What's your truth? 

We often think we know the truth. But we don’t. There are only two certainties in life and one is that we are born, the other is that we die. For the rest…. We cannot be 100% sure of most anything.

 

The truth is that there is no truth.

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There is only ever YOUR truth. The truth from your point of view. That doesn’t have to be someone else’s truth. Most of the time it isn’t. And at other times it is really hard to define what the ‘real’ truth is.

 

YOUR truth, however, if you know how to recognise it, can become your beacon. Your true north. Your compass. The basis of your inner power.

 

Your inner knowing tells you what feels right and what feels wrong. That tells you if you BELIEVE this to be the truth and that not to be false. If we can learn to rely on our own inner truth, we cannot go wrong.

 

If we can accept that only our truth matters, why then is it so hard for us to walk in our truth?

 

Why is it so hard to do, feel, live the way we want to?

 

I think there are 3 important reasons for that:

 

1. In the modern world, we have forgotten how to listen to our truth. We do not know how to tune in to it anymore.

2. Others tell us their truth and our feelings of guilt, fear, shame, blame make us stop listening to our own truth.

3. Along the way, we started listening to our heads more than to our hearts and the logic of the soul is oftentimes the opposite of our heart’s intelligence.

 

The good news is that we all have a perfectly working intuition. So you just have to Iearn how to get in touch with it again. Learning to tune into the responses of your body, you can start to feel your truths, connect to your inner power and start to live from your heart.

 

Let’s work on that for this week.

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We will be doing a lot of journaling and tuning into our intuition.

Finding out how you want to FEEL, what you want to DO, and how to STAY with it.

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Finding myself

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“What is the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting

go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?”

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Brené Brown 

 

To be honest, that second thing is what I have been doing for a long time in my life. And I think I am not the only one.

 

Ever since I was young, I have felt out of place. My upbringing did not spark much self-confidence. I tried to look the part by acting cool and like I belonged. My enthusiasm and spark of joy were always genuine though. But in all honesty, I spoke too much, I spoke too fast (still do when I am out of alignment. Or really enthusiastic (-:), I said the wrong things at the wrong time out of awkwardness. I just thought I was- well not weird, but certainly out of place.

 

I brought that feeling with me in adulthood. I built myself up, created an image of who I thought I wanted to be. I tried to fit in. To be liked. To be normal. Most people would not notice there was anything ‘wrong’ with me. But I felt it deep inside. No matter how happy my life, how accomplished, how well-settled I was. I was just different.

 

Until I started tuning into my intuition.

At first, I noticed it was nothing new to me, I had done it as a child. Intuitively.

But I hid it away under a lot of layers. Trying to fit in. Trying not to be odd. Not to be different. I did follow my own spark, but that was because I had to break away from my background anyway. But there were large parts of my personality, thoughts, wishes, feelings that I kept deep inside.

 

The more my intuition developed, the more I felt at ease with who I really was. The more I became at ease with myself, the more I realised I had even hidden parts of me for myself. Parts I did not have access to before reappeared. And I started noticing the pieces of the puzzle coming back together. Everything I had previously thought was separate within me, matched up with other pieces of me.

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I started to allow them coming back and started accepting and honouring myself more. Loving myself more. Starting to make decisions from my heart, not my mind. Bringing the pieces together. It has taken me over 10 years to feel how I feel now, but at the same time, I feel like I have always been whole.

 

I am still the odd one out. I have different ideas and a different worldview of most anyone I know.  But I am fine with it now. I know this is why my story happened the way it did: to push me into following my spark, so I can inspire others to do it too. 

I see now that my being different is my gift. And I am grateful for who I am and for what my path has been.

 

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How about you?
Let's dive into your authenticity, your intuition.

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In what areas of life are you suppressing your real self? 

In what areas of life are you purely authentic? 

In what relationships are you open and expressive? 

In what relationships are you suppressing your real self? 

If you stopped worrying about what others think or say, who would you be? 
How would that change your life?

What part of you, whether it is a strength, a gift, a story, are you still keeping in the dark and do you want to liberate?

What actions and behaviours would you need to express your authentic self?

What unique qualities (module 1, the VIA character test) could you use to be more you?

What is the one question you ask the universe more often than any other?

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Let's do some journaling on this. 

Meditate for a bit first to connect with yourself. You can use my tuning in mediation.