True Growth is Natural
As an organism, the life force within makes you alive. The movement of your organs, the pumping of blood throughout your body, every breath you take – these are life. The twelve phases system accounts for the experience of living.
From the moment we are born to the day we die, life is a series of responses to our environments. We are thinking organisms, navigating through life by choice. The twelve phases phenomenon is the way our experiences naturally and intuitively create opportunities to maintain our individuality.
Individuality is in your DNA. It is physically defined in your body. Natural and intuitive behavior is unconscious, only seen in past events in the impulse of your body and mind, acting as one unit. The collection of life experience and these preferential choices are the real direction of your life. You must review what has become historic facts in your life to see your deepest agenda in self-knowledge.
Autonomy is the drive that serves the unknown agenda of your organism to follow its unique genetic programming. Your autonomous motivation arises in circumstances where you are compelled to act in the moment, having no previously thought-out plan. These unconscious actions are signs of identity – who you are as a self-directed inimitable person with a selected perspective on life.
“Autonomous motivation” is a term indicated by the twelve phases phenomenon of human development. It is the urgency of survival as expressed by choices rooted in one’s core self, the body-and-mind organism. The why of those choices are not answered in the external world. They are revealed in unconscious behavior; choices even the actor is unaware of.
Failure to achieve what you hope for, externally, takes on a different dimension in the path of your development. You become wiser about your relationship with the greater forces beyond your control. This meta-psychological understanding transcends the temporary circumstances that contribute to the seeming disorder of life:
the convergences between your life and the lives of others;
global and governmental change that change your life prospects;
the effect of ill health and disease on you and/or your loved ones;
even natural disasters of Nature can completely disrupt your plans and alter your reasonable expectations.
Your development consistently moves forward during change. You can see from your unique position in the occasions, how it consistently leads you through change. When you see that life supports your intuitive choices, you feel how much you are valued as a particular individual. That is the substance of real hope.