Perceiving What is True
What we feel comes from what we think, though this is often unconscious. What we feel in any moment is often a reaction to what we are unconsciously believing to be true about our reality, what is expected of us, what we are responsible for, what we must do to please others and not experience rejection. Yet, these are beliefs, and while previous experience would tell us it's true—that negative consequences occur unless we act as we think we must—what we believe is based on our interpretation of others’ words and actions and the meaning behind them. It's surprising to realize that most emotional discomfort we feel is the result of believing something we've told ourselves. Our interpretation of reality is what we feel, and if the result is discomfort, we know it is not a true interpretation, but a fear-based one.
Without awareness that our thoughts create reality, we are more firmly entrenched in believing that our bodies are informing us of what is true, and so seek to protect, control or avoid whatever it is we are confronted with. What does unconscious mean, but a part of ourselves that thinks its own thoughts, outside of our awareness? So we must bring these thoughts into our awareness. The we who becomes aware (i.e., our Loving Parent), holds space for the experience of this separate self, for the thought has already created a reality, even if it is not true. To release this reality, we must honor and acknowledge our experience of this reality. When we can show up and offer unconditional love and presence to this part of ourselves, it allows the feelings created by the false belief to express and dissipate. Then we are returned to oneness and integration, and can perceive true reality more clearly.
Healing then, is bringing to light what is kept in darkness. We allow the part of us that was kept hidden, or which we kept hidden, to speak openly about its experience, and we hold space and listen with love and compassion. We let the little “t” truth speak and feel heard, which relieves the little “t” truth experience in our bodies, such as tension, stress, or overwhelm, and it gives way to the Big “T” Truth of Oneness in God's love. To be held in love and to be heard and seen in love is all that's needed to heal, to relieve the feelings and thoughts created by fear. No repentance is necessary to satisfy God. It is our truth-telling, which is of the heart and body and mind, that is enough—and not for God, but enough for us to open to receive and experience the unconditional love of God that is already here. Unconditional means, without conditions. Nothing is needed to be done to receive it, except being truthful. And it is not that God does not love us when we withhold truth, but we cannot experience God's love when we withhold truth.
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set thee free”—but to know it, we must learn how to speak it.
