TRUSTING OUR TRUTH

Trusting Our Truth:

Busy It Out, Cope It Out, or Heal It Out?

Another day of Reiki training yesterday brought forward a familiar theme: trusting our truth.

Whether it’s stepping more fully into our authentic selves or learning to embrace all that requires, learning to trust ourselves is one of the most important things we can do.

Why?

Because it leads us into healthier relationships with others. When we trust ourselves, the outside world doesn’t have to be so impactful with its judgments, gossip, or energy that can otherwise deflate our being.

When we step more fully into truth, it doesn’t always feel good. But it allows us to identify what no longer serves us, and that realization can cause us great distress.

Much beyond the eloquent words and dressed-up behaviors, we often must find our truth in moments of silence. Those moments when we can’t outrun our thoughts, our soul’s pull toward purpose and connection, or the connections that may not feel the best as we lay our heads on the pillow at night.

In moments of silence, we often see and feel the holes in our armor.

Some of us tend to keep busy all day in order not to feel. We use busyness as a coping mechanism, and it looks different for each of us. Some of us want to defend, talk over people, prove a point, detach, avoid, or push things down, or control.

Nightfall comes to us all, correct?

That’s not a sentence for us, but it does indicate where we may find greater discomfort when the stimuli die down. I often mention that The Nature Within’s services and scheduling frequently occur during the wee hours of sleepless anticipation and analysis. There’s something about those quieter hours that can bring us face-to-face with the things we haven’t quite figured out during the day.

There were many themes in Reiki training yesterday, including trust, honoring our authentic selves, and recognizing where meditation, reflection, and silence occur in our healing journeys. It was a day of connection among like-minded individuals who could share freely in a nonjudgmental space.

But what happens when we step out the doors of The Nature Within LLC and Laura Ramirez LLC?

From my perspective, having the privilege of teaching and certifying Reiki students, the theme of stepping more fully into who we are can be a challenging one. I know this well from my own experience.

We can connect to the mind-body-spirit relationship. And when looking more closely at that connection, I often come back to how we choose to honor or dishonor our truth through silence and discomfort.

We can busy it out, cope it out, or heal it out.

Busying it out quite often leads to physical exhaustion, burnout, and pain through a chronic default setting.

Coping it out can look like so many different things. We can choose to cope in healthy and unhealthy ways in an effort to move away from the discomfort of living outside our purpose or passion. Too often, we cope by numbing ourselves or overloading our synapses with decoy anesthetizers.

Healing it out is our ability to work graciously with ourselves and use healthy practices to redevelop our relationship with what’s keeping tabs on the soul’s agreement.

It is said that the soul records everything, whether it’s in this lifetime or others. For those who believe in this theory, the body is the vessel that holds and protects the soul, as well of all the essential parts. The mind tells the body what to do, when to do it, and how to do it, but the soul must be connected in this conversation in order for us to experience that deeper connection of love and direction.

The mind-body connection utilizes the spiritual side of us as we heal, cope, and work through the things that don’t necessarily feel pleasant.

When we invite our spiritual side into the equation, we often feel more connected in life and embrace the beauty all around us more freely.

The soul loves simplicity.

Our “lower”minds love complexity.

And our bodies love activity.

It can be a tricky equation, one that can promote conflict within the harmony and create an imbalance in who we are as we navigate life.

That’s why breath, meditation, yoga, reading, nature, or anything else that provides us with medicine can offer a pathway to healthy healing. It had a great effect on me. These practices can also be wonderful aids in coping with life’s challenges.

The practices that restore our balance and harmony recharge our battery, our essence, and provide essential exercise for the physical body and our connection to it.

Through physical movement and connection, we can quiet the mental body. It can lead us toward integration, clarity, and peace. That deep breath that occurs almost automatically, whether through a realization, a truth, or a connection to trusting ourselves.

The more we honor this connection, the more fully we step into our worthiness and begin to understand what it feels like to embody trust in our truth and in life. It also helps greatly to find those who embrace your healthy side more openly and affirmatively. That matters more than we can imagine, especially in pivotal moments in our lives.

So, whatever season you are in, know that it’s just that: a season.

The things you learn in this pocket of time will allow you to move more fully into the next season of your life.

Thank you to everyone who took Reiki training with Laura, Lindsay, and myself yesterday. These souls inspired me in so many ways. Teaching a class full of individuals who come together to honor themselves and one another is one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever been offered.

Find Your Light. Spread It Out Into The World.