5 Misconceptions about truth & lies

Lots of people reflect on what's good for them or not.  Its not always straightforward to distinguish between truth and lies.  Consider these 5 ideas which may prompt you to reflect on your own misconceptions:

1) How do you feel?  If you act purely based on your sense of truth, then you would expect to feel nothing but love, happiness, inner peace and contentment. If you are permitting your mind to wander, to believe or defend injustice, suffering or rationalize discomfort, then you  hypothesize the opposite of love about society.  You are also lying to yourself that it doesn't matter.

2) Where does drama originate?  Any drama or crisis you experience is grounded in lies, mainly about yourself.  It begins when you decide you aren't something you really are or, you choose to ignore what you want to be based on what you decide you should be.  If you evolved to believe you are perfect, lovable and nurture unwavering faith without lies, your life would be very different.

3) Can you identify what you're not?  Any time you focus attention on what you're not, or make life choices that aren't true to your passion, you build on a false sense of self.  The curious thing is humans tend to build a on lies to rationalize whay what they do makes sense, even when they don't believe it does at all. 

4) Why might you only "try?"  This word means to anticipate failure.  If you have faith in the idea you will "try," you believe you aren't up to snuff or will inadvertently fail.  To believe in an outcome will invite just that.

5) What is your point of view? The story you convey about yourself isn't necessarily generalizable.  A particular experience may apply to you, but not to other people.  You can defend what you want to believe in your own mind, but not impose it on others. Your truth can become someone else's lie if you force an idea.

What did you accept and believe about yourself?

You may not feel free to be who you are.  Ask yourself whether you feel trapped by expectations and images you assume are yours.  What you believe about yourself doesn't all resonate with your soul.  Some traits you have adopted aren't really you.  What you sense is you isn't necessarily the truth.  Its simply what you choose to believe right now. 

Many people consciously reinforce self-judgment.  When you do this yourself, do you recognize it?  Its always possible to raise awareness and learn to dissolve inappropriate beliefs and feelings.  What would happen if you praised yourself more and judged less?

Throughout your life, you have met people who have shaped your self-image with their comments about your strengths and weaknesses.  The emotions evoked within yourself tell you a lot about what you may secretly believe or disbelieve.  These questions invite reflection on which parts of yourself evolved out of love and which ones grew from fear;

1) What kinds of words have people used to describe you?

2) Which character traits have come to stand out inside you?

3) How do qualities you notice within grow out of external comments?

4) Why do you feel a gap between traits you have and those you would like to have?

5) To what lengths would you go to change and live up to expectations?

What now?

Each human being is in a constant state of becoming.  This includes you.  As you come to sense ongoing changes, you may ask yourself, what are you supposed to do about it?  Are you supposed to sit back and just let things happen?  Would you feel better going against the grain?  Would you be content somwehere in the middle?  Must you really decide at all?

If you take the stance your thoughts exist, period, then you begin to see how you condition yourself to approve or criticize them.  If you do nothing about your thoughts, resist reacting at all, you can stand back and observe how they flow in and out like the tide.  You decide which thoughts you will grasp onto and form into beliefs or let go.

Every thought in your mind has a place.  Each one is a form of energy.  Some thoughts are blocked. If you repress thoughts, this doesn't mean you forget them.  You simply remove them from conscious awareness until you're ready to work with them.  It can be helpful to remind yourself that your thoughts belong to you but they don't define you. 

People allow themselves to meander into murky realms of negative thought when they permit themselves to experience guilt.  The negative imagery you see hides the root causes or underlying feelings.  As you remind yourself guilt was also born as an opposite of compassion, you realize you have alternative ways of perceiving and sensing. 

What you do with free will begins with how you think.   You ask questions and also hold the answers.  What satisfies you next may require you explore motivation differently.

Unbury the limiting ideas that keep you where you are

Many people consciously repress thoughts and feelings that would cause them to alter behavior.  You may do this too.  You may sense thoughts that are incompatible or inconsistent with how you usually think or live your life.  As such, you are protecting the limiting beliefs that you hold and keep yourself where you are. What suggestions surface?

Your personal choices and experiences are grounded in your sense of limitations.  Many self-restricting beliefs go unnoticed.  Whenever you consciously dislike things, or sense and acknowledge discomfort, you are creating more of what you don't want.  Why is it you hesitate to open  up to experience or ideas that contradict your current beliefs? 

As you become more attuned to your thoughts, you will realize it is possible to create visions that are incompatible with how you feel.  You can decide it would be a good idea to go for a ride in a vehicle you have traditionally feared.  You can sign up to learn swimming, rock climbing, diving or any activity that forces you to take risks you have been avoiding.  If you decide to confront the source of your fears, whatever form they take, your mindset will begin to bring you different feelings and circumstances.

Realize your conception of reality is not reality.  Your beliefs are not reality. You imagine what you will experience before it happens and your assumptions are often unfounded.  You anticipate how you will feel based on conditioning.  You assume that you will feel pain when you stub your toe, and then you do.  You believe life must be better elsewhere and then feel unhappy wherever you are.  You imagine getting punished for a mistake and you're reprimanded.  You get what you ask for.  Will you let limiting beliefs get your goat? 

Consider if your life experience evokes mainly good feelings, and you encounter primarily encouraging and helpful people, then your beliefs would seem beneficial.  If you explore your subconscious with limiting belief though, you may perpetuate a vicious circle.

More specifically, if your mind dwells on reasons for poor health, complaints, reasons for dissatisfaction in areas of your life, sadness, doubt, cynicism and evil or negativity, these are signs you would benefit from examining the basis for your beliefs.  You are never at the mercy of events.  Real causes can be uncovered deep within your awarness.

Why discern what's behind your thoughts and action?

As you focus inward, and become attuned to personal energy levels, you will be less likely pulled into control games.  How might you discern energy levels and be true to yourself?

When energy exchange is not consensual, when it is ego-based, the result is karma, or loss of energy to one side or another.  It pays to discern the meaning of how you behave.

In the Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield wrote on four energy tactics  used and combined by people to raise their energy; Poor Me, Intimidator, Aloof and Inquisitor. These personalities characterize different thinking and motives.  Do you intuit yourself? 

Empathy and compassion are perceived as having intrinsic value.  Your view gains depth as you evolve to recognise many acts of compassion are actually self-serving. This means you may subconsciously undermine your own actions.  What are your real intentions?

To seek hidden motives behind the appearance of altrusim is meaningful because it helps deconstruct your secret power games.   To identify issues also uncovers gifts they offer.  You choose what's most useful and relevant and disregard the rest you don't need now.

It all leads back to the power chakra, located at the diaphram where your ribs meet.  This is where each of us senses boundaries and power struggles within ourselves. We ascend the chakras to transcend discomfort and false ego.  Yet, we re-connect with the body and choose to be guided by instincts, to learn to trace our misconceptions and grow.