As humans, we learn to not tell the truth all the time.

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That absolute honesty often gets us in trouble.

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So we learn how to hold back.

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We learn how to get along by not truly speaking our minds.

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And it works.

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It does help us to smooth over social interactions and have an easier time.

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We do this without any bad intent or to mislead anyone.

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It just makes casual conversations more pleasant.

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That is how we all learn to be with each other and not be triggered all the time.

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Yet there is a consequence to this that we usually don't see.

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One that has severe implications.

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For when we get used to not telling the truth to others, we learn not to tell it to ourselves as well.

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We start to gloss over little things that we feel are not a big deal.

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And it is not that far a distance to go to just not want to admit the truth to ourselves on a deeper level.

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That truth might have nothing to do with anyone else.

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It could be the simple truth about how we feel about ourselves.

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About how we feel to someone close to us.

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Or even about how happy or unhappy we are in a given situation.

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There are other implications as well.

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By getting used to smoothing over situations by avoiding the truth, we can do the same thing with ourselves.

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So we stop looking into the depths of our feelings and start living more on the surface.

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Not daring to step into the deep waters of our inner word to see what is really going on.

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And we can come to the place where admitted the truth to ourselves is the hardest thing to do.

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In the long run, that can have disastrous effects on our life.

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For when we stop admitting the truth to ourselves, then how can we ever admit the truth to someone ese?

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We may not be able to notice the difference in us, but other people will.

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They can feel that we are being inauthentic.

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Without us ever having to say a word, they can feel that we are not aligned with our truth.

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Things stop working for us in our lives.

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It can be confusing for us because we don't see why things aren't working.

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The more we lie to ourselves the harder it is to see that we are not living in our truth.

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Until one day it all comes crashing down.

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It could be from losing a marriage, a business, or a career.

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Perhaps we have to deal with a disease or some other major loss.

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Yet that crash is actually a good thing.

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For it wakes us up to how we have not been admitting the truth to ourselves, and shakes us up.

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And in that shake up we learn what our real truth is.

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We find a way to get back to ourselves.

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It can be a very painful awakening.

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Though that pain might be exactly what we need to realize what we have been doing.

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Being honest with ourselves is now no longer optional.

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We have to face our truth to go on living.

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So we do.

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And we start to walk that painful path back to our center and to who we really are.

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Better for the experience, though sadness often accompanies the journey.

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As long as we can now be honest with ourselves, we can live a new life.

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Be the person we have always been underneath it all.

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And live in our truth, regardless of what other people may think.

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So is there some painful truth you are not admitting to yourself?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour