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“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” –Heath L. Buckmaster
I’m sure you’ve heard it before. You know, the popularly coined catchphrase found included in those countless success stories of all the people who survived some form of adversity:
“I’m living proof.”
I can dig it. It certainly has a nice ring to it, and I’m definitely living, breathing, walking proof of someone who bravely surrendered himself to the whims of change, and allowed a powerful transformative process to initiate me into an awakening on every level: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
But by nature, and being the black sheep rebel I am, I prefer to use a different proclamation, and one I’ve created and coined as my own:
“I’M LIVING TRUTH!”
Because abso-fucking-lutely indeed, and you can bet the farm, I most certainly am.
This man I’ve become? I continuously learn to embrace him better and better with each passing day, but in actuality this aspect of my soul I call “The SoulTrekker” in essence is the truth of who I always was before and who I am now with no crap, no fluff, no front. The SoulTrekker is the embodiment of me simply coming back home to my authentic self.
We can never really lose who we are, but we are living in a world attempting to subconsciously brainwash and box us in until we release our authenticity through subtle yet relentless conditioning. What happens eventually unbeknownst to them, is that a majority of people unwittingly choose to forget who they are: powerful badass fucking creators who can change, shift, empower and help unite the entire world.
This forgetfulness of what you are seems subtle at first. It creeps in slowly…
Usually, it all begins by placing your belief in one seemingly harmless, but false thought about yourself. Then those types of thoughts start to multiply and before you know it you’ve become so tightly entangled in a web of lies of how you’re unworthy, unlovable, incapable and insignificant. You’ve sold what you are to this shit story. You’ve actually deceived yourself into believing you can’t escape this entanglement until each box has been checked off on this endless to-do list of your creation. You believe that then and only then, will you ever become whole, complete and happy.
I finally realized I was never actually lost, and these last six years spent SoulTrekking, were not about a need to “find myself,” but a six year homecoming celebration of me coming back into the REMEMBRANCE OF WHO I already AM, and for the first time in my adult life I was clearly seeing the man in the mirror…
My advice is sticking with your process. The unraveling of the untrue within yourself can feel like hell, and growing pains go hand in hand with the transformative territory. Know whatever challenges you face, the strength you need to overcome them already is within you. Trust you have the ability to gracefully push through and be free.
I’ve lost track of how many times I felt like calling it quits and throwing in the towel on my own journey, but giving up is easy, and cheating myself from the life I want to live so I never did, but I never escaped the darkness either, I learned to love myself there. Whenever I reached the end of my rope, I just tied a knot into that sucker and held on even tighter.
Already, every one of us intuitively knows how to navigate through each of our own unraveling. The keys have been embedded into your DNA and come along with the cellular territory. Your intuition is your TRUE NORTH star and is always guiding you back into authenticity minus all your self-imposed restrictions, limitations, barriers, bullshit stories, lies and excuses.
Everything you want comes when you finally realize you don’t need anything, and everything happens when you stop trying to force it to be, and life begins the moment you put away all the tools you think you need to go live your dreams, and actually go out and live them.
It’s really not so much about letting go, but focusing on what you want to let in. When you focus on what you want your life to be like from and open mind, whatever you’re feeling you need to let go of will begin to fall away with little effort all on its own.
Don’t believe me?
Think it can’t be done?
Take one long hard look at my life. Everything I’m doing now, at one point I was terrified of, and like your own hopes and dreams, I really sold myself on the lie they would never be realized…
But look at me now. I’M LIVING TRUTH that it most certainly can be done, and I’m the living proof that you can do it too.
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