Audio Clip – Act Like You Know The Truth.
As I am coming out of my ‘dark night of the soul‘, I begin to read again. I close my eyes and see the book I should pick up. As I open my eyes, I am led to the bookcase and my hands reach out and touch Tapping the Power Within by Iyanla Vanzant. I just LOVE Ms. Vanzant!!!!!! I love her openness, her smile, and her vitality. As a Life Coach, I incorporate much of her teaching into my practice. Once I begin to re-read Tapping the Power Within, I realized why my soul chose this book. Inside the book is a CD entitled, Act Like You Know The Truth. This CD could not have come at a better time in my life. For the past few months, I was in denial and pretended to be confused about what was happening inside, outside and all around me. This CD reminded me that all the answers or truths that I could ever need to know lies within. It reminded me to Act Like I Know My Truth.
Lady Vanzant shares 7 steps to Acting Like You Know The Truth. If you’ll take this journey with me, I would like to share my thoughts about these 7 steps.
1. Never Underestimate Your Own Need, Ability, or Power to Create Change in Your Life – There comes a time when change is not only necessary it’s inevitable. Nothing you can do or not do will stop change from occurring. The conditions of your life are always speaking to you….LISTEN. You know before anyone else that something is yearning for change. And I’ve learned the hard way that when it hurts bad enough, you’ll make a change. FACE the need in your life whether it’s your finances, your job, your relationships, your health (or lack thereof on all accounts). Then get a vision for yourself on how you would like those areas to be, create the discipline within yourself, then watch the change from the inside to the outside. You have the power within to make the change (transformation) as seamless and fluid as possible. You only have to Act Like You Know The Truth.
2. Mind Your Own Business First - I suggest re-reading a post I wrote entitled My Business, Your Business and God’s Business. This post was inspired by another ‘teacher’ of mine whose name is Byron Katie. She is best known for her teaching of The Work. It is a list of questions that will send you on a journey of self-discovery and release you from much of your self-inflicted suffering. Ok, back to minding my own business…. As a ‘spiritual entrepreneur’, I have this ‘need’ to help people. I see them ‘hurting’ and my first thought is, I Should Help Them. Then I find myself all off in their business. And when I turn around, I find that MY business is a mess. I’ve neglected MY business for THEIR business and this does no one any good. Does this sound like anyone you know? Although, I can’t seem to pass up the crying baby, I am learning the skillful art of Acting Like I Know The Truth. It’s their business, not mine.
3. Seek Harmony – Most people seek balance in their life. However, I have found that in balance nothing happens. Imagine you’re back in high school or college in science lab in front of an equal arm scale. You place an item on one arm of the scale. What happens? Yep, the other arm moves up. As you place an item on the other arm, the scales begin to play a balancing act. Once balance what happens? You guess it, NOTHING. The two arms just sit….BALANCED. So instead of seeking balance, I’ve decided to seek harmony. Harmony means you make a conscious choice and you communicate that choice to the people you love and care about. Harmony means you create a life where everything you think, say or do supports every other part of your life. Harmony is where your physical reality meets your spiritual reality. Harmony is Acting Like You Know The Truth.
4. Replace External Referencing With Inner Harmony (Authority) – External referencing is rampant today. We compare ourselves to the people in the magazines, in the videos, in the movies and even on the billboards as we travel. We become so caught up with what others think about us until we lose our inner harmony. We give up our inner authority for external referencing. At anytime that you make believe that you are somebody other than the truth of who you are, you are acting under a stolen identity. You were created in the very likeness and image of God; therefore, you are perfect. You better Act Like You Know The Truth and embrace the irreplaceable you.
5. Stop Being Bad or Wrong – I repeat, you were created…better yet, you ARE the very likeness and image of God, you can’t be bad or wrong. And if you don’t like the word God, you can interchange it with Universe, Life Source, Light….whatever makes you comfortable. Although we are not bad, we can engage in bad behaviors. And although we are not wrong, we can be in the process of learning and unfolding. At our essence, our core, we are pure, we are innocent, we are powerful, we are love. So Act Like You Know The Truth.
6. Take Your Rightful Place – Take your rightful place in your life, in your world, in your universe as opposed to living from your defects and dysfunctions. If you are in your own life disowning, denouncing, demeaning and dis-empowering yourself, you are sending an open invitation to every corner of the Universe for people, experiences, circumstances and situations to come in and join you in your self-mutilation. It takes courage to stand in your rightful place. There may be times when you have to let go. Let go of people, places and things to take your rightful place. So Act Like You Know The Truth.
7. Go for the Joy – Some of us are conditioned to struggle. It just doesn’t seem right if we don’t have to fight for it. Remember just cause you can take a punch doesn’t mean you have to go around looking for a fight. I agree with Ms. Vanzant when she suggests to bypass happiness and go straight for the joy. Cause happiness can be influenced by the outside world. Someone can do or not do something and that makes you happy. And should they decide to do the opposite, then the opposite of happiness occurs. Joy on the other hand is an internal state of being. Joy is not determined or undermined by outside influences. Joy just is… Joy is Acting Like You Know The Truth.
Here’s to your rave performance of Acting Like You Know The Truth.
J-licious
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