5 Top Ways to Discover Your True Self
. . . and Live the Life You Were Meant to Live
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
– Alan Cohen
In my last blog I promised that I would give you five action steps to discover your True Self in 2017, so that is what this blog aims to do – help you know yourself more deeply and live your life more fully. This subject is very close to my heart because it has been a long journey to find my own true self. I spent much of my life trying to figure out who to be, how to act, what to say, etc. to be accepted and admired, and even sometimes pretending I was someone I wasn’t. But, in the end, that did not result in true happiness, and had negative consequences for my health. Fortunately, my health crisis was a wake-up call to look deeper, examine how I had been living my life, and to ask the hard questions about how I ended up with a potentially crippling disease.
Fortunately, my wake-up call woke me up enough to start to explore who I really am, and what I’m really here to do; and so it is for most people – their path to self-realization comes via some kind of crisis, some kind of wake-up call, and it is only a matter of making the choice to “wake up” that determines if you will grow from the experience, feel victimized by it, or simply shrug it off, as “life”, and stay “asleep” to your own truth. Usually, we get multiple crises in our lives before we finally “get” that there is a message we need to hear, and a lesson to be learned. I know I had plenty of those smaller wake-up calls, but it took becoming disabled mentally and physically to finally “get it.” Since then, I have become a ninja seeker.
So, what constitutes being a seeker? In general, seekers have a “thirst for knowing themselves” as the first quality.
Top 5 Action Steps to Discover Your True Self
1. Get Quiet and Go Within
It is impossible to really know who you are if you cannot learn to get quiet and listen. When you do this, you will gradually discover that you have all the answers inside yourself. You just need to ask yourself the questions and then listen (with an open mind and an open heart).
Action Step: Take 10 minutes each morning before your day starts to get quiet and listen. You can meditate, pray, journal, or just stare out the window. Empty your mind and make room for a new you.
2. Trust Yourself
Perhaps you’ve been conditioned to distrust your feelings, your “gut” instincts, or your innate wisdom (intuition), or especially your innate power to create the life you desire. Many people have lost the ability to trust themselves, to know what they need to do, or any number of things you do not trust yourself to know, be, do or have.
Click here for your Action Step: Give yourself permission to trust yourself. Little by little, make the changes in your do, be, have behaviors that earn your trust back.
3. Believe in Yourself
High self-esteem is crucial to good health and happiness. If you lack self-confidence, your thoughts will be fear, shame and guilt-based. These negative thoughts and emotions produce health damaging neurotransmitters and neuropeptides (chemical messengers) that damage your cells and lead to negative moods.
Action Step: Make a list of all your successes, positive traits, accomplishments and attributes and post it in a visible place and look at it at least twice a day. Let it all sink in and acknowledge yourself for all the small and big wins you have accomplished.
4. Change Your Thoughts
Your thoughts create your reality, including your health and wellness. You can begin to create a new reality based on who you truly are by being willing to examine your beliefs and change your thoughts.
Action Step: Start noticing your thoughts when you’re having a bad mood, or low energy and write down what you are thinking before the bad mood or energy slump started. You will most likely be surprised at how negative your overall thinking is. (Research shows that 90% of most people’s thoughts are negative!).
Then, write down a more positive thought to replace the negative thought and post it somewhere you’ll see it often. (Note: changing any thought or feeling to gratitude works wonders – it has been shown to be the most powerful thought you can have.) Use this new affirmation to start turning your thoughts around, and discovering who you really are versus the person your negative thoughts tell you you are. (I explain all this in detail in my just released bestseller, Rebuild Your Immune System in 10 Minutes a Day.)
5. Express Your Emotions
Trapped emotions keep you from being your true self. Your true self is peaceful, loving and joyful (and much more). Stuffed emotions also create disease, accidents and unhappiness.
Action Step: Start a journal (at least once a week) and ask yourself the following questions: What do I feel angry about? Then, list everything you’re angry about. What do I feel sad about? (Write answers in journal). What do I fear will happen (or not happen)? (Write answers in journal.) Remember: feelings are not bad, or wrong, it’s just how we deal with them that matters. Here is a good plan for dealing with emotions: notice, acknowledge, honor, and express in a healthy way. There is an expression that says, “what you can feel, you can heal.” It’s true.
I hope you enjoyed this blog and that it helps you to discover your true nature, and to take back your health, vitality and joy. Stay tuned for more Action Steps to discover your True Self and live more joyfully and soulfully. I will also be posting more blogs on diet, herbs, essential oils, and all kinds of health oriented topics.
You can find more simple 10-minute tips and nuggets to live your healthiest, happiest, truest life in my new best-selling book, Rebuild Your Immune System in 10 Minutes a Day. (Click to order e-Book or soft-cover version).
Have a beautiful week. Until then, enjoy taking some quiet “me” time and listening to your soul speak.
Peace and Blessings,
