Living your truth is harder than it sounds. Sometimes we are so confident of something that it completely blinds our ability to see the actual truth. How do you define a jelly donut when you’re living inside of it and unable to take a full bite?
To you, the world is jelly.
Very often it takes stepping back and looking at something objectively to really understand the profundity of any given scenario. Humans have a tendency towards easy ways out. If a shortcut is spotted, 9 times out of 10, we will take it without need for any due diligence.
When easier, it has become all too comfortable to not only lie to ourselves, but to everyone around us. Now, they may not be blatant psychopath lies, but lies all the same.
The Dance Around Truth
Many of us have gotten so good at this careful dance around the truth that we’re able to completely justify it by pointing out that without the half-truths the dance could not continue.
And this is where our thinking is flawed.
True, this dance sometimes ends for a time when we speak our highest truth aloud. Feelings might initially be hurt. But this opens us up to the potential of new dance partners, more impactful music, and better dance moves.
It allows the dance to progress into something beyond the opening number. It opens us to the opportunity to dance at our own pace, rhythm, and style.
When we’re not telling our highest truth, we’re interrupting the universal flow that creates perfect synchronicity.
I Have Lied Before
I have lied to myself before. I knew I was lying when I wrote certain things down, yet I have become so good at lying to myself that I allowed myself to lock my highest truth in a safe with no known combination.
The only way the Law of Attraction works is when you’re giving pure intent. I have achieved things using pure intent, because at those times in my life, there was nothing I wanted more than those things.
However, other desires were designed to take my attention away from the things I knew I really wanted. I thought by telling myself a bold-faced lie, I might forget about the crazy notions that scared me.
So I invented a truth to tell, one that would satisfy my linear and logical mind, but not even come close to providing my conceptual heart with its true desire.
The Mind Loves Structure
The mind loves structure. It loves it.
Life is actually very simple. The laws of the universe are very simple. God and our relationship to that divine energy is very simple.
Our mind steps in and says: Whoa, buddy! Let’s back up here a second. See, I need to feel like I’m in control and all of this simplicity doesn’t really give me the opportunity to sink my teeth into anything. So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to create systems for education, religion, government, and just about everything else. That way, everything has to get funneled through me.
The linear mind creates an obstacle course for understanding the meaning of life. It makes us think that all of the answers live outside of us somewhere.
In actuality, they’ve been inside each of us the entire time. We just didn’t know we had access to them.
What Is Your Highest Truth?
Your highest truth is the thing you would do if there were no outside opinions that would cast judgment on you. If you were not dragging your entire past around with you and using it as a basis for every decision, what would you do right now?
There are no consequences. Everything will work out in the most bizarre and amazing way.
What would you do?
This is your highest truth.
My highest truths scare the shit out of me.
Inventing Lesser Challenges
I’m amazing at inventing success for myself. I’m possibly the best person I know at doing this.
In an attempt to skirt my highest truth, or somehow outsmart it, I will invent lesser challenges for myself. As soon as I write them down and post them for the world to see, it becomes obvious they are lies.
I create lesser challenges so that to the external world I continue to appear as though I’m on an upward trajectory, crushing every challenge that comes across my path.
In reality, I’m just masking how terrified I am of not being able to excel at the thing I really want to do.
Why Nice Guys Finish Last
There’s a reason nice guys finish last, and it’s because they are terrible about owning up to their highest truths.
Nice guys would rather be miserable themselves than upset or hurt someone else, even if it’s for everyone’s greater good and development.
How often have you been in a relationship (coworker, family, friend, or lover) and known, fully and completely, that the relationship was not working for you? That you just needed to walk away?
Your highest truth was that you needed to go in another direction, yet because you didn’t want to hurt or upset someone, you continued down the wrong path.
Synchronicity Happens on the Right Path
Synchronicity happens when you line up on the right path, the one that your intuition is pushing you towards. This thing that many call luck doesn’t happen very often when you’re on the wrong path.
And because of this, because you’re not following your highest truth, there is a tendency to blame the person that you’re trying to protect. If they didn’t need you so much, you could just walk away and have the life you’ve always dreamed for yourself.
Yet it’s not their fault. It’s yours.
Until you can accept and live your highest truth, you will never achieve your greatest potential in a way that is truly meaningful to you.
Are you living your highest truth?
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