The Truth of You
The only perpetual part of your being is your spiritual essence: an insoluble connection to source (love). This connection is alive no matter how small you shrink or how grand you bloom. It’s there no matter how much pain you are in or how joyful you feel. It is present regardless of your method of reinvention or how significantly you change.
Love is your true core—your authentic, true self.
Discover your true self by searching out all of you. Become willing to see the truth of who you are in entirety, no matter how unpleasant the findings. Search the nooks and crannies of your character with the intention of clearing it away. Once cleared, you have unlimited access to your original light at birth: The light of love. You’ve always been love and you will always be love, and virtue. The love and virtue may have been hidden under flawed traits, ones that hardened when other truths were making decisions for you in order to survive and caused you to treat yourself or someone else unkindly.
The key to behavior change is understanding motive; you cannot change behavior without admitting the truth of it. Once you are honest about what drives poor behavior, the behavior becomes unacceptable. Once you know something, the blinders come off and you cannot unknow it.
After checking motives for a while, you will feel compelled to change.
You will not be able to rationalize poor behavior. At this point you have the option to replace the old truth with a new one. The old truth being that you acted that way because you engaged defense mechanisms, or survival traits, to get by, to withstand the pain. These undesirable characteristics served a purpose—they kept you alive. No longer needing to fight for survival you are free to integrate these traits in a way that serves you. You are free to believe a new truth. The new truth is that you are love and you no longer need to protect yourself because you are safe in this love.
Our brains and bodies are impressive machines and can adapt to just about anything with enough consistency and repetition. You just have to want to do it and continue to do it. New neural pathways will take root in your brain and chemicals will organize to turn the spotty thought process into a habitual routine.
This takes discipline, but after a few months you will notice an instinctual brighter outlook, an empowered sense of self.
Take as much time as you need…whether it’s a foot race, the road of character building, or the healing journey of the heart, slow and steady always wins the race.
