The Multiple Parts Of The Self
Have you ever noticed that there isn’t just one of you? How does this concept of multiple part selves apply to you?
I’m not meaning that in a “you’re crazy” kind of way. I’m not talking dissociative identity disorder/multiple personality. Simply, it means that there isn’t just one version of us. Any of us.
We are conditioned from an early age to believe that we have one personality, and that all our thoughts, feelings and behaviors emerge from that unitary person we think we are. This way of understanding ourselves leads to tremendous suffering, because the truth of who we are is a bit more complex…
Many artists are trying to establish their roles, responsibilities, and sense of self. Especially most of the artists we try to manage all these different parts through art. This is fine, but it is very important to understand that we do not have to identify with all those parts -as: I am that- because I am so many things, and that, is simply a form of myself in format expression.
For most of us, we experience or act out our different parts in context-specific ways. We have public and private parts, masculine and feminine parts, and we have parts that crave intimacy and sex, while other parts thrive on isolation and aloneness. We have aspects that we freely share with others, and other parts that we guard firmly inside and rarely share with anyone.
Living a life of parts helps us understand why we can love and hate the same person, diet one day and leave it the next. While we are susceptible to letting certain parts influence who we think we are – particularly those parts of ourselves we don’t like – the truth is that no one part of us defines the essence of our being.
Even though you might think that your self is a unity, and is stable and cannot change, your self might be chafing for change and growth. Your self is psychologically complex, and it could be reaching out in new directions without you being aware of it. Or, you might take a very open decision to seek out new directions in self-growth and explore new avenues in the self.
No matter what happens, you remain the leader of the growth of your self, and can find new ways, paths, and joys. We can leave yesterday’s version of us in the past where it belongs and be free to fulfil our potential in the now._
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