Friday, October 7, 2011

Break Out of the Blues With Authenticity - Week 1: Be Authentic

This month in the Inspire Your Inner Journey program, we are focusing on authenticity. Being authentic is one of the best things we can do to enhance our lives, our careers, our relationships, and really anything you can think of. That is because when you are not being authentic, you are holding back who you really are, and that only creates problems.

By not being fully authentic in each aspect of your life, resentments are created as you secretly wish you could just “be yourself.” In addition, life will feel more difficult and uninspiring because you will not be expressing your real talents and you will therefore be trying to do something or be someone instead of letting your real self flow easily. When you hold yourself back in life by either doing what you think others expect of you or by doing something and being someone different than you want to be because you don’t think it is possible to do or be what you really want to be, it is like you are taking aside a little child and telling them over and over again that they need to be someone different than they are. It’s damaging and demeaning and only leads to heartache and depression.

In your journal today, jot down the ways that you hold back your authenticity. In what ways are you not being yourself in how you dress, eat, speak? In what ways are you stifling yourself in your career, in your relationships, in the place you live in? Keep going. How are you not being you?

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