Are you ready to step into your innate fullness and integrity?
Spiritual Integrity is a path to wholeness. When we live from our own Spiritual Integrity we follow through on our commitments without stress, confusion, or fear. We are constantly inspired and energized to respond to change with eyes wide open. We are clear about who we are and where we are going. Our actions are in alignment with our heart. Each day is a playful co-creation with the Divine.
Many of us learn what integrity is from the outside in. We take on rules and beliefs that are handed down from our parents and grandparents, church, schools, and communities. Often these rules are not in alignment with who we are, or are completely contradictory. And yet we still try to be good and follow what the outside world tells us we should be. Or we rebel, throwing our energy in the opposite direction without really knowing what is true for us.
Spiritual Integrity teaches us how to reclaim our truth from the inside out. At our core, we each have a beautiful and unique essence and purpose. But we cover this shining light of clarity and inspiration with layers and layers of other people's opinions, thoughts, and desires. We live not who we are, but who we believe others want us to be. We ignore our own truth with the hopes that we will be accepted and loved if we are nice. Or we spend all of our precious energy fighting other people's opinions. Spiritual Integrity is about the willingness to go deeper into yourself to find out who you are, beyond the walls of the known.
Spiritual Integrity is a re-membering, a weaving of our scattered parts into a solid whole. We step back into our Spiritual Integrity when our thoughts, actions, and emotions stem from our essence, rather than our strategies and old patterns. Each of us has tasted integrity, those moments when we feel open and aligned with our highest selves. These times are the ones we look back on and say, "Yes, that was my integrity. That was wholeness. That was my essence shining brightly in the world."
Mental integrity comes when you release your inner judge and stop punishing yourself. You view yourself with compassion instead of criticism. You learn from your mistakes gracefully, and can quiet your mind's chatter so you consistently hear your own true voice.
Emotional integrity allows you to release old hurts and find forgiveness for yourself and others. You are no longer trapped by the past. Anytime you are triggered by outside events and feel emotional pain you do not blame others, but use your tools to clear and open back to emotional fluidity.
Physical integrity arises when your actions align with your heart, not your strategies. Each of us takes on a strategy to help us understand the world around us and make us feels safe. When you understand what your primary strategy is and how you physically act it out in the world you come to a place of choice rather than habit. Choice is the foundation of physical integrity.
Spiritual Integrity is a cellular recognition that you are not your mind, emotions, or body, but the light that illuminates from within. As you move more and more into Spiritual Integrity your mind, emotions, and form become sweetly transparent, so the luminous light of your spirit radiates out.
A Life Of Purpose And Power
However most people fail to take advantage of this immense power. The majority of human beings on this planet are content to plod from the cradle to the grave without the faintest idea of who they really are and what earnestly matters to them.
Those of us born into modern civilization have a luxury that our ancestors may have lacked. We have relative safety and security in terms of food, shelter, and basic survival; hence we have plenty of time and energy to use toward a thorough exploration of self.
But again this opportunity is lost on the masses. Any use of time seems preferable to looking closely at self and discovering the truth about who one is.
Mindless television, consumption of heavily processed foods when we aren't hungry to begin with, sex with people we hardly know, and the use of mind-altering drugs are just a few examples of how humanity flees the fundamental questions of: Who am I and what do I want?
Why are we raised to avoid deep introspection? Why does our society poke fun of those who would journey inward to find the answers to these basic questions?
More importantly, why do we fail to challenge these perverse norms? The truth is we, as a collective and as individuals, don't want to know who we are.
We are afraid of our own magnificence. We are terrified that if we look deep within we'll see there is no valid excuse for our laxity, our failures, and our fears.
The light of our greatness burns so brightly, even when buried deep within and forgotten, that it frightens us into a state of dimwitted preoccupation with anything that can provide distraction.
But like all fears, the key to conquest lies in our willingness to face the matter. Once we are open and honest about the fact that we have grown into adulthood without ever taking the time to find out our own true identities, deep and lasting change is possible.
The first step is in admitting the truth: You've probably never sat in a quiet room and had a long look at who you are beneath the social pretense and what you really want to experience before you die.
The good news each new moment contains infinite possibility. It is never to late to begin again, and you can decide right to now to ask and answer the hard questions about your true nature, your real core values, and what you honestly want to spend your life doing.
Life at the pinnacle of happiness and fulfillment doesn't necessarily have to mean climbing mountains and jumping out of planes, nor must it be about saving an endangered species or feeding a hungry village. In truth it can be about none of these things, all of these things, a few of these things along with a completely different set of ideals that you define, or any other combination that you choose without the input of anyone else.
You alone get to decide who you are and what matters in your life. You are in complete charge of where you go from here, and not a single choice you make need comply with any preconceived notions of right, wrong, good, bad, worthwhile, or so forth.
It's your life. And it's time you decide who is living it and what it takes to make this wonderful person happy.
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