Find Your Truth
“Open your mind, allow your feelings to be expressed, to be pushed out, and your heart will neither break nor burst, but be a free-flowing channel of the life energy in your soul.” — Neale Donald Walsch
The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said that life is not a problem to be solved; it’s a mystery to be experienced. Contained within that message lies a conceivable reality if we are willing to embrace it.
The principle underlying most self-help guidance is to surrender control on how circumstances will play out.
The need to influence conditions is an illusion, since we have limited control after all. What if underneath our desire for control lies the need for safety? It is widely held that what we want and what we need are distinctly opposed.
Upon closer examination, our desires are obscured by past conditioning to maintain a sense of security. Yet open any news bulletin and we see how little control we have within the natural order of events.
Through the neuroscience of free will, it takes 300 ms to evoke a response from our nervous system, demonstrating the updating of working memory. At 500 ms we are thinking about what we saw for the first time.
In the context of free will, our mind is one step ahead of our nervous system before we intend to act.
So how does this relate to gaining clarity on what matters most? The mind is notorious for pulling us in different directions.
To pierce the essence of our existence, we must surrender our self-fabricated story and allow the truth to emerge. Yet, for many to discard their long-held beliefs is painful as throwing money down the drain.
To gain clarity, we connect with our core self which knows the best path to take and uncover our truth along the way.
As an example, Dr. David Hawkins spoke of finding one’s truth and living it as best we can. Living our truth may oppose others and even annoy them.
Yet to support a distorted view of reality because it supplicates to their needs is harmful to our potential. It is helpful to re-examine your purpose when you feel you are being pulled in different directions.
Do you want to pursue your deepest desires or be at the mercy of others and live an inauthentic life? Which will it be? You cannot have both, so we must choose what supports our highest potential and serves our growth.
Discover What Matters Most
“Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.” — John Keats
Ultimately, we ought to live our calling, our purpose and truth as much as life will allow us. This does not mean we won’t encounter situations to test our resolve.
Knowing life is a mystery to be experienced, we trust as long as we take daily action toward our goals and dreams, we are moving in the right direction.
It’s apparent that life offers no assurances. Clarity is apparent when we direct our inner compass toward that which we long for, instead of waiting for external conditions to dictate our future.
Many people believe life happens to them instead of lived through them. This subjective view of reality diminishes their personal power.
Life invites us to take proper action and matches it with the right opportunities to advance us to the next stage. The Determinist view states that life functions within the container of a self-organising system.
Experience and wisdom has taught me to stay attentive to the signs and symbols which play out in my life. These signs lead me to connect with my inner wisdom and correct my course if I veer off direction.
Have you noticed similar patterns in your own life? Do you take note of them or dismiss them as another passing event? Contained within those symbols and messages lies clues to our deepest questions.
To discover what matters most means to live the questions we put forth. What we believe was once important, is an incomplete perception of reality pulling us in a direction not of our choosing.
We can be pulled by our troubles or we can lead with our solutions. The latter invites us to find our own North Star, as author Martha Beck writes in her book.
To have life imposed upon us restricts us living an authentic life. Our authenticity is the one true freedom awarded us at the moment of conception. It is a Carte Blanche with no conditions other than we embrace it wholeheartedly.
I enjoy psychotherapist David Richo’s perspective who writes in The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them: “You can learn to trust that there is a sane, wise, and nurturant resource within you. In fact, the more you know what you really want, the less desperately you need it. This happens because your self-esteem, confidence, and clarity grow.”
It is with that knowing we arrive full circle to Søren Kierkegaard’s sentiments to embrace the mysteries of life through experience. Only then can we gain clarity on what matters most amid the pursuit of excellence.
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