Holism vs Reductionism
To progress the Journey into Self-Love is to be self-controlled in all that we set out to accomplish. Bringing the body into subjection of our goals. And that control we gain is the shift in frequency that better helps the flow of journey with out as much resistance. By now we understand this from a minimalist perspective in mind of detaching from toxicity. We detach in hopes to live a more fulfilled life of purpose. But what does that look like? I’ve found that a lot of us will take on this Journey of life with out much thought of our full intent. “What are we running towards?” Is a question much like asking, “What is the path you choose?” As it pertains to Journey.
The Holist Mind
Holistic Practice and philosophy is possibly one of the most well known values to strive for. It is the hope of any collective despite the differences one may come across. Holism is simply relating to the whole. It is the idea of seeing each part of a system as being a combination of a greater purpose. A value that co-exists with holism, yet is the lesser known, is the value of reductionism. It is simply that where holism analyzes the whole system, reductionism will analyze the system in parts. The reductionist will see the different pieces of a system and place emphasis on each role.
Analyzing Our own Self-Love
So what does Holism and Reductionism have to do with the Journey? As was previously said, a lot of us take on the Journey with out even much thought as to what our purpose would be. The Grace in this, is that even when we think that we know the purpose in which we strive for, our greater purpose has a way of finding us along the way. This is why I don’t stress the issue too much whenever I hear someone tell me that they don’t know their purpose.
A friend of mine once asked a great question, “are we individuals having a collective conscious experience or are we a collective conscious having an individual experience?” I love thought provoking questions like these, because it requires you to actually think about what’s being asked, and then to consider how it resonates with your own perception of things. My own considering of the question, brought my mind back to this idea of holism vs reductionism. I believe that ultimately, we’re all one collective conscience having individual living experiences. This is the perspective holism gives us. Yet individuals having a collective conscious experience is that same living experience, but specified into multiple commonly relatable groups of experience. This is the perspective reductionism gives us. With holism vs reductionism, we find that there is no right or wrong to the question asked.
Likewise to the question asked, is the process of somebody finding their life purpose. Purpose is that special something we find with in self as we begin getting to know the self through Journey. Yet the value in using a “Holistic vs Reductionist” perspective in the matter is this. Once we finally do find that thing that sparks the mind, we can begin to ask ourselves, “what is the collective goal(s) of this that sparks my interest?” Once we find that, we can begin to ask ourselves, “what can I contribute to the collective that wil help us in getting to that goal(s)?” Constantly asking these type of questions along the journey will help not only to find purpose, but it also keeps in motivating progression with the things that we work toward healing with in self in the meantime.