Being alive doesn’t just allow us to grow, but growing is the essence of living. Where the fundamental dimension of life is shared—arising from an ongoing dance of mutual relation and dependency with the world.
Growth, in this sense, is the continuation and evolving complexity of our relations. Where our roots are the accumulation of our creative pathways of correspondence.
“It is aliveness that must be the guiding principle. Joy and happiness in living, a love of all existence, a power and energy for work, and imagination, a sense of truth and feeling of responsibility... (Rudolf Steiner)”
Growing well means keeping this dance of correspondence alive. It means factoring dependency back into our understanding of ourselves—where joy is understood as quintessentially collective.
It’s about permeating our perception of identity, and tending to this wider ecology—where health and wellbeing unfolds as a transformation of the other through one’s own self.
Ultimately, growing well is about renewing our attention to what we depend on, how these relationships serve us, and how we need to serve them for our own survival. It’s about keeping our creativity and spirit alive by helping our relationships continue.
“Perhaps the wildness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats... (Terry Tempest Williams)”
At it’s core, this is a dance of vulnerability. Where in order to adapt and grow we must suspend ourselves from pre-conceived intentions, and hold spaces of uncertainty. Shifting our attention from ourselves to our engagement with the world—where growth is not made to us, but through us, and the regeneration of our relationships.
“If you want to know freedom, keep growing...”
We often perceive forms as the only things that are real, forgetting that they represent a process. If we only see these forms—rather than the movement of their making—we remain separated. Only by sensing and seeing our relationships—or giving them movement or air—can we breathe.
Our perception of self is, likewise, a momentary concentration of ongoing growth. Where in order to keep ourselves from solidifying, we must continue to engage in the process of growing—a process of attending and tending to our relationships, wherein we learn to create and know growing complexity.
This is a place of freedom—where in relation we can continue to grow and be transformed.
“By fully sensing this process, we can not only see what is, but also imagine what is possible...”