Speaking Your Truth
Speaking your truth is a subject that we can all relate to, because most of us grow up learning how to relate to each other mask-to-mask, instead of heart-to-heart. We learn to develop personas. This is one dictionary definition of the word persona:
The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self. As we grow up, we develop personas in order to feel safe and to get what we need. We depend on these personas so much that sometimes we lose touch with who we really are. We haven't been taught the value of what's in our own hearts. In order to begin speaking your truth, it's important to free yourself from a dependence on positive reactions from other people.
The first step in being able to speak
your truth is to start noticing when
you are relating from a persona
It might be a very pleasant persona, but remember, it's a role you've taken on, it's not the real you. You have created your personal personas by observing other people's reactions.
Start noticing when you aren't being yourself, and begin to free yourself from the dependence on positive reactions from other people.
Next, create an internal
foundation that supports you in being true to yourself
Life is designed to work best when each one of us is true to him or herself. If this resonates with you, then spend some time really contemplating it, and integrate it into your heart and mind, until you can live from it every day.Look within and develop a belief system that supports you in speaking authentically. Look at your own spiritual beliefs and see if they support you in speaking your truth. If not, you may want to reevaluate your own beliefs and adopt new ones that are more in alignment with your personal truth.
Be fully connected to what's in your own heart
The next time you are involved in a conversation, instead of speaking automatically from your persona, take a moment to check in and see what's truly in your heart. Begin to communicate from that place, and picture yourself connecting directly with the other person's heart.Free yourself from the need to control how others fell about you. Once you are in alignment with your authentic self, the people who "match" who you really are will be attracted to you naturally. The more you practice tapping into your authentic self, knowing your own heart and speaking your truth will become easier and easier.
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