Yesterday my mom asked me how I was doing, I responded with "I'm OK." She said, "That doesn't ring true for me." I looked at her blankly. She continued, "That's Marshall Rosenberg's NVC way of saying - I smell BS." She was right. I wasn't being honest with myself, or with her. It was like the calm sea masking a stormy undercurrent.
Ever wonder why it is that we don't tell ourselves the truth? I do. Some act like they don't know what's true for them. I say we always know what's true, our bodies know, as do our friends and family. We know by something feeling "off." It takes courage to bypass the BS, and follow your truth.
I jokingly said to my mom, "What if we had a BS radar above our head that would start flashing every time a lie appeared?" Truth is, we do. It's called our intuition. I see this all the time in the work that I do. It's incredibly handy to know when people aren't being honest with themselves.
I often wonder what our world would look like if we honored and lived our truths. I'm not talking about the in the moment judgments or habitual reactions that we can so easily succumb to. I'm referring to the truth in our hearts. The past few months, I've been catching myself in both little and big lies, and immediately stating "That's not true. Here's what is true for me right now..." It's a practice, for sure. One in which life only become richer and more genuine in the living of it.
Where do you need to tell yourself the truth? About your career? Relationships? Life dreams? Turn the volume up on your BS radar, listen to your heart, and get real. It only gets better from here.
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