by Christine Whelan-Mccoy

Created on: January 20, 2010

It's 2010 - Are You Being True To Yourself Yet?

Without realizing it, most of us walk our paths in autopilot, being controlled by a set of conditioned beliefs that cause us to be more true to the outside world than ourselves. 

What does it mean to be “true to yourself”?

“Sit back.
Close your eyes.
You are about to take the first step towards a long journey in search of yourself,

and only you can make the map.
Let your instincts guide you along your path. 
Being honest and open with yourself, will light your way.
Remember, there are no mistakes on the road to yourself,
only lessons.” (Anonymous)

Now, take some inner inventory.  Did you feel a sense of resistance to what you just read? Or did it catch your attention; your curiosity?

If you were to take a look at yourself in layers, your center layer – or your core – is your belief system.  These beliefs were created when you were very little, starting when you began developing the ability to understand what your God and Goddess were saying to you, your God and Goddess being your Mom and Dad.  I give them these titles simply because whatever they said or did when you were young, you believed as the truth.  You took it all in as law.   What they said to you and about you, is incorporated into your belief system as who you are, what you are, to yourself and to your world.  Now, add to this, everything else that was did and said to you by everyone, and everything that was influential in your childhood world.  Instantly, these beliefs began to play in your mind automatically as you lived and grew up into adulthood.  These messages could be very direct like a mother telling her daughter, “It is your job as a woman to make your man happy, no matter what the sacrifice.”  Or the message can be subtle such as a teacher giving more attention to the boys in your class than the girls.

So, if you were blessed by being told, “You can do and be anything you want to be,” you were more likely to live and grow up being true to yourself and travelling along your path, fulfilling your natural purposes of this lifetime.  If you were given the unspoken and subtle message that other people’s needs are more important than your needs, you were more likely to live and grow up off your path.  The latter life experience unfortunately, is the much more common circumstance.  It is the “norm”. 

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