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Seeker of Self-Belonging
You are a person who finds one modality, one community and commits.
This is because you're not just looking for helpful growth experiences but are also wanting to be part of a rich learning community. Friends, family and social spaces compel you to go further in your development.
Having found the place you feel comfortable and safe in, you're willing to dive deeper into the content, sharing in the learning alongside others who you develop lasting relationships with. You tend to process life’s events and circumstances through this group and the forums provided for dialogue and human experience.
Somewhere during your lifetime, you realized that learning isn't a solitary pleasure.
The idea that a group of people, sharing in a common conversation, helping to make sense of the things you're coping with, makes everything better. Something about being part of a bigger world, one that is grappling with the things you are, is incredibly validating. It helps you be courageous and feel confident in your choices to do life the way you do.
You are drawn to an environment where you feel safe to be yourself and anything that is of interest is considered welcome to your fellow participants. Doing it alone doesn't feel as nourishing or satisfying.
You are open to exploring content having to do with all and any aspects of life.
But any new information must be inclusive of the importance of relationship in your life. And, if you find it too disruptive to your sense of balance or continuity, you may opt for something more comfortable to engage in.
This way of learning and relating is a constant support to you. You will explore new domains of self development but they'll be vetted through the people who are part of your chosen learning community.
As a way to further your evolution...
You might consider opening up to another modality and explore it even if it seems somewhat counter to what's been provided and embraced by your community.
It would definitely represent an opportunity for growth, if you pursued a new type of learning experience, with an entirely new group of people. Allowing a new set of ideas and concepts to interface with those you've already pursued, will broaden your growth work, produce new questions and invite you to risk some of the safety you've grown accustomed to. Lastly, you might find a meditative retreat you attend by yourself, designed to have you be solely with YOU for the entire time.
Remember that content becomes familiar to the mind the more we explore it. Studying something in great depth at some point becomes limiting because we become so comfortable, we don't see what we're avoiding. We become concluded about what we've determined in our search.
When you pursue the new and encounter your resistance, you're expanding the confines of your mind and Self.
Exploring a process, alone would produce a new kind of growth. Choose something that is done as a self study, separate from anything you've every considered. Silent retreats, independent travel where you set the itinerary, an online course where you work through the entire experience driven by your own individual needs, any of these will provide a new way to relate to yourself. It will produce insight about the role of the community inside your sense of self.
Any domain would provide insight but if you've been exploring the body and the physical, then move towards emotional work. If you've been largely working with intellectual paradigms and models, then try out body work or spirituality. And, if you've been very invested in spirituality, then find feeling-based programs to take you in a new direction of human emotion and healing.
Depending upon where you are in your life's process, you have an awesome foundation to grow from if you've already found a learning community. If not and as a place to start, your learning orientation would suggest you might want to look for experiences, which bring a community of potential friends for you to connect with.
The key for your journey is to find a community, get safe, experience learning with them and then stretch beyond what's comfortable.