Luke says 'a dip in the creek helps sort out the world's craziness'.
Truth and spiritual awareness need no trumpets or drums. Gregge Tiffen (Do The Angels Take a Vacation? – August, 2007)
What is true for each of us is that which inspires and deepens our awareness of our true power.
This week amidst reflecting on a question about what inspires my sense of personal empowerment, I realized (not for the first time of course) just how disempowering the world’s messages are. The so called ‘news’ with its negativity, discord, confusion, conflicting information and disparate opinions that scream their version of what is true often fails to inform much less inspire or empower.
Beyond the news, everything in the world seems to calls for our attention jobs, family, friends, politicians, people in business who have something to sell. Take a look at your email in-box, your social media account, text messages, voice mail, and advertisements in places too numerous to mention.
Are you inspired or empowered by what you see?
Or does the vista contribute to a sense of angst, confusion, chaos about conditions ‘out there’ beyond your control?
So, how the heck do you begin to know what’s ‘true’? Within that question is perhaps one of the great opportunities of this time: learning the fine art of discernment – not what’s true ‘out there’, but what is true to you and for you. What are your criteria for discerning what to allow to enter your space (yes, you do have control over that!)?
If you know your criteria, are you rigorous in honoring them? (I’ll be taking some action in this regard this month!).
If you aren’t sure or your criteria could use buffing up (I’ll be doing some of that too!) give some attention to identifying the knowledge/tools/skills you have to guide you.
A great starting point is remembering the truth of what Gregge suggests in the quote above: truth is not boisterous or external, rather it is quiet and inside. The goal is to find your truth. What is true for each of us is that which inspires and deepens our awareness of our true power.
Here are some other ways to develop and sharpen your discernment:
- Engage curiosity, letting go of the need to know, understand or be right
- Be open to other possibilities – open mind, open heart
- Develop your instinct/conviction and listen to it while being open to making adjustments
- Befriend paradox – in a world of infinite possibilities two ideas that appear contradictory may each be true even when they seem to be polar opposites
- Be gentle (with yourself and others)
- Avoid win/loose conflict, competition, and confrontation
- Look to nature, her beauty, her rhythm
Enjoy the journey to discovering and expanding all that which is true for you!
The Tree of Morning Light