Choosing truth over illusion

"Choosing truth over illusion"
David Rude, MA, CPC

Our ultimate success comes down to choice. Either we choose truth or we choose illusion.

By choice, we can move into new experiences or areas of living or stay stuck in place. It is always up to us. Through the choices we make, every experience is communicated universally and all of life, including all others in our life, adjusts accordingly. Talk about power! We have the capability to influence all of life through the choices we make! Each of us makes choices that we believe to be the best, given our level of awareness and insight at the time. Our choices then attract resonant experiences and repel dissonant ones. Over time, the choices we make attract more and more experiences and feelings that allow probabilities to becoming possibilities, and, eventually, into becoming our reality. Our thoughts, through our choices, eventually manifest as things.

Very often, the process of choice happens on a subconscious level through our emotions. We accept certain thoughts or beliefs and develop an emotional attachment to them. By emotionally fearing or desiring a certain outcome, we attach to that outcome. The desired or feared choice is then drawn to us by the desire or aversion that we have created.

When observing from outside the emotions, it becomes clear that the reality we have created is in resonance or in sync with the emotions and beliefs we hold. Therefore, our choices are an accurate reflection of where we are in this moment, and as such they are perfect. When we no longer desire, fear or need the outcomes we have been creating, we can release our emotional attachment to them and choose again to create new and different experiences.

There are choices available in every moment of life: Choices that will take us down one road or another, choices that mean the difference between comfort and discomfort, between abundance and scarcity, between peace and turmoil. Even the decision not to choose, is a choice! Choices that are based on inner truth lead to inner empowerment. Choices that compromise one’s truth, lead to confusion.

When we make choices based on our perception of what others will think, we do not honor our truth. Likewise, when we base our choices on how other people will respond, we disregard our inner truth, give our power away and invite confusion.

Perhaps you are facing a situation that requires you to choose an action or a response. When choosing from the place of ego and emotion, you will be tempted to make a choice that is centered in the desire to be liked, accepted, safe or comfortable. And when you do yield to these egoic demands, the end result will be disempowerment and chaos.

You cannot live an authentic life by dishonoring your inner truth. There comes a time for each of us when we must choose to honor our truth and let things happen as they may. If others in your life are at a place where there is disagreement between your inner truth and their expectations, you do not honor yourself or them by diminishing your truth. It would be much better to honor and align with your truth while allowing others to choose their own path, even when it is different from yours.

When you honor your inner truth, its growing presence in your life will reveal many illusions that have clouded your clarity of perception. Anything that is not real will be revealed, and along with this illumination may come a need to release people, places and circumstances in your life that no longer serve your personal truth.

As you release these discordant people, things, etc, you will find more clarity and integration in your life. If you can choose your truth despite the temporary squeals of the ego for love, popularity, acceptance and safety, you will find that you move beyond vulnerability to its demands.

Truth is not fragile, it can withstand the demands of the ego. It can surmount the envy, misperceptions and judgments of others, because it needs no defense.

True power lies in choosing from within and from the strength of having owned your fears. Each time you choose to honor your truth , you are creating more power to allow yourself to move forward.