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March 2010 , Cover Stories, Healing Tree Intuitive
"Speak Your Truth"
My mantra, when teaching about self expression, is "Speak Your Truth."
If You Could Hold Your Breath Forever
My mantra, when teaching about self expression, is "Speak Your Truth." Seems easy enough, eh? Just get up the guts to say what's on your mind, release yourself from fear of other peoples' reaction to it. Years ago I wrote an article describing the writing process, which I considered speaking my mind, as having a balloon and letting it go. Once you publish something, or say something, it cannot be taken back.
I have discovered in recent years that it is far easier to speak my mind than it is to speak my truth.
Learning to speak your mind is like getting over the fear of water. You stand on the beach, watching others play and splash and swim around, and you WANT to be there, but you are afraid. You don't know how to swim. What might happen? People pass you by, and say, come on in the water is fine! But you say no thanks, not today, I don't want to get my hair wet, or I forgot my suit, or its too cold or its to hot whatever that excuse might be to refrain from swimming.
And so with speaking our minds, we come up with endless reasons NOT to say something, and let it slide - oh he's tired today maybe tomorrow, or maybe they had a reason to say something that mean,or my opinion doesn't matter, they know more than me. When we decide not to speak up when we have the urge to do so, not only are we refusing to share, we are guaranteed building up resentments, towards ourselves or others.
There might be days that we don't want to go swimming. We can sit on the beach and just enjoy the sun, and watch others playing. But knowing we can swim, and knowing we can speak our minds - well that is what is important, and creates for us the choice.
Speaking your truth...now that's when it gets tricky my friends. I used to think it was the same. if speaking your mind is comparable to overcoming your fear of water and learning how to swim...speaking your truth is diving into it. Beyond the ropes, past the deep end, out of the harbor, and far out to sea.
Imagine if you could hold your breath forever. Would you choose to explore the ocean's mysterious depths? Would you venture past the line of conscious self, of mind, and set off on an adventure that you could only take alone...if you could hold your breath forever would you go there? What would stop you?
Funny when I think on it, that the "line" along the swim area on our local beach keeps nothing out, not really. It is all but imaginary, it says don't go out there to the swimmers, and don't go in there to the water crafts etc. But it won't stop a boat, if its driver decides to go through it, nor would it stop a sharkey who might wander into the bay. It is an imaginary line, that makes us feel safer.
And so there is this imaginary boundary that makes us feel safe in our expression. Speaking our mind is not so tough, we have our boundaries and only go as deep as we want to. I feel safe swimming when it is there.
But oh what can we find what might we find if we had the ability to hold our breath and go...out to sea, out to see, all the creatures and wonders and thoughts and ideas and KNOWINGs. So much more to know. It takes courage and curiousity to go beyond the line, and the safe harbor. There is a whole lot of empty space out there in which to "be". To be able to speak one's truth...to be able to speak MY truth...I needed to release the fear of being where I could not see everything that was there.
I no longer fear drowning, because I can hold my breath forever right? So what is it that I do fear? Fear. I hear that theme song and have visions of sharp toothed creatures hungry for a seal or a swimmer that imagines they can hold their breath forever. Something that says I don't care if you can hold your breath, because I am going to eat you for my dinner, and not blink an darkened eye.Interesting that when I envision fear, it is something familiar that I have seen before; yet the depths of the soul contains so much more, why do I fear only what I know COULD be there?
Fears are just fears. They swim around in our psyche, and yes sometimes they do come true. They can be very real. But if we are afraid to explore our own truth, go past the line of the conscious mind, because of fears, then we are held captive by them.
Remember, that line on the beach, its just buoys, wood, and rope, and it can't keep a fear out if that fear decides to swim closer to shore.
So it is the courageous adventurer that will dive into the truth, just to see what is there, inspite of the fears that might be lurking. And when you have swum through it, this vast ocean of truth that is only yours...you may speak of your journey, or journeys as it might be, because it IS so vast, it takes many of them to even touch upon its beauty.
Know that it is you, this ocean, this truth, this vast beauty. The fears swim in it, but are not of it. And really they could care less what you do.
See your own beauty. Know your own truth. Speak your mind as you learn to. Speak your truth when you can. Put your feet in the water. Don't be deterred by fear. The journey is worth it. Dive in.
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Rebecca Twiss is a mother to four children and runs a single-boat charter business with her man as well as being a writer, a bodyworker, and an intuitive.
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