Believing the Lie: How Choosing Your Truths Will Set You Free
By: Kim Petersen
Tags: Personal Growth, Inner Peace, World, Mindset, Personal Development

It’s not always easy to be true to yourself. Life has a way of loading the lies.

Often, the lies are readily-made and waiting for us long before our conception. We are born into a world rife with perceived limitations.

Rules and systems. Religion and judgment. Beliefs and expectations. We have structured society around a collection of restrictions that clip our wings and often instill a sense of self-doubt and inadequacy.

A man-made “bubble” created to regulate and condition the masses. You may be permitted to shine, so long as you stay within the feeble confines of the “bubble.”

How is your bubble looking? Are you happy and fulfilled?

Taking a fast look at your default mindset and priorities might give you a hint. But it is through practicing deeper reflection that will reveal all you need to know about your outlook on life and your ability to adopt a growth mindset.

A growth mindset is the key to inner freedom.

Rejecting the unknown fosters stagnation and fixed ways of being. Opening your mind unlocks invisible doors leading to the good stuff like inner-peace, happiness, and freedom.

Contemplation challenges the lie.

We emerge from our mother’s womb with the remnants of the truth slowly fading into a forgotten abyss. We are brainwashed into believing the lie — a reality created from ignorance and fear.

Yet, it is those that have the gift to broaden their perspectives, own their truths and push against the grain that are making a difference in the world. They are the same people who ponder greater things and seek to know life’s meaning.

Humans who inhabit a thirsty soul for change.

Reflection is an important component to igniting change, self-growth and personal expansion, but it isn’t always easy.

Growth in any form isn’t supposed to be easy.

A shift in how we think, behave and relate to one another is required if we are to realize harmony and experience an authentic existence as a collective whole.

It begins with one person at a time willing to look beyond their physicality and sense the wonder; to remain optimistic in the face of world conflict and adversity; to reach for more and stretch their thoughts to embrace new ways of being.

Often, these souls are called lightworkers.

Lightworkers come here for the sole purpose to help raise the earth’s vibration. Their goal is to remind people to connect with their divine spirit.

They teach oneness and love.

We are familiar with the great spiritual teachers who have imprinted their mark upon the earth during their lifetimes. Hermes, Buddha, Jesus and Rumi have been with us for as long as the world has been around. In more recent times, people like Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer and Neville Goddard have stamped their teachings into the human psyche.

Spiritual teachers are vital for the evolution of the human soul as they provide necessary wisdom to help us move forward in our spiritual journeys.

Mostly, we have forgotten that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience and not the other way around. This is the truth that disintegrates by way of passage into the human condition when our sense of divinity becomes long-lost at birth.

The same truth we spend lifetimes desperately clawing our way back toward.

Something has got to give.

Has fear, aggression and outrage not yet had its fair share of the limelight?

Ignorance is a catchy affliction.

Ignorance for those in power that serve warped agendas; and for the underlying emotion driving every loveless decision enacted against the betterment of humanity.

It is the act of separation that is really fostering dissonance.

We draw an invisible line around ourselves and pull it tight, with only very few people ever permitted within our farce cocoon. Even then, access is usually accompanied by a set of “rules” born from years of the conditioning we’ve gathered from the lie and then reconstructed for ourselves.

We think we need protection from others. We believe there isn’t enough. We become used to acting out of greed, conceit, and selfishness because more often than not we’ve been taught that it’s every man for himself.

“Sometimes it’s a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it’s the other way around.” — Lawrence Block

The wolves will eat you up if you’re not careful. You had better get with it. Immerse yourself in another lie. Go ahead, allow it to insulate you until it becomes so thick that you can barely breathe beneath the bullshit.

And there it is — the reality you accept to be true.

There are lies enough for everything. Lies that say you aren’t good enough, smart enough, young enough or old enough. Lies that dictate what and who you can be. Some lies are even created to control your heart.

Those lies are among the most vicious because it is love from which we originate and love that governs our very existence. So, who can you love?

Who can’t you love?

To deny someone their heart's desire is to hinder their spirit and demolish their soul. Love didn’t arrive on the earth plane to adhere to a set of rules. Love didn’t choose fear or restriction. Love only knows expression and truths.

Love is limitless. Which means you are too.

Why then, do we accept the notion that we are limited beings when the heart is the gateway to unity and balance, and vital in elevating the human condition?

I used to believe that I was powerless to make any significant change in the world. After all, I am no Zen Master or a great spiritual teacher.

I feel differently now.

I have realized that we don’t all need to be a “Wayne Dyer” or a “Lee Harris” to help make the world a better place. We don’t have to get around chanting mantras and chaining ourselves to trees to make a difference.

Lightworkers come in all walks of life with varying skills and missions. They are not enshrined in any holy light, nor are they any more or less divine than you and me. In fact, they are you and me.

Lightworkers are carers and teachers; mothers and fathers, and sisters and brothers.

She is the woman next door who lives in obscurity yet shines with the stars above. He is the homeless man who touches your soul with humbling kindness or the suited attorney who crumbled beneath the lie to emerge with a renewed sense of purpose and love in his heart.

She is the woman who has learned the value of forgiveness despite being severely mistreated by those she loved and trusted.

Lightworkers are the humanitarians striving for change; they are the passionate artists and dedicated writers persevering to bring their uplifting messages into the world.

They are healers, channelers and lovers.

They are anyone who not only speaks of love, empathy and compassion, but practices those qualities in every instance — they are anyone who is brave enough to expand their heart and own their truths.

A lightworker could be you.

At each moment we have a choice. We can either spend the rest of our days believing the lie, or we can find the courage to see beyond the distortion.

Choosing to own your truths means focusing on inner-freedom and harmony, but it also means helping to raise universal consciousness. Thereby, making a positive impact on the world.

Being true to yourself might not be easy, but doing so is choosing magnificence over the ordinary; love over fear; acceptance over ridicule and judgment — and it’s the start of a journey paved with uplifting moments and extraordinary revelations.

Do you own your truths?