You need Inner Strength and Courage to Uncover Your Truth
“Are you just going along in life, mildly unsatisfied, but doing what you’ve seen everyone else in your life doing?”
You’re not even paying attention to the fact that there is this gnawing unhappiness, a constant discontent and a feeling that there must be more to life. You are feeling weak and helpless, but you can uncover your inner strength.
Then suddenly comes the day when you wake up and realize that you’re wasting your life. That you’ve been avoiding the “big” questions because you felt more comfortable just doing what you’ve always done.
“You’ve reached your breaking point and you just can’t do it any more. Now what?” Click to Tweet
To be confronted by your deeper truth, your real feelings when you really didn’t even know you had them is scary to say the least.
Or perhaps you’ve known that you’ve been settling all along but were reticent to do anything about it. You were concerned with the discomfort that would come from reaching for more, the criticism you may endure if you made the attempt and didn’t make it. The strange looks you may receive from your family and friends when they see you’re taking a different path then theirs. Yes this all takes courage and inner strength.
When the discomfort of not being true to yourself becomes harder to deal with than the fear of others opinion of you that’s when the rubber meets the road. Now you have no choice, you need to do something, you need to access your inner strength and be who you’re meant to be.
Carolyn Gregoire
The Science Of Conquering Your Fears — And Living A More Courageous Life
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/15/conquering-fear_n_3909020.html
The groundbreaking work of Brene Brown, a researcher at the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work and author of the best-selling Daring Greatly, has found that the belief in our own unworthiness drives us to live fear-based lives. We are afraid of letting people see who we really are and potentially exposing ourselves, so we avoid the one thing that can make us more courageous: vulnerability. Courage and vulnerability are closely aligned, says Brown, and the two qualities can greatly improve our lives.
Inner strength gives you the courage to face your fears head on!
I used to be an avid ocean swimmer and body surfer. The first thing I learned, when facing that huge wave that would quickly overtake me and drive me deep within the swirling mass of water and pummel me to the point where I no longer knew up from down, was to face it.
“Yes, face that damn wave and dive directly into it.” Click to Tweet
The only way to conquer that wave as in life is to do that which is the most uncomfortable. That which frightens us to death and goes against every fiber of our being, that which screams RUN. Go like hell in the opposite direction from that big scary wave, but what I found was that when I dove directly into it I was in control. I knew what I was getting into, I was more prepared to handle it and the churning and crashing was far less violent because I negotiated the waters. I now equate that to my life and the very real fear I had of being true to my purpose and why I’m here on earth at this particular time. It takes inner strength to do this- but we all have it, we are just too afraid of our own power!
When I “came out” so to speak, it was at a huge family event and most of our social contacts and friends were there. It came time for me to stand up and give a speech. That was when I told everyone a little about my spiritual / Meta physical convictions. I told the entire crowd of over 150 people that I believed in our abilities to create our lives with our thoughts and I told them I’d been doing it all my life. I let them all know that my deepest convictions were and are, that we can consciously create the life we want and boy that was scary.
After that fateful day I changed my entire social group. I just stepped away because it / they didn’t line up with my truth. Yes that was difficult for me and felt lonely for a long time. I missed the buffer of that social group even though I never fully related to them and secretly knew I was different than they were. With all of that knowing, I still missed them, but when I thought about rejoining that life I knew I could not. I can’t say that I didn’t look back, but I can say that I couldn’t go back. My inner strength served me well throughout that time as it was at the core of my being to hold to my beliefs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-ward/finding-the-courage-to-go_b_5107586.html
Michelle Ward Of the Huffington post says:
I think “bravery” comes in when you choose to do something you don’t have to in order to live your fulfilling life.
When you refuse to settle for 20, 30, or 40 years in a career you hate. When you quit your steady job as an Executive Assistant (a job that makes you physically ill because it’s such a mismatch for who you are) to launch your own company that helps people find work they love.
Now I’m so much comfortable with my life. I’m more fulfilled and I know that I’m able to fulfill my purpose with an energy that wasn’t available to me when I wasn’t living in integrity with my truth. When you tap into your inner truth and ask those difficult questions, you will find reserves of inner strength to follow that truth.
My radio guest this week talks about accessing that inner strength- tapping into the hero inside of you. “There is a Hero Inside You” with my guest Tony Edgell talks about how he got past his fears and how living his truth has blossomed into more success than he knew was possible.
This week’s radio show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/yourhappinessway/2014/10/30/there-is-a-hero-inside-you-tony-edgell
Let me know what fears are holding you back- comment below
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It can be scary to reveal our inner truth, but every time I do that I find my core group of friends. Those the identify with my journey and see it in themselves.
I’m grateful for you and our connection.
Thanks you as always Michele for supporting what I do and recognizing my depth of feeling and commitment.
Love, Lorane
Amazing blog! I really get you. You and I are so much alike. Thank you for your honesty and
revealing yourself to us