Audit where your growth has actually gone

Look back over the last few years and name, honestly, how much of your effort went into waking up, growing up, cleaning up and showing up.

Por que funciona

The framework’s central claim is that the four strands do not pull each other along, so effort tends to pool in whichever one comes naturally or is rewarded around you — meditation for one person, therapy or ideas or career for another. An audit makes the pooling visible. Because each strand has its own blind spot, the neglected one is usually the one you have the least vocabulary for, which is why naming all four side by side helps.

Como fazer

1. Write four headings: Waking Up (contemplative practice, states of awareness), Growing Up (how your way of making sense of things has matured), Cleaning Up (working with feelings and patterns you would rather not own), Showing Up (how all of it lands in your body, relationships, work and community).
2. Under each, list what you have actually done in the last three years — practices, courses, therapy, hard conversations, commitments kept.
3. Give each heading a rough share of your total effort, adding to 100. Do not score how developed you are; score where the effort went.
4. Circle the heading with the smallest share and write one sentence on why it has been easy to skip.
5. Keep the sheet. Repeat the audit in six months and compare.

Evidência

The four headings follow Wilber’s later framing, summarized by Publishers Weekly’s 2017 review of The Religion of Tomorrow as growing up, waking up, cleaning up (psychological baggage) and showing up (attending to integrating), and echoed in the subtitle of Integral Meditation (2016). Integral Life Practice (2008) organizes practice into separate body, mind, spirit and shadow modules, and Esbjörn-Hargens’s overview describes it as a way to develop several aspects of oneself rather than one. Dustin DiPerna’s 2014 essay sets out the same four headings as a frame for orienting practice. The audit is an application of that structure; it has not been studied. (anecdotal)

Effort is not the same as development. A small share of effort in one area can still be enough, and a large share can be busywork. The audit shows where attention went, not where you stand.

Fontes

• Wilber, K. (2017). The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions — More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete. Shambhala.
• Publishers Weekly. (2017, March 13). Review of The Religion of Tomorrow, by Ken Wilber.
• Wilber, K. (2016). Integral Meditation: Mindfulness as a Way to Grow Up, Wake Up, and Show Up in Your Life. Shambhala.
• Wilber, K., Patten, T., Leonard, A., & Morelli, M. (2008). Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening. Integral Books.
• Esbjörn-Hargens, S. (2010). An Overview of Integral Theory: An All-Inclusive Framework for the Twenty-First Century. In S. Esbjörn-Hargens (Ed.), Integral Theory in Action: Applied, Theoretical, and Constructive Perspectives on the AQAL Model. SUNY Press. (First circulated as Integral Institute Resource Paper No. 1, 2009.)
• DiPerna, D. (2014). Wake Up, Grow Up, Clean Up, Show Up. Excerpt from D. DiPerna & H. B. Augustine (Eds.), The Coming Waves: Evolution, Transformation and Action in an Integral Age. Integral Publishing House. Published on Integral World.

Erro comum

Turning the audit into a ranking of how evolved you are in each strand. Self-ratings of development are unreliable; the useful question is only where your effort has been going.