The Power of Honoring Your Authentic Truth
Flow Music Festival in summer of 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
Life is a dance. What may serve us at one moment, may not be the necessary case in the next.
“Someone committed to something, gets far more done than someone who’s not,” and “commitment creates a series of actions that are not generated if there’s no commitment.”
These are two of my favorite sayings and are literally just above my laptop as I type this.
However what if said commitment is no longer serving ones path of personal growth?
This is a personal area that when I reflect back on certain moments in life, I see how some of my emphatic “yes’s” would be clear “no’s” today.
Why is that? You may be thinking.
It’s because now I pay closer attention to the internal cues of my body in the moment (and what it’s communicating to me), rather than relying solely on my mind like I used.
We all have this innate intelligence that if we listen to it, can make our lives a lot less complicated and more peaceful.
Simply put, what if we only said yes to the activities, tasks, people, and aspects of our lives that inspire us?
What if we focused our attention on what would truly light our hearts on fire and allowed that to be the compass that guides all of our decisions?
Time and time again this has proven to be one of the most important facets to pay attention to in my life.
I’m able to look back on certain decisions that fell like hell yes’s. Those where I could feel an energetic opening throughout my entire body, and a warm, light, and tingly feeling throughout my chest and stomach.
Some of these have been but aren’t limited to:
Choosing to go college at Texas Tech University
Choosing to work in the NFL and MLB of professional sports
Choosing to set up a date with my Life Partner whom I met on Tinder
Choosing to spend months traveling abroad throughout Europe & South America
Choosing to create more time to write my first book (coming soon)
Choosing to stop drinking alcohol (it’s been just over one year since my last sip)
Choosing to travel to Hawaii last summer
Choosing to move to Austin
While I know this list is fairly short, I believe it gives a gist of an idea of what I mean.
Even while just typing those choices out, I felt a rise in the energy moving throughout my body.
An openness and appreciation for honoring the authentic truth in turning the said aforementioned desires into physical creations.
I’ve also made decisions where I genuinely felt a contraction or closed off feeling in my body too. Ones where I intuitively knew they were a “no” but I allowed the mind to either avoid the internal cue, or create a misaligned story of why I should do something anyway.
Some of these in the past were:
Drunkenly choosing to antagonize a police officer, leading to a previous public intoxication arrest
Choosing to be kicked off my high school basketball team a year for confiscating a laptop the summer of my junior year
Choosing to have my car and $1000 stolen by a mechanic, from the decision to pay them before the auto work was done
Previously choosing to be 60 pounds heavier, from the decision to use food as a numbing agent for emotions I intentionally chose to not express
Hopefully you recognize a pattern here.
Each and every event or creation was created from the act of choosing to say “yes” to something.
Rather it be the first list, which were made up of authentic inner “yes’s” which felt purely connected to my heart.
Or the yes’s in the latter list, which were created from decisions to go against my internal intuitive body signals.
Here’s the thing though.
I take personal responsibility for each and every decision I’ve made in my life up until this point.
This creates an inner sense of empowerment, rather than a victim conscious mindset that places blame on another.
Life is so much more enjoyable when we approach it from this frame of mind.
To recognize that each and everything we see in our experience is but a direct reflection of what we’re choosing to bring forth within it.
Everything that shows up is an opportunity to lovingly embrace and learn from.
Nothing is innately good or bad, it’s the perception in which we assign to it that creates the emotional link to how we associate with it.
I’m grateful for each and every decision that has led me to this beautiful moment in time and space.
This opportunity to share all of myself from a place of acceptance for each and every creation on the past timeline of my life, up until the present and what’s being created in the future, by the actions in which I’m choosing right now.
If you’re in a place where you desire to create more clarity around this (on a body awareness level), and align to the authentic truth of your heart in your decisions, remember these six aspects:
Cultivate a daily state of being that energizes and aligns you to your most present, calm, and light/joyful disposition
From this place, ask yourself yes or no questions to gain a better sense of the relationship to what aligns to your core and what doesn’t
Start with something simple like:
My name is ________.
I am ____ years old.
I love _____ (something you actually love).
Then switch it to the exact opposite:
My name is _____ (say a name that isn’t yours).
I am _____ (make up an untrue age).
I love ______ (something that you know you don’t love).
Take inventory of the bodily sensations you notice internally (compare)
Rinse and repeat
The more one cultivates this practice from an open, light, and peaceful state of being (that part is VERY important), the more you’ll develop a crystal-clear awareness as to what truly serves you and what may lovingly need to be let go.
The more this is honored (no matter how uncomfortable it may feel at first), the more internal power, trust, and authentic alignment you’ll create within all facets of your life.
I’m curious to know, what is one (1) aspect that came to your mind while reading this, that by either doing more of it, or on the flip side letting it go, would create an even deeper sense of authenticity and inner peace in your life?
You can reply in the comments, as I’d love to hear how that may be showing up for you at this time.
However regardless, until next time, wishing you nothing but continued inner peace and authentic greatness.
With Love, 🙏🏿❤️
Brandon
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P.S. - If it could also serve you:
Here’s a quick 5-minute video I created last week on “How To Go from feeling Anxiously Overwhelmed to Relaxed”
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