What does it mean to embrace one’s authentic self? It simply
means being true to who you really are on a cellular level and answering
present in your own life in spite of people seeing you as weird, phony or
crazy. Authenticity means having the courage to love yourself while standing
firmly in the vulnerabilities of all of those blemishes, ruffles and wrinkles
which are often times part of the human reality and experience. Authenticity is
a fierce and unapologetic loyalty to oneself!
Why is authenticity so important for our lives?
Because Authenticity means freedom and liberation! It means joy!
It means living our lives as us, rather than as others. Being authentic means
that we are living our truth especially given that only truth can effectively
set one free. Freedom means true courage to soar in most aspects of one’s life.
Living our truth almost always propels us in the right direction; ultimately
steering us to our right calling, path, or destinations. When we are living our
truth, we are approaching life from a path of conviction and courage and in
that process, fear is conquered. When fear is conquered, almost every obstacle
and challenge becomes exactly what it should be for people who get it; a
positive teaching experience. When fear is conquered the sky becomes one’s
limit. Throughout history, it has been men and women who are not afraid of
being their authentic selves; sometimes being that lone messenger with the
courage to voice their truth who continue to leave their imprints on the sands
of time.
A lot of us go through life pretending to be who we are not for
fear of getting disapproving glances from others or being unpopular. The effect
of this of course, is a situation where we become stuck in the rot of a job we
do not like, or the company of those that we cannot stand, or remain silent in
the face of a glaringly wrong act perpetrated against another in our presence
because we feel that if we voice out our opposition, we lose our friends. (Now,
seriously! Do these people even meet the definition of a “friend” for starters,
they probably do not!)
When we live our lives different from whom we really are at the
core of our beings, life becomes unhappy and overly complicated. Our
relationships suffer because our partners cannot even decipher who we are and
often wonder why we changed when the reality was that we had faked it all the
way! Even our professional lives suffer because we never conducted the business
from a place of conviction and truth; we tend to be always edgy and angry, ending
up infecting and contaminating people who cross paths with us with the same
negative emotion we harbor and ultimately, we fail to excel at what we do and
even take ignorant hostages along on our failing spree!
Ever noticed what happens to us when we lie? Ever notice our
tone of voice sort of falters. We normally do not have the same courage and
convictions that we usually exhibit when we are in the right or when we are
telling the truth.
Without question, no two human beings are exactly alike. As
children, we usually have different personalities and ideas and are usually
unafraid to say exactly how we feel. In that state of absolute truth and
innocence, life is less complex and more fun! As children, everything is out in
the open and generally we are mostly happy. We are unafraid of anything, (ok,
may be . ., except for the boogieman and ghosts or dead people) until that drastic
tsunami halts our nirvana. As adults, we try to conform to a set of unwritten
norms and become boring and in the process lose our individualities. We begin
to exercise tact in the most rigid and ridiculous manner and in the process
become bland! Every adult acts just like the next adult and sounds just like
someone they are not. Of course we mostly fail abysmally at what we do because
we are fake! Many success stories today are about people who are different from
the rest of the bunch and most of us fail to notice this or are too envious to
acknowledge them.
Understand that I am in no way advocating the reality that an authentic
lifestyle means that one becomes an insensitive potty mouth to others out of a
need to always voice out one’s opinion, or that you must constantly be in the
opposition simply for the heck of it. Not at all! I am merely advocating that a
life lived from an authentic place usually is a happier one for the person
living it and for others whom he encounters. His endeavors and goals are
usually easier to accomplish because of the strength and conviction that backs
the endeavor. His relationships are usually happier because it is less complex
and not ridden with a lot of unnecessary baggage; business would translate to
more clients and customers because nothing sells better than “truth”, plain ole
simple truth! Devotion and conviction are by products of an authentic
life-style.
Most importantly, the Universe would stand behind the truth,
joy, conviction and courage that accompany an authentic lifestyle and knock “it”
out of the park for you! Ready to kick start this new reality for your life in
2016! Let’s do this!
Happy Holidays family!!!,
Love,
Ogorgeous
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