How Do I Live My Truth? (Part 2/3)

The WISDOM podcast  Season 3  Episode 3

This episode is the second in a three-part series that I have lovingly written and dedicated to help you witness and live your truth. Something that is talked about but at times it can be less clear to know how to do this.

What does living your truth really mean?

In the first part of this series, I discussed The Path of Truth and what it means to access your inner wisdom. We all have an inner GPS that guides us towards our highest ideals and with love as the presence of our heart.

How do you call upon your truth and how do you live it? What does it feel like and how is your truth – your inner wisdom – different from the thoughts and perceptions of your mind?

If you haven’t already, have a listen to part one and then join me back here for where we will pick up in part two and how to live what you know to be true.

I’ll leave links for all three parts here in the description.

        

In this episode, we discuss the practice of living your truth. This means being courageous to honour what is right and best for you and to make it a natural outpouring of how you live life.

We often do not fully realize how we create deception through storytelling and the perceptions we hold about ourselves and others based on our inner dialogue and what we choose to believe.

For example, if you tell yourself that you cannot do something, or that you don’t want to, or that you are not in some way as good as, or good enough; whatever the critical voice is becomes the conditions that the mind and body believe. You believe what you tell yourself.

 

One of the first steps of our therapeutic work together, is to illuminate the moments in which you listen to the voice of your critical mind, and as you live inside the wounds and suffering that ignite fear, sadness, and a lack of belief.

To dissect a pattern; to find its origin, is to then erode the balance of what remains.

Sometimes this is achieved through challenging the perceptions you’ve held; other times it is in developing a higher perspective that sheds light upon what is true and accurate.

When you base the present on the past, you are living – not in this moment. Rather, use your life wisdom and knowledge to make informed decisions, and choose out of the present moment based on what is here and now. Choose out of the eternal wisdom that you can access in and of your heart. This is how you honour your truth. You allow it to be ‘what is’ before you; here and of the present moment.

Whether you are working together with me or you are seeking positive change as the scope of what you wish to bring into you life of your own work and effort, you do this first by choosing to honour and live truthful and self-honest.

 

To help, I offer you the three best practices to live your truth. You can begin to do these now; and to apply these as the sacred habits from which you will live the rest of your life.

One of the practical skills that I speak about in part one is a contemplation technique in which you go within and you ask questions of your heart. Your heart as a sensory organ is a sophisticated information encoding and processing centre. According to the HeartMath Institute, what is called ‘heart intelligence’ “is the flow of awareness, understanding and intuition that we experience when the mind and emotions are brought into coherent alignment with the heart.”

 

This information is then sent to the entire body—neurologically, biochemically, biophysically, and energetically—which profoundly affects how we perceive, think, feel, and perform.

Research shows that the heart has more than 40,000 neurons; the same type of neurons that are found in the brain – that can sense, feel, learn and remember; and that the heart is in constant communication with the brain.

When you feel angst and unsettled it is often because you are experiencing dissonance between the heart and the brain and it can feel like a struggle to know what is the right path to follow.

 

“In making the decision to live your truth, you must consider and take in the wisdom of your heart.”

 

Your heart wisdom is accessible beyond what you may see and witness through your other sensory modalities. What this means is that your heart is an instrument of incredible wisdom that you need to bypass the logic and rationalization that occurs in the mind and to streamline your dining of answers by going directly into the wisdom of the heart. 

 

1. The First Best Practice to Live Your Truth:

To be self-aware in what you tell yourself. Notice the random and progressive inner dialogue that incites what you choose and imparts how you feel. It is in revealing the critical and negative self-talk that opens you to acknowledge what has kept you back from attaining your goals and living your dreams.

What are the words and phrases that go under the radar inside your mind? When you pay more attention to your self-talk; ongoing and continuous, it sheds light upon the space and time that is your ever-present life. As you practice greater self-awareness; as you are awake to the thoughts you tell yourself and believe, you now have the power to make changes – to live authentic; that is to live honest and truthful. Rather than look to what others have told you, or what you have decided based upon what others think and do; be willing to look inward for your inspiration and to call it forward; to allow it to unfold and flow from within you; and to bring it forward. This is your truth.

Your inner wisdom is the often quieter and ever present loving voice that acknowledges your truth and your power. It is this voice that reminds you of your potential for all that is within you and all that you desire deeply.

Something to think about as we create a lot of noise in the thoughts that constantly overtake us and in the multi-tasking that speeds up the perception we hold of time and the many distractions including our ever-present need to be connected to the world of technology. We create a macrocosm of noise that makes it even harder to hear the quieter voice of our inner wisdom. Think about this as you sit in meditation or venture outdoors in nature. Create the space in your life where you can be with the quiet certainty of your heart wisdom.

 

2. The Second Best Practice to Live Your Truth:

Choose to no longer make excuses to yourself; to say ‘no’ to what you truly want. We do this without recognizing how our fear, our avoidance, our lack of confidence diminishes our needs and desires and holds us back from our true potential. We have these wonderful lofty goals and yet we refuse to carry them out. For example, it’s like wanting to begin a new habit like rising early to sit in meditation or to give up refined sugar, or to no longer smoke or drink to excess.

Whatever the new habit we decide, we know of its importance and then we choose to not do it. It is not because of any good reason that we tell our self, rather the simple truth of saying ‘no’; that we can’t or of deciding that it is easier or more enjoyable or convenient to do what we have always done, and so we tell ourselves whatever we need to hear and believe to make the excuse more powerful than our desire.

The truth is that you can always do and accomplish what will align you with your highest ideals and goals. You can always find the help and guidance, the support and the encouragement both from within yourself, and in the kindness of others who want you to succeed. This is how you live of your truth. You no longer find ways to stop yourself, to self-sabotage, to give up, to withhold, to deny; to make excuses. Instead, notice and recognize the moments when you are resisting the change you seek, from making the effort, from saying ‘yes’, from persevering, from succeeding; and choose instead what will bring you even closer to all of your highest goals and ideals. You can use the mantras “I AM”, “I can” and “I am worthy” to guide you.

 

3. The Third Best Practice to Live Your Truth:

Revisit the knowledge you hold of yourself. You can hold perceptions of yourself and your abilities based on the comments and views of others. You can carry misguided and untrue perceptions from childhood that will continue to conform an unrealistic self-image and what inaccurate beliefs you hold about others and the world.

Make it a point to examine what negative perceptions you continue to label yourself with. These are likely the stories and beliefs that you have learned as early as in childhood and they are also likely untrue. This means that it is time for you to shed – to release, to extinguish what has never served your life and reclaim your power. To live your truth is to decide what is true: to name it – to write it – to speak it – to share it with others once you have had time to own it first for yourself. Most important it is to know and believe your truth for yourself.

There is a specific therapeutic process for challenging and changing one’s core beliefs that I can share with you. Just say the word and we will dive into this together. You can discover the problematic core beliefs that have been holding you back in life and rewrite these together with the habits for strengthening what new beliefs are in fact true and honourable all in the context of one session together with me.

The important part of living each of these three best practices for living your truth is to understand and know the lessons of your heart that are right here; that fill you with true wisdom and right knowing. It is in using the perfection of this wisdom that you are reminded; you are challenged by the true knowing of your heart in and of all of the amazing moments of your life.

I invite you to explore each of these three best practices for a time and then join me in part three: The Path of Light. This is where you shine your light unto the world; you raise your consciousness to exude the wisdom that you hold and you live awake and free.

Until next time… I wish you peace and much love…

 

Sharing the wisdom and beauty of divine love with you…

Namaste!

If you have a question or would like my guidance or help, please reach out to me:  dorothy@dorothyratusny.com

 

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More Resources and Love:

* The Path of Truth (part 1/3)  [Podcast Episode]

* This Is What Therapy Can Do For You  [Podcast Episode]

* The Ultimate Self-Love WISDOM toolkit

* Self-Love: A Meditation to Heal Your Life  [The Wisdom Archives]

* Work With Me  [Therapy and Life Coaching]

 

A generous ‘thank you’ to Audio Engineer, P. Kirpikau  radioplato

Podcast Theme Music: ‘Aura’ from the Album, Illuvia by Eternellwww.eternell.net/album/illuvia