Channeling: Honesty

This is a channeling I received perhaps a week ago on the topic of honesty. As always, whatever I receive is both for myself and for others, and the topic of honesty and, especially, authenticity is a big one for me. Over the last few weeks particularly I’ve been working with my own fears and resistance to 1) being present in my body, and 2) owning the truth of who I am. For most of my life I have hid all the parts of me that make me ‘different’: being queer, being spiritual, channeling… all of the niche interests that come with walking a spiritual path devoted to healing and purpose. And I am being called to step into my truth and own all parts of myself that I came here to be. This means navigating being honest with myself and discerning with whom I want to share these parts of me – without using fear as my deciding factor as I always have.

I’m also learning another form of honesty: the self-honesty involved with ‘seeing what you see’ and ‘feeling what you feel’, after a lifetime of repressing/denying/minimizing and bypassing my feelings, this takes time! As does being willing to see the truth of how other people behave without making excuses for them.

But to their point, as I become more and more embodied in ~my body, I am much more sensitive to these truths, these intuitive messages of my emotions, and feel much more equipped then to be honest to myself about what I’m feeling and what these feelings are telling me.

I hope these are helpful reminders for someone.

Xx

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Honesty is a tool that can set you free. You have often heard that the truth will set you free, and it is true. Honesty – and more importantly, being connected to your sense of what is true –is one of the most important things you can have as a human being living in this world.

It is so important to your connection with your soul – to your integrity – that you choose to be honest first and foremost with yourself. What does this look like? First, it requires that you be in tune with yourself. That you be aware of what truth feels like to you inside of your body.

Then you must also be aware as to what it feels like when there is a lack of truth or a distortion of truth.

Beginning to honor the truth means using your discernment to ascertain the differences in this feeling in you. It means that you pay attention and that you are vigilant in the preservation of the integrity of this truth within you.

That means when it is disrupted, you take action. This action may first be investigatory. Why did this change my inner peace, my inner connection to my truth? Then you may investigate the correct action. You may choose to share your experience or simply note for yourself that something did not resonate as truth.

Honesty with yourself in this way will help you learn what is right for you and what does not serve you. It is a tool of your discernment, which in itself is a tool that seeks to keep you in your highest alignment. It is a way for you to remain in your integrity, in your self-knowledge, which will keep you on the path of your highest good.

That does not mean that honesty is always easy. It is often very hard for people to be honest with themselves because their minds get in the way. They do not want to see what they see. It is not easy to admit that something hurt your feelings, or disappointed you, or made you upset or angry. It is easier to use your mind in these moments to over-write that which is your truth and justify the behaviour of others to yourself, to make others right or wrong, or whatever tool your mind uses to protect you from seeing the truth. While it may seem that you are being honest in these moments, it is a different form of honesty. It overrides the honesty of your body – which is the truest form of honesty, as it arises from the wisdom of your soul – in favor of what your mind wants to create as ‘honest’, which is really just a clear recital of how it thinks you feel based on its opinions on its thoughts.

Honesty must emerge from a connection with your body. You must be aware of what is emerging within you in response to your thoughts, your world, the actions or words of others. And you must be willing to feel for yourself that the way that you feel in response to these things is valid, just the way it is, because it is an honest response to your stimulus. It is not something that needs to be justified, excused, or explained. It is to be honored. The honesty of your body is to be honored, first and foremost.

Then it comes to the moment where you wonder the extent to which you owe honesty to other people. It is often noted that the only people you need to be really honest with are yourself, your inner child, and Spirit, but it is good practice to be honest with others to the extent that it is safe and sane to do so, because this keeps you in your highest sense of freedom and authenticity.

It allows you to feel free.

Honesty with others means that you share your truth. It means that you do not hide the truth of who you are out of shame or fear of judgment. It means that you acknowledge and embrace that within you that longs to be shared with the world and you allow it to be. This is why the truth sets you free, as it gives space to all the parts of you that want to be shared with the world. It asks you to give up your own shame and judgment and invite others to see your truth, too.

We acknowledge that this can be a scary thing to do when we have spent so much time in hiding. It has often felt much safer to dilute or omit the truth, and even though this is not akin to lying, it is still a manipulation of the truth that exists to protect you from risks that are irrelevant to your soul and thus limits it.

When you prioritize the fears of your ego (fear of rejection or judgment) over the expression of your soul in that consciousness, you put all that you are here to create in a container that is so small it could choke the life out of it almost completely. It cannot grow in those conditions – it is kept in too close proximity to fear, to restriction. It is kept out of the light. It is kept out of the nourishing flow of love and acceptance and ownership of your truth. It feels compromised and rejected as a result, and this is an energy that wants to embrace you, grow you, and give you everything you want to have in this life. When you put it in a small container, it suffers, and you suffer, too.

It is only an illusion that hiding will keep you safe from the pains of rejection and judgment. For as long as you are judging and rejecting yourself for your truth, which is the foundation of your choice to hide, you are already imbuing yourself and your inner child with these feelings of shame, these fears of not being enough or being too much, these imaginings that you will be rejected.

It takes honesty with yourself to see the truth of what we have just said. And we have acknowledged that this is difficult, and that it takes practice, but you must begin to free yourself from this container that is no longer fit for you. Your soul longs to be free and express more fully. It is not to be kept back any longer. See the truth of who you are and own this. Own your worth and be honest about your desires so that you can take the correct action forward in owning the truth of who you are. Honesty longs to set you free. Let it.