5 Misconceptions about truth & lies

Lots of people reflect on what's good for them or not.  Its not always straightforward to distinguish between truth and lies.  Consider these 5 ideas which may prompt you to reflect on your own misconceptions:

1) How do you feel?  If you act purely based on your sense of truth, then you would expect to feel nothing but love, happiness, inner peace and contentment. If you are permitting your mind to wander, to believe or defend injustice, suffering or rationalize discomfort, then you  hypothesize the opposite of love about society.  You are also lying to yourself that it doesn't matter.

2) Where does drama originate?  Any drama or crisis you experience is grounded in lies, mainly about yourself.  It begins when you decide you aren't something you really are or, you choose to ignore what you want to be based on what you decide you should be.  If you evolved to believe you are perfect, lovable and nurture unwavering faith without lies, your life would be very different.

3) Can you identify what you're not?  Any time you focus attention on what you're not, or make life choices that aren't true to your passion, you build on a false sense of self.  The curious thing is humans tend to build a on lies to rationalize whay what they do makes sense, even when they don't believe it does at all. 

4) Why might you only "try?"  This word means to anticipate failure.  If you have faith in the idea you will "try," you believe you aren't up to snuff or will inadvertently fail.  To believe in an outcome will invite just that.

5) What is your point of view? The story you convey about yourself isn't necessarily generalizable.  A particular experience may apply to you, but not to other people.  You can defend what you want to believe in your own mind, but not impose it on others. Your truth can become someone else's lie if you force an idea.

Comments

[Bruno]

Challenge what you believe about yourself - More often than not, we learn that what we believe about ourselves and what is true are not the same.

[Liara Covert]

Bruno, what you say resonates loudly. People often don't know themselves as well as they assume. As we evolve to realize we don't need internal dialogue, we also evolve to nurture more trust in our instincts and feelings. After all, why waste energy telling yourself what you already know or, worry about what you may not know? Build faith in yourself instead.

[Alexys Fairfield]

I agree with "trying." Like you mention, it does set people up for failure. They don't even realize that they are doing it and inadvertently stop short of the goal. When I hear people say, "Ill try," I will say, "You will try or do it?" It doesn't sound as harsh as it reads. It's just a gentle prompt for them to recalculate the phrase.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, many of us could indeed become far more attuned to our use of language. We each underestimate the power of words and the messages we subconsciously convey to ourselves and other people. The hidden ideas include assumed defeat or expected victory. The thoughts and feelings reverberrate into actions. People can be surpised at their situations, but they invite them in with everything from the energy they send out.