#213 Healthy adult maturation, Character development, Evolution of consciousness

     After age 35, our capacity for physical strength gradually diminishes. However, healthy normal adult maturation - character development, evolution of consciousness AND corresponding IMPROVEMENT in quality of life - can and should continue for the rest of our lives.
     A healthy adult intentionally, patiently, continuously transcends her instinctive fear-based self-centered reactivity (by noticing & letting go of inward tightening, closing-off, rigidity, coldness, cynicism), and re-establishes kindness-based connections with herself, others and the environment. In doing so, she notices a sense of porousness or expansion outward, opening-up, flexibility, warmth, gratitude - allowing her, and those around her, to enjoy a progressively finer quality of life.
     Our reptilian reactive (brain stem) habits try to keep our wounded inner child safe from being re-traumatized and acting out. But what we really need is to trust that our adult self (pre-frontal cortex & heart) is strong enough to relate directly to all of reality in the authentic manner of a mature, evolved, conscious human adult.

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