Authenticity
As children, we traded authenticity for attachment in order to survive.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
We can only be authentic to the degree that we currently know ourselves. Better said, we can only be authentic to the degree that we are currently aware of ourselves. And because so much of us is denied, rejected, disowned and suppressed into the subconscious, we are not aware of very much of ourselves.
Authenticity is this connection with ourselves, of knowing who we are, knowing which of our emotions belong in the present moment, and which is triggered from the past. Of not rejecting any emotion that arises for us. Not necessarily acting it out either, but not rejecting and not repressing it. Not making ourselves wrong for it.
Remember it’s OK to be yourself.
The whole of yourself is certainly an irrational entity, but this is just precisely yourself, which is meant to live as a unique and unrepeatable experience.
Authenticity is the conscious mending of the incongruences between a person's inner self and a person's outer self.
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are. Choosing authenticity means cultivating the courage to be imperfect, to set boundaries, and to allow ourselves to be vulnerable; exercising the compassion that comes from knowing that we are all made of strength and struggle; and nurturing the connection and sense of belonging that can only happen when we believe that we are enough.
We’re all different and we’re all imperfect, and the imperfections are what makes each of us and our work interesting.
Looking outwards has got to be turned into looking into oneself. Discovering yourself provides you with all you are, were meant to be, and all you are living from and for.
As authenticity applies to a human being, we must swallow the reality that each and every person comes into this life as a unique expression of source consciousness. This means each person comes in with a unique essence, like an energetic signature and our unique purpose and unique thoughts and unique feelings and unique desires and unique needs and unique role within the greater universe is embedded in that essence.
I am doing me, and I am showing you who I am, and you can like it or not but either way, this is still how I see it.
Authenticity isn't dead.
Now, what is it that people get back when they recover? They get back themselves. Here’s the good news. If what they get back is themselves, it means that the true authentic self was never destroyed, we lost contact with it as a result of trauma, but because it can never be destroyed, we can regain that contact, so that capacity to reconnect to ourselves, to our true self, to truly recover ourselves, that’s with us as long as we’re alive and conscious. So, I’m totally optimistic about human capacity for healing. By the way, healing, the word itself means ‘wholeness’.
To become conscious and aware, we must become authentic. Authenticity is the highest form of being.