Are you living as your true genuine self? or do you have a mask on?

WHO AM I ?

Is a vital question which each one of us should be asking, we should be checking our inner truth, and observing if we are acting with integrity, if we really walk the talk. The sad reality, is that most of the time, our actions are influenced by our social conditioning, and beliefs,

To have a better understanding on the real meaning of authenticity, try to watch children play and hear their genuine laughter, it is one of the greatest beauties you can witness in life.

We were all born as children filled with life, a sense of wonder, and the desires to explore or create and live in the moment.  Children have no past baggage or future anxieties so they express what they feel and aren’t afraid to love unconditionally.

At the age of 3, Children start to become more tamed, we start loosing that sense of wander. This process of losing your authenticity and replacing it with thoughts in the form of fears, shameful memories, rules, social values, and beliefs is known as domestication.

Our domestication can turn into a disease if our parents do not have the awareness and wisdom of what they are passing on.  Just like pets, we are domesticated with an emotional reward or punishment system.  If our behavior is desirable we are rewarded with attention and affection.  If our behaviour is not acceptable we are punished by the rejection of our parents.

As Children, we didn’t care about judgement, we did what made us happy without having to worry about what other people may think of us, hence our self-worth was rooted in our authenticity.

However, as adults, our thoughts and behaviour are fear driven, fear of rejection, of judgement…etc, so we unconsciously gave our powers, and put our self-worth in the hands of other people. This new type self-worth forces us to change, to create a false image of ourselves, then slowly, we start realising that people have different expectations from us, teachers, parents, friends , lovers…etc, until we realise that we have lost ourselves in the middle of trying to fit in, to please, and to be accepted. TO BELONG

The False image brings insecurities and anxiety, the insecurities hit you because you expect to externally live up to an image you envision for yourself, but deep down you know the internal image of yourself is different.  The greater the discrepancy between these two images, the more insecure you will feel. this false image is called EGO, it manifest as the need to always be right, in order to protect the illusion you have created, and you spend your life trying to prove people wrong by trying to become successful, rich, famous…etc but this pursuit of physical thing will never give you the satisfaction you seek, there is a void in you that will keep creating suffering and unhappiness until you decide to unveil your true colours and be unapologetically yourself.

WAKE UP TO SEE THE REAL YOU

Authenticity will teach you to see the world as it is, not as you believe it to be.  You are the manifestation of the Divine within this physical body, As you become more authentic you’ll begin to understand this; not with logic and your social personality, but by feeling it at in your core, your very essence. Honour your soul! Honour your TRUTH!

BE THE LIGHT!