Living Authentically

12-Session Releasing Series

Most of us are living other people’s lives.

Without realizing it, we are acting out other people's desires, dreams, beliefs, and limitations. We seem to have become a fusion of our parents, friends, teachers, siblings, political and religious leaders, as well as social media influencers.

We can be swayed by the media such as news programs, websites, movies, and advertisements. We either model ourselves after, or rebel against, these so-called authority figures and “trusted sources.”

We have lost touch with our authentic selves, or perhaps never even knew them.

These influences cause us to respond automatically and unconsciously, in ways we often later regret. We say yes when we would prefer to say no. We accept as true that which we intuitively know is false. We limit what we think is possible.

As you recognize and see through this programming, you naturally rediscover what is true for you. The knots of tension in your body/mind unravel, and you start to feel and live as the natural spontaneity, aliveness, and innocence that is life itself, including boundless freedom. You feel and live authentically.

"I love the insight I got in how I create both sides of a ‘story.’ It’s so easy to see the side that I am attached to as being ‘true.’ Less easy to see that I also create the story of opposition, and neither side is real." -- Anonymous

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You Are Not a Victim of Your Thoughts and Feelings

When we feel down, angry, sad, fearful, lonely, or depressed, it can seem very real, sticky, and overwhelming. Thoughts and feelings feel like they are limits to what is possible for us and they accurately describe life as it is. It can be discovered that these patterns in our heads, and in our bodies, are not as all powerful as they seem. We can change the pattern of thoughts and feelings for the better. We can also transcend the self-hypnosis of thinking, feeling, and living life as it is supposed to be, as opposed to how it is.

As you let go of your limiting emotions and thoughts, you discover they do not need to dictate what you can or cannot have, be, or do. You can also discover they are simply waves of the one boundless energy that is life itself.

You Don’t Need to Follow the Herd

We often feel like we need to fit in and follow the groups of people to which we feel we belong even when it appears the groups may have lost their way. It can feel very threatening to think for ourselves or go against the will of the pack. Yet as you let go, you can live from your own authenticity and find your own true power and harmony that does not need to be in opposition to anyone or anything.

You Are Not Your Body

Most of us believe we have or live in a body. And, as Lester Levenson used to say “The body is not the all of you. It is the least of you.” As you see through the “I am the body” idea, the apparent boundaries dissolve and you can discover you have never been a body. And at the same time the body tends to take care of itself with greater ease and alacrity.

Beyond Rules and Roles

With each person or group of influence comes a set of rules we believe we need to follow and roles we believe we need to play. As you let go of the rules and roles, you can live life more spontaneously and respond naturally to whatever is happening, as opposed to being bound by other people's rules and roles.

You Are Not Your Beliefs

As you let go of the beliefs you carry that have been borrowed from others, you discover what is actually true for you, and you respond to life based on what is, rather than what you believe should be. As you free yourself from belief, you discover anything is possible. You can also discover life is already beyond the need for belief.

You Don’t Need to Be Worthy

There is a common misconception that we cannot have all the goodness that is life until we earn it or prove that we are worthy. Yet when we feel like we need to prove our worthiness, we never feel like we have done enough or are enough as we are. As you let go of this fruitless quest for worthiness, you discover it was never about that. You feel open to life as it is, and life naturally provides with great abundance and ease.

You Are Not Your Parents

We often go through life feeling like we are bound to our parents’ limitations and mistakes. We can be afraid to excel beyond what they themselves have been able to do. We can also live life trying to prove our independence, forgetting that the only reason we feel that way is because we feel we are somehow bound to them. We try to avoid their mistakes, yet seem to gravitate to the same patterns they found entrancing. By letting go you discover your true independence.

You Don’t Need to Defer to Higher Authority

This can seem a little scary. We have grown up in a world where we are looking to find authority figures and sources we can follow. As you discover all authority comes from within, you stop looking for it where it isn’t, and you can trust your own clear reason and intuitive knowingness. You may even discover there are no authorities, there is just one life, living naturally and authentically through all that appears. This recognition is liberating and enlivening.

You Are Not Your Memories

We often feel bound by the stories of our lives. It can feel like if we believe we failed in the past, we feel like we fail the same way again. We also can get stuck in our past successes feeling like we must succeed only in the same way. As you see through these memories, you  discover that anything is possible, and life is happening spontaneously and is ever new.

Rediscover What Is Right for You

As you drop other people’s goals and ideas of what you should desire and do, you feel relieved and liberated. You can then see what is natural for you and focus on a life direction that comes from your own authenticity.

You Are Already Enough

We often believe we will be enough when we finally change for the better. However, what if what you are right now is already whole, complete, and enough, exactly as it is. This does not mean that there cannot be positive changes in your life. It is just pointing to the perfection that is already. Even entertaining this as a possibility is liberating.

You Are Already Freedom

There is an inherent goodness that shines through in life and guides action to what is in everyone’s highest and best good. As your misconceptions of who you are meant to be drop away, there is just life living itself. This is true authenticity and natural freedom. Life is effortless, spontaneous, and ever free.