471. How Survival Shapes Who You Are

https://youtu.be/mPIVZtxYHJc

You became how you survived.

Builds on survival part 1 & 2.

"Who you are today was shaped by your early survival demands just like the shape of a snake was gradually formed over millions and billions of years of evolution, of natural selection."

We completely forget how much we were shaped by all of the environments, especially during the first 20 years.

The base layers of your psyche go "unconscious" and you assume that this is just who you are now.

"Psychic archeology" can help you remember how and why some of the dysfunctional base layers were built.

Start to really notice:

• How much survival demands from your environment shaped you
• The kind of survival strategies you had to adapt as coping mechanisms to deal with whatever situation you were faced with.
  • The software is more important than the hardware in the context of survival.
  • Culture, family, schooling, work environment shape, etc. shaping mind, psyche, beliefs, worldviews, morality, values.
• Human survival varies enormously around the globe.

Your personal survival situations:

• Creates huge blind spots in your psyche.
• Limits your ability to understand others.
• Limits your ability to grow, succeed, and transcend to higher levels.

The wounds, and scars, karma, samskaras you incurred as you were growing up stay with you and influence how you behave.

They can corrupt:

• Desires
• Goals, ambitions in life