The Participatory Life Model
If you’re not living your truth, your life is a lie.
Living is not the same as existing. Participating is not the same as reacting. Life is something we all experience at three levels: Physical, Social and Personal.
We’re all been given birth and, because of that, we enjoy a physical presence that has specific needs in common with all other physical presences so it can survive. As that presence grows and matures it is exposed to the wider man-made environment in which people are born to function in. That environment has a specific mode of operation that is born out of the collective activities of all the people in it.
So we are exposed to expectations, customs and traditions that form the culture we each live in. That ‘culture’ which, in truth is the acceptable collective behavior of everyone in a particular social set, establishes how we are expected to behave according to our level of education, inherited social status, ascribed identity and personal skillset.
At the same time we experience the sense of our own internal world that arises out of our own expectations, needs, avowed identity and vision of who we are and where our life is heading.
There is a dynamic relationship between the rigidity of the external world and the development of our internal one…
