Discerning our own truth/Discerning personal truth

 

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Discerning our own truth/Discerning personal truth
Discerning personal truth exercise
Reviewing the results of the discerning personal truth exercise
General statements about what serves and doesn’t serve you

One of the more difficult things for us as a human being to fully accept is that as a unique individualized consciousness there are things that are true for one and not necessarily true for another. As a human being, we share a tremendous amount with other human beings. We tend to think we are all the same. However, there is no “normal” or “standard” human being. The medical profession has worked for years with normal distribution curves that give a broad range of values for any human parameter. Sometimes the distribution curve is narrow and at other times it is quite broad, Similarly, there is an ancient recommendation to have good thoughts, good words and good deeds. The question is, “Who defines good?” What is good for me is not always good for you.

What needs to be understood is that, if we are open to feeling, we can feel what is good for us and what serves us. But to know what serves us we must become aware of what we feel and how our body responds to an untruth and/or something that does not serves us. The recommendation made here is that if you have not does so, do the following discerning truth exercise.

Discerning personal truth exercise (Top)

This exercise is best done if someone narrates the text of this exercise. Trying to read this exercise rather than just being able to listen and do what is directed will break your concentration. If you are reading this material alone, it is recommended you go find someone to slowly read this exercise to you. Or, record the exercise on a tape and then listen to it.

To get the most out of this exercise, give yourself permission to feel. Tell yourself that you are free to feel whatever it is you need to feel in this exercise and that you are perfectly safe.

  • Close your eyes and calm yourself

  • Focus on your breathing

  • Allow your awareness to follow the rise and fall of your chest

  • Imagine a stone dropping into a large pool of water

  • Every time you breathe in, see a stone drop into the pool and a ripple formed

  • Every time you breathe out, the ripples expand outward and dissipates creating a perfectly calm pool of water.

  • Continue to watch a stone drop and watch the ripple expand outward dissipating again and again with each breath.

  • Each time a new ripple forms and dissipates, know you move to a deeper calmness.

  • [To the narrator: Give some time for the individual to be with their breathing before continuing the exercise.

  • After watching the stones and ripples for a time, think of some object or thing, a personal experience, a person, an activity or whatever you choose that has great and unparalleled beauty and joy for you. You are free to choose whatever you wish. You can be at any time or place and at any age. The place can be real or imaginary. Just think of some object, thing or personal experience that gives you unparalleled beauty and joy.

  • [To the narrator: give some time for the individual(s) to find their object of focus]

  • Every time you breathe in, experience this object of unparalleled beauty and joy

  • Every time you breathe out, allow yourself to savior and feel the experience of this object of focus throughout your entire body

  • Continue breathing in the experience and breathing out allowing yourself to full feel and savor the experience

  • [To the narrator: allow some time to feel the experience]

  • As you experience this object of focus that gives you this great beauty and joy, notice the feelings you have.

  • Allow yourself to be with what you feel and allow the feeling to permeate all of your being.

  • Pay particular attention as to how you would describe what you feel and/or recognize what you feel at some future time

  • Feel the beauty and joy of this experience

  • Tell yourself you will always remember what these feelings of great beauty and joy feel like and you will recognize them in the future.

  • Allow yourself to feel the beauty and joy this object of your focus gives you

  • Allow yourself to be present to this beauty

  • Now, tell yourself all that you have just felt and experienced is a lie and totally untrue because you hate whatever it is that you said gives you bliss and joy.

  • Tell yourself you hate the object of focus

  • Tell yourself all that you just experienced is a fabrication, a lie.

  • Tell yourself you have been deceived and that beauty and joy is not found in the object of your focus

  • Allow yourself some time to feel the lie

  • [To the narrator: allow for a few moments to be with the feelings]

  • Now notice how you respond to this revelation about what you cherish and how and what you feel.

  • Pay particular attention to how the feelings have changed

  • Observer and record the feelings you had both when you were with the object of focus that gave great beauty and what you felt when you told yourself a lie

Reviewing the results of the discerning personal truth exercise (Top)

There are several things one needs to understand from this exercise. One is what we felt in thinking about what give us great beauty and joy contains the elements of what truth feels like to us. It contains all the elements of what truth feels like to us at this points in time and/or is the “direction” of truth in our life. That is, (1) the feeling we had is the type and kind of feeling we will feel when we experience something that is personally true for us and (2) as our belief structure changes and we gain more experience in life, we may find what is true for us changes.

The comment as to the “direction” of the feeling means that, although what we feel in the future may not be exactly like what we feel now, what we feel now is the type and kind of feelings we will have. The feelings in the future may be different because we may be in a different environment. For example, the feelings we have in laying down and resting have an element in common whether we lay down on a nice soft bed or a slab of stone. The feelings of truth at different points and times in our life will have elements in common. If we follow the common feelings, we will always be moving in the same direction in our life. We can learn to discern these common elements of the feeling and use them to measure how true something is for us.

Realize that what gives us great beauty and joy is unique to us. It is our truth. The feelings of great beauty and joy we feel also contain the feelings we have when we embrace what is true for us and/or a truth about what we desire to create. What is true for us serves us and who and what we are. What is true for us does not cause us to deny the essence of our being. It allows us to grow and expand into the awareness of who and what we are. If we are open to our feelings, we may literally feel ourselves expanding. It is said what we felt contains the elements of what truth feels like because we can, and will, feel what is true for us whether or not something is pleasurable.

Two things do need to be noted about our personal truth. One is that as we gain experience in life it may, and most probably, will change. However, the second point is, the feeling that makes us feel alive and full of life does not change. That feeling is immutable. As we move into life and into those activities that give us life we will have a greater fulness and/or passion within our being. This is the essence of the internal compass and is reflective of why we incarnated and the experiences we incarnated to have.

What we felt in telling ourselves that what gives us great bliss and joy is a lie contains the elements of what we feel at this point in time when something does not serve us or the “direction” we are going does not serve us. That is, if we continue to do things that give us such feelings (the feeling of this lie) we will be going in a direction in life that does not ultimately serve our best interests. What we felt is a combination of what we feel when we know we are lying to ourselves and what we feel when we experience an untruth for a lie is an untruth we tell ourselves. What needs to be understood is what is untrue for us does not ultimately serve us and who and what we are and we can feel when we are not being served. What does not serve us causes us to deny the essence of our being in some way. What is untrue for us does not allow us to grow and expand in awareness. Rather, in some way, we have to deny what is to live or act in accordance with that untruth.

To live or act in some way that is not true for us is the same as telling a lie to ourselves and, if we are aware, we will feel it. To continue to tell the lie and/or live in the lie and not feel pain or discomfort we will have to numb what we feel. This in turn lays the seed for addictions and/or desensitizing ourselves to what we feel. As a minimum we can become aware of how an untruth seems to steal or drain our energy to be enthusiastic in what we do. We may even see and feel ourselves shrinking and collapsing much like a balloon whose air is being released. Or, we may simply find ourselves going to sleep at whatever level of our being that is not being severed by what we are doing. The more we lie to ourselves the more and more we move into unawareness about ourselves. In doing so, we become more and more insensitive to what we feel. The more we lie to ourselves and/or live the a lie, the less passion, energy and enthusiasm we will have to give life and/or for life.

General statements about what serves and doesn’t serve you (Top)

There are some general statements that can be made about what severs or doesn’t serve us.

Typically, activities that serve us cause us experience one or more of the following: we feel an expansion within our being; experience a lightness of being; experience a feeling of bliss and joy within our being independent of what is happening externally; and/or a calmness in our being as we are actively engaged in whatever it is we do. The more we feel what we would describe or interpret as a feeling of bliss and joy in what we do or one of these other feelings, the more that what we do and experience is probably in alignment with our personal truth.

The more we feel what we felt in telling a lie, the more our experience is in alignment with a lie relative to our personal truth. What needs to be understood is that we can feel truth. We can feel what is true for us and the essence of our being and what is a lie where we in someway deny our essence. We only need to be aware of what truth and a lie feels like. In essence, this exercise was an initial calibration of our ability to feel and use feeling as your measure of personal truth and realize we have an internal compass. The next task is then to calibrate that internal compass and learn how to use it.

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