PATHWAY TO JOY AND HEALING

I have come to realize that my entire existence up to now involved an elaborate escape from my truth created by my ego. The people in my life helped create this escape as my coping mechanism. My marriage, and friendships all facilitated this escape.

When we are unable to confront our truth, we essentially create an alternative reality. This alternative reality avoids all our fears and past emotional pain. We find individuals who do not remind us of our past emotional pain, and convince ourselves of this alternative reality.

Ironically though, we continue to attract life lessons to overcome the obstacles in our true reality and the Universe continues to send individuals into our lives to force us to see our truth. What is our response to this? We resist and run away! The result from this reaction is great suffering.

I have seen this in my journey and others as well. We are so convinced of our alternative reality that we will twist the truth to convince ourselves and others. When others disagree with us, we will shut them out of our lives, and even call them liars.

I have only recently realized what I have done to cope with my difficult childhood and past. Waking up and growing up can be taunting and a shock to our system, but it is time to finally wake up . . . (Copyright 2014 Living Wide Awake with all rights reserved)