Truth and Dare

Have you ever watched a performer just try too hard to please their audience?  It’s embarrassing, isn’t it?  Sometimes you can see the purple bulge of their veins as they try and charm you, impress you, maybe even shock you, into loving and adoring them.

Usually it just doesn’t work.

Have you ever experienced anyone doing that in your life?  Trying to impress you with their fabulous offer?  Trying ever so hard to convince you of their knowledge and skill?  Working their mojo to bowl you over with compliments in order to get something from you?  Or maybe they just want to make sure you know that they were the ones behind that latest and greatest idea?

Or… maybe you’ve been that person, once or twice?

Unfortunately, trying to prove yourself to others, no matter how elegant your methods, usually results in the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve.    It’s the ego’s way of trying to compensate for that internal voice we all have, the one that shouts, “Excuse me? Uh… who do you think you FRICKIN’ ARE??!”  So you cover it up, and shove yourself in front of people, masking that horrible feeling of inadequacy until you have fooled even your own sad self into believing that you just might be that person you’re pretending to be.

So let’s just say, you’ve managed to get off that train.  You know, the train destined for a head-on collision with a cosmic wake-up call of epic proportion.  Let’s say that train’s track switched in your head just in time to avoid a very messy collision.  Instead, you do the internal work that turns on a different kind of light inside of you.  The light leads you to see the beauty of who you really are, just AS you really are. Right now.  And let’s just say that you are able to quiet the nasty little voice of the ego long enough to entertain the possibility that this light might actually be shining on the actual truth of who you are – you just gotta claim it.

This claiming thing is really easier than you might think.  All you have to do is recognize that you can claim the truth of who you are, and that claiming is a choice.  Most people are a little slow in discovering who they are.  They think they have to figure themselves out, fix their weaknesses, pay their dues and suffer endlessly while trying to live up to everyone else’s expectations.  I know.  I’ve done it.

But I’m here to invite you to another way of being in the world.  It’s the place of claiming who you are, not like a huge “shout from the rooftops” kind of claiming, but more like a quiet confidence that oozes out your pores when you can fully accept yourself as you are.  How about it?

So, consider this a game of truth or dare. You game?

I dare you to embrace the truth and shine the light on the glistening beauty of your own magnificence.  Ah yes. Radiate, illuminate, ruminate, marinate in the light of your unique is-ness. Claim yourself and step into the glorious body of being who you are meant to be, without the need to push or prove.  I dare you: step into your truth.

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
- Chinese Proverb

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