Create Your Best Self - Finding Joy Through Self-Transformation

Creating Your BEST SELF

Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.

I heard this sentence on a Body Pump video and there is much truth in it.

“You do something that you could never have imagined yourself doing, become something you could never have imagined yourself becoming, and, ultimately, live a life greater than you could have ever imagined yourself living.”

~Dr. Judith Wright

Even the smallest positive efforts transform us in some way, pushing us forward on the personal journey and nurturing the next level of self-awareness and growth.

Personal transformation can propel you from living a better life to living a spectacular life.  Science is beginning to show how purposeful development of our own potential can bring us farther than we ourselves thought possible. Until relatively recently, the traditional understanding was that we are bound to the brains we were born with. We presumed that the brain was unchangeable rather than dynamic and that we needed to accept our cerebral boundaries.

But an overwhelming body of new scientific research—especially in the area of neuroscience—has done away with these assumptions. This research has discovered neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to develop new neural pathways based on experience and learning, meaning that we can use our malleable minds to grow and develop as human beings. It’s quite thrilling.

What kind of transformation leads to spectacular living?

No matter how happy we are, we often sense there is more to our lives. We feel the soft call of our unfulfilled potential.  Once we go out searching for our as yet unreached potential, we often find that there is no limit, no end point. We go beyond our own potential!

Change is significant, incremental improvement in a person’s life, but it’s not transformation, which is a much larger scale. According to Dr. Judith Wright, there are six phases in transformational change: Yearning, Engaging, Revelating, Liberating, Rematrixing, and Dedicating.

Yearning is a desire. You know there is more to you under the surface. We’ve learned to brush away these yearnings because they are unsettling and disturb the status quo. Learn to listen to these desires – allow yourself to feel the hunger.

Engaging means the spontaneous, in-the-moment responses to the urges generated by our deeper yearning.

Relevating is a process in which both the awareness of yourself and your possibilities is heightened and you also learn to reveal yourself more fully. You begin to be aware of mistaken beliefs and limited thinking that have been holding you back.

Liberating means doing something contrary to those limiting beliefs that you discovered in the Revelating phase. This involves confronting your fears and driving through them.

Doing this again and again helps build new neural pathways which Dr. Wright calls Rematrixing. Doing something new is great, but only by making those liberating moves intentionally and often, do you transform.

The final phase is Dedicating which means making a lifelong commitment to conscious sustained, intentional action towards your own transformation. This is an ongoing process that is very personal to each individual.

Let’s go for it!