Stay True To Yourself What does it mean to stay true to ourselves? One of the greatest challenges is for many of us is to stay true to ourselves especially when other people for many different reasons such as selfishness and thinking only about their own needs are pressuring us to disregard our feelings and act in certain ways. If you like you can take on this challenge right now to think about the true you: What are your true feelings about a person or situation? What are your true thoughts? What do you want from life? Who is the true you? While we absolutely not do not need to share all of this with people around us all the time as it might not be appropriate, at least when you are totally honest and true about yourself to yourself, you will gain clarity and you will not feel lost and confused, you will find your center no matter in which situation you will find yourself in. Otherwise it is very easy to ‘get lost’ in other people’s demands and wishes. You might use your kindness to set aside and ignore your own true feelings and wishes for the wishes of others, and use your deep sensitivity to put aside your own feelings, thoughts and needs because you do not want to hurt anybody else. Honor the true you, honor who you are, honor your true feelings and thoughts. As you allow firstly deep self-honesty to be your guiding light, people will get to know the real you and you will draw to you people who will resonate with you in a positive and life-affirming way, and people who do not respect you at this level will not be drawn to you. Further other people’s expectations about your behavior and acts will also much better resonate with who you are, leading hopefully to much more harmonious interactions. These are my own lessons learnt over the years which I wished I had known all along. We are meant to be who we truly are, that way we stay centered and true to ourselves as well as to others and this way we find our way and can be truly effective in our life’s work and purpose. It is about living in integrity and this also involves setting boundaries. However in order to set a boundary with someone else, we need to be able to do this first within ourselves in order to understand where our limits are and what is and not is acceptable to us. Ultimately this is about true self-responsibility, that is that we need to take responsibility for who we are and this is self-empowerment for real.
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