility for carrying the consciousness of soul.” — Higher Awareness — The Inner Journey
Understanding the building blocks of personality and bringing your own personality into full awareness allows you to more easily navigate to your heart, and to connect to the hearts of others. The soul yearns for this connection and we evolve towards using more of our gifts if we listen to the guidance of our hearts.
Being complete is a matter of the personality working in concert with your inner self — to guide you to those vital connections that will help you find and live your path.
Until next time,
Your friends at Soul Canyon Training & Development
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