I had a client send me an email today and ask me what living an unconscious life means? She also told me she wasn't sure what "authenticity" meant. It made me also remember the woman who said to me "You always talk about loving yourself, but what does loving yourself really mean?"
I appreciate these questions and am very respectful of anyone attempting to understand these complicated concepts. Sometimes the answer may seem simplistic, but the work never is.
When I answered my client and said, "loving your Self is the same as taking care of yourself" it seemed easy enough, but she looked at me and said, "now I understand why that is so difficult." Most of us do a pretty bad job at taking care of ourselves, I mean really taking care of ourselves. Ask yourself: Do you often do things you do not want to do? Do you not speak up because you are afraid of the repercussions? Do you wait for the "right" time to talk? Do you care more about what others think of you than what you think of yourself? Do you feel under appreciated and never say anything?
If you feel any of the above, you are not taking care of yourself and you are, by default, living an unconscious life. You are also the opposite of authentic. Being unconscious means NOT paying attention to your feelings, stuffing them, pretending they don't exist, with the hope they will go away - but they never do. The more you stuff your feelings, the more unconscious you become. The less connected you are to your feelings, the more unreal you are.
Staying connected to your feelings and being brave enough to be who you are requires a sense of fearlessness. Most everyone is trying to be someone else, someone other than who they are. You cannot care what anyone else thinks of you. This process takes work and does not happen automatically.
Waking up - living a conscious and authentic life is a choice - and it takes hard, very hard work. Are you prepared to do the work and NOT be attached to the results? Are you willing, moment by moment, to put in new ingredients and to incrementally move in a new direction by making new choices. This new life you are building just incidentally results in new manifestations on the physical plane, but more importantly is gives you an inner life that has the ability to set you free.
Authenticity and consciousness are inextricably linked - they feed one another and exist simultaneously. You cannot be conscious, awake and aware, and not be real.
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