LET TRUTH SET YOU FREE
When you make a personal manifesto, you have finally listened to the truth about the circumstances in your life, and you have no choice but to take responsibility for them.
It takes so much energy to deny the truth and hide from it that once you admit to it, you feel an immediate release and burst of renewed positive energy.
The truth offers you wisdom (even when it isn’t positive), because once the truth is spoken, you are free to take action.
You are free to change.
You are free to create forward motion in your life.
The tricky thing about the truth is that it is always changing.
Once spoken, what is true for you today could turn out to be no longer true tomorrow or the next day.
For example, if you share your feelings of hurt with a friend or co-worker whose words have wounded you, the hurt might dissappear, just having spoken it.
Once you are no longer experiencing hurt, you are living a different truth.
Admitting what is true in a way that does not hurt others allows the possibility of a wise solution to or even the transformation of a negative situation.
One of my closest friends spent years denying he was bankrupt, living painfully cloaked in shame and deceit.
Once he admitted the truth of his circumstances to himself and the people around him, he discovered that the consequences of declaring bankruptcy were not nearly as harsh as he had feared. He was then able to close down his business with dignity, speak to his creditors openly and begin a new and more resourceful life.
Our tendency is to avoid difficult truths, trying strategy after strategy to do so, only to be left feeling empty or frustrated. Even if we succeed in covering up our reality because it becomes an empty and hollow victory.
The underlying problem is still there.
When you make a personal manifesto and tell the truth about your life, you have allowed your life to tell you what it needs from you, instead of telling your life what you need from it.
When we are not satisfied with our lives, no matter how outwardly perfect they look, this is what is going on.
We cannot override the truth.
No matter how hard we try, we cannot.
You can spend a lifetime trying but in the end, it will have been a much harder life.
Deal with what is true.
