This is an amazing article Dani, I really resonate with what you are saying here. I have been all three of these archetypes in my time.
It's a really valid question that you are asking, so I am going to do my best to answer you.
How do we continually bloom?
For me the bloomer is quite a special way of being. You have described the bloomer as using alchemy to transmute negative situations into positive outcomes. I take a lot of my understanding from this description.
This is a way of being which has the potential to catalyze and energize people and situations around them, and the means for doing this is in a particular way of being. For me it's in perfecting that way of being, which is a continual process. If we are finding ourselves stuck, well then maybe there is greater room to grow into, or a further refinement to an already amazing archetype.
What it boils down to is assumptions, habits, and patterns. Even good habits need to be continually reviewed and renewed. In truth each moment is an entirely new situation with entirely new potentials. We may see the echoes of the past in this moment, but the possibilities are actually endless.
Do We Need to Struggle to Grow?
So the question is - do we need struggle and stress to actually grow? In the case of the survivor it's necessary, but the bloomer is moving into a greater realm of space and freedom. The bloomer is actively questioning everything including their own tendencies and assumptions.
My simple answer is no we do not need stress to grow and blossom. Let me explain myself further.
In a sense the struggle is imaginary. Because struggle is based in so many assumptions, it relies completely on projecting into the past and future, making calculations and imagining various scenarios. It doesn't really have much to do with what is happening right now. It's more like a biological, emotional, and mental reaction to strong situations.
Zero Point Field
What is happening right now for a lot of folks is that we are evolving rapidly as a race. This is all contingent on the evolution of individuals within the race (of human beings).
The strange quiet periods that people are experiencing are here for a reason. What it is called is the Zero Point. Some physicist came up with this term, it's not really important who they were - what is important is how it has come to be a metaphor for a way of being.
You see we are very much used to thinking about things in a linear fashion. For example this string of events - an intense situation occurs, I respond in some way, the situations resolves or changes accordingly. Like one, two, three.
I will get to Zero Point very soon, but first I need to explain that our experience is not linear anymore. That one, two, three is what we would call a single timeline. What we are starting to live into right now is a reality with many active timelines all happening simultaneously.
We need zero point in order to have some kind of reference point while we jump between timelines or dimensions as some people call them. Humans still have an incredibly strong pull towards identifying with static images of ourselves and how we think life works. This is why Zero Point is imperative, because in that strange emptiness where there is no struggle - that is where the portal opens.
Conclusion
It was just a dream where struggle was necessary, because there exist realities and dimensions of effortlessness - where such a notion is laughable. If we are truly seeking to blossom then we need to be open to such possibilities. The possibility that life can manifest in such coherent and complete ways.
Incredibly perceptive of you to talk about the tendency to create drama when things get too easy and pleasant. And that's just our bad habits again, dragging us back into the bullshit. It really does come back to navigating moment to moment, and being intensely sharp and aware.
This is really about the next step in evolution, which involves a whole lot of us on the edge of reason embodying a new way of being that doesn't struggle or fight - yet inexplicably blooms. It requires a certain strength, not a holding strength that forces anything. It is more a strength that allows us to continually remain open in the face of generations worth of assumptions and zombified human beings living these out.
So there's no real easy to follow step here, it can only be emobdying our highest truth from moment to moment. Using everything as a portal or an invitation- challenges, beautiful occurrences, and also mild uninteresting happenings.
Thanks @phillyc, I do believe I have as well, which is where I got the antidote info... From personal experience.
So nice to hear your opinion as we are quite like minded!
I'm totally in agreement with you that it boils down to patterns and habits. I think that I've also been in all three places, and sometimes I find myself especially embodying that survivalist archetype, but more and more as I dig deeper, meditate, and repattern, I feel myself blooming, which was always a natural tendency of mine, though it has certainly been both accelerated and intensified. I had a really tough year last year especially, my hubby and I both actually, and I found as I had to be more supportive of him and strong with myself to get through the really hard stuff (it was grueling and some days I thought I would not make it!) I found that going inward to that place where I at least could ground fully in my core, it was my safe place, my salvation in the darkest times. Which, I see now, is actually a pretty beautiful thing, that I trusted myself to see my core being as my safety zone and ultimate source of strength. I grew so much as a person and as a partner last year. Now... Things have quieted, things are settled. I feel often anymore as though I'm looking around for stimulus for growth, and when I'm not, I am just meh, comfortable yes, but my motivation is low for sure. I have been diving more in to root connection (planning our Homestead is part of it, as safety and home are certainly root-centered things) but I feel, in a word, stagnant. I've stopped studying yoga, and I don't even know why, I am usually so passionate about it.
I don't want to rely on stimulus and drama to grow. I feel at this point in my existence, searching for tough times when there are none is a mistake. I'm wondering what this is all trying to teach me. I feel I still have so much space to grow in to.
In a sense, I am OK with a small pause... Life to me is like breath and sometimes you have to take an inhale before you can expansive ly share to the world. But I must say, this is a new feeling for me, being aware of it, that is.
What you say about zero point and that being the space where we must breathe and receive and allow, that totally resonates with me and I appreciate your insight on this. I am almost feeling in thus space that there is a door that is just waiting for me to open it. Might it be fear holding me back? Uncertainty of where these next steps will take me? I am not sure. You have certainly given me lots to think about. I do think in a sense whatever comes next is going to take a great leap of faith, and that it takes less mind power and something far more energetic. Far more joyful.
It was just a dream where struggle was necessary, because there exist realities and dimensions of effortlessness - where such a notion is laughable. If we are truly seeking to blossom then we need to be open to such possibilities. The possibility that life can manifest in such coherent and complete ways.
I have experienced a little of this, as it sounds like you are talking about flow... Riding the wave. I'm studying water relationship and energetics currently, so perhaps I can incorporate this thought into my journeying.
Again, thank you friend. My gratitude to you and your presence here. And ah yes, I appreciate the resteem as well 😊 🙏
Have an amazing evening.
Xx ToL