The psychological self is based on identifying the self with the body-mind complex, the experiences undergone, one’s values, beliefs ...in short it is based on identifying with what is changing, impermanent, limited, what Vedanta calls as anatma or non-self or not-real self.
The Whole Self that Vedanta reveals is different dimension, a different degree of reality, that is changeless, permanent, limitless... WHOLE. It accommodates the whole universe and so naturally it accommodates the psychological self too as it is. When the ever-presence of the whole self is clearly recognized, it makes the psychological self acceptable as it is, even with all its dark sides ...and it is the basis for and should be the basis for saying at a psychological level that ‘I am enough even with all my imperfections’. If the whole self is not recognized, or at least accepted as existing, there is no way one can say with conviction that I am enough even with all limitations!
When you are able to accept yourself (the psychological self) as you are, you enjoy a great deal of freedom. It is from this healthy place of compassion and self-love that transformation can take place and does take place. It is from this place of acceptance that expressions of wholeness in the psychological self can take place. It is from this place of acceptance and inner relaxation that limiting beliefs can be let go of with greater ease....and a conviction that permeates every cell that ‘I am enough’ takes place.
What you see in the diagram are just some potential expressions of the Vedantic Whole Self at a psychological level...that express a relative wholeness at psychological level. It does not mean the dark side of the psychological self is totally absent. It could very well be there... Vedanta’s Whole Self can accommodate it with ease...giving the space to address it and even transform it.
Om Tat Sat
