In The Ten Stage a separation stage is of crucial importance on the path of awakening to our child within

In The Ten Stage a separation stage is of crucial importance on the path of awakening to our child within, if only because it is most commonly both feared and overlooked. Many ‘feel-good’ approaches to personal transformation, or diluted new age teachings, in their rushed desire to reach an idealised state of unity with existence, gloss over the need to face and assume responsibility for one’s inner shadow element our child hidden within, or our darker sublimated nature. The separation stage is entirely concerned with the need to both see and take responsibility for the child within. If we fail to do this, the child withins revenge filled elements will be projected onto the world, usually showing up in the form of others who appear to subject us to unjust treatment.

In this stage we begin to see what is of value in our new life, and what is not. To illustrate the point with a simple example: back in the 1990s the former NY Times reporter Tony Schwartz quit his stressful job and decided to travel the country seeking out many prominent cutting edge psychologists, philosophers, and spiritual teachers and interviewing them. He wrote a book about his journey and what he’d learned from these teachers, titling it What Really Matters. When we’ve been humbled enough by life that we begin to recognise what really matters, then we’ve begun the ten stage process of separation. We are literally separating the wheat from the chaff both from within us and from our outer lives as well. However this is only possible when we are truly ready to be deeply honest with ourselves, by taking ownership of our frustrations and self-imposed limitations, and the entire range of thoughts and feelings from within our child, from the positive to the negative—in short, of our entire self-image. Such a step makes it possible to achieve a radical breakthrough in our lives, something that may take the form of a thorough change in attitudes and inner positions, if not also in outer circumstances.

The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives. #childwithin#10stages