Honoring your truth is not an easy thing to do sometimes. You may not like your truth. You may wish it were different.
You may want to seem like something you're not. Or maybe your truth is so fabulous you are afraid of what people will say. You know..the old "who do they think they are?!"
But here is the truth about truth..it is want it is. And when it is yours you can either embrace it or try to hide it. The funny thing is most people know when you are hiding...they may not know what you are hiding but they can sense it...so in the end what is the point? Fooling yourself? Not really worth the effort if you ask me.
A few weeks ago I had a tremendous "ah ha" moment about truth. I am in the middle of a wonderful program...the Money Map to Freedom developed by Alexis Neely. In the first session she said to look around your life and ask yourself if you are okay? I was in the middle of my life imploding and I had this moment..where I paused and then said NO. I am not okay. It was my truth.
Recognizing that...saying it was a powerful moment for me. I was spinn' up until that point. Panicked and sacred and so very hurt and confused. Let me tell you from experience...you cannot make much progress in that state.
What happened from that moment on was a settling down and progress. I, at that moment, started to take action again. It has gone from living "hour to hour" to "day to day" and that my friend is great progress.
And my truth is my truth...no one else's and no one else's spin on my truth matters because it is mine. At least once a day someone asks me why I am still here. (I was suppose to move to another state to live with the love of my life. He disappeared without a word.) This past week a woman saw me and asked why I was still here. I said, "I was moving to be with the love of my life and he disappeared without a word." Note: What else am I going to say but the truth...I was so filled with joy about this move I told many people.
She looked at me and said, "Well you must be terribly embarrassed?" I responded, "No I am not...I trusted someone I loved." She looked at me like she wanted to argue my truth with me...I simply smiled at her and she walked away.
At one point was I embarassed? Oh I am sure that was one of the thousands of emotions I was dealing with. But when it all settled down I had to decide my truth for myself. And my truth is I trusted someone I loved. There is power in declaring that and power in honoring that.
You need to decide your truth about whatever situation you find yourself in. It's your situation. Your truth.
From there you can move on. Until then I think you can spend too much of your precious energy pretending...and pretending don't cause change...it simply requires more pretending. And pretending doesn't have anything to do with your truth.
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