Truth-Telling

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 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 some fear-based story we've told ourselves.

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. 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 only a self who believes they are separate perceives a fear-based reality. 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, 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 was 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 listen with love and compassion. To be held in love and to be heard and seen in love is all that's needed for healing—to relieve the feelings and thoughts created by fear. It is our truth-telling, which is of the heart and body and mind, that is enough for us to open to experience the unconditional love of God. Unconditional means without conditions. We don’t need to do anything to receive it, except being truthful. And it is not that God doesn’t love us when we withhold truth, but we cannot experience God's love when we withhold it.

“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set thee free”—but to know it, we must learn how to speak it.