1,549 thoughts on “The Beauty of Being Honest”

1. Honesty and truth are a match made in Heaven.

2. I’m appreciating the support from the people around, most of them students of the way of the Livingness with who I can trust and share whatever I’m feeling with no being judged or criticized. Feels very freeing being super real about what’s going on in my life and from there stepping up and keep making new loving choices. Having an honest conversation in these moments when you feel stuck with something is very supportive. There is nothing that love couldn’t handle.

3. It’s quite surprising how different can be the messages from the body and the mind. The body knows instantly whereas the mind can be tricky presenting something that apparently make sense but is not true because it’s seeking a kind of relief and scape that at the end creates a huge tension in the body. I’m observing how in many cases these kind of proposals are not loving. For me it’s being a learning process, far from perfect, to discern what is the quality of my thoughts and movements, are they supportive or not? am I hardening and protecting? why do I’m wanting to scape through food or whatever? Healing my hurts and being honest is definitely making a significant change in my life, once we heal, what hurts is not there anymore and then we can walk with more light and joy. Peeling back the layers of protection and opening up is a very freeing experience to live.

4. Love how honesty brings me to a space of Truth where I can’t fool myself anymore. Being open to that recquires a humbleness and an openess that feels so freeing to me because instead of contract and protect or even hide our ill patterns and behaviours we can look at them for what they are, digging deeper to understand where are coming from. Embracing and understanding ourselves from this place and healing what hurts is very key to return to the true freedom we once lived as children.

5. I agree with you Michael, the people we avoid the most are the people we need to be with the most. There definitely is something on offer when these situations appear. It is challenging but that is because we make it challenging. It certainly is something deep within us that grates us and is coming to the surface. When we face these situations with honesty, everything becomes lighter, the burden has lifted. The irony is that it was never there on the first place, it was an illusion created to keep us where we were all the time and prevent us from discovering our true selves.

   Honesty is a continuum and the more we do it, the more it becomes refined and I love the space it creates, we are not stuck in time then. Something I am learning to let go of more, time, the biggest killer of humanities opportunity to know one self and life and for many hard to fathom.

6. Why there is a food craving is great to trace back and uncover the truth, ‘ it is more loving to not beat ourselves up for not being perfect, yet at the same time being prepared to look at why there has been this food craving in the first place, and start working on that.’

7. Beautifully said Gill – without honesty we cannot even realise there is something that is not sitting true and in its fullness. And so without that honesty of admitting something is not working, we cannot then go to the next steps to explore why this might be so, let alone make a change to a truer way of living.

8. The mind making decisions uses control, conditions and calculations. The Heart and body making decisions simply is with what feels to be true.

   1. The mind is the killer of the truth that the body brings to us. The body never lies, its communicating to us all the time, and for us is to pay more attention, acknowledgment, respect and honesty towards it, simple.

9. To allow the heart and the body to make the decisions comes with such a simplicity and to be honest, for me it comes with a sense of relief – not that I am not responsible for my choices but when the mind kicks in to try to make a decision, boy can it get complicated and create all kinds of issues and anxiety etc.

10. Michael – I really like what you have shared about having an initial feeling of something and then allowing that to be our guide rather than then having to think something through. Of course there has to be a certain practicality and thought process but the decision itself comes naturally from the body with such simplicity. And this is something that I do not honour enough so I have very much appreciated reading this blog and being reminded of this once again!

11. All we have to do is feel what it is like to lie and the ensuing feeling in our bodies, as it exposes a lot.

12. Once upon a time I used to be so dishonest with myself that it was second nature to override or dismiss what I was feeling without ever really giving myself a chance to check in with what I was indeed actually feeling. Learning to get honest about what those feelings were and how I am feeling in the moment has supported with untold healing and development that if my 25 year old self could meet my 48 year old self, I think she would love her wholeheartedly and be really inspired.

    1. Could it be that we can re-imprint those 23 years?

       1. Yes indeed. The joy of energetic awareness also means that we get to understand that anyone who has been affected by any unloving choices I have made are also offered a healing when I clear those old patterns. How beautiful it is to know that because we can re-imprint we don’t have to live with any regrets!

    2. Appreciating our honestly brings so much more than we realise as we explore our essences with a deep-humble-appreciate-ive-ness we are living without “any regrets.”

13. “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.”
    I love this, it can be like when I feel I really need something that I know is not healthy to eat, the urge can feel so strong as I want to cover up or numb what I am feeling, I have a choice in that moment to say yes to the tension and the healing or yes to the numbing.

14. “but I have often let myself be guided by anxiety or by the wish to avoid things which seemed challenging or difficult to me so I have walked a different path.” It’s beautiful to come to this honesty to examine in finer detail our moves away from growing and healing, or deeper into it. We may come to realise we are more than capable of handling all these things, and support is always there for us as well.

15. ‘Only since the last few days has it become really obvious to me that we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say “yes” or “no”.’ Since energy is flowing through us all the time and therefore this energy is shifting all the time, it makes sense that a yes or no is made in a moment, the next moment the energy has moved on.

    1. We know instantly what choice to make, but can so easily override this, ‘Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do’.

16. The power of being honest with ourselves. Thanks for this, good to read.

    1. I know only too well the self detriment of being in denial and not clocking what I truly feel or if I have, not honouring it. My relationship with myself, with others and to life has changed out of all recognition the more honest I have got about what I am feeling and then expressing it.

       1. Building a relationship of love and honesty with ourselves makes so much sense, ‘Once implemented, this love for ourselves will support us in holding ourselves in the more difficult moments in our lives and will set us free to stay independent of what others might expect us to do’.

17. ‘Only since the last few days has it become really obvious to me that we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say “yes” or “no”.’ And how we live leading up to that point very much determines on whether we say yes or no. Great to read and a great reminder.

18. It is not the ‘what’ but the ‘why’ that has really worked for me. If I am craving something then why am I craving it. Once I bring honesty to that question then I can consider the truth of how I got to even considering eating something that I know doesn’t support me. An example is sugar – I used to be completely addicted to it until I clocked that it made me feel so ill. The physical addiction and the psychological addiction to sugar needed different support but the loving ‘why’ question was my solid friend throughout the ever deepening of releasing the patterns of behaviour that led to my addiction.

19. Honesty is the very basic foundation of trust, without honesty it doesn’t support us in life and it makes it very difficult for trust to grow and expand which in turn support us to stay open to people.

    1. If we aren’t honest, we can’t even trust ourselves!

    2. Honesty is essential in life, ‘The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again. It has let me shine again with the same beauty and ease that I can well remember from my early childhood.’

20. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover” – I love this approach to life, often when something is difficult we change, or harden or give up rather than exploring it as an opportunity to know life greater than it’s ever been before.

21. Thank you Michael, I’ve recently read another blog talking about staying with our hurts and allowing ourselves to feel what’s coming up instead of reaching for non-supportive comforts (like food when we don’t need to eat). I’m not quite there myself with some of the things coming up for me, yet I feel very inspired and encouraged by reading your experiences to gently offer myself more loving ways to be with what is there to feel.

22. I have experienced the exact same thing Michael with food and cravings so thanks so much for sharing your experiences about this.

23. “As soon as we start thinking,” Thinking takes us into the labyrinth of the mind but honesty is felt in the body.

24. ‘The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover;’ What a great way to look at life and all the challenges it brings. I find this comment inspiring and rather than withdrawing from my next challenge I shall embrace it instead.

    1. Yes I agree this is a very inspiring philosophy to apply to life – to see our greatest challenges as our greatest opportunities to discover more about ourselves and about life and to heal those things that hold us back.

       1. … and to learn so much more than we would if we stayed in our comfort zone by being unchallenged!

    2. Same for me Rachel, this is a great point. If we are open to learn from our challenges and understand why they are there, that is the first step to untangling the challenges. Also, once we understand why we find certain people or situations challenging and allow ourselves to learn and heal, this can be a great opportunity to evolve.

       1. And keeping it playful along the way, ‘The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow.’

25. Being honest with ourselves is choice that offers us a moment of deeper connection and a opportunity to realise how much more loving it is to be honest than to lie to ourselves and others.

    1. Yes and clocking that we lie to ourselves more often than perhaps we realise which means we are less likely to notice how often we lie to others.

26. The beauty of being honest is that I can just be me and accept myself as I am not a version I have been trying to live.

    1. Great comment Jennym, this is why it is so supportive to be honest, our body loves it when we are being honest and everyone around us can feel this too when we are being ourselves and being honest

27. I think the biggest hindrance is when we bring in right and wrong. Surrendering to Truth is indeed joyful.

28. The times when I choose not to be honest with myself I feel stuck and have dug my heels in, when I am honest there’s an opportunity to self-reflect and bring a deeper understanding to myself and others.

29. I agree with you that the more difficult a situation seems then there is more for me to unravel and discover about myself and what I’m holding back on by not wanting to truly understand what is going on. It has been so easy to pretend to misunderstand a situation stay in the comfort of that than to express what I feel which would be to grow and expand.

30. Being honest is powerful in that it breaks down all our mental constructs and limiting thoughts, creating space to feel what is true in that moment.

31. Just being open to being honest was a huge thing for me, and now what I get to feel is that if I am struggling with something, instead of jumping to the answer, by being willing to be honest I start to get clarity on the topic. It all comes from honesty in my body first, how something makes me feel.

32. It makes sense to be honest simply because of the lie we live in.

33. Honesty is like a fragrant scent that supports us to get to truth.

34. I love what you share about eating something rather than denying yourself that food as it causes enormous tension in the body. Much better to be honest about where we are at and deal with the consequences of that, than pretend you are somewhere you are not.

    1. I have denied myself a certain food, even though I wanted it only to find some time later I went back to have it! It is true, better to be honest and accept where we are at than to jump ahead of yourself.

35. Honesty arrives us at truth, the place where our true self resides. It is the great reckoning that paves the way for the great humbling so that this change can occur.

36. It is interesting indeed how not being honest creates more tension than being honest with what we are feeling or with what is going on.

    1. Yes I liked that revelation it makes so much sense – like truth always does.

37. Anxiety and exhaustion are the undisclosed, unadmitted plague within humanity at the moment and this shows the lack of honesty we are willing to go to about what is truly going on and how we are all truly feeling within ourselves

38. So often I find my body saying “Yes” before I’ve had a chance to really compute the full meaning of this response. I know now that I don’t need to know everything about life, but just stay connected to my body, open hearted and aware and the part I can play in any given situation gracefully presents itself. If I find myself going into reasons, explanations and trying to make something work, it’s a definite signal that I’m on the wrong track. The trick then is in recognising the nudge of course and getting some help to get back on.

39. Great recipe for life self love and honesty, not filtering what we feel.

40. It is true that when a situation seems difficult to us that there is more to evolve from and is in fact, an opportunity to grow out of what has a hold on us. Avoiding situations because they are uncomfortable to us only causes further complications and ultimately, we will meet the situation again – so, we may as well deal with them as and when they are presented.

    1. We are masters of complicating life and avoiding what we need to deal with. Learning to be open to what is next is crucial to evolution.,

41. ‘….if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.’ I have made a lot of detours to delay what I knew to be true but was not willing to go to. Now I say yes more often and I must say it makes me less tired and more alive when I choose to be honest.

42. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” ”
    Wow love the clarity in this – its so true we may think we are still on track but the moment we are indecisive we are way off.

43. I think something key is that we can’t not make a decision – it’s always either a yes to something or a no (which means a yes to something else) and being discerning is something we can keep being aware of and developing all the time, as we go, and with honesty can learn if we said yes to the ‘right’ thing…

44. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role’ This in itself banishes any complexity and allows simplicity to reign. The more honest we are the more freedom we have to be ourselves and the level of playfulness, lightheartedness and joy is all the greater.

45. Detouring is hard, constant work. It requires a lot of consistency in moving in avoidance of what we know is the next step. ‘Fortunately’ for us, the more we detour, the more grounds we have to keep detouring. Detouring is not just taking another road but also excusing yourself from going there. ‘Fortunately’, also, there are many travel companions that confirm us detouring. Honesty just requires to surrender to what we feel and to be with ourselves as we move. So, two ways of moving, one that creates layers that isolate you from your truth and the other which refreshes life.

    1. When you explain it like this Eduardo it feels exhausting all that effort avoiding what is next.

46. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation” Michael this comment ring true too for at present and I can feel that what you have said here about resisting looking at something deeper is also very true and I can certainly feel this for myself. Thank you for highlighting this.

47. Honesty and humbleness are the hallmarks of a true philosopher who is then able to open the door into the truth of all things.

48. Lying to ourselves is actually such an effort even though it may often seem like an easy way out of a situation. Honesty simplifies what we humanly experience. We may have taken steps away from truth but accepting where we are at with no judgement is a foundation we cannot afford to be without.

49. Michael there is so much wisdom in this blog, and I love your overarching theme that when we choose to be honest and begin to explore the truth of what is really going on it begins to ease the tension we feel in life – could it be that our honesty is of paramount importance to our ability to feel settled?

    1. Absolutely.

       Dis-honesty leads us to dis-ease.

       Honesty leads us back to true health.

       1. Gorgeous play on words there, Liane – and avoiding hurts only works for so long till such time that we are confronted with the repertoire of choices that have lead us to dis-ease and from there back to true health.

50. This is a great article about stepping up to the challenges which can be a part of life, seeing them as lessons instead, and opportunities to learn.

51. Today I spoke with a friend and was probably the most honest I had been for a while. Trying to hide things through shame or guilt does not serve. The beautiful thing is that by being honest I got to a greater truth and felt liberated from all the things I was trying to hide.

    1. They are awful emotions guilt and shame, we are so deserving of the love to bring out to the open how we feel. I could add feeling embarrassed as another one that may cause us to not express how we feel or reach out for help. The emotions can be the reason we do not embrace the opportunity to heal.

52. The freedom of expressing with ourselves or others from a place of honesty (and I mean absolute honesty, not suitable truth!) what we feel is there to express leaves our bodies with space to understand so much more, like why we feel anxious, what we might be feeling in ourselves or from others.

53. Honesty is the doorway to heaven.

54. Wow, if making a choice is that quick it is worth laying a foundation in our body that can means we can make choices that are in line with what really supports our body rather than enter battle zone with resisting temptation!

55. It is interesting to read this again this morning as I thought I was pretty good at being honest but there is a situation that I have not wanted to address and I can see it has caused complication. As I start another day I have an opportunity to have another go – no perfection needed but to stop the recurrence of this energy I need to bring my all, be transparent and allow the full strength of who I am to be present in my meeting, not a person who is unsure of whether the other person ‘gets them’ or not!

56. Decisions can be simple and easy, so long as we are also willing to hear the feedback or reading on them if it perhaps wasn’t a true decision. It is, therefore, all a constant learning and development and part of being a student of life. To delay is to say no to the learning.

57. To be honest with oneself first is the first step to live honestly.

58. So often it feels scary to be honest yet discover when I am truly honest I wonder why I was scared in the first place as there is always such a feeling of relief and release afterwards.

59. Without honesty we would never grow or evolve.

60. Honesty opens us up to the truth of any matter and creates the space for us to learn that truth and watch it unfold.

61. Honesty is such an essential part of developing decency and respect, and that honesty begins with ourselves. When we are open to how we truly feel we can make decisions based on that honesty, which helps preserve our connection to our essence – the true person we are.

62. It is true the fear of expressing and possible potential reactions to what is shared is always way more scary than when something is simply expressed.

63. “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.” Honesty is huge in what it simply offers, freedom from the tension of holding back and not sharing honestly with ourselves and others. It is easier to accept being honest when we realise the healing that is offered instead of going into blame and guilt.

64. It is so refreshing and healing to be this honest with ourselves. It is worth taking the time to look at every little thing in our lives and everything that comes our way and being honest about how we feel and what we are doing. There is so much to look at and so much growth available if we are willing to look.

    1. I am realising that this never ends, and the importance of paying attention to the small stuff helps when we come to the big stuff. At which point you realise it is all just stuff and there was never anything big or small about any of it!! It simply just was.

65. The more I am aware and the more I notice I can’t help but feel that everything lies in the ability to be completely present and available to the energy of the universal intelligence, love, and in that everything is possible.

66. Honestly create space… And as we are coming to know, space is essential for our evolution.

67. The choices we make are the result of the energy we are aligned to before we ‘think’ we are choosing.

    1. Mary when I first heard this from Serge Benhayon it was like, that is way to hard, and now today I appreciate deeply what was offered as it now allows me to make sense of life.

68. I love the depth of honesty and simplicity of it all about saying yes to the moment we are in – no delay, no delay.

69. I love how you are experiencing this as a return to the feeling of being a child, free and in the moment.

70. Like the sun shining in our window, honesty just is. So why do we choose to put up blinds and shutters to obscure this simplicity? Surrender, whatever the weather and you will be aware and looked after – ignore and you are likely to get swept up in a storm. Thank you Michael.

    1. Joseph that comment is totally gorgeous. Thank you.

71. As long as we demand proof and evidence we will be stuck in the maze of the mind. True feelings don’t need to explain why. Thank you Michael for the reminder.

72. ” Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do, ”
    This is so true and just amazing , we always have a clear understanding as to what needs to be done. But then the question changes ” do we want to do it “.

73. Imagine a bird avoiding what it is here to do, and using its time to watch TV instead. Surely it wouldn’t feel good! But isn’t that just as absurd as what we do? It’s like we will do anything except for what we know is truly important, but then get surprised when we don’t feel so well at the end. Your honesty Michael makes me inspired to embrace what is before me today.

74. A group of us were recently discussing the moment where you feel the absolute truth of something, then go into lots of complication and doubt about what you have felt. The moment of truth feels so clear and pure and settled in your body but we dismiss or dishonour that. We spoke of how important it is to keeps appreciating and confirming these feelings of truth so when they are presented, we will say ‘of course’ instead of ‘why me? I can’t do that’.

    1. Yes and to be able to appreciate what we knew or that we knew and not go into the regret of missed opportunities because we did not follow through and complete with our embracing of that knowingness..

75. Honesty is an inward movement and a moment where we stop pretending and trying to look good. It opens a window for others to see us. There is no expectations, no games being played. It is what it is and that what it is helps another one to align with us if so they wish.

    1. And we all love this transparency from others. It is an incredibly endearing way to be.

       1. I love the word endearing

    2. Eduardo I love your beautiful use of words in your description of honesty being an inward movement, It feels very powerful and deeply reflective when we consider what it really is truly about.

    3. How often did I fall for ‘trying to look good’, such an awful game of pretending to play with oneself and not to mention the effect this game had on others.

76. We don´t know how much we are lying before we discover the levels of honesty that we need to go to, to uncover the layers of dishonesty and finally return to the only one truth we have strayed away from. Honesty is the path to truth and thus it needs to be understood and appreciated for what it is but never be confused for being the truth.

    1. The layers of dishonesty that I have unpicked I would have been quite shocked by had I known how insidious and deeply they ran before I started.

77. I am curious about the wording ‘The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, …’ as that is how it feels to me as well, that I am prepared to be instantaneously nevertheless I ask myself if this is precisely how it works or if it is much more the willingness to not be prepared, not anticipatory but open and present for whatever comes next in the knowing of and trust into oneself. I know that this is exactly what you mean, just pondering on how it actually works to be prepared to choose instantly.

    1. I experience it as more of an alignment truth (which we all know if we are honest), and a willingness and surrender to that. This does not follow any rules and may or may not be instant, but usually is – at a deeper level trust does not even come into it!

78. Thank you Michael, the beauty of honesty is that it can offer a realness to relationships, as we can actually connect to the true person not the edited version.

79. The more we connect with the simplicity, the more transparent and simple life becomes… The more convoluted we become, the murkier life is, both reflected to us and within and without.

80. This is a beautiful reminder that there is so much more to us than the roles we project so that others cannot see the essence within us. Being more honest with myself has opened up many an uncomfortable ‘can of worms’ to be dealt with, but my body loves the honesty and my wellbeing improved immeasurably.
    ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’

81. What we say yes to happens instantly and comes from the wisdom of our body and being; what can then follow are the constructs of the mind getting into an argument with this inner knowing and cleverly trying to persuade us otherwise.

82. I have spend years of my life in being indecisive and I cannot say I am completely free of choosing this complicated way of live. It was identifying myself with struggle. Living with pain which I could say was My pain. When I am honest I always felt in my body the truth and or consequences of any choices. Like you say Michael we know instantly the choices we need to make for the next steps in our lives. Whether we make them or not is entirely up to us.

83. Totally agree that the more difficult we find something or someone, the greater the opportunity to learn and grow it actually offers us and yet the larger the resistance within ourselves to look at it. A ridiculous set-up that keeps us stuck in the status quo rather than moving into self-liberation.

84. ” Only since the last few days has it become really obvious to me that we have exactly one chance to make a decision, ” This is very clear making the decision is the choice and all that follows from that stems from the decision ,the decision been, live from the source of where one is truly from , (truth) or live by the influencing world that we are in ( non-truth ) . The decision is always ours.

85. The very real fact is that if we let honesty guide us, our lives will change, deep down we know this, for some this knowing is too frightening and we for go letting ourselves be deeply honest, choosing oils, patterns and the seeming comfort they provide. However, for those who are willing to be honest the experience of feeling the results of these choices brings a depth of warmth, love to our lives that no amount of wanting to stay in comfort can override.

86. So honest is simply allowing oneself to be where one is at without judgement or want of change.

87. You make so many points in this blog that I relate to. One being that sometimes the more loving thing to do is simply observe why we are craving the food in the first place, rather than going into a controlled discipline by not eating it and hardening the body. I feel you have really tapped into what honesty truly means, I am actually really moved by this article.

88. We have many investments in life and of ourselves. Being self-honest helps not only see them but let go of them.

89. Being honestly open to learning from another person or situation opens up our awareness and understanding rather than going into overwhelm or switching off because we don’t want to see what is there for us to see and respond to.

90. I like what you shared here, ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’

91. Honesty is the gatekeeper to our heavens. We can by honesty achieve anything, if we allow the strength of truth to be… There is nothing individual about honesty, simply reflective of where one is at and pulled up to be — also in relationship to others. The more truthful one becomes to more he and she can inspire others to do the same.

92. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” ” Yes I have experienced this too and the only way out of the confusion that often arises when we do this, is to follow that initial impulse. Even though it might be challenging and bringing things up or it gives us a feeling of having to let go of our pride and being honest that we were avoiding what we needed to do, it is the only way forward.

93. Its is a joy to come back to truth – meaning when we are honest it leaves us with clarity and purity that to me can not tip anything and is nothing less or more than a compliment to who you are – no matter the subject or situation it is revealing!

94. Learning to trust that first impulse, a feeling that in that instant feels so true in every part of your being, is the difference between a life that is often full of struggle and complication and a life that flows with simplicity and ease.

95. “if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself.” And then we are in harmony with the natural flow of live. The key to living accordingly is truth and honesty.

96. This makes sense what you share Michael, ‘ it is more loving to not beat ourselves up for not being perfect, yet at the same time being prepared to look at why there has been this food craving in the first place, and start working on that.’

97. Playing ‘the role is’ buying into, and taking on, the pictures reflected to us by the world.

98. There really is a beauty in being honest, I am learning that more and more each day. From that honesty, truth can be then felt.

99. The points you’ve shared Michael I can so relate, the first one, ‘The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.’ this is true for me too. When I realised this, my whole perspective on how I relate to work and people has changed and this supports me to be more open to deepening my relationships with people instead of shaking my head, saying it’s too hard and walking away.

100. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” very true indeed, it really creates a space to have openness with yourself and others.

101. Being honest with myself has been difficult at times but eye opening and life changing, since I can only change what is not working when I am prepared to admit its not working.

102. Honesty and self-love have to go hand in hand. Because being honest in the sense of feeling our loveless ways I know I have crumbled and made myself quite ill and exhausted. And honesty of the love we feel without self-love theres no one backing us to say ‘Go for it!’

103. It just hit me how I might be thinking I am being loving and careful when in fact I am just playing safe coming from the pictures based on my past experiences and beliefs. How deceitful is this. And of course, this would trigger me into a ping-pong match of doubts and self-doubts and counter-doubts.

104. Life is so simple unless we choose to complicate it.

105. Honesty opens us up – honesty is the most profound start to love your body and get to know yourself in full. It opens us up to be more honest and truly reveals what is inside us and what does not belong. Easy. Loving. Simple.

106. We need to be aware of and honest about the many layers or levels of honesty to be truly honest otherwise we are even lying when we consider ourselves to be honest. Honesty is an unfoldment until it hits the bottom where we meet truth.

107. Standing back and reflecting on how honest we are in life is a great exercise and the results may surprise us. Sometimes we think we are being honest when we are in fact just protecting ourselves from hurts. This just goes to show how important it is to deal with our hurts.

108. Accepting that we always have an initial feeling that is true if we are willing to connect to it is massive and gets rid of all the analysis and trying to control situations which brings so much anxiety and stress. I love how you have expressed this Michael and the beauty of honesty that you celebrate so eloquently.

109. Awesome how the choice to be honest reconnects us with the simplicity we felt as children and there is no space for anxiety. Great to let go of the seriousness that has clouded so much of my adult life with all its associated heaviness. Choosing truth brings responsibility but with a lightness of touch when we are in the flow of life.

110. What you have expressed here Michael is a beautiful reminder of how to avoid tension;
     “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.”

111. Many a time I have not listened to my body – that first feeling it communicates to me in every moment of choice – and in not listening I have ALWAYS realised it was a true feeling sooner or later. I’m learning not to ignore it and am looking forward to the day when I listen most if not all the time (no perfection expected 😘).

112. I have a difficult situation coming up very soon and it is I know standing up to a very old energy that is being played out. I’m really enjoying the reconnection I have allowed myself in reading the energies that come through people. This energy in the past I have allowed to squash me and I have made myself small as the force is quite strong but not this time. I am watching and feeling the energy and I am aware of it but the strangle hold it has had over me has gone. I Have discovered for myself that if I call it out to myself and then wait and watch there is a cycle that needs to be completed, once the cycle is complete then it’s finished the cycle is not quite complete so I know I need to just hold steady and be alert.
     All this an more I have learnt about myself from attending the workshops, presentations and the way Serge Benhayon lives. There is nothing about energy that this man does not know and he is supporting us all to reconnect back to what he knows about energy and I have to say it makes a HUGE difference to the way I now live my life.

113. The moment we are taught the idea of right and wrong is the moment self judgement, criticism and perfection is created and hence all natural open honesty goes out the window. We are only “honest” if it is something that does not put us into a picture of me being wrong.

     1. I agree Joshua. Right and wrong being in judgement and expectation, both of which we use to override the Energetic truth our body communicates 24/7.

114. What a joy to read your blog Michael.. Showing us that honesty is light, playful and true, and that it is not a misery to look and be truthful about things in life – yes also about those comfortable zones. Hence this quote is profound and good for all – truly :
     ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role’
     Let us be that intelligence that frees itself.

115. Sometimes we choose complication and all the drama it brings because that gives us identification and we love that – so what we do is create a big mess and then we can say look how clever I am to clean it up or fix the issue – rather than just keep it simple and not make the mess or have an issue in the first place!

     1. Love this Nicola, I used to always go into complication when things were simple and running smoothly, I wanted the identification as you say.

116. Honesty is a beautiful release from the confining imprisonment of dishonesty and lies which hold our bodies in a state so contracted and compressed we can feel that there is no space to make a different choice.

117. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ Choosing to be honest with oneself is a process in itself, it seems there are levels in honesty, the more I let myself be honest the more gets revealed and it is only a simple choice to not identify myself with what comes up, a beautiful way to let go of anything that’s in the way of being who I am.

     1. I really like this description of honesty Annelies and how it has many levels. I agree by not identifying with what comes up, it truly is a beautiful way to allow more of yourself to come out and shine.

118. You’ve touched upon something quite profound here Michael, in what you’ve said about making choices and whether “…we are prepared to choose instantly…”. This speaks of our apparently ‘present’ choices having already been made, dependent upon our ‘preparation’ – i.e. the way in which we live and the foundation of love (or that which is not love) that we live from.
     We may well ‘think’ we are saying ‘yay or nay’ here and now, but there is a huge momentum behind us that will, for the better part I’m sure, already determine which road we will take.

119. Amazing how we have an instant knowing and how simple things are and can be if we honour that, but then we call in complication and all that that brings!

120. It’s not a surprise that you rested deeply that night. Honesty is our direct way to find stilness, because the fight instantly stops when the truth is revealed. Living in this way during a day or a lifetime is a delicious surrender that is worth to be experienced.

121. Love what you have shared here, that it is super important to bring honesty to the table, to really allow oneself to feel hurts if they are there, also to really feel what is the best way forward. To not numb and distract, but to surrender to what is there to be healed.

122. The moment we start thinking is the moment we have already said no. It’s a moment when we have left the intelligence of our body and followed the mind, which is never a movement that is made in truth.

123. I have just started a new job and am feeling uncomfortable and anxious despite knowing this is the true move for me. So I am going with it, surrendering to myself and letting myself feel what is coming up for me to heal. It’s not easy as there are lifetimes patterns of protecting myself from the hurts I’ve been avoiding, but it is simple.

124. I have found that honesty is a great medicine and can be life transforming because we no longer play the victim in any situation, and in that space we get to see clearly our part in it and the lesson and the growth that is there for us. Life is always pulling us to be more, more love.

125. I love what you share about honesty Michael, how different would the average person feel if they began to live their life with more honesty as it is truly key to learning to love and accept ourselves.

126. The key to true honesty is knowing who we are deep within first and knowing ultimately nothing can change the grandness of who we are. Then we can look back at our choices and be deeply honest about whether they were in line with our truth or not.

127. I definitely have experienced time and again of the power of just being honest, and like you share it often diffuses previously tense situations.

128. learning to understand what ‘being honest’ meant took some time, and still learning – but simply, and powerfully, it is just to be open to connecting to ones’ body and feeling all that there is to feel without distractions and excuses, and without blaming anyone else, and in that honesty there is space for a deeper connection to the truth of who we are.

129. We have been taught and shown quite the opposite to this article. We are taught to analyse, weigh up, not rush etc etc when in fact what we are saying here is that all is known all of the time but it is just a question of whether we say yes or no to this fact. We can place more importance on something depending on it’s heading and or what society perceives it to be. In these cases we don’t just allow the feeling to naturally flow, we place or choose to place extra pressure on ourselves in order to ‘get it right’ when in fact there can be no right just an honouring of a feeling or yes to a true feeling as an ongoing process of life. We break life up and break perceived decisions up so it would seem like this is how life is when in fact we are making decisions or choosing choices in moment at every point. So the next time you or we are faced with a choice and we don’t know or need to analyse it etc, take the time to look at what has happened prior. If we have lived unsure, critically etc then we haven’t taken the time to make choices to support ourselves and we haven’t made time to say yes to what we feel. We can only arrive at any given point with the sum total of how we have lived, the sum total of the choices we have made. We may not like how it looks but truly it’s how it has looked all along only we have perceived it another way so it doesn’t stop. If you can catch a moment to be honest at that point then the next point you are meet with will unfold that feeling further and so on. We can change anything at any point, it is just and always our choice.

130. Michael, my experience of thoughts is that they can lead us way off track. How I discern the choices I make is I see if they match the grandest thing in my life – if not then this choice is clearly not part of the future.

131. “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.” – Beautifully said Michael and true in my experience too; honesty helps us to see what the tension is reflecting to us and to have the clarity to make choices to heal what is showing up for us or to go to a deeper level in our expression.

132. Thanks Michael, lovely to read your observations again. You have given me support today in understanding that facing the tension or hurt is leading me back to a simplicity, and to explore this process of honesty more in all my little moments.

133. This last sentence about children is something I observed yesterday with my daughter, her freedom of movement and expression is enormous and such a great quality that we as adults literally suppress, we become so serious and ‘grown up’ which simply seems to mean that we choose to not be in the moment and move in the moment creating tension.

134. You know what just reading the title of this blog “The Beauty of Being Honest” makes my whole body sigh with joy – there is something very magical, joyful and refreshing about people being honest as it is rare in the world today. People being real.

135. Honesty is a word and action that can be thrown into conversations and discussions very easily ,but is ‘honesty’ truly understood when we reflect on the implications and true meaning when we go deeper. Putting things off or feeling furiously hungry when we have just eaten or starting to go into drive to get things done, these might be things that we would never question in the context of ‘being honest’ but are everything about being deeply honest energetically when reflecting on the choices we make that bring in these behaviours. We have a choice to expand what energetically being honest means and as you have shared Michael there can be many layers to ‘honesty’ and it is up to us regarding how many layers we are willing to strip away.

136. Just revisiting your blog Michael and am moved by the beauty of your statement… “The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out.” Thank you!

137. What a wonderful reminder Michael to simply listen to the messages the body sends in every moment;
     “Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do”.

138. Thanks Michael, what a beautiful offering not only around what it can mean to be very honest with ourselves, spotlighting moments that are rich with the potential for insight, growth and further honesty, but also the way to be with these levels of honesty so as to facilitate the next to be deeper than the last. When we judge or condemn what we find when we are honest, we hold ourselves to ransom to never move beyond that point of awareness, and relegate ourselves to perpetual self-chastisement, as well as invite towards us a myriad of seeming ‘solutions’ to what it is we have spotlighted. None of this is deepening and evolving, and is the choice we make to evolve or not.

     1. Thankyou Jenny for what you have shared here, to surrender to what it is we need to feel and be honest about, and allow ourselves to simply be with it.

        1. Yes so simple when you put it like that… condemnation leads to the complication of then having to find solutions to make ourselves feel better, or to not feel how we now feel about ourselves and our choices.

139. The beauty of being honest is that it opens the door for greater truth. Knowing the truth liberates us from the prison of living with ideals and images about how life should be.

     1. Absolute Truth and Knowing are in an entirely different sphere – totally joyful, liberating and available to us all equally if we make that choice.

140. A part or aspect of self-love is to address the lies we tell to ourselves, then honesty is there and it can be felt which is a beautiful experience and is something that pulls me back everytime, away from spiralling thoughts and confusion, to a place that is clear in focus and especially in understanding.

141. Honesty is a funny word, not necessarily the meaning but how we use it. We often bend it out of shape to suit a situation and say there are many levels to being honest. I guess there would be many levels to which we are willing to be honest. I can relate to the feeling you have when you are presented with something, there is a direct point you feel to move and then the analysis kicks in, sometimes it’s only minor. The way I have seen to support the move with the ‘direct point’ is to do your best to listen to this feeling in all moments. It’s one thing to attempt to listen to the feeling on important occasions but everything leads to everything. In other words there is no important occasions as everything you do at every point is either there to support you or to detract from you when the spot light is on. In more words if you trust all the moments you have ‘little’ feeling to move then this will support when the moment appears bigger. We can’t live one way and then expect something else to be there when we need it. The way you live consistently sets up how you are and walk in the next moment.

142. The more honest we are, the easier it is to get to the truth of any situation. This is a beautiful way to live.

143. The more we confirm and allow ourselves to be guided by the body – the deeper our relationship becomes with understanding the body’s simple ways of communicating.

144. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” this is so true, we can just be who we are rather than pretend to be someone else,or make up excuses and stories.

145. I feel like this blog is very profound and requires many readings. Honesty makes it much easier to understand why we choose what we do and how to choose something different. I had an experience of expressing truth to someone recently and I found that although they were very upset with me at first we were able to arrive at a deeper truth together without any manipulation or mind games. There is much power in a simple choice to express what I feel and be open to listening to another.

146. Analysing situations from every angle could be useful as a tool to understand the different angles of a matter, but not to make the decision to go ahead with it. We have to start trusting what the body felt about it and to surrender to what the body feels is true.

147. When I haven’t been honest with myself I feel a heaviness in my body and if I don’t stop and take a moment to understand and expose what it is I am trying to avoid this heaviness can stay in my body like a dead weight. It feels such much lighter and loving to be true and honest with myself and therefore I am able to be the same with people around me.

148. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – though this will not mean that we will not meet this situation again in a similar or different form – especially if it is something very profound for us to learn.” I wouldn’t agree with this – it can be very beneficial and healing to question / think about things in the sense of okay why am I having these thoughts, or why am I feeling to eat a certain food that doesn’t support me, okay what’s going on, what’s happened today, what’s triggered this, when was the last time I felt to eat these foods, how was I feeling then – the hardline yes / no answer may no always be the best, it doesn’t allow for freedom and space to question, evolve and grow.

149. Recently I was looking at a car. My body was quite clear about which path to take but then my head came in and thought I should do this and that. Eventually I came back to what was clear in my body but it was interesting to look at the disturbance I went through – there was anxiety, was I doing the right thing, perhaps I should do this…it was all unnecessary but my head told me it was a great idea and very sensible.

150. Having felt the freedom and simplicity in choosing to commit to being truth full as much as possible this is a beautiful extension of that to bring that in to an instant knowing and decision and to remove any deliberation about a choice to be made.

     1. Beautifully expressed Michael, and when we listen to our body we know when we’re being honest or not. Our body will always guide us to truth.

151. “Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do”, great line Michael. I am beginning to notice this first feeling instead of running with my mind. That space to be in and the knowing of what is next is so clear, how could I not want to hold this first, before letting my mind take over!

152. There is definitely an art in making choices – and when we are aware and have more understanding of energy, our options become clearer thus making the decision simple.

153. This blog has brought to light how I can make things complicated. Pausing and taking a moment to get honest makes a lot of sense.

     1. Debra the “pauses” are so important, those little “stop moments” where we can allow ourselves a space to simply feel what is there. I find when I’m unsettled by something I can want to move through life at a faster pace so as not to feel, when pausing and feeling is what is really needed.

154. A gorgeous line Michael, “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.” This is a great reminder of how to deal with tension.

155. Honesty is the gateway to discovering the majesty that we in essence are and can freely live. For it is through honesty that we are in fact saying ‘yes’ to love, to who we are within, to being guided by our Soul, where our truth is known and as such we then can truly learn, grow and evolve together.

     1. A great reminder Carola that our honesty literally un-binds us from from all we are not so we may enjoy again the essence of who we are – love.

156. I really get how doubt seeps through and when I try to manage that by plotting a counter plan, trying to get it right, it gets so complicated and I kind of lose what was initially felt as the truth. And I agree – honesty is a very simple step back into the truth and it feels so liberating when I can land to a place where there is no right or wrong.

     1. Yes the part about doubt and justifying got me to sit up and pay attention “we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said ‘no’.” This is so significant, because the complication we witness is a result of our own choice, love, honesty and simplicity or not.

157. I totally agree with you Michael when you say: “honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them”, as they are part of who we naturally are, so every time we put them to one side we are having to use a force to do so; a force that is totally unnatural in our body. To make the choice to allow our innate self love and honesty to be our only choice as to the way we live is to honour the amazing being that we are.

158. Honesty does support and create space in our lives. Sometimes what is honestly exposed is not something we want to know, so do not ‘gift’ ourselves the opportunities to ponder what is going on. Honesty in the deepest sense is something humanity is to re-connect to because for lives we have been lied to by what is on offer outside of ourselves twisting our understanding of honesty. Today as we re-connect to our inner heart, the essence of honesty and truth will also be re-claimed and the practice of self-love will truly begin.

159. Honesty goes hand in hand with self-love, for you can’t make choices that are truly loving until we have been honest that the way we are living is far from the truth we are from.

160. Nothing is perhaps harder than being truly self-honest. If we were, much of what we held to be true would unravel before us.

161. It is well worth while being honest. It is a first step towards truth, our true way of being. If we are honest with ourselves about that and how we are feeling then it is just one small step to express this, if it is appropriate. Thank you Michael.

162. Great blog, there is so much to learn from it, thank you Michael.

163. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” I love this line Michael and when we allow the truth and honesty to speak we not only ease the tension in our bodies but also allow others to feel the truth of what has been shared. From honesty comes truth and from truth comes love, the best antidote out there.

     1. Thank you Kelly, without the roles we can just be ourselves – the only source honesty can come from.

164. I know I’ve justified second-guessing something that I’ve felt by thinking that I’m ‘evaluating it’! It’s not that I don’t consider things or think them through but like you say Michael honouring our deepest feeling is our truest guiding light.

165. The more difficult a situation or a person seems to be, the more there is to learn – I can so relate to this and see how this plays out in all areas of my life, like doing the easiest things in my day first, so that I don’t have to connect and feel what’s needed in the bigger picture and grander scale, or making it about the processes, so I don’t have to ‘deal with’ people and their stuff. When we play small and are in the comfort of doing the easy things first, it’s an opportunity to look at what are we avoiding – what evolution is on offer and why are we resisting moving forwards.

     1. These are some great observations you make Bryony. I love how you bring it back to appreciating how the ‘difficult’ parts are offering us the most learning and therefore evolution. I also enjoy watching how the more open we are to what there is to learn, the more support we receive.

166. It takes an extraordinary amount of energy to resist addressing the pain of old hurts that could be easily addressed should we choose to allow ourselves to be willing to look at them with honesty. The tension created from resisting doing so just keeps us frozen at that point of evolution whilst denying the understanding and healing that is possible.

167. Being honest with what we feel and speaking up when we feel a tension that will not go, without worrying about the outcome takes practise but is well worth it to all concerned.

168. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” ” – if truth be told – there is no such things as no – only yes – the choice is which energy we say yes to.

169. This stood out for me this morning as I read “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no””. It is the disconnection from what we actually knew to be true that is the “no”, the delay and the set-up to return to the same issue in a different circumstance another time. That is the moment we decide ‘not now’ to evolution.

170. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ And this has to be deeply appreciated and confirmed each time when we choose to be honest. Honesty deepens the relationship we have with ourselves and our body will respond and celebrate the healing we choose.

171. Honesty is our greatest friend if we truly allow it to be there in our life. It shows us the way and lets us feel where we are up to, giving us the possibility to heal.

172. Self-honesty is a skill not commonly practiced by many, but it is a game changer of taking you out of being at the mercy of your emotions, and instead living through development, awareness and wisdom.

173. I loved reading this – I too woke up at 2am feeling very light, and as I read this blog I had to appreciate that yesterday I deeply pondered what it going on with me and my relationship with food, and in doing so my whole body was calling for a change but I was only able to feel that because I was willing to be honest and go there. What a weight has been lifted and certainly things are changing.

174. I love your blog dearly Michael. And I have to add an observation from my living. When you say “we have exactly one chance to make a decision, the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time” I understand what you mean and I agree. But also I observed myself being overwhelmed by pictures which fly into my head about the situation in the moment it arises. This pictures and story how the result of my choices could be, are so quick that I can sometimes really hardly say what my first impulse was. And so I learned with the time and some self-love 🙂 to put the pictures and thoughts to the side, do not give them any attention and so create a bit of space again. I connect to my body and see how the situation feels in me. This is mostly very obvious: my body either close down and become narrow OR gets more space and wider. And I agree: honesty does wider my body feeling and view. And I found as well, the more I practice me in honesty and giving me space – the less pictures and overwhelming stories/thoughts are able to board my mind.

175. Honesty is the gateway to truth.

176. This point is very relevant to me at the moment Michael – ‘The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover.’ If its a work project I procrastinate, because I fear I wont be able to do it. If its a person I avoid them. Looking at these situations as a potential for learning to happen makes facing them seem less daunting.

     1. Sometimes I feel I . . . Just can’t do something but how many times with love and understanding and being totally present in my body
        I prove this thought,for that is all it is, to be false .

177. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role’ – Being different things to different people creates a busyness and clutter in our lives. Why is it that we split ourselves into different roles when all our interaction asks for is to be all of who we truly are and the love, honesty and space this allows? Life is simple when we choose to be honest with ourselves and clear away the clutter.

178. Going off track can look like it’s not much but can end up being quite the detour and particularly frustrating when you eventually end up at the same place again, learning the same lesson you did not master the last time you experienced it.

179. I like the analogy of being honest and loving with ourselves all the time and not leaving it in a draw to be taken out only on special occasions. I recognise that behaviour pattern in me.

180. I woke at 2am this morning. Not my normal time, but I felt wide-awake. Normally I would stress about getting back to sleep but I simply got up and did some work. I then went back to bed when I felt tired and woke again at my normal time. Having pictures of how things should be really limits what my life could be like. I am starting to realise that not having these pictures is very liberating.

181. As I choose to be more honest about how I feel about things and not distract myself in busy-ness or stress there are old hurts surfacing. As I let them go I feel freer and more me to know that I can handle being honest. Reading this is very supportive in this process.

182. I have found too that what I find challenging can bring the greatest insights and opportunities for expansion and greater freedom in my body.

183. Such a timely reality check and reminder for me Michael; so often, although much less of late, I say yes when in truth I should have said no. I am learning to always say yes to honesty and self love.

184. Thank you Michael – with honesty it starts!

185. ‘As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no”. What a revelation Michael. Reading this was a light bulb moment for me. Thank you.

186. I loved reading this, thank you Michael. Without honesty we will never get truth, and until we start being honest with ourselves, we will not be honest with others.

187. Great line “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role” we can all play roles in life, so being able to bring an honesty can be super supportive and healing not only for ourselves but for all.

188. Saying ‘yes’ to honesty and self-love prepares the foundation for us to say ‘yes’ to the next opportunity for deeper honesty and self-love.

189. Honesty is the key to break away from the illusion we have been living denying the power within ourselves, it allows us to finally embrace our light and move forth in our evolution back to soul.

190. Honesty creates the space that allows us to feel the truth of who we are and then move in the knowing of this.

191. The more honest I am with what I am feeling the less I find myself caught up in my head with should I do this or that, that comes in when I am indecisive. Also not feeling I have to be perfect has made a big big difference otherwise we stop ourselves doing things in case we make a mistake. It is a little like saying everything will be ok if I lived in a cave but then we would not get to learn from our experiences!

192. What you are sharing about following a feeling instead of analyzing, debating and pulling it to pieces is learning to trust yourself and feelings from your body. It creates so much ease and simplicity when I do and eventually I always discover why that choice was presented to me and what a gift it was from my soul.

193. It is so true that we are the ones that create the drama of expressing something true and expecting there to be an explosion. If you just say it without ducking for cover as you do, most often there is no reaction or quite a different one has the space to occur.

194. When we truly let go of our delay, it is beautiful how the choices present themselves. So often the opposite is chosen, because we feel it is to much. But in truth nothing that gets presented to us is too much, we are so much more than we ourselves want to believe..

195. I love how what we need to read is given to us in such perfect timing..reading this today is a confirmation of that. So often I have held back in expressing because I have judged the situation and felt that the world would explode, only to discover as you’ve written Michael that often there’s just a huge release of tension instead. ‘Anything other than choosing in that moment is delaying ourselves.’ – so very true: choose instantly based on what we feel, or go on a huge detour into the head – only to eventually arrive at the answer that we first felt.

196. So true Michael. Honesty dissolves all tension, such a damaging-to-the-body tension. Rationalisation and justification serve to hold onto that tension and soon knots of energy begin to form that can have a lasting effect on the integrity of the body. There is nothing so disarming as real honesty

197. I love this blog and find it very inspiring. I have allowed myself to labour over so many decisions when really making a choice is simple when I bring all of me to it.

198. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. ” There really is such ease when we make a choice in every moment we are in, as this allows our bodies to remain connected and free moving. If we delay making choices we only constrict our bodies and our next choice.

199. I notice when I suppress how I honestly feel that it brings complication and disturbance to myself and others, even though on the surface I might feel I am choosing not to create an upset by delivering my honesty. A wonderful reminder from your blog of the simplicity honesty brings and to also question the images of what we think will happen when we honestly express ourselves.

200. Being honest = honouring what I feel and where I am at and making that the foundation for my next choice.

201. Yes, we all know the truth but how willing are we to accept it, make the appropriate choice and live up to the responsibility of doing so? That is where the delay comes in, the process and hence the time we take of embracing the truth in full, ie. living it.

202. ‘I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle’ This is such a well known process, and there are times when I will indulge in that thinking, thinking, thinking even though I know full well it gets me nowhere. Whereas feeling is instant and effortless!

203. I recognised a few years ago that when someone is particularly challenging me and how I choose to live (whether they are right or wrong, or if they are being super clear or in total reaction) there is always something to learn for me. As soon as I blame them or shut down the opportunity is lost, but if I stay open (but don’t take the negativity on) invariably I learn from it.

204. It is so true that we all know the truth.

205. “I was just constructing arguments to defend against the world and myself, something that had already been decided long ago.” This line says so much to me. When I read it I feel the huge amount of effort it takes to resist the truth and the choices I need to make to truly support myself.

206. By choosing honesty, it has supported me to heal many hurts. It allowed me space to see with clarity and take responsibility for my part is the hurts I have carried. Choosing honesty is hugely supportive in every way.

207. “letting myself not be guided by my thoughts or knowledge, but by what I was feeling”; these simple yet powerful words are such an inspiration and a wonderful reminder to feel, know and express what is felt in the body honestly and lovingly.

208. Being honest sets you free. The hurt and exepections that we hold onto weigh us down but so often we dont want to see it or know what is going on so we hold onto this burden. When you get real about something, and see it for what it is, and let it go, you are lighter.

     1. Yes, I absolutely agree Sarah, when I choose honesty, this is exactly how I feel. Much lighter, joyful and able to let things go, allowing love to be expressed.

209. Honesty today can almost be like a dirty word as so much in the world is built up around corruption, distraction and burying what is really going on for us.

210. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to create a role”. Yes. I used to pride myself on being a chameleon, with my ability to be whatever someone wanted me to be in order to fit in and be liked. None of this was honest, let alone true and all from my mind. Listening to and expressing how my body feels is a more honest approach.

211. Making decisions from our whole bodies takes into account so much more than just our body alone, as we are all connected and a decision made by one affects the whole.

212. The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover… This is a very revealing and great point… Because these are the challenges that we do run away from… It really does make sense within these there is the most to learn

213. Children have a simplicity and can be straight and honest, they don’t filter their reactions to people or situations, they say it as it is. Same with food rejecting some completely whilst we persist with
     ‘ its good for you ‘. To ponder this is to realise that is us in our natural expression before we lost or buried that connection to our true, honest feelings.

214. Your blog Michael is full of wisdom and I am hugely inspired by re-reading it again. Allowing myself to return to joyfulness like when I was a child, to embrace love and joy in my every breath, this is what I am learning to return to. Building on my consistency to choose love and to embrace the world as my playground.

215. With honesty comes truth, and with truth comes wisdom, and with wisdom comes love, and with love comes universality.

216. There are so many great points in this blog Michael. One thing that really stood out for me is the notion that there is no predetermined right or wrong way to be in any given situation when we make every move about love and evolution. We simply have to feel the call to express divinity and say yes to it, everything else is a distraction.

217. I agree – we always know what to do, and my experience tells me indecisiveness and complication kick in when I start making it about my self – as in what can “I” get most of this situation and I start going backwards and forwards.

218. We think the day starts when we get up, but energetically it starts the night before and how we prepare ourselves and put ourselves to bed makes a big difference.

219. ‘ Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role ‘ this is very true Michael, it keeps things simple and in the moment rather than going round the houses with excuses, stories, dramas, what if’s, which the mind can so easily create.

220. This is my experience also Michael, we do always get an initial ‘yes’ or ‘no’ if we are honest, and what comes after if we do not act on that impulse, is unnecessary complication and delay.

221. Honesty really is the best policy in all that we feel and do for it gives us a much wider scope to see and understand ourselves and the world around us.

     1. Honesty leads to greater awareness of everything.. as I deepen this I start to notice how dishonest I have been, even when I think I’ve been really honest.. there are always more layers to uncover and our relationship with honesty and truth is limitless. The more we see and appreciate what we can see, the more is revealed to us.

222. I have also discovered that when I am prepared to be honest in a situation and not react there is an opening and expansion, which is very healing. There is no perfection here, and we are all learning.

223. Yes I agree Michael difficult, uncomfortable situations often bring the most learning and therefore the most growth.

224. Our relationship with food seems to be such a great indicator to what is truly going on inside. Time for me to figure out what it is I am still hanging on to or avoiding when I convince myself to eat something that I know I shouldn’t. Like you Michael, saying no, letting myself feel the pain that lies beneath and allow myself to heal.

225. Thank you Michael for this jewel of a blog. Words for me to return to whenever I choose to forget.

226. Thank you, Michael, wow I have read this blog a while ago, reading it now made me realize that this article is way deeper than I first thought. As in.. we are actually hypnotizing ourselves with evaluating, analysing and we create a huge tension in our body – of not being in the moment but being busy to solve it (good vs bad). It is by virtue of you writing that one can realize that actually we do not think and or should evaluate anything – other then feel what we need to do in the moment and act on it. Hence the path of delay is out in the spotlights. Thank you!

227. Thinking, checking and evaluating is not the way, it is a trap and a hard one to come out of once we are in it. I know how tired I get when I start to do this, as it brings in a lot of doubt and fear, it is a game I/we play to avoid growing and to evolving.

228. I like the article Michael, honesty is the first step in the healing process

229. Beautiful Michael. Thank you for sharing your experience with Universal Medicine in your life.

230. Deep down honest takes commitment and persistence, but it also provides a pathway to evolution.

231. Honesty is truly needed to heal, as when we’re not honest we get stuck in our hurts. Which is what I am very used to, but honesty and self love makes life so much easier.

232. The ease in which honesty brings us back to our own connection so quickly allows us to leave the anxiety and tension behind. There is much to appreciate from the honesty we allow from our bodies and the true healing that it offers us all.

233. Michael what you have shared is truly beautiful but also profound. It really is being honest with the apparently everyday little things that matters and also observing the effects that this has on our bodies but also an all around us. Honesty really is an essential component to our wellbeing and the wellbeing of all.

234. I agree with you Michael, difficult and uncomfortable situations offer so much growth and healing.

235. I love the movements of a child, where they have a freedom and openess in how they are, how they express and how they interact with others – this is a beauty worth connecting to and allowing to be expressed.

236. An area where I struggle is actually giving myself the stop moment or the moment to be honest before going through with a movement that I know will be unsupportive to my body, like over eating. But, bringing honesty to this and not beating myself up is a great way to allow space to have that moment of clarity. The moment of honesty can simply be that I don’t want to stop because I know that I will come to my senses and probably make a different more supportive choice and have to feel whatever it is I don’t want to feel. In that alone, there is a moment of me coming back to and reconnecting to what I know is true.

237. Practicing honesty with ourselves is a game changer and like you’ve so beautifully said Michael, ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ Hear,Hear. We are free to make the next movement as the moment of honesty has allowed the momentum to pause so we can feel ourselves again, in whatever state we may be in.

238. Funny how things come around again if we have chosen to bury them and to not be honest with ourselves. Truth patiently waits.

239. I love the reminder in this blog that healing lies in the understanding of what has led to our cravings and dealing with that and not just overcoming the cravings which in effect are only symptoms.

240. The brain / mind is a great analyser, but a very poor decision maker. For that you need a connection to your body which has access to all the answers as it knows truly how you are feeling about something.

241. “Honesty, Self-love, Truth and Beauty – such a joy to have chosen them again”; indeed such a joy Michael. What a pity humanity, in general, has moved so far away from honesty and truth; this has been painfully brought to our attention in the recent Australian federal elections.
     Thank you Michael for reintroducing, and reminding us, of the evolutionary world playground.

242. When we begin to allow the vulnerability in these moments that are seemingly difficult at the time, the honesty that arises allows us to access amazing feats of learning and growth. Very cool indeed, thank you Michael I love your blog.

243. Understanding that being honest can be the way we feel in that first moment and not in the agonising and weighing up of things, as we have been taught, is revelatory. To know this strongly and to allow the freedom of this in our lives is really bringing in a lightness that we may have forgotten.

244. Michael it is amazing how freeing for the body being honest is. Holding onto things constricts and tightens up the body and then as soon as we say them it is like the body is released and free again. Little things that may seem minor add up and everything we do or say makes a massive difference to the way we are and feel.

245. Sometimes in the most difficult situations is where we flourish and grow the most – I love your point here – it’s not all bad in hard situations!

     1. It definitely is not all bad in hard situations. We have an opportunity to learn from everything we do, even if we may have made bad choices the key is coming back stronger than before – at least now knowing and understanding what led to the ‘bad’ choices so we will never make them again.

246. The first paragraph of this blog, Michael, is very inspiring. I have not been waking feeling light or rejuvenated lately – and by reading this I have a better understanding of why that is. When I allow thoughts to govern my movements I using an energy that is not true to my body, I’m not present. It’s a great exercise for me to surrender to the beauty within my body and allow that to be the guiding light – not the thoughts. Let’s see how my mornings are from here 😉

     1. I hadn’t considered this before: what is the relationship between my thoughts and my movements, and how does it feel when I allow my movements to come from my thoughts instead of a deeper connection to my body? When I’m in my body I feel super solid, but when I’m in my head, I’m not present and I’m wobbly – and that’s where the anxiety comes in.

247. With regards to the food cravings I can relate to the giving into cravings idea rather then using force against force. Discipline doesn’t work for me and indeed causes more tension in my body. However, bringing understanding to the food craving and my movements leading up to that craving is where it’s at! This allows me to change my movements and say yes to myself and the love I am rather then focusing on and using force to say NO to the food.

248. I agree Michael – such joy to have claimed these principals back (self-love, honesty and true-beauty). This has brought back purpose in my life – which I also have seen in others that have come accros Universal Medicine, as the people have chosen to switch their light on again – simply by having been showed the divine – being lived on earth. Shown by Serge Benhayon and its tenants (family members, true esoteric students (practitioners)).

249. As a fish in the water we can go everywhere but we will still be in the water and learn whatever comes to us. If we are open and honest we can learn and receive much more and grow even faster. It makes life easier to flow and much more fun! As you say Michael, our world is a true playground where we come back again.

250. And what is beautiful about honesty is that it keeps deepening as we let go of old ways of thinking, of old ways of doing and being. As what we choose to express comes from a deeper level of honesty we feel our relationships change and we can feel more tension also. What I am learning is to allow myself to feel this tension, to feel the tension and open up to more love and understanding, to take it gently, not rush and let whatever unfold. If I find myself wanting a result right away or put any pressure whatsoever on myself or the other it stops the flow between us. Likewise if I avoid the next step I will find myself doing something that hinders me further like going out when there is no real need or reaching for a food to comfort me or stimulate me, there are endless ways I can keep myself away from evolving.

251. It is amazing that honesty is such a rare commodity. A stark indication of how far humanity has walked away from the truth.

252. We can make the world our playground full of love and learning together, or we can make it a jungle of survival, cruelty and ruthlessness, greed, corruption and conflict.. Given that the latter has not really worked all that well, we could begin to explore the first option – beginning with how we treat ourselves, and everyone we meet.

253. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” Honesty also releases the tension and pent up stress we may carry, if we hold back expressing how we feel it creates unease and sickness to ur bodies. Honesty is definitely the best policy. Thank you Michael.

254. This is giving us the opportunity to say yes, every time, as when we choose this honesty we can get to the real thing that is going on, making it simple in so many ways. As the mind is built on complication, the body in true honesty is very simple – yes or no.

255. Honesty is giving us a clear view without all the mental pictures we create to not see our next step.

256. Thank you Michael for a great article, I can relate to the putting off, going into the head to think over a situation. Just the other day I was asked about something and immediately said yes, this was what I felt in the moment, no going into the head to think about it, or weigh it up, It was so clear that yes was the answer. ,

257. It seems to me that there are some subjects in our lives which we are willing to look at very quickly and then eventually we get around to the ones we are reluctant to look at, or maybe we just get stronger within ourselves and feel more able to look at the ones we have been avoiding. Either way eventually we have to look at all aspects of our lives and get more honest, otherwise we just go around in circles.

258. For a long time I have felt my relationship with food was pretty good, not perfect but pretty good. I ate plenty of green stuff and cooked all my food myself but I was kidding myself, I was choosing to ignore the way I snacked (and still do) the way I used different foods to comfort or distract and how actually my life revolves around the next moment to eat. Becoming more honest about which foods I eat, when and why I eat them and how I eat them has brought awareness and a huge shift in the way I approach food.

259. I love the feeling inside when I am truly honest with myself. It may not be something that I want to admit or feel and is often not what I want the truth to be but when I am honest there is a lightness and a space with in that opens up and allows for moving forwards.

260. I agree Michael – Honesty does create space, which is really helpful!! Space between me and an issue so that I can see that it doesn’t really belong as a part of me and so is easier to let go of…

261. If our whole life is actually a dedicated pursuit of actively avoiding, of pre-empting and predicting doom, of looking out for issues and gloom, then is it any wonder that our whole life ends up being full of that? It seems like we are looking here at the wrong map. What if instead, as you do Michael, we live from feeling our Love, we move inspired by the truth and we live respecting that we have a knowing, a deep knowing, that there is a detailed and divine plan and all we need ever do is be honest about what we feel and act on that.

262. There is always the opportunity to make another choice, however what I’ve found is that the more I resist the lesson I am to learn the more intense the experiences from which to learn that particular lesson becomes.

263. I too have experienced that when I am in connection to myself I have an instant knowing about any situation and my life has a magical flow when I honour that and don’t let second thoughts or other stuff to kick in.

264. This blog has inspired me to treat myself more loving like a child and not beat myself up when my decisions may have been a little on the wrong or on the major error side.

265. I like playing with the difference between honesty and truth, with honesty we can all have our own version, drugs will honestly make an addict feel better, the truth is that they are not better with drugs. So there is a deeper level of honesty that we need to be willing to explore, which relates to why we chose what we do.

266. Whenever I have heard of healing hurts, honesty is rarely mentioned as a key part of the process, it’s not even mentioned at all! We all have a part to play in our hurts and emotions and we are often sold the lie that it is not our fault and that it has been ‘done to us’ in the face of this fact. Hence honesty is super crucial as a foundational step towards deeper healing

267. Honesty is so profound, it is not always easy. But it is part of the surrender to our body, that knows who we truly are and where we are from, we are all connected and we know everything. Surrender, honesty and self love are key in developping our connection to this.

268. It is amazing how much freedom comes with being honest, as little children it was very natural to be honest in every way, then as we start to grow usually by the age of 3 we are pushing away this natural ablity away to instead learn how to please. How crazy that we are born innocent and honest and then learn how not to be.

269. I remember Serge Benhayon saying that energy is felt strongest within the first – I think it was – 15 seconds. Anyway it was definitely in the early moments which you talk about here. There is an instant knowing of what to do and when we are honest and open to that, life can be quite simple and straightforward.

270. The beauty of being honest is it keeps things simple and uncomplicated.

271. I guess what you are presenting Michael, is that there are always and only ever two paths… honesty which can lead to truth, or denial which leads to burying an issue deeper and deeper.

272. Thank you Michael, I’m really glad you have written with such depth about this subject. You have brought much wisdom to this subject of being honest. This is so very fitting for me to read at this time. The reflection which stood out is the excuses we muster up when the plain and simple, truthful answer is presented. And the more difficult the situation or person presents the deeper the possibility of the healing to a very deep hurt. Thank you for your sensitivity and clarity Michael.

273. I have found too that I know the answer straight away when it comes to making a decision but that my head will follow this up with all sorts of pros and cons based on preconceived ideas and other mental gymnastics.

274. Ah the honesty of self love and really listening to what is going on is like a breath of fresh air, when we make this a daily commitment life flows. Every time I take steps to move towards honesty and truth my body responds joyfully, as soon as I take steps the other way to override my true feelings I notice my body harden and contract. Such an awesome conversation to have when we actually listen.

275. Each and every day we live is preparation for tomorrow, and if we are choosing and expressing honestly and lovingly, life brings us that which will support us to let go ( if we are hanging onto something, and we humans like to hang onto what is familiar, ie our comforts!) and as we let go of the ‘old’, this creates more space to live more of our true selves which is love.

276. What I love about the ancient wisdom is when I hear it shared there is a simplicity to it that allows us to let go of all the complications and return to something true again.

277. This is an excellent delve into what’s truly going on when we are faced with a decision. Because we know what the answer is as soon as the decision is presented and yet we can live with procrastination quite happily and in some instances for years, even lifetimes. Any delay is just avoidance and shows there is something there – a hurt or a belief – for us to discover and learn from.

278. Yesterday most of my day I was travelling and the beauty was, I felt exactly the same when I arrived in the evening at location B as how I left in the morning from location A. The whole day I was aware that I was not travelling from A to B but from moment to moment. And every moment was the foundation for the next moment. It is all about choices and making choices in every moment. I had a lovely day, I felt open and relaxed, was not in hurry and it felt very spacious.

279. The part that really stuck with me re-reading it this time was that if a reaction or disturbance is particularly strong then there must be something grand enough to warrant such effort to avoid! Being open and curious as to the choices I have made has changed my life and there is always more to explore when it comes to learning about the effects of the quality our choices have on our bodies, everybody else and the world around us.
     Thank you Michael.

280. Michael the following sentences stopped me while I was reading your awesome blog: “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – Wow that is really something that made me ponder and I have to admit that I only can agree even if my head is producing a lot of arguments why it is ok to think things over. But if I am honest I knew exactly what is the next step as I could feel it in my body – if I started to think or to evaluate I know deep inside that I am out as it starts to become complicated and complication is a delay for me.

281. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” This is so true Michael – honesty is the best and cheapest medicine ever and should be prescribe for everybody.

282. I am in a super challenging moment at the time and it was a timely reminder that I am being presented with a learning here and to surrender to what is there and to simplify. simplify. simplify. simplify. Feel what is there to be done and act upon it. And be honest about what is going on. But I find that it’s tricky sometimes to be super-honest about what is really going on….like the old choice of holding onto hurts/behaviours is stronger but I know its not.

283. In one part of this blog Michael talks about being able to discern the different types of tension that he can feel in his body, for example in relation to food cravings, overeating and what to allow or not – all the while not judging oneself under an expectation of perfection. This is very profound because as much as we can be very sensitive to our own needs and desires and treat ourselves gently, we also need to be responsible adults and know when it is right to place clear and loving boundaries with ourselves about what is appropriate behaviour and what is not.

284. It is only by being totally honest with ourselves that brings about evolution and I would agree it is our livingness in honesty with ourselves in each moment that matters. So while it is great to call out that which is not true in another, what has supported me from reading this blog is that it is essential that I go deeper in feeling and being honest with myself to heal the pain within.

285. Michael thanks for your sharing, I was shocked by one part of your blog but I could feel the truth of it. It was the part where you discussed it was sometimes better to eat a food you knew was not great for you because to not eat it would mean inviting a lot of hardness and tension into your body, I can see by looking at why this desire to eat this food in the first place was more beneficial to work with, than to go to war with oneself internally, while battling in the mind about the “Will I or Won’t I”. I had never seen it from this perspective before and yet I can feel how healing the outcome could be.

286. Honesty also leads us to openness and this is the way to bring a deeper depth to not only our own relationship with ourselves but all relationships thereafter.

287. Honesty feels like the embrace of giving ourselves a big tender hug and it opens the doors to understanding more about ourselves and what is truly going on for us

288. Another day on our 24 hour cycle and another choice being offered for us to listen, feel and choose to make changes if necessary for our choices from the previous lived 24 hours. What a gift to have this awareness available to tap into any time any place. Knowing exactly when I take full responsibility for my choices and waking up to a ‘new’ day (clearly felt when I do not) As you share with us Michael waking up “feeling very light, rejuvenated and relaxed” is a joy. If the opposite is felt without doubt I need to be really honest with my choices (not giving myself a hard time) and revisit old patterns that make this so.

289. A very beautiful blog Michael, this is the line that stood out for me, The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully. A very important point you make here Michael.

290. ‘The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself’ – An important reminder Michael, that we allow other influences from the past, future or need for approval to get in the way of living ‘Honesty’ in our lives. The understanding of ‘Delay’ is so supportive in helping us to realise that avoiding or putting off, holding back means we are being driven by something else and who we truly are is being denied. Today ‘Honesty’ and responding in the moment to the impulse that arises will be my commitment, my commitment to life and the love that I am.

291. I love this line Michael, “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.” Honesty is so clear, clean, and simple.

292. Thanks Michael for this truth “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role”.

293. This is so great Michael, I especially loved your line “Once implemented, this love for ourselves will support us in holding ourselves in the more difficult moments in our lives and will set us free to stay independent of what others might expect us to do.” this stood our for me because in the past and as I didn’t have a level of love in my body, if I got into reaction or lost my connection with myself, I would be super critical of myself. There was self judgement and comparison, I was very abusive towards myself. This has take some time to let go of, learning to let go of those thoughts, knowing that they are ‘not’ me was a huge one. So focusing on developing that love and connection now, I can totally understand how that love within, supports me when I do go into reaction, not allowing myself to stay in it and come back to love, no matter what.

294. Loved re-reading your blog Michael. What I am beginning to understand and learn, is, What am I actually saying ‘yes or ‘no’ to? Given that everything is energy and therefore we are always choosing an energy, it has been interesting to see that two very similar situations have had very different outcomes. One was true, everything has flowed with ease and not a huge amount of effort on my part and I could feel the expansion of each choice. The second situation has not flowed at all and rather than stopping I carried on and it became super messy and I am now feeling the consequences of choosing something that was not true. It was only when I stopped and became honest with myself that I realised I had brought in lots of images to make something work that was never going to work.

295. “The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow”.
     Such a playful way to look at life and learning Michael, a beautiful blog to read, thank you.

296. ‘The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out.’ Reading this today made me realise how early in life I started to feel anxious and let nervous energy run through my body. I used it and sometime still do, as a form of protection to not feel how sensitive I am but in truth I am only hurting myself and others with this way of living.

297. Thank you, Michael, this is very inspiring and supportive for me. I tend to think too much, beat myself up for “failing” and be anxious about changes or “big” decisions. Is it really that simple, a moment to moment yes or no? I tend to want to control the consequences of my decisions, out of fear. But I know what you are describing, I know it in my body to be true. So, thank you for reflecting that back to me.

298. Thank you, Michael, it was a joy to read this blog. Allowing ourselves to honour what we feel is such a huge step in reclaiming back this honest way of living that you are talking about. As you say living in this way brings simplicity and tenderness in the way that we are with ourselves and each other.

299. ‘Serge Benhayon’s level of understanding of the human physiology is transforming….’ I agree and find the way Serge Benhayon describes human physiology helps me to understand and know my body through what I experience and it calls me to account; as what I choose has an effect on my physiology that I have to live with and impacts on others too.

     1. So true Deanne – Serge’s understanding allows us to feel that he has walked the same path and with this we can feel the possibility that nothing is im-possible.

300. This blog has a very strong message about choice, that we are always choosing ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to evolution and anything other than that is delay. Delay that can often be disguised as thinking things through and even seen as an intelligent way to approach life.

     1. I find what you say Deanne so true – I am beginning to realise the true implications of delay and how it has impacted on my body and life. The more I feel the delay in my body the less I am comfortable with saying ‘No’ and the more open I become to saying ‘Yes’. It is still a work in progress but the awareness is a great start.

301. “…this was exactly the same feeling that I had gone to bed with the day before…” This is really insightful to catch, as it shows the way we live during the day, for example, what emotions, concerns, thoughts supportive or not, we have, continue to exist in our body during our sleep, and have an effect affect on us, on our body, when we wake up… Honesty is the spanner in the wheel for halting this momentum for bringing over, day after day the issues we don’t deal with that we could otherwise easily live with 24/7.

302. ‘The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children’ – this sentence dropped my shoulders 10cms! It is a brilliant leveler that cuts through my indulgence in complication. ‘Just living every moment in the day’ and my choice to be present in each lays the quality of the next and so on…

303. What a refreshing way of viewing the world – “a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow.”.

304. Michael is very clearly writing here about the power of choice… This is very important for us all… As really most of humanity doesn’t understand that we are making choices all the time, and that these choices are laying down the pathway upon which we walk… This is vital information for us all.

305. Being honest does keep things simple and opens up more space rather than it being filled with complication and dramas that we can run with in our head!

     1. This conversation about honesty is brilliant. For me it is part of taking responsibility and every moment that I am honest gives me opportunities to review my patterns of behaviour and re-write my history, as it were.

306. ‘On the one hand, it is more loving to not beat ourselves up for not being perfect, yet at the same time being prepared to look at why there has been this food craving in the first place, and start working on that.’ The psychological wisdom in this sentence is not rocket science but it is brilliant. Beating ourselves up over an unwanted behaviour is just as indulgent as sweeping something under the carpet in denial but they both effectively refute the responsibility we have to understand our reactions and perceived hurts. I am yet to test it out for myself but I suspect Michael, you (and Serge Benhayon) are onto something if we open to honesty and confront our hidden pockets of comfort.

307. It feels reassuring to acknowledge, when we are dealing with old hurts and feelings we have evaded, that taking the first steps ‘…. might often seem quite big and uncomfortable at first.’

308. Eating to avoid and bury something we don’t want to deal with is one of the harder vices to catch as we can carry out our agenda under the guise of ‘but we need to eat’, as opposed to a glass of wine or a cigar that we know full well are not needed by the physical body. There are however some telltale signs I have noticed when I am eating to bury rather than nourish, such as; looking for more food when I have already eaten, by the kind of food I am looking for or craving, eating at a time of day I would not usually eat and taking a larger serving than usual convinced “I am really hungry”.

     1. I love this attention to detail, Deanne. It is when we apply this that we get to see all the little shady corners where we give up on truth. And then we have all the tools we need to change.

     2. Such great points Deanne, I have been placing extra awareness on myself in this space. I have been able to recognise many of the examples you stated, when I am not choosing to feel what is really going on I will go for nuts, or graze on food throughout the day, I tell myself that I haven’t eaten much, so its ok. But negating the energy I am eating in. I am bringing more focus to this, food is definitely an ongoing process of deepening awareness around.

309. The more we continually build a solid foundation of love and truth in our bodies in the details, the more it supports us to stay steady in the world, bit like a rock standing solid in a storm.

310. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – to the innate divine wisdom, truth and love that our bodies constantly share with us.

311. Life is simple, I may not always choose this, if there is any anxiousness or indecision that comes in, then I have not said yes to love – I go for a walk to support this, till I feel more in my body and myself again.

     1. Me too. When I feel myself complicating, rushing or doing things under pressure or anxiousness, I am learning to down tools and do something that I know supports me back to ‘being in my body’ (by this I mean not charging along with my head calling the shots in disregard for the wise sign giver, my body). A walk, a shower, a 5-minute lie down/sit, a few exercises or a quick check in with my breath – all these things work.

312. It’s crazy how much we complicate things by leaving the simplicity of our bodies to try and work things out in our heads.

313. thank you michael, it is beautiful to read what honesty truly brings, I have found it brings an openness, but have also found that I often choose struggle first over honesty, this is an way to not feel what is there to be felt and move on. I feel there is so much to learn and this blog reminded me again of that fact, it may not always be easy but you this gives me trust in myself, and I feel there is a lot to become fully honest about.

     1. I agree Michael, to be able to bring honesty is key, firstly starting with an openness with oneself. We do also like the struggle, or to numb, go to food, etc. I also find that I can medicate in talking, talking to others, distracting myself from stillness, the stop truly needed to feel. This requires honesty and can feel there is definitely a lot I can revisit here in your blog, thank you.

314. It has been said that we always know what to do instantly in any situation, its when we let our thoughts kick in that we over think things and thats where the anxiety creeps in.

     1. Well said Kev.

315. A very wise choice Brendan: to observe difficult situations as opportunities of growth rather than reacting and contracting. I know I find reacting makes something more complicated than it needs to be.

316. Thank you Michael for a great sharing, I remember an old saying ” if you have decided not to decide, you have decided all ready. ” I sometimes find when I can’t choose a clear yes or no, I have gone straight into my head, bringing with it tension and anxiety, with the head going around and around, if I were to be honest I would look at what it is I am avoiding feeling at this time.

     1. Ah, the wisdom of old sayings and there is no arguing that there is no such thing as not making a decision, we are always making a decision, even a decision not to decide is a decision. We often believe we are “holding off on making a decision” when we are really choosing to stay in a particular situation. I am reminded here of the psychological construct of a “two choice dilemma”; this is when we have options to decide between and we don’t like any of them.

317. Your sharing with us Michael has really inspired me today. Having often had ‘mental fog’ dithering and not being able to give a clear ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to many opportunities that have come my way has previously caused so much tension,stress and anxiety states. In my heart I wanted to say yes but my mind would chatter away and get the upper hand as I’d start to think! evaluate or double check details. When all the time a clear yes or no is all that was required to feel/listen to that initial impulse would of served well. There is as you share so much beauty in being honest.

     1. Ditto to all of the above, Marion. And what I find so refreshing about ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ from the heart is that there is no further discussion – as in the hours/days of indulgence about whether I had made the right decision or not that ensued following mental decision making. Inspired and guided by my body there is space for the next moment after every decision.

318. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves” Thanks Michael This is excellent. We are constantly presented with choices, some we delay and stick with our old ways. Why do we do this? because there is possibly a grander and more expansive way of living, but it requires us to let go of more individuality and to commit more to serving the whole!

319. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role”. How freeing it is not to play a role or live to ideals, beliefs and expectations.

320. “Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.” – Wow! What a simple but profound sentence. I feel to stop and feel that, let it be felt and then I feel it – Everything is like sitting down, coming down and leaves : Space.

321. I agree Brendan. And part of that willingness is choosing to move in a way that allows me to have the thoughts to be honest and to want to see clearly. My body makes the choice and then the clarity confirms it.

322. I can totally connect to what you’ve shared here Michael especially where you say “…we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time” and also “… if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves”. Through almost a lifetime of living this way I well know how complicated and crippling delayed decisions can become… therefore it’s our choice to say NO to the allure of analysis and YES to the knowing we innately have the very moment there is a decision to be made.

323. Honesty and self-love need to be implemented “into our daily rhythm and applied to all the small moments that make up our lives”. I look back at my day yesterday after work when I felt tired and realised how I was not self-loving. It’s like I haven’t known how to take true care of me. Eating has always been a standard ‘go to’, but that does not feel loving when I haven’t given myself the time to feel if it will be truly nourishing. Reading the gentleness of your words, I realise this is a work in progress if we are not used to giving ourselves the space to feel what we need in the moment. Your following words help me out here..” On the one hand it is more loving to not beat ourselves up for not being perfect, yet at the same time being prepared to look at why there has been ‘an issue’ in the first place, and start working on that.” Thank you Michael for sharing your simplicity and clarity .

324. I’d hardly got past the first paragraph this morning and up popped this feeling of joy and that’s exactly how I feel when I allow myself to be guided by “what I am feeling”. Not being impressed with anxiousness or excuses – avoidance issues that just cloud over that initial true feeling. Thank you Michael now to read paragraph two 🙂

325. Critical analysis of our decisions is usually considered an intelligent way to live life, a safeguard to guarantee against making the ‘wrong’ decision so what you introduce Michael about knowing immediately is pretty radical. It has certainly got me taking a step back from all of the decisions I put through the wash before I make it. Something I have noticed is when I don’t surrender to the clear impulse because I have a picture or ideal to fulfill then I am more prone to evaluate the decision mentally – as you went on to write Michael- delay indeed.

326. What an amazing sentence to write, understand and live by – ‘As honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them, the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.’ It is a bit like being told the secret to life is in what we choose in every moment and that there are no short cuts but the consistency adds up to something that can be guaranteed.

327. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’, this statement is amazing and wonderful, thank you for delivering it.

328. Thank you for writing about the simplicity we can live our life in this blog. How we go to sleep is the way we can wake up, is lead by the way we are with ourselves throughout the day.

     1. It feels so simple and it is. How amazingly complicated we have made life to be that we do not even want to acknowledge such a simple truth we all know. When we choose to connect to what life truly is, we know we are responsible for every choice we make.

329. A timely and inspiring sharing Michael, the need to be absolutely honest with myself can only lead to freedom from anxiety. “The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment of the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or future and a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out”. Once again a great sharing, thank you.

330. What I love about your blog Michael is, how you bring it to the point and make it very simple. We say often ‘no’ to offers in our life and then cover our ‘no’ in many ways, what makes it complicated and obscure. Bring it back to honesty and simplicity is so liberating…

     1. So well said Sandra – The simplicity Michael offers is palpable for me. This blog has offered an immense change to making decisions and it does free up so much energy and time not procrastinating and doubting myself. Yes or No very quickly delivers what is next and what is truth or not.

331. Bringing honesty can be the most challenging of things, we are set up at almost every pass to assist us in not being honest with ourselves and taking responsibilty for our hurts and choices. The world is set up for us to be in constant distraction. But is it up to each of us to be responsible for all that we have and hold in life. There is no get out of jail free, it is a responsibility we all hold to develop our own connection and love for ourselves.

332. We do actually know, if we are prepared to be honest it provides the truth. All the preferences we bring and bits where we have decided how we would rather life be, are what seems to get in the way of us living with honesty every day. Thank you Michael.

333. I just love the wisdom you have shared Michael and deeply appreciate re-reading this often. ‘The moment we meet a question we know the answer’. Thank you I have been choosing and living with this absoluteness ever since my first read.

334. ‘Very often what we want to avoid is the pain of old hurts. Avoiding them means that we will not have to be honest and take the necessary steps to heal them –’ I welcome my hurts now, yes I may feel sad or something else for a while, but this generally passes pretty quickly as I come to more understanding and healing follows, so liberating.

     1. True Lorraine for the longer we leave our hurts the longer they have to fester and gnaw away at us.

335. Michael this is a great blog, ‘If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.’ I agree not only does honesty make life more simple, it heals many of our previous hurts too.

336. Your opening paragraph is so spot on. We all have clarity and it comes in the moment. Acting on it is very simple and life can then flow. When we don’t allow access to that clarity things can become complicated quite quickly. The complication is not necessary and is not a natural part of life.

     1. beautifully said Nikkimckee! If we allow ourselves to act on the clarity we have in the moment, than delay is not necessary and evolution is at hand.

337. Beautiful Michael. Honesty can seem like a hard choice but the tension that stays in the body form not being honest is far harder to live with.

     1. But we learned to cope with that, didn’t we? I find myself so often with a tension in my body I created by not being honest, not willing to feel what is going on – but I became good in dulling this feeling/awareness by eating, drinking alcohol, taking whatever in to not feel what is going on in me. So now by starting to become aware/honest I have to deal with all that I brought in and that is what makes it hard – I made it hard for me to come back to me.
        But I found as well that by accepting what I’ve done it is quite easy to get rid of all of it again. The willingness to feel what I’ve brought to me is key to let it go.

        1. Beautiful Sandra. It can be hard to feel our past choices but for me the discomfort of feeling those past choices feels far better than the tension I lived in previously. There is a truth to them whereas before we were living without that truth. Whilst the truth may hurt, the not-truth hurts far more.

     2. So true Nikkimckee- when we try to hide the truth from someone the tension inside of us gets bigger and bigger and feels like a lead weight on our shoulders and tightness across the chest, such that we can’t breathe. But as soon as we speak from honesty our body feels light and spacious once again and we can then come back to the warmth and love within. This is my experience.

338. The beauty of being honest starts and stops with us, otherwise we are kidding ourselves and it is our body that is the barometer that talks loud and clear.

339. Brendan what you say ‘Honesty allows for open discussion and debate, without it becoming tainted by emotional reaction’ does seem to ring true. So often honesty seems to act like a cooling balm, whereas dishonesty seems to add heat and emotion to situations.

340. If I am not being honest, what is actually going on? Your words here Michael emphasise to me how honesty is our natural state and not something extra we do. It’s the lies we create to paper over reality, that are all the hard work that goes on. Your words are inspiring me to let my honesty be, uncovered, not judged or attempted to be fixed.

341. I am becoming so honest that I just shared with a friend that it feels like becoming that child again. It brings a vulnerability with it but this feels actually great. I am just sharing how I feel, knowing that I have nothing to lose.

     1. To be honest like a child feels playful and full of joy.

        1. It does, and what I notice is that I have less and less thoughts about things that happened because when you express and just say how you feel, there are no lose ends.

     2. It is so natural for a child to be honest and it can be hard to deal with as it exposes our own lack of honesty. Children don’t make it a big deal either, it is simple, natural and light. My son is a barometer for honesty and is outraged and does not understand when people are not honest.

        1. Beautiful to hear Nikkimckee. Im constantly inspired by children (and myself as a child) They are absolute with their honesty! no holding back or complexity in sight.

     3. It feels very vulnerable to be in the innocence of this child again, so open and fragile but like you say Mariette nothing to lose.

342. Michael this blog has brought up many moments for me to stop and ponder on where I am with my self and how honest am I being And how consistently am I doing do so… Each moment as you say we have the opportunity to go there or not. The explosion is one I relate to big time and as you say the more open discussions we have in honestly a simple yet natural way of communicating with each other can just flow. Being prepared to expose ourselves in the process and not having the expectations that you have everything ‘sorted’ is a great starting point.

343. This is a beautiful sharing thank you Michael, with many gems, and yes the world is wonderful playground ‘to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others.’

     1. Lovely to feel your playfulness and lightness here lorrainewellman. It is inspiring and confirmed by the birds singing outside my window. I feel more open and alive to the new day.

344. ‘The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.’ This has been my experience, what has been very challenging is in reality a blessing.

     1. ‘What has been very challenging is in reality a blessing’, absolutely Lorraine, mistakes and challenges can actually be blessings if we take the opportunity to learn whatever lesson is there to be learnt, and therefore not have the same issue come up in the future again.

345. Honesty really does create the space in us to allow us to see that “The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow.” Thank you, Michael, beautiful.

346. In reading this blog, and coming back to my body, I can actually feel how much it physically hurts and make us smaller, to say ‘no’ to the evolution and pull to return to our Soul that our body – which in truth is God – is offering us 24/7.

     1. ‘I can actually feel how much it physically hurts and make us smaller, to say ‘no’ to the evolution and pull to return to our Soul, that our body – which in truth is God – is offering us 24/7’ so true Gyl, God doesn’t close shop on Friday lunchtime and resume Monday morning, it’s only us who place imagined breaks in everything.

347. “this was exactly the same feeling that I had gone to bed with the day before.” proof that life is lived in cycles, and how everything we do affects the all.

     1. Gyl it goes to show how deceptive the notion of ‘end of the day’ is, in getting us to think that something has stopped and that something else has started. It’s the same with weeks, months and years. We have the false impression that there is a stop and a start, when in truth it is all the same continuous thing, even into death. One constant flow.

348. I get drawn to the title of this blog “The Beauty of Being Honest” by my whole body. It just goes to show in fact how much our bodies love honesty.

     1. Great point Gyl and I have found that honesty is pretty much what everyone is craving for in relationships.

349. “Very often what we want to avoid is the pain of old hurts. Avoiding them means that we will not have to be honest and take the necessary steps to heal them – steps that might often seem quite big and uncomfortable at first. Saying clearly “no” in these situations has helped me to really feel the pain that had previously been buried inside of me for quite some time, and from there begin to heal it.“ This is what I have experienced too Michael, that we all have hurts we try to ignore and use behavior to bury them even deeper. It is beautiful once we get support to heal our hurts and let go of harming behavior and to choose to become more honest and as a result more connected to ourselves and others.

350. Refining self-love has been a theme of mine for a while, and this blog presents another level of self-love that I hadn’t allowed for myself – being completely honest and accepting of that honesty. So many times I have allowed my mind to go ‘what if…’ and how the others may or may not react etc. and let self-doubt take reign. This is not about being stubborn about and brandishing ‘my truth’, but I can feel the spaciousness honesty brings in therefore the space for the true truth to come forward. Thank you, Michael.

     1. I love that you bring in the word ‘space’ here Fumiyo, without space to explore what is true there is no honesty, but when we start to use our mind and bring in any kind of doubt whatsoever I feel my body gets tight and my movements start to be less and less spacious because I am constrained by my own chosen ideals and believes.

        1. Thank you Annelies. Doubt is something that is around me often and your comment here reminds me to keep coming back to feeling my body and letting it support me in my evolution. There are times when I can go into my head and as Michael says ‘As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” –’ feeling our body at this time makes it obvious what is going on and we can then choose to re-align and bring a truer quality back into our lives.

351. I am left wondering if honesty is our willingness to see what we already know.

     1. Great question Alexis. In that case it is very confirming of all that we can connect to and access when we choose to.

352. What I have been noticing more recently the more honest we are with ourselves and our movements, this brings up things in others around us. If they have any lack of honesty they struggle to be around and feel uncomfortable. I have noticed this in our business lately as I have been connecting to the honesty of my movement and as I have been going deeper with this, it has brought things up amongst our staff, and if there has been lack of honesty amongst staff they have been exposed. Some have felt the energy and have chosen to leave. On the one hand it is sad to loose some good staff, but on the other hand it is a great opportunity to create space for new people with deeper sense of honesty to come.

353. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.” Yes when we are connected to ourselves, the choices are very clear in the moment, the honest we are with ourselves the clearer the next choice will present itself.

     1. Our inner knowing is very solid and the feeling is always instant. Its when we delay or question that first yes and go into doubt that keeps us held in delay.

        1. So true Kelly. But we become masters at overriding our inner knowing, just so we can delay. Becoming more honest creates more space and allows us to become more responsible for our life choices.

        2. We are the cause of our own delays, we use things to distract us. Food is one I find catches me and causes me delay as I get caught in tiredness.

     2. I love what you say here Amita as it presents us without hesitation a true honouring of the body that in every moment we have the opportunity to become more responsible and gain clarity.

354. Very true Brendan.

355. I have found this to be true for me too…”The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover…” Bringing honesty to this offers huge opportunity to increase awareness discover something about yourself.

     1. Yes and what an expansive feeling it brings. This has a knock on effect with all other situations, especially in relationships.

     2. I agree Johanne, although our knee jerk reaction to things that are difficult is to avoid or ignore them. If, however, we can bring honesty to them, as you say then we will get to see that there is something in dealing with the situation that will bring us the true freedom that we all crave. To continue to ignore things simply ensures that we keep them in our life, deal with them and they are gone forever.

        1. Well summed up Alexis, dealing with our issues is the only way to liberate ourselves

356. Michael I love how you describe the thoughts that kick in. I agree that we all have an inner knowing and I relate to those moments when the thoughts kick in and I delay what I know to be true.

     1. I agree Annie, we all have “an inner knowing” and know exactly what we are doing but often pretend we don’t know and continue living in a way of ignorance and arrogance. To become honest is the first step to become more aware and start making difference choices.

357. Thank you for sharing how lovely you felt waking early one morning Michael. The key to this as you have shared is the way you put yourself to bed the night before. I sometimes lose track of the importance of an evening rhythm that supports my sleep and activity for the next day. Thank you for this reminder.

358. I remember feeling like this as a child –” just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out”. The truly awesome thing is that I have regained this way of living again, thanks to the work of Serge Benhayon. I never imagined it was possible but it is.

359. “I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle. In truth, I was just constructing arguments to defend against the world and myself, something that had already been decided long ago”. I can totally relate to this one and you have described this perfectly Michael.

360. For a long time I have been fooled by the idea that honesty is hard, cutting and cruel, that honesty is super difficult to hear. But what I feel today is how true honesty comes with an honesty about our place in the world, our grandness and beauty. So it actually flows beautifully and easily when we let go. Thank you Michael, for providing this blog, allowing me to get honest about honesty.

361. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” Great to understand how we can free ourselves to be simply ourselves if we we start to express honestly how we feel.

     1. In our society we do not learn to communicate freely and honestly how we feel wherever it is needed and necessary. Instead we pretend, ignore and wipe issues under the carpet with the hope they will disappear. But they don’t ..with honesty we can start to make changes in our lives and this are urgently needed if we look at the state the world is in.

        1. With honesty we start to become more aware and can start to make changes in our lives, becoming more honouring and loving and showing the world a more honest reflection.

362. I am finding that any dishonesty is like a red beacon in my body and I cannot ignore it. At that time I can suppress it or feel and own it. Honesty brings awareness and from there a more beautiful way of being unfolds.

363. What you present Michael, appears to be so simple…”be honest with what you feel”, yet to me was a revelation 10years ago, not because I was not that honest but because I was not good at describing what I was feeling..Universal Medicine, helped me re-learn how to feel and then express that feeling with responsibility and honesty.

364. Honesty is where its at Michael. I agree that we can often just sweep things under the carpet not wanting to deal with them but until we do we can’t truly heal and move on in our lives.

365. One of the hardest things to do when we begin to make more loving choices in our lives is the acknowledgment of what we use to keep ourselves in comfort; in fact some fight to hold on to their modes of comfort fearing that their lives will be never be enjoyable again. But as you write so clearly Michael: “The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again.” That is sure one compelling reason to give up that life draining comfort.

366. As a little girl I always spoke the truth and honesty as my expression. It didn’t take me long to shut down when this was frowned upon by all those around me. This great blog has supported me to reconnect to this truth and understand the love that I had as a child to share with everyone is still present with me today.

367. Simple and stunning.

368. Honesty is such a big one for us all, we can so easily negate this, push it aside, numb ourselves, our bodies to not feel or get to honesty. Without honesty we cannot truly develop awareness that assists us in making other choices that can be more self honouring and self loving.

369. The tension we feel in not being honest is because we are living a lie, by choosing to not take responsibility for living truth and light we are from. We all know we are here for a purpose and a reason and that is to return to live in full, as we have done before, to the divine Sons of God that we all know we are.

370. I love and appreciate honesty – it’s refreshing and real.

371. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease,” because we are saying yes to our Soul.

372. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said no” – to God.

373. ” often let myself be guided by” … something outside myself – I can relate to these words and the understanding that I have this innate and inner wisdom that will never lead me astray, it’s only when I give my power away and don’t trust in myself, looking for answers outside myself. When in truth I don’t need to ask anyone anything, for we already know the answers to all.

     1. The world is primed and ready to give us the answers the second we give our power away. It can be very convincing and knows exactly what to say and how to say it.

374. So true Michael – ‘The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.’

375. Being honest is very affirming of the love we are, of the love that cannot be taken from us and the love that wants to show us more – so for me when i’m resisting honesty i’m resisting more of my own love.

     1. Thank you shellyjones44, I love what you say here ‘when I’m resisting honesty I’m resisting more of my own love’.

376. Being totally honest with oneself certainly creates a freedom and a space to heal the hurts. I love coming back to this blog for the lovely gentle reminder of self responsibility, honesty and true love.

     1. Yes Shirl, Michael’s blog is a gentle reminder that being honest is our responsibility and it determines the level of energetic integrity we choose in life.

377. Decisions and choices are simple when they come from honesty and love, there is no thinking but absolute in knowing. What seems very simple is yet unendingly deep, but it is really so simple.

378. Coming back to the blog I realised that I have still held onto this perception that ‘honesty’ is about confessing, only about bringing up and out the ills and miseries to the surface. But what if my body honesty feels amazing? and I feel to be light and to be playful and silly. What if honesty is just expressing how my body feels in the moment?

     1. Great call Leigh.

     2. I agree Leigh – if we expressed honestly how we feel in each moment we wouldn’t get a ‘store house’ of misery and ills. Let’s celebrate ours and each others amazingness honestly and joy-fully.

379. This line – “The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow.” brought a smile to my teary, tired and slightly worn out face today – a gorgeous reminder thank you.

380. Since first reading your blog Michael – almost everyday I have re-read parts of it. What you share about “the moment we meet a question” has been life changing for me, I’ve been applying this as honestly as possible and there is definitely far less tension and mental activity around decision making. The things that are to be completed that may be more complex and in the past I may delay , I get to with a greater ease – Thank you.

381. Sometimes I feel in life like I am in the middle of a tornado – whirled around, things whirl around me and I have no orientation, feeling powerless. In the moment I bring honesty into this situation, into my life, the storm becomes quiet and everything is falling to ground. My feed touch the ground and I can see clear again. From here I find my way and go.

382. Yesterday I realized how much we can be in old deep-rooted behaviours. It is like we are a train on ‘familiar’ rails – to change the rails we have to really choose it … and our old rails are a bit clingy, so it is not so easy. And I found one of these old rails is ‘to deny that/what I feel’ and this rail goes through veilings, dust and a lack of clarity…and beside that I feel heavy by driving this way – I lose my orientation completely. I found that by asking myself ‘how would it be to appreciate what I feel?’ I set the tone for honesty and this changes the switches….to the light & sunny side of the rails :).

383. To be honest is like an appreciation of one’ s own openess towards oneself.

     1. Beautifully expressed Kerstinsalzer15, I love this.

384. In the past, I’ve given too much power to the hurts, which gives them the chance to dominate, and not enough to the Love… Time to focus on the Love.

     1. I used to let hurts have too much power, now I welcome them as an opportunity to heal them and let them go, bringing me and the situation back to love….I agree Matthew time to focus on the Love.

385. For a long time I have had the idea that honesty often involved saying ‘no’ and being quite blunt. But what your words remind me here Michael is that real honesty always comes with tenderness and appreciation, and is never harsh. In this way honesty isn’t a saying no at all, but a saying yes to truth and Love.

     1. Great to become honest about honesty here Joseph! 🙂
        I found honesty implies an innocence – which I found very refreshing.

     2. Joseph that ‘s a cracking line ‘In this way honesty isn’t a saying no at all, but a saying yes to truth and Love’.

     3. This is great Joseph because so often we have ideas about what something is, in this case honesty when in fact that is not the true energy of the word at all. A great exposing of how we change the meaning of words.

386. I am learning more and more each day that “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” I use to hold back in my expression thinking what I had to say was of no value. But that is not true, my voice and my honesty is as important as anyone else’s. Over the last year and a half, I have really started to express and be honest about how I feel and this has changed my relationships with myself and others. This has allowed others to feel the reflection, and they too have started being honest.

387. We may think our hurts and weaknesses burden our lives – but in fact it is our unwillingness and avoiding to deal with what we feel what makes it difficult, complicated and hard. Honesty is the key – it brings light heartening.

     1. Very true Sandra, honesty brings lightness, playfulness and an acceptance of our imperfections.

388. The time that we spend thinking about things or describing things, what is right, what is wrong, what is best, makes it seem like there is little space and time and a complexity or business. The more space we use to stop, feel and create from our true feelings the more simple and spacious life will be with no tension and a freedom to be ourselves.

     1. That is the beauty of this blog! Now we know when we think about what is wrong or right or the best – we know we already said ‘no’. Now, when I catch myself by doing so (try to think things out), I stop and observe, go back to the point where I did say no and have a look at that.
        I do not judge, because this would again start the cycle of “cover up the ‘no’ “, and would lead me to a detour. Just by accepting this first feeling where I did say ‘no'(being honest), it does bring a change. I feel lighter and like I have a clear view now. From here truth comes to me because I did open up for it.

        1. Surrendering to such a way of living is deeply healing for the body, there is no more tension or angst about what is being over looked and instead an ease in the body to respond to what is there in the moment and as you say go back in any instance, with no judgement to feel where the head thinking came in and where we left out body. The body is a great marker for when we have said no.

        2. Danielle that ‘head thinking’ that you refer to is what I used to go for a walk to specifically do. I was under the illusion that whilst walking I would be able to ‘sort something out in my head’, the interesting thing is by the time I had finished my walk I was always at the same point in my head and had never come to any conclusion. Eventually the only conclusion that I came to was that trying to work anything out in my head was never productive.

389. “Honesty, Self-love, Truth and Beauty – such a joy to have chosen them again.”
     And as you share so beautifully Michael the blessings that come with these are really quite limitless as space opens up, as we choose our true response in the moment we meet the question.

390. ‘The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out.’ This is truly beautiful. I have made life so complicated. I have chosen the world and most people to be something that I cannot unite with because I perceived it to be unsafe and I couldn’t play the game I felt everybody could play but me. In truth it is this decision and my judgement of others that has separated me from everything outside of me. You have once again reminded me that I have the power to free myself from what I have created in my life and decide that I can live as a child saying yes to whatever feels right and saying no to what doesn’t so in that way trusting myself enough to go with what I feel and be true to myself.

391. Brendan I only can agree as for me honesty was always the first step to allow myself to feel that I was playing also a part in the hurts I was feeling.

392. It gets pretty messy and complicated when we feel dominated by our hurts, I know because I have chosen this at times. Thanks to Serge Benhayon I am being more and more honest in my life and thus keeping things very simple.

393. I loved this and could feel how in being honest with myself frees up the tension that can build within.

394. Re-discovering myself is turning into one epic adventure.

     1. Yes matthew brown, who would have thought that connecting to ourselves and as you say, re-discovering ourselves would be so downright awesome.

        1. Absolutely Julie. We are a treasure trove waiting to be discovered.

        2. Agree totally Mathew, Julie and Lyndy – time to unpack this treasure we are and share it with the world.

     2. Matthew I just love that line ‘re-discovering myself is turning into one epic adventure’.

395. The true power of honesty cannot be highlighted enough. It allows a deep revealing and clarity with everything when it comes and though often difficult to allow and feel at first it always comes with a depth and understanding that is very expansive and allows us a freedom to simply be and breathe our own breath.

396. I find when we are honest it feels as though it makes space, space that was previously taken up by holding onto the complication, trying, distortion and pictures that were involved in keeping up the lie.

397. When we are not honest we will walk a different path.

398. The assurance you have in knowing what the next wise step in your life is Michael (even when not chosen) is re-assuring for everyone. You inspire a great question we could all be asking ourselves – “what is the wise choice for the next steps in my life?”

399. Michael Kremer, this is a “wow” of a blog, what you share is an absolute blessing to read. Thank you.

400. Within this sentence Michael is one of the greatest gifts Serge Benhayon has given humanity ‘I had not specifically done things differently, but had simply been very honest with myself, letting myself not be guided by my thoughts or knowledge, but by what I was feeling.’ Life can be as simple as you say it- letting yourself be guided by your feelings. When I met Serge Benhayon I was 28 years old and had created a life based on thoughts and knowledge only, I was deeply lost and dishonouring of my feelings and I can’t imagine how I would be coping with that today if my life had kept heading on the same trajectory. I still fall for making decisions from my thoughts and knowledge today but thanks to Serge Benhayon I understand now how to be guided by my feelings and am more aware of how ugly and complicated life can get when I rely on thoughts and knowledge.

401. “I always knew what would have been a wise choice for the next steps in my life” – I feel this way too Michael. Doesn’t this reveal that the messes and lost way we sometimes behave, is much more of a distinct choice we make to override what we know all along? What would life be like if we stopped playing this game and lived honouring what we actually feel is right? It seems to me then we would know the simplicity and clarity you describe.

402. “I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle. In truth, I was just constructing arguments to defend against the world and myself, something that had already been decided long ago”,
     how well do I know this and I can end up so far up the garden path with such a complex story constructed and enormous amount of time wasted. Doubting that I already know the answer and I just need to get on with it.

403. Maybe I have mentioned this before, but if a decision is not absolute it is not from our Soul. God doesn’t um and aah, and debate what to have for tea. Maybe God doesn’t even decide he simply just does.

404. ” we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say “yes” or “no”. If we already know the answer to everything, why do create complexity, and what is it about simplicity that we want to avoid? Is it the fact we would feel and intimately know God and how deeply connected we are to him?

405. Your words of the time of youth where everyday was an adventure, just brings back a smile to me of that period. If we can feel what we experienced then, we can choose to live that way again with a simple choice.

     1. Thank you Steve (and Michael) for the reminder – now I am smiling as well :). And yes! Lets bring back this innocence, snoopy times by choosing so.

     2. Agreed Steve, we can all live that same level of innocence we experienced when we were young if we choose to do so, and allow ourselves to make mistakes with the knowing that we are here to learn and evolve to who we truly are.

406. Dear Michael I just have read your honest blog and was blown away from your power and clarity. It is just an inspiration for me as honesty leads also to harmony and harmony is something what made my life so much more loving and flowing . . .

     1. Beautiful esteraltmiks, how you connect honesty to harmony. I certainly feel this in my body. There is tension when I choose to not feel what is there to be felt whilst there is a relaxation in my body when I am open and honest about what is going on at any given time.

407. Honesty is a very supportive friend of awareness, we are feeling all the time and what is being felt if we are not honest about, this responsiibility will return for us to look at further. We are being asked to honor our awareness and deepen it all the time.

408. Great contribution – I just had an example yesterday when looking at a vase on my bookshelf and immediately I knew that it needed to go; simple and straightforward really only that my mind kicked in with all sorts of reasons why I couldn’t or shouldn’t and the congestion I felt in my whole body was quite remarkable.

     1. Ah I can feel this Gabriele and realized by your sharing that, by holding on to ‘what needs to go’, we load ourselves. Thats why honesty is so lighting.

     2. I know this feeling Gabriele, in fact I am staring at something in my house right now that I know needs to go and yet it still sits there…….

     3. I know this one too Gabriele. Have held on to many things that needed to go!

409. A lovely blog Michael with many revelations of truth , to allow ourselves to feel and not just be in reaction is very much worth the journey.Thanks for sharing with such depth and honesty.

410. Honesty brings so much more space to a situation, and opens the way for truth and your sharing here Michael expresses just that.

411. Having read many of the comments it has occurred to me what a negative force dishonesty is. Basically dishonesty is a false barrier placed in front of the truth that simply covers up what is actually there. It’s actually quite preposterous really as we are all able to accurately feel the truth and so we place false scaffolding in front of the truth and then all pretend that it’s real! How ludicrous is that !

412. The world is indeed a wonderful playground and just this morning I shared that for me it is about getting up in the morning and stepping into the world. This is where I learn every day. It gives such a joy and a knowing that I don’t have to go anywhere or obtain more knowledge, I just have to be in the world and then everything I need to learn will be given to me.

     1. So true Mariette, I find it magical to observe the detail of what is offered to me every day. I used to look for things in life which contributed to a restlessness I felt but was not always aware of. Now, I let life come to me and I accept that everything is there and will always be there to support me to learn more about me, about others and about life.

        1. I can relate to that Katinka, to let life come to you. Then everything that comes, is for me to grow and to learn, with the knowing that nothing comes to me without a reason.

413. In the space I’ve got by honesty I am able to discover the love in me. Unveiled.

     1. Sandra as someone that was too proud to be honest, instead wanting to appear that I had a perfect picture, I’ve also found a deeper discovery of me through honesty and a far greater feeling of at ease in my own body.

414. I agree Michael that: “Very often what we want to avoid is the pain of old hurts” but in trying to avoid those hurts we create even more pain in one way or another by holding on to them, as these hurts are not a natural state of being for our body. To take that first step to acknowledge the hurt and then make a choice to begin to heal it, feels so liberating which in turn opens up space to own more of the hurts and pain that we have unnecessarily held on to for way too long.

415. ‘The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.’ This is a great offering that simplicity in life is a gem.

     1. Yes Katinka an absolute gem. My experience has been that if I allow my head to come into the equation what I truly feel is lost.

416. I have also been feeling that my investment into something and looking for an outcome I desire has made me less honest in the past, and having that revealed makes me squirm. It’s quite revealing because if anyone asks me am I honest, I would reply positively yes, but it shows how i can deceive myself to think that when the feeling in the body is negatively no. A great learning.

417. Yes Michael, great wisdom shared here and very true for me. As soon as I pause after an initial impulse or feeling, you are so right, I have already said no. Good to have that truth out in the open to know and remember.

418. I love the title Michael and the beauty and honesty you so lovingly share in your writing.

     1. Yes, isn’t it interesting that we connect a lie with ugliness and honesty with beauty…

419. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” This comment is so true without honesty who are we? To be honest we need to be present with our body and feel the core of who we are that is where truth comes from. From this place we can feel what is not true in our bodies, the ideals and beliefs we have created as a result of our un-resolved hurt that lead to us playing a role that does not express us in truth. When I choose honesty I feel a releasing of my hurts healing a wound within me and essence arise expressing the love that I am.

     1. Such a beautiful point, Margaret, honesty comes from being present with our body. This is great for people like me who once were confused what an honest answer to the world would look like. I was so entrenched in manipulations and letting myself be manipulated that I was missing the marker for honesty. Well, it’s the body!

        1. For me in the past it was like I was so dissociated from my body, I was outside of it watching what it went through because it was too painful to be in my own body and feeling it. These days it feels amazing to be present and connected with my body and expressing love the majority of the time; this has been a work in progress for a long time now and I still find myself checking out everyday at some stage but I am far more aware now and those times are becoming much less frequent and shorter.

     2. This is beautiful Margaret, and is one of the many reasons being present with our body is so important.

420. ‘Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.’ Thank you for reminding me that it is really that simple.

421. “we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say “yes” or “no”.” It is a learning all the time to know where that situation has arisen from or where that question has come from – whether it will be a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ requires honesty and self-love to support us.

422. Michael, it is quite something to say ‘no’ to eating something you are craving in order to feel the pain of the reason why you want it in the first place. Many people do not have this awareness, and if they do they may not do much with it, preferring instead to continue to eat the food that is numbing the pain. It is a very deliberate step of healing and self-love to stop and feel what is there to be felt, and from there make a choice of what is most loving.

     1. Beautifully said Rebecca ‘It is a very deliberate step of healing and self-love to stop and feel what is there to be felt, and from there make a choice of what is most loving.’ I can feel how powerful this choice is to just feel what really is at play so we can support ourselves and deal with it lovingly so.

        1. To be honest I still wrestle with this one. I can find myself reaching for the food anyway, regardless of whether I have felt the reason for this or not. There is a greater responsibility that needs to be taken in order to deepen and refine my relationship with food.

        2. Hear hear Rebecca, taking responsibility is key here. I have come a long way with food but there are moments I do choose to sabotage myself with eating things I know I should not as they do not work for me. It shows me there are still times I don’t allow myself to just be with whatever has come up for me.

        3. Yes, I find food a tough one in the same respect, definitely more understanding and responsibility needed here.

423. You have shared some beautiful pearls of wisdom with us Michael and I felt to just sit and feel to how honest am I. The many roles that are played out sapping us of energy and filling those spaces with ‘spiralling thoughts’ that keep us distracted from connecting and evolving. Time to get honest about being honest.

424. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.”
     The tension we feel is in the dishonesty when we feel something but don’t express it or acknowledge it for ourselves. When we become honest and express what we feel, this explosion you talk about Michael does not happen, in fact the opposite occurs I have found I no longer need to hold the tension of dishonesty as being honest allows a flow through my body again and the tension just naturally dissipates. It has taken me long time to really get this, that all we have to do is be honest with ourselves and others and the tension never arises.This has made a huge difference to my life, there is an ease with life that I have not felt before

     1. Great insight and learning – it feels like the dishonesty sits there like a roadblock creating disturbances, tightness and a prickly kind of heat. That way we have also brought it into our body whereas with honesty we hand the situation over to what needs to happen next.

     2. This is lovely what you share and have come to understand Alison.

        1. Just brilliant Alison! If only this were a widely known fact, the truth of life would ‘out’.

425. I do really love this blog there are some really good pointers and much wisdom. So often I beat up on myself for indulging in what is plainly not right for me anymore, and to move away from that and really look at the reason behind the lapse is very much the true course of action.

     1. Yes, the beating up of oneself is something I seem to fall into rather than lovingly looking at why the choice has been made in the first place.

426. Brilliant Michael, full of wisdom, inspiration and truth. Certainly by being honest and loving with ourselves we begin to be able to let go of behaviours that were not supportive or evolving. Choosing to be honest is already saying ‘yes’ to evolve.

427. I used to see honesty as something very mental and based on weighing up all sorts of information. Now I see it completely different, as connection and staying with the body. So much there is in our bodies to observe and when we stay with them, everything in life comes in and is felt there. So reading our bodies, honouring a natural deep sensitivity is the way that we can understand how to live life with total commitment but zero investment.

428. If we can’t be honest with ourselves we definitely can’t be honest with others and even if we kept silent, in doing that we are still emanating dishonesty.

     1. Margaret great that you have brought up the illusion that silence is a gap. For a long time I believed that if I was silent I wasn’t communicating anything! How wrong I was, silences are often more loaded than space that is filled with speech.

        1. Holding back the truth when it is there to be expressed is harming to the body. True expression is communicated for another, or humanity – what I am not allowing through me when I hold back is not for me to hold in my body. I am a conduit for love and truth and neither are ‘mine’ to hold onto.

429. To get myself out of the way when I say ‘yes’ in the very initial moment and don’t back down the following moment in any way is absolutely essential. This gives the ease and space for the next moment to open up. It’s the moment of indecision that brings the tension preventing the innate ease that comes from the initial claiming and commitment. I am in awe of your blog and the awareness it has brought, thank you Michael.

430. Very beautifully said Michael. There is a simplicity in honesty that is clear and uncomplicated.

     1. Victoria the simplicity is really powerful, as in the situations where I allow myself to feel the honesty of them everything unfolds – space is there and I feel revitalised in myself. A stark contrast to the times when I don’t want to feel and be honest. It’s clear which is the simple and loving way forward in life.

431. What your words remind me Michael is how everything is connected and that if we choose honesty in one moment it leads and supports us to choose this in the next. Like wise when we override one time, it can lead to a series (a life time?!) of choices that aren’t true. I’m learning more than ever to return swiftly to truth.

432. I really love the point you have made Michael about our initial impulses always being true… yet then we call in all of these other arguments that just get in the way.

     1. Me too Brooke. There is a simplicity to the initial impulse and a complexity to the arguments we allow in to override what has been offered us.

433. I have recently been faced with situations where I have been asked to compromise on my honesty at work – it occurs to me just how insidious dishonesty can be, even under the guises of being ok in certain situations…’they don’t need to know that bit’ or ‘they don’t need to know that now, maybe later’. All this amounts to manipulation – we cannot change or distort the truth, it remains as it is. If we try all we do is present something that is not true; is dishonest and is a lie. If we do this we sell out on all that we are in this way.

434. It is such a fine line of how easily we can go off track, call in complication, make things more than they need to be. Just one thought can take us off, and we think a lot.
     What I have come to understand is that thoughts come from an energy that we choose to be aligned too – so if we have self doubting and negative thoughts all day, what are we calling in to make this the case? I also understand that because thoughts are energy, they are not me, so I might have a dark thought, but if I cut it and say ‘that isn’t who I am’ then I give no power to that thought.
     To understand more about the body and appreciate all the body offers and reflects us it to balance the weighting thoughts have over us, and lead us to the truth of who we are.

435. ‘The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children’ Yesterday I had a great example of this when after having a difficult conversation with someone I left feeling quite sad only to come out of their home to be greeted by a magnificent night sky dotted with magical stars. I could not hold the discomfort I felt when met by such gloriousness. Like a child I was immediately brought back to the joy of being alive in such beauty.

436. ‘Yes’ is the word of the heart that steps into each moment with arms open wide to love. ‘No’ is the word of the head that steps into each moment with an armour of weaponry ‘just in case’.

     The simplicity and power of our choice and responsibility is to feel our bodies as we walk through each day. Are we leading with our hearts or our heads?

     1. I love that Matilda, the armour of weaponry that we impose upon a body that would otherwise be naturally open and responsive to the world around it.

437. What is incredible is that this load or weight that we carry in our bodies is energy and that when it is felt, seen or recognised and honesty is brought to that fact that this load is not true, it finds a way to exit the body, often as a physical ache, muscle contraction or any other body symptom. It’s incredible how the energy converts to physical and to actually feel this process in action.

     1. Great point matthew As we often hear people say when they resolve an issue “that’s a weight of my shoulders” when they bring honesty to a situation and resolve it. As you are saying we feel the energy what is not true as a weight in our body, a dis-harmony in the physical body which manifests into physical ailments if we choose to hold on to it.

438. “The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again.” – I can relate to this Michael; to the simplicity that comes with honesty and the stillness and joy in that.

     1. Honesty does create space for us to feel the simplicity and stillness from what it brings. When we choose to be dishonest we can often feel a heaviness, dullness and feeling of being constricted. It stunts our ability to expand and learn from every situation where dishonesty is present.

        1. This is very true chanly88. I find it very interesting though that we can know this and feel it palpably in our bodies and yet still chose to be dis-honest.

        2. Yes ,the freedom and clarity that true honesty give us always expands us to the next level.

439. It is an amazing fact to realise and accept that the Universe is forever bringing to us choices in every moment in support of our return to the divine source we are from. There is never a judgement, impatience or anything other than an endless offering of points of learning or evolution, again and again and again, until such time that we have returned to where we came from.

     1. When we see life like that Carolien we realise the enormous love we are held in. We are offered choices at every step and we get to choose in every moment.

        1. yes Victoria and only recently have I come to really see the beauty of this as before it was always distorted to an “I have to or I should” Now it is an “I can and I may” making it easily an “I want to” 🙂

        2. That is a beautiful progression Carolien, from “I have to or I should” to “I can and I may” making it easily an “I want to”. What you have so well described in an easy and ‘gettable’ way is going from Self Love to Establishing Love and thence to Foundational Love.

     2. Yes it is amazing and very beautiful how the Universe supports and nurtures us every step of the way.

440. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – this is something to ponder on Michael and poses the the possibility that we make choices on a level and at a speed that we are not mentally aware of.

     1. It is something to ponder on Carolien – we think we are in control and make choices but often the choice has already been made by the energy we have chosen to align to. It is amazing how I can catch myself doing things or thoughts coming in that I would never dream of.

        1. exactly James, the choice is made before the thought comes into our head. It does completely break the widely adapted idea that we think for ourselves but in fact it is the quality of energy we are in that determines our thoughts.

        2. It is hard to really comprehend and definitely tricky to think about!!! 🙂

     2. I can relate to this Carolien, procrastination is certainly a form of delay and one that often seems to go around and around in circles if we do not choose to follow our pull to take action to what is being presented. Delaying then often leads to anxiety as it accumulates in our body from our choice to delay and feeling our own resistance to evolve.

     3. Carolien, this sentence got me too and I have to admit that I found out that it is true that as soon as I started thinking, checking or evaluating, I have already said “no” . . . wow that is something I have to swallow . . .

        1. I agree Esther and thank you for your comment as it reminded me to really keep feeling into this as the realisation of it is only the first step. Now it is becoming aware of it in my daly life and learning to say yes at every opportunity.

441. Thank you for the way that you have started this blog Michael. This is something that I have been very much aware of in recent weeks, that we wake up exactly how we have gone to bed. If I go to bed with even the slightest thought or anxt about what I have to do or attend to tomorrow, I am guaranteed to wake with that being one of my first thoughts and it is likely to dictate how I get ready that morning – with anxiety. We really do have a lot more power and influence in our lives than we accept.

442. “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.” I experienced this the other day, someone shared something profound at that moment I could feel my body go into reaction, as soon as I recognised that and connected back to the truth that was being shared, I could feel my honesty and truth come out, within moments of sharing everything seemed simple and I felt a lighter feeling in my body. I knew in that moment a beautiful healing had taken place.

443. When we honour our feelings and express them it really allows a freedom a wisdom and an understanding from the honesty however uncomfortable it may be, and ultimately allows a joy and expansion inside.

444. I understand what you write here Michael about that by starting to argue and think and so on about a situation, we already said ‘no’. It is shocking me how much I become occupied and busy with this ‘no’, by not being honest to see and say it like it is and the whole story I have to create around my ‘no’ but not want to take responsibility about my decision. It is like the whole world dilemmas, stories and dramas are based on that!

     1. So well said Sandra! I find that I do this in saying ‘No’ to things that feel true, and ‘Yes’ to things that I’ve already read aren’t true… yet toss it over and over in my mind justifying it… connection to our essence is key – and trusting that initial knowing.

     2. I know this as well Sandra, to protect myself by going into arguing. To see it like this can bring up uncomfortable feelings because there is more awareness of what in truth happens or has happened in the past. But it is a road that’s not easy but worth it to take, as it offers healings of the hurts I have allowed in my life.

445. Honesty creates space because the truth leaves no room for dithering.

     1. I guess also that the space which comes with honesty is because lies and illusions are detracting the energy. If we do not feed the lies, they wither – and leave space.

     2. Is this because truth is absolute and unwavering? No ifs and buts, distractions and complication, just the sweet simplicity of simplicity.

        1. Matilda great comment – truth is simple – if it is not simple – there is no truth – thats it basta!

        2. Gorgeous sharing, Matilda.. “Is this because truth is absolute and unwavering? No ifs and buts, distractions and complication, just the sweet simplicity of simplicity.” Thank you, a great reminder!

446. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” So true Michael.
     At the recent Women In Livingness workshop in Melbourne, Natalie Benhayon presented the power of honesty in relationships, which was the key to avoiding exhaustion, stress ,and later in life diseases which we commonly state as part of getting old.

     1. Yes, agreed Loretta. Honesty frees us from any ideas and expectations of how we should be but also requires us to be super responsible about what’s really going on and why we’re choosing it.

     2. Great comment Lorettarapp, honesty is certainly powerful in assisting us to develop truly loving relationships, and that is with ourselves and with others. I have found when I am being honest with myself I am then naturally honest with others.

     3. This certainly makes a lot of sense. It is exhausting simply considering avoiding honesty or holding back when being True is our natural untainted expression.

        1. Yes Deborah great point… it takes far more energy to hold back than it does to express. Understanding we are vehicles of expression makes sense of this, and what it takes to hold it back is like holding back the flow of a river. It requires an obstacle of some sort, which also takes a force of energy to hold in place. Surrender is the key… to a great deal it would seem.

     4. Playing a role can be so binding and draining, honesty is freeing and spacious.

447. Sandra your words here are just what I needed to hear as I too felt an impulse to go ahead with something and then when the ball started rolling, faster than my head could cope, I too started to pull up. Your words here came back to me.. ‘with the truth that I had already said yes to myself, so creating issues is only a delay. Saying yes and absolutely backing my yes is all I can offer and then let it unfold’ – this is absolute gold for me. Thank-you.

     1. ‘….absolutely backing my yes……’ is the opposite of self-doubt, so it would be worthwhile living this way and getting to know what backing oneself feels like in the body.

448. It amazes me how many thoughts can be there as soon as we open our eyes in the morning – like how quickly we need to get out of bed, and how many things there are to do in our days. Making sure I come back to how my body feels, and honouring that as I start about my movement for the day has been key, as it then allows me to to take this into my day. If I’m unable to do this first thing in the quiet of my room, how am I to sustain it in a busy day at work?

     1. Amelia – what a gorgeous way to start the day. Thoughts can come thick and fast at times so it is really helpful to have techniques and ways to drop into the body, be with how it feels and honour that through our movements. Resting when tired (if possible) is a simple example of this and making our movements gentle and tender is another.

     2. I agree Amelia, it is amazing how many thoughts can be there as soon as we wake up in the morning! But as you say bringing my awareness back to my body helps imprint the way I start my day.

     3. Great point Amelia, observing those thoughts in the morning, our movements and what they represent for us. Feeling our bodies and how we move is such a key way to start the day. I know how off I can feel if I get up rushing around and having to leave the house without having checked in first, the day can unfold in a really different way, from when I am connecting, feeling and choosing thoughts that are supportive and loving.

        1. Great points Amelia, Fiona and Raegan. The body let’s us know our choices in every moment and where we are at.
           Bringing our attention to the body is key at all times of the day, from when we open our eyes in the morning until we close them again at the day’s end.

     4. Great call, Amelia. Exactly, what are the chances if the place from which I am taking myself out into the world is unsettled and dishonouring?

     5. Great question Amelia – ‘ … if I’m unable to do this first thing in the quiet of my room, how am I to sustain it in a busy day at work?’ What comes to mind when I read this is that we have to be willing to do it. There has to be a willingness to put ourselves and our bodies’ first.

     6. This is true and a lovely way to start your day, ‘Making sure I come back to how my body feels, and honouring that as I start about my movement for the day has been key, as it then allows me to to take this into my day. If I’m unable to do this first thing in the quiet of my room, how am I to sustain it in a busy day at work?’

     7. Great point Amelia. I need to move my body and go for a walk now!

449. Michael I really love this blog! Simple and clear. I especially love these words of yours ” Honesty creates space and frees us from a role”. I haven’t really considered that not being honest was playing a role, but I can clearly see this now!

     1. Yes an interesting realisation Roslyn, but I can see that it must be that way. If we are true to ourselves, which is what honesty brings us back to, then we are also stepping out of playing a role. So simple really…

450. Sleep is strange. Yesterday I slept an hour longer than normal and was tired all day. Today I woke up with a headache and feeling slightly nauseous an hour earlier than normal but got up anyway. A few hours later I feel much better.

     1. Yes Christoph, there is far more to sleep than the ‘8 hours’ we’ve been led to believe is needed. The quality, the time of sleep, what happened in our day prior, what time of the month it is in relation to the moon… all have an impact. There is so much more to us and life that influences the functional workings of the body… and we are a fascinating study in relation to all these influences, IF we care to pay close enough attention.

        1. That is true Jenny. In addition the purpose of the day seems to be very important. If there are things to do, it is much easier to get up early.

        2. Yes Christoph, I know many subscribe to getting things done late into the night but the price we pay the next day is not worth it. To get up earlier and get the same amount done with no ill effect is far more in line with the body’s natural rhythm for work and rest.

        3. I agree Jenny and Christoph… there is more to sleep than most people realise. I know for example, if I go to bed early now and get up early the next day, I get a lot more done during the day and my day flows and sometimes I even have time let over to do other things…. or just have time for me.
           I know when I am in this quality of being, I can handle whatever comes my way because of the quality I am in…. with myself.
           But when I go to bed late, I wake up forcing every move I have to make and sometimes I can feel like my head isn’t even on my shoulders. With this quality I don’t feel like I am getting anywhere and I’m forever chasing my tail throughout the day to get things done

        4. Yes Jody, it can be a vastly different feeling going about a day with poor quality sleep, one where we are usually pushing to get through any way we can. In stark contrast to the flow, enjoyment and supportive contribution we are more likely to make when we have slept very well and feel great. Everything is affected by this… the quality of our own movements, the quality of relationships, our work output… everything.

        5. The science of sleep is a science needed to be taught from young – for us each to understand cycles, study our body’s rhythm and know its every way, for sleep supports our body throughout each and every day and not simply at rest. Sleep can be a confirmation and surrender in which the body deeply heals, replenishes and evolves by virtue of the quality of energy we live during the day prior as to it can be a continuation of frenzy, anxiety and activity, draining us further whilst we sleep.

        6. Exactly Deborah, there is so much more to sleep than the ‘8 hours’ we are told is what we need. The timing of it and the quality we go to sleep in are crucial aspects that determine whether the depth of sleep offers true rejuvenation and evolution, or whether it is merely an anatomical shutdown. The fact our physiology can be very active while we sleep and the hindrance this creates for sleep to be deeply healing, is not understood at all.

        7. Very beautiful and nurturing Jenny.

451. Yesterday I had a great moment of awareness as I was saying yes to what is required in service. When some detail presented on ‘time’ I started to pull the hand brake on which is the same as starting to work it all out in my head and how I would get it done. I came back to me with the truth that I had already said yes to myself, so creating issues is only a delay. Saying yes and absolutely backing my yes is all I can offer and then let it unfold.

     1. Thank you Sandra for reminding me the importance of holding the truth we already know in our body and not allow negative thoughts to get in the way or create issues to delay what needs to be done.

     2. Sandra what you have written is really amazing. Realising how my working things out takes up so much time and space. It feels true to come back to what feels true in my body and to keep coming back when I get ahead of myself. So coming back to my body and using my mind as a tool for what is next.

     3. Ahhh I know this one so well Sandra! Making something about ‘time’ is so much the same as bringing in a reason why not to do something. When we just say ‘yes’ and let it unfold, magic happens!

452. I keep coming back to this blog, and having something to say. Today I am feeling how beautifully you illustrate Michael that honesty is needed first to admit there actually is an issue, then second to know and see that in that there is something we are choosing that is causing this issue to be. Gradually I am finding this honesty stuff is cutting through the toleration I have chosen in my life.

     1. “the toleration I have chosen in my life” – revelation! What I deem is normal flies under the radar of what needs to be changed in my life. With honesty I get to the issue that otherwise hides in the pond of unawareness.

        1. That is also my experience as well felixschumacher 8 – the normal did not hurt as it is so normal and so – it flies under the radar. It is true that honesty is important but I have to admit that I also needed a reflection from a good friend to unmask this evil of normal.

        2. Very well said Felix – ‘With honesty I get to the issue that otherwise hides in the pond of unawareness.’

        3. Deborah thanks for highlighting that beautiful line from Felix ‘With honesty I get to the issue that otherwise hides in the pond of unawareness.’ It caused me to wonder how the collective God that we all are is able to constantly pretend that he doesn’t know what’s going on. We are each an ‘all seeing, all knowing aspect of God and yet we blunder around for lifetimes, professing to not know what’s going on. It has to be the biggest con job known to man! The entire world’s population (except a very few) all convincing themselves and others that they ‘don’t know’. It’s absurd! It’s time to pull the plug.

        4. We will never be asked to be more if we play less, dumb down and contract from the greatness we are. The questions must surely arise – Why are we contracting away from the Grandness we are en masse in Humanity? and who are we really fooling? for each of us is playing the same game with full awareness of the greater game at play. Whilst we partake in this charade we enable it for others, we confirm the false light and never do we reflect the Truth of God we are of.

        5. Deborah you have managed to expand and condense the subject all in the one go! That’s masterful expression!

        6. Ahaha, Alexis! To pull the plug of the pond of unawareness – that’s hilarious. And we can not wait for someone to come along and pull it for us, we can be reminded that there is a plug and then choose to do it. Each one of us. (having support from the plug-puller-club)

     2. Indeed honesty is needed first to see what is going on. I am exploring immediate honesty when I feel in the moment I am dropping into hardness expressed in my words. Just by honesty saying ‘I said this with hardness’ it brings back the connection with myself and the person in front of me. Then it gives me insight where it is all about and I am connected again to my tenderness.

453. When we honour our feelings and express with honesty what we feel, magic happens

     1. Spot on Carmel… who ever would have thought this was the formula for Magic!

     2. He he Carmel… I just commented something very similar 🙂

     3. Knowing that magic happens when we honour our feelings and express with honesty what we feel – makes perfect sense, yes? Quite simple really! But, oh no, we have to make it complicated and difficult – and then we get bamboozled along the way and forget all about the magic.

     4. It certainly does Carmel, as we are with universal law and not working against it. How beautiful and simple.

454. This is a great blog to keep reading to feel what is needed to heal that what holds us back, the honesty is needed to see that there are things that are challenging, but that there in truth is nothing we can’t handle when we hold our selves in love.

     1. Honesty and accountability for or hurts frees us to heal and not be driven by the pain of unresolved hurts.

        1. Being honest about the hurts we carry seems like it could be a very challenging hill to climb, but each time I have been willing to be honest, the hurts begin to dissolve, and a fresher way of being is apparent.

        2. Being honest about our hurts sometimes is takes time. for me getting to the place where I am willing to acknowledge the truth, not deliberately but sometimes I struggle to even get to the truth of some of my deep deep feelings and hurts.

        3. Being honest about our hurts sometimes is takes time. for me getting to the place where I am willing to acknowledge the truth, not deliberately but sometimes I struggle to even get to the truth of some of my deep deep feelings and hurts.

     2. This is so true Benkt, holding ourselves in love is crucial for when the real ugly stuff comes up, and like you have stated there’s nothing we can’t handle.

     3. Absolutely. No matter how difficult something seems at the time, if we have truth and love as our basis, the outcome is assured to be one of both truth and love.

        1. Lee that pure magic right there ‘No matter how difficult something seems at the time, if we have truth and love as our basis, the outcome is assured to be one of both truth and love’.

455. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” Great line Michael, honesty does create the space for us to be more of who we are. The roles we play are simply a protection, a mask or hat we can put on and off, depending on how we feel. But with honesty, being transparent and upfront, the need to play a role, does melt away.

     1. There is ease and spaciousness with Honesty and a great deal of acceptance.
        To play roles is to deceive ourselves and another, to hold something back, to deny, avoid and delay – we short change ourselves with regards to true relationships, integrity, spaciousness and evolution.

     2. Absolutely raegankcairney. There is such a freedom with honesty, responsibility comes with this, but we no longer have to pretend to be someone or something we are not. It takes much more energy to maintain a false facade than it does to live in honesty. This may be part of the reason why exhaustion is so common these days.

        1. I agree Lee, I think we are literally ‘sick to the back teeth’ of pretending to be something that we are not. The medicine we need to start our recovery is honesty.

456. I absolutely agree Rosanna, it is awesome to find that our underlying fears and expectations have no grounding and what has been tying us down can be our own ideals and beliefs made up from our hurts in the first place. Something that we can labour over or heal and then celebrate.

     1. Whats been tying us down makes the body move in a certain way, so then being responsible is to feel the quality of that movement and if it’s not pleasant – change it. So simple and I know it and have been implementing this into my life more now but the buzz from being irresponsible has had a firm hold. Letting go is not a once off process but a continuous thing in life.

        1. Yes it certainly is , well said Leigh ‘Letting go is not a once off process but a continuous thing in life’.

457. I’ve found by being honest in a particular circumstance or encounter, is an opportunity to go deeper and ‘lighten the load’ that I have been carrying in my body for what could be years, even lifetimes. Getting to the underlying truth of a reaction is hugely healing, and makes space for us to be more of who we are.

     1. It takes a lot of courage to be honest to the bone as it can be very uncomfortable and confronting to admit how we really feel in some situations.

        1. When I am very honest with myself and feel what is there, I can feel raw and naked but it always brings me back to what I had left behind and exchanged for knowledge and or emotions.

        2. Yes agreed Abby, it does take a lot of courage… the pay-off however is beyond anything we imagine. Not only do we grow enormously from it, but everyone else around is given permission to be honest with themselves too.

        3. I once called that also courage (what is needed to be honest) but now I realized for me that it is: ‘not to give up on love’. This is just the choice to take responsibility again. The responsibility I carry by being love and now live & express it again.

        4. Annelies, I know what you mean, the fragility and delicateness is something I have not been used to letting myself feel but I know when I feel it that this is very natural, and a lovely way to know myself.

        5. Agree Abby, and this explains the reason many of us have developed extremely good relationships with patterns and behaviours to manage life so we get by and don’t feel all there is to be felt.

        6. I love reading everyone’s comments about being honest. To give myself permission to be super honest with myself feels like I am there for myself 100%- so I no longer seek acceptance from outside. Being dishonest within oneself creates such a distrust that affects every relationship we have – a disconnect between ourselves, with others. When what we could have chosen was honesty that brings love and a beautiful humbleness that graces ourselves and everyone we meet. No more putting on a show, which is exhausting.

        7. Yes, Abby, it does take courage to be honest to the bone, but once we have been honest, what an amazing relief results. Truth is such an important word, and if we are honest, then we are being truth-full with ourselves. This is how we evolve in our lives and how we grow, we stifle our growth if we are not honest with ourselves and with others.

        8. What you have shared Sandra, resonates deeply in me. It is simply not giving up on love.

        9. I agree Abby, it can and does take a lot of courage to admit to ourselves let alone others what we feel. And to others well we have to take into account how we may think they may react, or treat us. It is crazy as we can all feel everything even if we do not always put words to our feelings!

        10. So true Abby; it is that uncomfortable-ness and the fear of the confrontation that holds us back from expressing honestly, but all the meanwhile we suffer in one way or another for our silence.

        11. When I am honest to the bone I can feel very fragile. It is learning to know that this is actually a very necessary and powerful step.

        12. I agree Sandra that this calls us to responsibility more so than courage.
            We squirm to admit the loveless life we have created, the choices made that have harmed another, how we have given up on Love and ourselves – an uncomfortable truth to digest for most. To bring honesty to our lives is not difficult and we could each do this in a flash – it is our willingness to take responsibility and to feel our past choices that is in question.

        13. That’s true Abby it does take courage to be honest to the bone. We are never presented with more than we can handle so really why wouldn’t we want to go through the process of getting to truth, nothing feels worse than living with the lies we have created. I have discovered it is not the truth that hurts me, when I get to the truth of the lies I have created as a result of the underlying hurts I hold onto, it is very freeing to feel the hurts disintegrate and loving warmth of truth surface through my body and emanate through my expression.

        14. I agree Margaret ‘nothing feels worse than living with the lies we have created’ and yet we seem to have a propensity to hold back on the truth. When we are supported to see the truth the feeling of expansiveness and connection back to our essence is more beautiful than we would have imagined – to be at one with ourselves and to trust is heavenly.

        15. That is a beautiful comment Susan “When we are supported to see the truth the feeling of expansiveness and connection back to our essence is more beautiful than we would have imagined – to be at one with ourselves and to trust is heavenly.” Absolutely heavenly the expansiveness of our expression emanating our true love supports brotherhood to express love pulling as we lift one another to a deeper and deeper level of love.

        16. Yes Abby, Living that deeper level of love can be confronting and yet it is much more exhausting to keep the tension we create by not being honest at bay.

        17. So true Abby. It is often very exposing for everyone involved and there needs to be a commitment to being honest and not stepping back from this depth of honesty if we are feeling exposed.

        18. Yes, very true Abby, it does take courage and it can be uncomfortable, to truly fee the honesty of a situation we have held ourselves in. I hear exactly what you are saying.

     2. Absolutely agree Rosann – our honesty is leading us the way, which is the most loving act on earth.

     3. I find that when I am honest, it creates a sense of space in my body that feels amazing. When I am trying to hide something or protect a pattern or way of being, I feel this in my body as a contraction. I now deeply value what that spaciousness feels like and find it so much easier to simply be honest enjoying all that this brings.

        1. Your description of how each feels really does reveal what hard work it is to continue holding onto our self-crafted blinkers.

        2. I agree Donna. I find that when I am honest, no matter what is being exposed or how difficult it feels, there is a basis of truth which is solid and unwavering that supports me.

     4. I agree Rosanna – it is like lightening the load, allowing ourselves to just be who we are.

     5. Agreed Rosanna. It is so freeing to be able to be honest with ourselves and get to the truth of an issue. Allowing vulnerability is powerful.

        1. I love the ordinarily-perceived contradiction in these two juxtaposed words Annie, but in truth, Vulnerability IS powerful, it can bring huge change.

458. “Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.” Although this is true to me I am not always able to live this and that understanding reveals to me that I am subject to energy and how I go about with those energies i.e. what I choose in life.

459. Michael, I love what you are saying about that initial feeling being a yes or no. I have wasted lots of time in angst and deliberation pretending I was evaluating the situation when really I was getting nowhere because I was only really trying to justify my procrastination and defend my comfortable way. I must pay more attention to that initial feeling.

460. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.” I’ve had this experience too Michael and been totally surprised at the lack of reaction from another and have also noted this when observing others interacting and predicting a reaction to what’s been presented and been interested to see that not only has there been no reaction but instead understanding been brought to it. This has been very healing for me in that I’m taking note and wondering where this expectation/belief of mine comes from that when I or another speak honestly about something that it always has to lead to a reaction.

461. This blog is so stilling and beautiful. What I am getting is that being honest doesn’t involve a confession, there is no needs for heavy handedness, it is simply about accepting the reality of what is going on and how I am experiencing it. It is a starting position for unfolding onto the truth.

462. It’s so true that we avoid the hurt because we believe it to be too painful. But yes, if we create the time to stop and feel it, it very often is not as huge as we think it is, and it takes less energy than trying to avoid it.

463. Michael I remember always hearing adults saying that your childhood years are the best years of you life, I never understood this as I really hated school and the control I felt being part of a catholic bordering environment, yet reading this one lines brings some clarity to me “The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day”. To me I can now start to feel where the words of the adults were coming from, perhaps not simply in what we did as children that mattered here but instead the fact that as children for many of us at one or other points life felt simple, we were not anxious about what tomorrow brought. Perhaps we look back at our young childhood and miss that simplicity we had, that lack of armour we often now carry. Yet as you point out, the world is still as simple as we felt it as children – we’ve just changed how we are in the world.

     1. Beautiful David, that is exactly how I feel about it too. My remembering though, for having a simple life without any sorrow, goes even back to the time before I went to school as my experience from school is that I felt I had to compromise myself to fit into the system that we as a society have created, as a comfortable place for us all to live in, and anything other that that was not appreciated. And this walking away from myself has created a complexity in my life that was not there before and I am now working on my return to this way of living as it is more natural to me than the obeying to the demands of society has brought me so far.

464. Awareness – honesty – truth. We become aware of a pattern in our life. We get honest about why it is there. And so the truth is revealed, the more deeply honest we get. A simple process, but one easily bastardised by all the complications we create. “I drink coffee and I notice it makes me tired.” – awareness. “I am permanently exhausted.” – honesty. “I do not live according to my true rhythm, but rather allow myself to live according to a rhythm that is not mine.” – truth.

     Yet if one was to jump straight to the truth, or even the honesty part of this, it would have no effect on our lives. We need to feel the consequences of our actions – from the body – which is why developing awareness is so important. And we need to clearly be able to nominate what lies underneath our choices, before we can arrive at the truth, so that we can stop the complications and stories that get in the way. Otherwise the truth is just empty words that have no foundation in the reality of life. Anyone can say “be love”. To live according to the truth of this simple edict is a completely different thing.

465. I’ve realized the purpose of anxiousness is to keep me from confirming and delivering what I innately know to be true. It’s just a decoy and knowing that is its job is great to observe.

466. As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no”. Great to read these words Michael as I hadn’t always wanted to know this truth and have overridden how my body felt and gone with my head. You’ve nailed it and I definitely felt it. Thank-you.

467. If we are really honest we will see that we are deeply beautiful beings, designed to be truthful. It is not a rarity or a singular moment but a way of living so natural to you and me. Thank you Michael, for providing this opportunity to feel this in me.

468. Michael you describe a clear and important difference between every moment leading to the next with a foundation that is solid which allows us to act immediately when we understand the choice presented to us, or the lack of foundation where we may not see that choice or vacillate and analyse around it. That foundation of being present and honest with each precious moment is based on our acceptance of who we are and what life is truly about. This would not have become a living reality for me, albeit a work in progress, without the work of Serge Benhayon.

469. You mention food and the tension we hold from not giving in to a craving. I find that the tension of holding myself in denial is often worse that just eating whatever it is but not discounting why I have had the impulse in the first place. Now, I just wait a moment before jumping right in there and ask myself where the impulse is coming from. Am I really hungry or am I thirsty or even anxious? Often, all too often in fact, it is one of the latter and if I can address that in that very moment then the urge to eat that particular thing, which my body will not thank me for, goes away.

470. I found by choosing to express honestly how much I am ‘normally’ involved in ideas and pattern of how it is ‘OK’ to express with each other. Now, by expressing honestly it is like I leave the agreements we have with each other how we be with each other. So I do not ‘just’ change me, but also my relationships. So my change will have an influence on others and I guess it is what we sometimes shy away from – our power and responsibility.

471. We always say YES to a choice. We either say yes to a loving choice or we say yes to an unloving choice. We don’t actually ever not make a choice because to choose to not be love or to choose to not listen to the truth we know is a choice.

     1. And we may try to run away from our responsibility here by blaming others, blaming circumstances, checking out of our body with the mind thinking of something in future or mourning/indulging in old story’s till we get ill; because our body can not not reflect our choices, because our body has to live them.

        1. Yes, and also by avoiding the honesty that we have made a choice and continue to make choices each moment and everything that happens or does not happen is always a consequence of our choices.

472. I also notice a deep sense of surrender or acknowledgement of that which I know and have known all along to be right for me.

473. I love what you share about honesty Michael and how easy it can actually be to incorporate it into our daily living, supporting further the ease and simplicity in which we can live. You are right though that many a times to choose honesty equally is a presentation of uncovering or exposing an old hurt and so we need to develop a relationship with this too, a way that we feel held and supported to deal with the hurts and renounce them as being a part of who we truly are.

474. Returning to the lightness we felt as children, by being spontaneously honest, holds a beautiful clearness. We just need to let go of the comfort of complication.

     1. The lightness and simplicity we experienced as children comes with a yearning from so many people who wish to experience this again! What this blog teaches us is the possibility and opportunity that is endlessly available to support us to be and live this way again, after all, we know it inside out if we have already lived it as children so it’s just a matter of choice and bridging the gap between now and then.

475. Michael this is beautiful and a real inspiration Thank you .The space created by honesty is an amazing confirmation of who we are, all we know and the power we hold with in us.

476. Michael continued thanks for your blog. I found it is with me during the day – the super simplicity of saying yes or no is so freeing and supportive. It offers more space for whatever is next. Choosing neither has been a complicated path of the past with all sorts of side-affects.

477. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” ” It’s true that if we come out of the moment and get mental about things we lose our ability to feel what is true.

478. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.” I know this feeling so very well. Yet to date the world has never exploded and the strength I feel inside when I express what I truly feel provides an incredible support for me to do it again.

479. ‘The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.’ I am amazed at how quickly those thoughts can still come in behind my first feelings, trying to stop me in my tracks. I used to be easily influenced but more and more now I am onto what is happening and as you share when we choose to act on our first feeling I find everything flows.

480. I love how you say Michael, that there is a feeling that the world will explode if you choose to express what you feel – and yet when you do the opposite is the case and you actually experience a release of the tension. I have spent a long time in my life being very fearful of expressing myself, with this feeling that something terrible will happen only to discover that actually expressing truth is a joy-full thing to do. It has been a true revelation in my life. My feeling is that we innately understand the power of expressing ourselves and don’t like the responsibility it brings. The fact is that we cannot avoid it because whether we like it or not, we are constantly expressing ourselves – even when we think we are not – and so the only choice is of what and how to express – the beauty of being honest, or the uncertainty that brings delay.

481. Wonderful blog Michael Kremer, thank you – and judging by how I feel, it is exposing much in me too. I can so relate to the sense of knowing exactly what to do and then just checking in with ‘what the alternatives are’ to make sure I’m not making a mistake…creating delay as you say. Delay that has been a way of life. There is work to be done!

482. Recently a friend shared her response to that thought of “I don’t know if this is the right decision” which often has me sit on the fence and fret for ages. Her response was a simple “well just decide and you will soon find out! And then you will be free to make other decisions.” The honouring and honesty allowed by choosing this instead is huge.

     1. Absolutely Golnaz – discovering this has meant I give permission to be me.

     2. “well just decide and you will soon find out! And then you will be free to make other decisions.” ….. so true, love it! Reading this, I can feel how my indecision is sometimes just my resistance to claiming what I know is the true choice for me to make, so, I’m actually resisting myself, ouch.

     3. Great timing for me to read this comment Golnaz – a reminder that there are no mistakes -only learning and at the same time appreciating the simplicity of the honesty your friend brought to you.

483. Hi Michael, great blog, I enjoyed reading it a lot. I like the practical examples you shared about food and the crucial importance of not beating ourselves up, but being honest and open to learn from an experience.

484. I agree Michael – how we live day to day builds a foundation, which will be there for us when we meet situations that are more challenging. The quality of the foundation that we build is up to us and the choices that we make.

485. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” Thank you Michael, I find this to be so true especially as a man if I am truly honest then I can let go of the images I am holding onto on how I want to be perceived by the world creating burdens and anxiousness in my body and actually give myself permission to be just be the self-loving, playful and tender me.

     1. This is beautiful Francisco, honesty supports us to be ourselves in a world where we most commonly feel bombarded by pictures and impositions of how we should be. Honesty also guides our understanding and ability to read whatever is going on in the world or around us and see it with a full view to bringing clarity and ease there too. The more honesty we embrace the more truth we arrive at and the quicker we get there without taking the ‘detours’ as Michael has shared.

486. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – though this will not mean that we will not meet this situation again in a similar or different form – especially if it is something very profound for us to learn.” I agree if there is something to learn it will differently arise again, often in a different form or situation, until we have learnt what we have meant to learn. I truly believe every moment is a learning opportunity.

487. Thank you for the inspiration Michael, to be honest with myself and rediscover the lightness of life through playfulness and curiosity.

488. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.”

     Amazing pearls of wisdom here. The difficulty is actually the learning and when we embrace it as such, it opens up new areas of strength for ourselves.

489. Eating not to feel is a big one for many of us. It requires giving ourselves a lot of support to maintain presence and taking pauses, resting in the day rather than using food or drink as a go-to whenever energy begins to flag.

490. I was on the edge of my seat when I read about your observation of the moment we are presented with a choice, that we get one chance to decide in that instant!
     This is true, so often I will override that moment and delay it, and yet it is calling me to be super present and feel, right there and then, what I am to do. As I write this now, I am feeling the opportunity this gives us to experience space rather time. This is a key to life!

491. I really love your blog Michael. I love your observations. It is very timely for me to read about your experiences of honesty with yourself as I am going through a process of surrender to my honest observations and feelings in a way that I have been resisting for some time now. But the resistance just creates complication and takes me further away from who I am and shuts out the people around me. I am finding that if I can be honest and respond accordingly, as you say, then things shift and clear quite quickly, life becomes simpler. I am finding regular chakra puncture sessions an enormous support to this.

492. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” Honesty does indeed drop all the layers and masks of the roles we have taken on that aren’t true, and brings us back to the truth of who we are.

493. Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role. Yes, this is so true Michael, as when I can just be honest about how I feel, it really keeps things simple and much more allowing of how I am feeling and there is no need for anything other than what I am actually experiencing to be expressed as it feels enough.

     1. Honestly allows us to express openly with no barriers and connect back to who we truly are. When we are open and honest there is a lightness felt within the body, there is no having to be a particular way.

494. ‘.. honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them, the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.’
     Yes Michael – in every moment, so that our body feels the configuration of truth and that becomes our normal.

495. I agree from my bones Michael “Very often what we want to avoid is the pain of old hurts. Avoiding them means that we will not have to be honest and take the necessary steps to heal them – steps that might often seem quite big and uncomfortable at first.” Yes it often seems insurmountable, this hurt – and by trying to bury it deeper into me instead of letting it out, taking responsibility about and heal it, I feed it and it becomes more ugly by and by… to face our hurts and heal them is so liberating at the end and at the beginning we need …Tataaa: Honesty.

496. It is never too late to make a decision, nor look at something differently. The only issue is that if we do not act honestly in accordance to what we truly feel in any given moment, is that we then bury what we feel, which then leads to complications. e.g. we do not admit that we are hurt by something that happens at work. We then go home with the unresolved tension of that, and end up having an argument with our partner. Then we think we are upset with our partner, when no, we are upset with what happened at work. But because we were not honest about that in the moment it happened, we now need to deal with the complication of the argument we have just had with our partner. Thus it is now harder to backtrack to what is really going on for us.

     1. Reading this is hilarious in a way, how we simply cannot get away with anything, it will literally haunt us, but we keep convincing ourselves that all will be okay, once we get home, once we had a good rest, once we are on holidays, etc. etc. We think we can ‘wish’ things away even though we know very well that this is not how it works.

        1. I like your point a lot Judith. This is true, we try to hide it away or play the card that ‘time heals all wounds’ but it is far from the truth indeed.

     2. ‘The only issue is that if we do not act honestly in accordance to what we truly feel in any given moment, is that we then bury what we feel, which then leads to complications.’ …. thank you Adam, love what you share here. I can feel how very true this is ….. just yesterday I found myself reacting to someone, reading your words this morning I know that the truth of the situation was that I had made some unloving choices during the day. Rather than allowing myself to go deeper with this, in the moment I acknowledged what I was doing, to explore the hurt that was impulsing me to make these choices, I instead chose to feel disappointed in myself and I was looking for someone else to blame, hence my reaction.

     3. A super important point Adam – we get lost or make things really complicated beacuse we were not honest about the initial feeling or issue.

497. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – though this will not mean that we will not meet this situation again in a similar or different form – especially if it is something very profound for us to learn.” Wise words and a great marker for us to recognise when we go into this pattern. Of course as you say Michael, the situation will arise again and again until the lesson is learnt.

498. Yes Ariana – it’s the side benders that get themselves into all sorts of trouble whereas the straight arrows stand solid and tall – nothing to hide, no facade.

499. I have made the same experience, that in being honest tension fades away and when I then act this way, my body gets spacious and light. It simplifies my life.

     1. This is deeply beautiful Kerstin. I love the way you have brought ‘simplicity’ to the fore as the divine benefit of being honest. You are so right. The tension of having to be ‘right’ or ‘perfect’ or ‘hidden’ or whatever, makes for complication which only multiplies and complexifies. Let’s keep honest and simple and let that light shine through.

500. Michael, my experience has been that whenever I mastered a certain type of decision making a new, deeper kind of decision making presented itself. For example multiple choices at once, or choices where each one was good or choices where there was no impulse, because nothing needed doing or there was no impulse because I didn’t understand the choice that presented itself and had to learn that aspect….
     It goes on and on and is a great journey of discovery.

     1. Yes Christoph, it took me quite a while to accept that there would be no point where I would “finally get everything done”. I struggled a good deal with it until I understood from deep within that only what goes on is alive and vital.

        1. Yes, we can never go to sleep ‘for a while – a year, a decade, a smidgen longer’. There is always more.

     2. Good point Christoph – and important to appreciate the journey – the gentle unfoldment is a thing of great beauty.

501. The beauty of being honest is that it brings a freedom to life that cannot be experienced while we are choosing not to be honest. The moments when I manage to be totally honest about something I feel an amazing freedom in my body and a joy from within. The alternative is to create a prison of blame and judgement which feels like poison in my body.

502. Honesty is such a vital and yet underestimated ingredient to a fulfilling life. How many of us are prepared to be honest with ourselves and each other all the time? Things become so clear and simple when we are honest as opposed to the murky grey cloud of dishonesty which can obscure the truth and make it more difficult to find.

     1. Yes Andrew, honesty is a key ingredient for a recipe to deepen our relationship with ourselves and all others.

     2. There is a great value in honesty as a vital stepping stone to Truth, but we need to be very clear and honest about honesty and say that it is not true and even with honesty there will always be the tension of Truth calling.

503. I can totally relate to the feeling of “what will happen if I am really honest and express how I feel in full?” Will the world explode? Will people explode? Will I explode?! And yet I agree with your observation Michael that I am much more likely to explode due to the tension of NOT being honest than I am from being honest.

     1. If I am not honest, I will first implode and then explode towards others to distract from me from the hurt I felt inside me.

504. This is a lovely simple blog Michael thank you I can feel that you really do live what you are talking about here and as a result it comes with a power and a healing quality for me that is way beyond some good advice or wise words.

505. Michael there are many many pieces of gold in your article and each has given me inspiration and space to deepen the honestly I have with myself. Thank you

506. Micahel, I really enjoy reading your blogs, this stood out for me this time, ‘The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.’ I can feel how absolutely true this is, and have felt how at ease I am if I choose instantly, I have thought of myself as indecisive in the past but what I can feel is that it was because I went into my head and started to work out what was the best thing to do rather than simply choosing instantly.

507. A great sharing Michael, …”If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away…” and in honesty, the body doesn’t take on any form or movement in guard or protection. A great way to live

     1. I agree Johanne – dishonesty always felt like being in hiding and an attempt to provide protection but in fact only caused more unease and hurt. The freedom in simply being honest can be felt deeply and throughout our bodies.

508. “The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve” indeed it is, and what an amazing opportunity we have to approach life in a way not to seek perfection but our own evolution to who we truly are. Thanks Michael

509. Letting yourself be guided by how you feel, this is certainly the key Michael. As you have highlighted we all have an innate knowing which clearly gives us a “yes” or a “no”. It is then up to us as to how we respond; keep it simple by following the “yes” or bring in complication by denying the initial impulse, the choice is always ours.

     1. Yes I agree being honest seems very linked to honouring our awareness of what we are feeling in any moment and not over-riding it.

510. Just reading your words today Michael brought a new honesty to how I woke, got up, came to work and the very quality I sit here now in, writing these words. Thank you for inspiring me to know and see that I can actually have this honesty all the time.

     1. Your words Joseph, the words of so many who have commented, how I feel when I read this blog – all a ginormous testimony to the power of honesty….AND huge proof of the fact that humanity is craving this type of tender expression.

511. What strikes me today when reading your contribution again is the confirmation of the fact that we do know straight away whether it is a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ but that the mind then kicks in with all its arguments of why the ‘yes’ should be ‘no’ and the ‘no’ should be ‘yes’. And that, as you go on to describe, creates a huge amount of complication in our lives.

512. ‘just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out’. This is so beautiful Michael. This is my path of return and how I will live in full one day…. not too far away.

513. Michael It sounds so inspiring that you have rediscovered that “… the world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow” To many people this would seem like a fairy tale, but you are showing us all that Joy is a real thing, an attainable thing and not as difficult as we have convinced ourselves to believe.

     1. I agree there is a real joy in the way Michael has written these words and I know I can often feel hurt or down about how the world is and how humanity treats each other so to hear someone express how they feel about the world in this way is very refreshing and very real.

        1. Refreshing, real very optimistic in a world that so often reflects doom, gloom and hopelessness. It’s grand.

        2. It is indeed Jeanette – Grand, like a piano!

514. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease,” This is a great awareness Michael, thank you. When I read this I can feel the invitation of the simplicity of ease that choosing instantly offers. I can also feel the pull to make things complicated. As you offer the only benefit of saying no is to delay in being all of me.

515. There is so much truth in this line Michael, As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” this is so true, once we have that split second of thought, energies can take us away from our own knowing and we lose trust and doubt what we first felt.

516. Michael, I really enjoyed reading this, ‘As honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them, the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.’ I have noticed that lately I am being much more honest and how simple and lovely this feels, Im not going into my head and trying to work out what to say like I used to, I’m just saying what I feel, I am finding that this comes across much more clearly and understandably and leaves me feeling great for having expressed honestly and truthfully.

517. Thank you Michael , just reading this blog has opened up more space in my body.
     Self -love and honesty is something I have most recently nominated in my life and just by nominating these two beautiful word – it has opened more space in my body and my expression and it does feel heavenly.

518. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.” I love this line and the awareness this brings me of that some really challenging moments are actually opportunities to heal hurts and let go off behaviours that I don’t like to have.

519. I know the feeling you describe of waking up in the exact same feel as how going to bed. I find it really interesting how the choices we make during the day affects how we sleep and then how we wake up. I can really say this is true and feel inspired to be more aware of my choices during the day and which support me and which not.

     1. Me too Lieke – I feel the power of consequence and responsibility in knowing that all my choices throughout the day will be not only be there to feel but also dictate the quality of my next steps.

520. This is a wonderful blog Michael, to think that we just need to be love and honest at all times, remembering we all come from Love. This is a blog that should read by all, what a difference this would make to our world.

521. Learning to let go and not use anxiousness to stop me from taking responsibility and doing things, really brings so much more enjoyment and lightness into situations. Instead of the usual mind talk and nervous tension flying around in my body, being honest and staying with that feeling is so much more gentle and uncomplicated.

522. Starting to be super honest with myself has actually begun to simplify my life and allowed me to make changes with ease rather than struggle. Essential ingredient to being more loving.

     1. When we become honest with ourselves, we do not have to play games with ourselves anymore and just can decide for or against something, which indeed makes life amazingly easy.

523. ‘As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no”’ , Michael, as a direct result of reading your article I incorporated this understanding into my day today, so thank you.

524. how lovely that you are able to find the value of honesty, and implementing it so readily. I am so glad to be learning this simply and steadily. The benefits far outweigh the initial tentativeness.

     1. The tentativeness of honesty can be that we will have to see thongs about ourselves that we really don’t want to, but in fact it is the opposite, we can slowly start to see things that we have that don’t honour the precious being we are.

525. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no”” – so true and very wise words that hit the nail on the head; once we start thinking, checking or evaluating it is mainly to justify something that cannot be justified because the answer is “no” and was “no” from the beginning, in all honesty.

526. Michael it is beautiful to revisit this and confirm all you are offering . Standing by my first impulse really does feel true and simplifies life and stops the anxiety of the what to do turmoil, I love it. It takes a trust and honesty with oneself and this is something that takes building and living.

527. So often we think we can’t say something for fear of the reaction that would come back, but this is so often an imagined reaction which, in the circumstance and in the way I present the truth, may never even happen. All I can do is to check I am not in reaction first and say what needs to be said, and then, as you say Michael “only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.”

     1. ‘So often we think we can’t say something for fear of the reaction that would come back, but this is so often an imagined reaction which, in the circumstance and in the way I present the truth, may never even happen.’ ….. spot on Rosanna. I feel this ‘fear of how another will react’ can be a cop out for us not wanting to fully claim what is there to be shared. When we do claim the truth and share, with love, any reaction is something for the other person to learn from and it is, in fact, a gift to have that opportunity.

        1. I know that when I have reacted to a person or a situation, that there is something to be learned from it, and an honesty to be had. Catching reactions and learning from them has fostered more understanding and less judgement of myself and others.

        2. Totally Rosanna. A reaction flags that the next step is to be honest about it and go beneath to see what it is masking. Once we know how useful reactions are in signalling that there is a hurt to be cleared, we no longer use them as an indulgence or imagine that they have any validity as a way of life to make us feel as if we are ‘alive’. True livingness is found when the hurts are cleared.

528. ‘The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself’. In this way Michael we’re moved to feel, not think our way to a choice. I’m learning to apply this more and more in my own life.

529. “The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow.” What a beautiful way to describe our world, Michael. But it is up to us to live this way, to be prepared to nurture ourselves and evolve. It is our responsibility, that big word again, RESPONSIBILITY. We need to take every opportunity to connect with ourselves and with others and be willing to look deeply into why we sometimes avoid dealing with issues that are a blockage to our evolving. And the big one, be able to say yes, when something big is presented that means we have to step up and be willing to make the choice to face challenges that are put to us that will help us evolve ever more. When we do that, we need to then trust that we have all we need within us to handle whatever situation presents.

530. Being honest is a self-loving act, one that reflects true love in action.

531. Michael this is a great blog and one that every person will be able to relate to in some way or another. Honesty is one that can so easily be avoided and in this avoidance we keep living a lie. Getting support and digging up the unwanted is necessary to let go of all these ideals of ‘getting things right’. Surrendering to who we are and allowing our body and soul to live in the moment is saying yes to Simplicity.

532. A moment of appreciation. It is quite something that this blog and all these comments exist; that there is a group people who are committed to re-finding the absolute truth of the word honesty. In a world where white lies, half truths, mask-wearing, false pretences etc are not necessarily seen as preventers of honesty, in a world where honesty is seen as a switch that you may or may not turn on depending on the situation and/or what effect it might have on your or others….it is amazing to be amongst an active dedication to live a life of daily and consistent honesty; an honesty of depth and purpose. Not saying that I am there – not by a long way – I still have plenty of pockets of dishonesty and am still finding that what I thought was honest one day, can go to a deeper honesty the next – which is why I call it an active dedication – it is a process, an activity, an evolution. We have strayed a long way from home – thus a humble joy to be amongst this blog and comments.

     1. It is beautiful to appreciate that there are many willing to go there, to expose themselves and not get caught in any stories or identification and also to accept that there are many that are just not ready to feel that they have used the lies and the half truths as a way to hide and to protect themselves and others. When someone is open and honest, I really don’t mind what they tell me, no matter how bad it could be…for it is the honesty that I feel first and foremost.

        1. I love this too Rosie, its the honesty that is so beautiful and when another shares from this place I just melt.

        2. Totally Marcia. I had an experience recently where myself and a co-worker talked together about a tension we had noticed. The honesty of my companion when she related what she was feeling made the tension I had felt melt away as I suddenly understood what was going on and why I was receiving the signals the way I was. This enabled us to come together and unite in our love.

     2. Just gorgeous Otto, thank you ….. I so agree, it’s pretty awesome to have such a large group of people committed to seeing, feeling and bringing the truth in a world where truth seems to have a caveat, it’s used as long as there isn’t a ‘detrimental’ effect to the user ….. the crazy part is, if we are NOT honest and truth-full, it will always be detrimental to the user.

        1. ….and the receiver. It kills us to hear dishonesty as much as it does to express it.

     3. Gorgeously said Otto. Indeed it is important to appreciate that there are blogs and comments such as these on the Internet which are of stark contrast to the normal abuse and pollution that is seen online. We need more content like this that is supportive for everyone to expose the hate and abuse that continues to escalate and increase over the Internet.

        1. It is amazing that appreciation is such a rare expression on the internet. And then you think wider; to newspapers, tv, the work-place, sport, politics etc…and it starts to make sense – the abuse is everywhere, it has become so accepted and normal – thus, is it any wonder that when enabled even more by the anonymity of the internet the hate and abuse becomes so virulent? I feel that this is super important. Not just to look at the internet as a unique, one-off environment. It is everywhere and we are all responsible – whether we are on-line or off-line.

        2. Yes Otto, The Internet is not a unique one-off environment. Technology and what happens with it and on it, is reflecting exactly how we are in our everyday lives re abuse. The advent of technology has brought our behaviours to be in our face. It is our Face Book. We are responsible for all that we emit, whether on-line or off.

533. The other day at work I shared with my colleague that I felt a hurt and some sadness come up, After that it was gone. I shared with her that if I had not expressed this, it would have stayed with me throughout my day and then it has an effect on everything I do. The hurt was gone ánd I had a lovely chat with my colleague, what a great way to start my day at work

     1. That’s beautiful Mariette, also a wonderful opportunity for your colleague to feel the grace and honesty in your sharing, allowing them to feel that they also have the opportunity to do the same and the consequence to them if they choose not to address something that’s negatively affecting them. That’s a healing session in one discussion.

     2. I love the simplicity of this Mariette. Thank you.

534. A saying came to me the other day which felt true, ‘ when I feel resistance I can be sure evolution is on offer’

     1. Resistance is like a clue that something is not right, and more loving honesty is warranted to begin the path of truth.

        1. Yes absolutely Heather… ‘Resistance is like a clue that something is not right…’ and is often the signpost that we have made it about being right, rather than looking for what’s true.

        2. A great trap indeed Jenny. Making it about being right rather than about Truth takes us well off track.

     2. That feels true indeed Kim – resistance is an ongoing thing for me and shows up in unexpected situations, like even with things I enjoy! This shows me that evolution is everywhere in every task, meeting, job, place – wherever I am. It’s the situations that allow the expansion as brotherhood waters the seeds of evolution and we cannot grow without each other or the reflections being offered in our everyday life. Evolution is a constant, which makes sense that resistance can come up a lot! Thank-you Kim.

        1. Evolution is on constant offer if we so choose to take it. As is the resistance, to shine light on the offerings.

     3. I love that kimweston2, that’s awesome …. ‘when I feel resistance I can be sure evolution is on offer’ Thank you, something to be deeply aware of and treasured.

535. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ ….. just LOVE this sentence ….. I can feel my whole body sigh a huge breath of relief as I read these words. I give myself to be honest about whether, in certain situations, the choices are in fact mine to make or someone else’s.

536. ‘we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say “yes” or “no”.’ ……yes, I have always felt that the first impulse I feel when faced with a choice is generally the true way to go and to delay just brings in complication that will sometimes take me off on a completely different tangent.

537. Anxiety caused havoc to my life, mind you I allowed it. It suited me to be anxious because it gave me an excuse not to take responsibility for my life. I could say “I am too anxious to do that” when all along I just needed to work on connecting to my body and know that I was quite capable to do anything that was being presented to me.

     1. What an honest reading of what is behind your anxiety. I can relate to using the same excuse to avoid taking the fullness of who I am to every situation. I now understand that if I get myself out of the way but turn up to life and its challenges that I am so very supported.

        1. ‘I now understand that if I get myself out of the way but turn up to life and its challenges that I am so very supported.’ I have felt this too Jenny – there is overflowing support on offer, all we need to do is surrender to the bigger picture and be guided what is true and instinctual.

        2. Beautiful Jennym – “I now understand that if I get myself out of the way but turn up to life and its challenges that I am so very supported.” We are always fully equipped to handle any challenge.

        3. ‘We are always fully equipped to handle any challenge.’ ….. love this, Marcia and our ability to feel this comes back to our livingness and how we support ourselves in our day to day.

     2. wow that is so honest and revealing to read mary-louise, I had never really thought of anxiety and irresponsibility like that and how they feed each other and play out.
        thanks for giving this example.

     3. I am very familiar marylouisemyers. I was the same, so anxious that I always felt incapable in life. I did not see until recently that I used it as my “get out of gaol free” card when it came to making the contributions to humanity that I have been more than capable of making.

     4. That is awesome Mary Louise as it just goes to show how we can choose anxiety as an excuse not to be responsible or not to be all that we are. Its a total cop out.

     5. Wow Mary-Louise, now that’s a level of honesty most don’t go near… and you make it clear from this that honesty is not just one fixed point, but once a level of honesty is reached, it is necessary to allow for another deeper layer to present. Eventually we reach Truth, which is more encompassing of the all that is part of any given thing.

     6. Well said marylouisemyers. Anxiety can be used as a great excuse for not taking responsibility for life . . . only trouble is if you take this line you end up getting what you have chosen and that is an anxiety problem that finds it hard to live life. I did this for a very long time and can honestly say it plays havoc with the body.

     7. Very well said Mary-Louise. It is easy to stay suspended if not frozen in inaction due to anxiety and lack of confidence and this can become the all too comfortable mantra and identity. The moment we say ‘ I am an anxious person’ or disempower ourselves by any number of equally corruptive ways, we are denying our true knowing, power and ability to learn and grow.

        1. Agree Deborah many of us love to label ourself . ‘I am an anxious person, I am a drug addict, I am an alcoholic.’ We then use these labels as an excuse to not make responsible choices in our lives.

     8. And how powerful it is to say it as it is as you have done here Mary-Louise – this is what true healing is all about, to acknowledge what is happening and take responsibility for your own choices. No bashing or beating yourself up, just responsibility.

538. I agree Michael my first impulse is always the true one but when I start second guessing myself I get into all sorts of a muddle and loss sight of what I know is true.

     1. Yes, Mary Louise, that is so true, when we start second guessing ourselves, go into the head, making all sorts of excuses, etc., maybe that we won’t be able to handle what is asked of us, then we are not being honest with ourselves or with others. I agree, “my first impulse is always the true one”. We have the innate knowing within us that knows what we can handle, it is awful that we make excuses, and I can admit to that one.

     2. I agree here Mary-Louise, and this becomes a very anxious way of living.

     3. Yes the first impulse is always the true one, but sometimes we like to try to analyse it and play with it in our head, just to make sure! This complicates things big time and yes we then lose sight of what is true.

     4. So true Mary Louise, second guessing is a killer. The fresh and powerful energy of a true impulse or inspiration can be totally squashed as we mull over things with our mind.

        1. Agree Jenny we need to trust our first impulse and act on it. We can not go wrong as if it doesn’t work out as we can learn from what ever happens. The problem comes if we make our selves wrong and berate ourselve. No lesson gets learnt and we go into lack of worth.

        2. Totally Mary-Louise and Jenny. I keep coming back to something Michael Benhayon said to me about a year ago, ‘Back yourself to the hilt Lyndy, even if you turn out to be “wrong” it doesn’t matter’. It was the best piece of advice I have heard for years as I was always doubting myself or second guessing which is a disaster, not only for one’s own transverse colon, but for everyone around who will be affected by this lack of expression.
           The old ‘right and wrong’ paradigm from school has kept us tied up in knots.

        3. I agree Lyndy because even if you turn out to be “wrong” but you have not backed down from what you feel and you do not berate yourself then you learn from what ever is going on and the learning is invaluable. If only we were taught from a very young that there is no wrong and right only ever an opportunity to learn.

539. I keep coming back to this blog. I feel I will for a while. Your words Michael make clear how honesty cannot be an optional extra or part time activity. That is not an honest way to be.

     1. Joseph. Like you I have found this blog to be very profound. It contains enough wisdom to keep a man evolving for quite a while!! Honesty can not be a part time activity – brilliant.

        1. Yes, that is brilliant what Joseph has said! Honesty is not a part-time activity, along with, say, living a life of integrity. These qualities do not operate in isolation or in bits and pieces, to be turned on and off. Living truly must go across the board.

     2. Yes, being a little bit honest doesn’t work and leads back into the conundrum of confusion, complexity and indecision.

        1. I agree, Gabriele, there is no truth in a ‘little bit’ of honesty – it shows we are controlling how much truth we are willing to accept, we are not being open to the whole truth and are, therefore, denying ourselves the opportunity to learn and bring more understanding.

        2. Yes, completely Gabriele, and our body has to deal with the lies and illusion that we live with, it has to process the affects of the tension, doubt and complexity that living without truth brings. While our mind goes into full-on justification mode, our body always and very simply knows truth.

        3. Indeed Gabrielle – ‘being a little bit honest’ is no different than being dishonest.

        4. I agree it can never be a part time job to be honest, it is a fulltime job and gives us back our vitality on a daily basis.

     3. I love your comment Joseph. Honesty cannot be an optional extra or part time activity. There is no maybe or now and there. There is or there is not.

     4. Thats right Mr Barker, I feel being honest is an expression of love

     5. Well said Joseph, honesty isn’t a meagre offering to sprinkle on a reckless life to take some of the heat away, such deceptive or half-hearted honesty is simply not honest at all – Honesty is the beginning step towards a deeper Truth.

     6. This is great Joseph – honesty is all encompassing and only applying it in part is in itself surely dishonest.

        1. Totally Michael. Honesty is a way of being, an openness and observation, not a disguise we bring out of the theatrical wardrobe to fool the occasion.

     7. Honesty is a great and essential step. As we walk and take these honest steps we arrive back at Truth where we discover all is known.

     8. Yes Joseph honesty is not a tap that we turn off and on, as this delay only builds up pressure in the pipes and causes tension within. Not very comfortable for anyone?

     9. Well said Joseph, “honesty cannot be an optional extra or part time activity” it must be introduced and practiced equally in all areas of our lives.

     10. Honesty is the gatekeeper for responsibility and love.

540. ‘The beauty of being honest’ is to be really honest with ourselves first and foremost, if we are not we only get stuck in first gear and don’t really make it out of the car park.

     1. And we crash in to plenty of the concrete pillars inside the car park because dishonesty is so self-abusive. It’s ironic because I always felt that the honest route was the more ‘bruising’ – “facing up to reality” – always carried with it the connotation of the difficult path to tread. But, as Michael has expressed, true honesty is the self-loving and nurturing way to move.

        1. Following on from this – the lies that I have told have hurt. Crazy, since we choose to lie under the illusion that it will avoid a hurt.

        2. Is it interesting, Otto. We crash into the concrete pillars in our fury, self-abandonment..whatever our flavour happens to be.
           Then we blame the car.
           And the pillars.

        3. Dr Rachel Mascord. This is brilliant! A superb extension and sharpening of what I was saying. You are absolutely spot on. And if there aren’t any pillars in the way or if the car isn’t faulty, we look elsewhere to blame. Anything to avoid our own responsibility. This is ginormous. I have run from responsibility for aeons. And still, very often, do. But what is superb about this analogy and its extension is that it actually illustrates how responsibility is the exact opposite of what you might think – it is incredibly liberating. Because if we are prepared to see the whole picture, we can actually see that we are no longer the puppets of the world that we think we are, we are no longer at the mercy of other people’s choices or no longer the passenger on someone else’s ride. Our choices. 100%. Total freedom to choose. Zero excuses.

        4. Very well said Otto and Rachel. We can wise up and take the responsible route or we can play it recklessly and crash at every turn.

     2. Playfully and astutely put Matthew hence this being an ongoing development.

     3. The willingness to be honest, even when I am seemingly stuck, creates the space to see the choices that are loving.

        1. I love this Heather – it is ‘ the willingness’ to be honest that so naturally opens up the space to see.

        2. ‘The willingness to be honest, even when I am seemingly stuck, creates the space to see the choices that are loving.’ …. beautiful, Heather …. and the honesty also helps us to heal the hurt that was holding us captive in the first place.

        3. True Heather – the intent and willingness to truly see can illuminate the greyest shadow.

        4. Applying honesty is like being still in water until the ripples clear and we can see deeper and deeper. A lot of the shadows turn out to be insignificant – only scary in our avoidance of looking at them straight on – and then the magic and expansive of all that is not the shadows… we cannot but be inspired.

     4. Matthew, a brilliant way of putting it. Sometimes I wonder at my own sense of ‘stuck-ness’ and it’s because I am still first gear. I actively choose dishonesty and then get furious at myself because I am still in the car park.

     5. Love it Matthew, revving the engine in and burning out the motor, wondering why there is little movement

541. When we surrender to truth, we say yes to honesty, to be self-loving which allows us to see and feel the truth of who we are, where we are at with the choices we are making and know what is needed next to heal, grow and develop. I have discovered that when I feel a greater tension there is usually a greater truth to be explored and revealed that I have been delaying, resisting, avoiding to address or holding back expressing. When I say yes in that moment to honesty and truth, as you have shared Michael, ‘those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.’ With this follows a feeling of being lighter, freer, as the space is then claimed by a deeper connection with ourselves, our truth and as such builds our confidence to continue to say ‘yes’ to honesty, truth and love and live expressing this more in our lives.

542. No time or need for wondering!

543. Thankyou Michael. This line really stood out for me “… the wish to avoid things which seemed challenging or difficult to me…” I had not realised that I sometimes react to positive expansions in life, because I am feeling the potential for it to challenge me and basically take me out of the comfort zone to grow. I tend to want to stay safe possibly because I am so demanding of myself to do well, and not comfortable with being unsure of myself and my abilities when on new ground.

     1. What you are sharing here is absolute gold Melinda …. I can so relate to what you’re saying …..
        ‘I sometimes react to positive expansions in life, because I am feeling the potential for it to challenge me and basically take me out of the comfort zone to grow. I tend to want to stay safe possibly because I am so demanding of myself to do well, and not comfortable with being unsure of myself and my abilities when on new ground.’
        I give myself a very hard time when I can feel myself reacting to positive expansion, I’ve never considered that it may be because I’m unsure of myself and my abilities when on new ground – which I am! Thank you.

     2. Being comfortable where we are at and not stepping up feels like a big factor in our willingness to step up and live to our true potential, I agree with you Melinda.

544. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” I love this Michael. The freedom to be who we truly are rather than fall into the trap of playing roles begins with honesty. Only by honestly looking at our own issues, behaviours and hurts can we feel this spaciousness and freedom.

545. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself.” I am realising more and more the importance of this, and how much complication and unnecessary wasted energy goes into not making the choice I simply feel at the time. Simplicity is certainly the way, and I love how you have shown how self-love actually allows us more simplicity in our everyday lives.True magic.

546. I really appreciate what you share – it is such an important understanding to have, a wisdom that should be presented at the earliest age. “Only since the last few days has it become really obvious to me that we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time.” As you mention only in the past few days had this pearl become obvious to you. I thank you for making it obvious to me. What could be the benefits to how people live if it was presented and obvious to small children so they can develop from young their own innate ability to discern what is true for them?

547. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.”
     Acting immediately in the moment rather than delaying feels like embracing and committing to life, we then can confirm and appreciate ourselves for the choice we made, and take full responsibility for that choice. We then get to see if that choice was supportive or not, by simply and impartially observing with not an ounce of self judgment or criticism, rather seeing life as a learning ground to live and make mistakes, freeing ourselves from the constraints of having to be perfect and not make mistakes.

     1. I am becoming aware of my ‘delaying’ and how I delay almost everything. There is always a rush at the end and a feeling of frustration or guilt because I could be further ahead than where I am now and it could have made my life easier. Acting in the moment is definitely the way to respond, why else would the email, phone call, task or opportunity present itself at the time?

548. By being smart, learning to evaluate and analyse everything, we have perhaps lost quite a lot of our natural way of knowing. I love that you have brought yourself back to the natural, joyful way of being Michael. So often I beat myself up for my choices, whereas I could just lovingly look at them, accept where I am and not think I should be somewhere else, and live my joyful, loving life.

     1. ‘So often I beat myself up for my choices, whereas I could just lovingly look at them, accept where I am and not think I should be somewhere else, and live my joyful, loving life’ ….. I can very much relate to this, Amanda. I am an expert at berating myself, however, I’m realising it’s just another distraction. Rather than condemn myself for my choices and focus on what I am not, as you say, I can choose to lovingly acknowledge where I am and in the next moment I will again be given the opportunity to choose differently, to evolve, or not.

549. ‘I always knew what would have been a wise choice for the next steps in my life, but have often let myself be guided by anxiety or by the wish to avoid things which seemed challenging or difficult..’

     This level of honesty is what frees us from the lies that we try convincing ourselves of to justify actions we know delay feeling our hurts and being us in full. I have hidden what I know are my next steps in confusion and feigned ignorance, or blaming others for not supporting me enough to chose what I can feel is true. Admitting this and asking what is it I’m so afraid of/ becoming aware of brings me a layer closer to who I am and connecting with God.

     1. We are Masters in fooling ourselves in order to take us away from our initial feeling. It is crazy in a way as we know, as Michael writes, life becomes very simple and relaxed. You just follow your first impulse. It ‘just’ requires a deep level of honesty and willingness to choose this way of living, a choice to face our hurts.

550. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ – Brilliant Michael. The need to play a role, to protect our facade, is deeply ingrained in most people, because we are constantly being met with an attitude from everywhere around us that we need to be more, that being who we are is not sufficient. So we become very good at playing this game.

     1. Agreed Eva and its a message that with diligent honesty we can re-write. Upholding our facades is so tiring, it is such a relief to let them go and just be the beautiful, innocent souls we naturally are.

     2. I’ve learned to drop all roles, simply be me and free.

     3. So true Eva, it takes a lot of effort to maintain a lie, especially that we think we are getting away with not living who we truly are.

        1. It does take enormous effort to lie I can always tell if I am lying to myself by feeling weather I’m holding tension in my face or not.

     4. So true Eva – it feels that we are constantly seeking identification, acceptance and recognition and so respond to the situations we are in which are asking us to be something else at the expense of our connection to our own true essence and who we truly are. Developing a relationship with honesty begins to expose many of the false ways of living and being that we have adopted and when lived will lead to truth.

        1. Yes Michael, when we play out ingrained roles in our relationships we can feel how we contract, or shrink, how it feels in our body, and then we can become our own amazing marker as we clock how we feel. Then we can begin to choose – to negate the truth that we feel in our body, that comes from our true essence, or alternatively honour that feeling and embrace a new way of living and being.

     5. We become very good at playing this game and start meeting ourselves and everyone with this attitude of not being enough. I never questioned that in my life until – inspired by a Universal Medicine Workshop – I started thinking about why I had been so much happier as a child than I was at that time. What I discovered was that as a child I had simply lived in the moment and judgement for myself or others was not yet heard of, the more this faded away from my life, the unhappier I became and the fiercer my hunt for happiness became.

        1. I love how you have linked it to your childhood and the purity of how you felt in yourself back then, and that since you have been inspired by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine you have become aware that that purity is still who you are.

     6. The power of being honest can never be underestimated. What is unlocks in us, allows us to then feel what is next and needed. By bottling up expression, and not being honest, we allow ourselves to stagnate – this can only cause harm (in whatever degree) to ourselves and therefore all others.

     7. Getting to the nub of why we do this is super important. The majority of us still live in the unawareness that we are overriding, believing the facade we have created is indeed us. Accepting this in the understanding that who we are is amazing and outstrips anything we do takes time. Allowing ourselves to feel our hurts and to let them go can only be done if we have allowed ourselves the inkling of the enormity of this amazingness. After 10 years of being honest and letting go I am only just now learning to appreciate the significance and depth of what was/is under all that role playing!

     8. Could it be that this pressure also comes from within? A reaction to knowing we are more yet playing a comfortable less. When we connect to our essence there is nothing lacking and nothing to prove – there is a harmony, acceptance and naturally a True expression.

        1. Yes that’s definitely part of the game Deborah, the comfort of playing small – eventough we all innately know we are so much more.

551. Being guided by our feelings, (not by our thoughts of anxieties and maybes taking us on a detour,) is a great way to claim our knowing. The beauty of honesty leaves no stone unturned, no question unanswered, no hurt undealt with.

     1. Beautifully said Jill, ‘claim our knowing’. When this is claimed we will stop creating stones to look under.

     2. You’ve described honesty very accurately Gill. Claiming our knowing is something I’ve never done before, or perhaps I am through acceptance and appreciation or simply by just living the knowing, like you feel to take a jumper with you and later in the day you need to wear the jumper. This is not a big moment but it was a knowing. How many of these do we have during the day that we don’t even acknowledge as a knowing?

     3. I love what you say here Gill, ‘Being guided by our feelings, is a great way to claim our knowing.’ We spend so much of our time ignoring and/or overriding what we know to be true instead of just taking a moment to stop and really listen to what our body already knows. As Michael writes in his blog, ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’

        1. ‘We spend so much of our time ignoring and/or overriding what we know to be true instead of just taking a moment to stop and really listen to what our body already knows’.
           Very true, Sandra, we are often just trying to fit in, without taking the time to consider what it is we are fitting in to and whether this truly supports us.

        2. Good point Alison, we often don’t consider what we are deferring our better judgement to, or to honestly appraise if what we are desiring to fit in to is true or loving for us. This causes much unnecessary distress in our lives.

     4. And how gorgeous it feels in our body when we live and move forward with ‘honesty’ (‘leaving no stone unturned’) as our amazing body is equally as clear when we live dishonestly. The choice is ours to make.

     5. ‘Claim our knowing’ I love this Gill, for me this has been the beginning of truly appreciating myself.

552. It is that we have a choice in that moment to say yes or no? or is this decision governed purely by our living way – be that impulsed by divinity and True or created from all that is false designed to keep us less, contracted and unsure?

     1. A profound question Deborah. Very often the choice in the moment to say Yes or No is already pre-determined by the way we’ve been living. What we are aligned to Divinity or feelings of uncertainty or lack precedes each choice made.

553. Why is it that we fear our power so greatly when this is our natural expression and the simplest way to live in the world? Self-Love and accepting our amazingness in full is certainly key to unlocking our retardation and claiming life.

     1. Is it that we fear our power or is it that we don’t want to feel the energy of the choices we have made in the past and acknowledge that these choices have affected us, our fellow brothers, the environment and the plant and animal kingdoms?

        1. To step into our Power is simple and really not the great who-haa it has been made out to be. We create much complexity to avoid taking responsibility for our ill-choices and lived way when we equally have formerly lived in our power and Loved Humanity to the core.

        2. I agree Mary, we all need to start acknowledging, accepting and appreciating the choices we have made to allow new opportunities to present themselves to support us moving forward. I know my life is richer by choosing to live this way.

     2. Excellent question Deborah – when we step into our full power there is step up in responsibility that we can feel comes with it. This responsibility can be a big thing for us to accept, but further to that also comes the reactions of many people who feel you step into your power. Accepting their reactions is also a big thing – as you have said in a later comment, stepping into our power is actually quite easy to do, but often we struggle with how others react and so we can drop the level of power to accomodate for this. But this then exposes our true foundation of love for ourselves and those around us and shows that we can build more on this foundation so that we don’t drop when we bring the full power. And then again this exposes another point too: there is no end point to the power we can bring as it grows and expands incrementally too. So we can just keep unfolding it constantly.

        1. I have often looked at responsibility from this point of view as well – that it is indeed a big thing, it’s big from the point of view of how we have lived – not big but as small as we can muster. But when I accept each level of responsibility there is no songs on top of the mountain or fanfare, it’s all very normal and natural and makes sense. It then boils down to our choices, to say yes or no.

        2. Beautiful Henrietta and very well said – there is certainly no end to the power we are and can bring.

554. Michael, the way you speak about food choices is so graceful and allowing of where you are at. It feels pretty free of judgment with a beautiful understanding that the choices are more supportive to be made without the harshness of ‘self-beating’. I’ve found that the force to not eat foods that I am craving has been hard to deal with, yet when I focus on the love I feel for myself and others and work with my choices from this perspective I naturally want to eat things that will keep my body light and not weighed down. I really love the honesty and understanding you have with yourself Michael – it’s gorgeous!

555. “The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow.” Wow Michael, what if we were brought up with this view of what life is about (rather than the ‘study hard/make a living or give-up life’s a ….’)? How different our relationships, health and vitality would be.

556. I love the way this blog starts – with getting out of bed. This has been a struggle for me of late, not wanting to get up and face the day, myself or what I need to do. But it’s more than that and the key is in how I am going to bed in the night – is it late, have I eaten too late, have I let go of the day? Yes all these things play a part, but mostly I get into bed as an escape from the world. So it makes sense to wake and resist facing what I turned away and escaped from. I know it’s all a reflection of me so this blog has given a great insight into an honest conversation with myself. Thank you Michael.

557. So valuable to understand that the hesitation or delay we have in saying ‘yes’ is actually a ‘no’ and one for me to reflect on within my own life – no space for procrastination.

     1. I agree Michael! When we know we always know the clear answer in any quandary, it then becomes about the understanding of why we do not want to know. A beautiful unfoldment of understanding can follow, if we are to allow it.

        1. So true Michael and Amelia. We always know and when we surrender to truth we then allow ourselves the opportunity to deepen our knowing as to why we at times have chosen to not want to know. As you say – ‘A beautiful unfoldment of understanding can follow, if we are to allow it.’

     2. Absolutely Michael and Carola. Not saying yes, is saying no. And, as you say Carola, by pretending that we don’t know, we are immediately being dishonest which then in turn becomes the foundation for whatever decision we might then choose to make.

558. ‘The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again.’ It is amazing how much simplicity we can bring to our lives through honesty, when we start living the what is, rather than the what is not.

559. “The fascinating aspect about this process of making choices is that nothing is exactly the same and it all unfolds from one moment to the next – depending on how and what we have chosen before.” This invites us to learn to let go of control as we need to be prepared to go with our feelings as they unfold rather than having a plan in our head. A new possibility for flexibility.

560. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ Thank you Michael for this beautiful blog which is just what I needed to read this morning when I am feeling overwhelmed by various decisions. I have played so many roles in my life which are usually around pretending that I know what I am doing?! When I go with my initial first feeling there is no pretending only an absoluteness about what is needed.

561. One of the impulses I follow is where to be – I have often found that when I follow that, a person is there whom I need to meet for my next steps, or who needs my help, it is extraordinary how often that happens and so often that I trust it implicitly. This is helping me to recognise other impulses that are true. I don’t always follow them, because sometimes my mind cuts in and justifies whatever I may have previously chosen, or sets a different plan, but slowly I am learning to allow and trust what I feel rather than what I think. I can feel that thoughts are being fed to me from an outside source because one non-loving thought soon leads to another – and that’s how our human consciousness is built.

562. “The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again.” Michael its interesting to reflect on the fact that we can move away from complexity by brining back honesty into our life – and from there we can enjoy ourselves again.

     1. There is such simplicity in honesty and even more in truth so that can just stop all the games we play in a flash.

563. Michael, I love what you say about food – in the past I have experienced huge moments of panic that have manifested in my stomach area and ‘thought’ I was hungry and eating numbed that pain, so food became my ‘medication’ whenever I felt upset or had that angst feeling in my stomach. I could choose to say no to food, but mostly that was willpower and interesting that you say it causes hardness in the body – all I know was that when I ‘failed’ I would use the opportunity to beat myself up, which is exhausting and not at all self loving. Now I am to observe without judgement and yesterday, for example, when I had another panic attack of binge eating, I was able to reflect on where I had allowed myself to lose my inner connection and taken on (felt disturbed by) other people’s emotional states. It’s not about saying No to food, but saying Yes to self love and taking care to stay connected to my innermost and staying steady no matter what is going on around me.

     1. “It’s not about saying No to food, but saying Yes to self-love…” I call it “white-knuckling” – where you are just holding on, so tightly, with pure will power (that you knuckles go white). Yet, you are so right Carmel, self-love and honesty are the foundations that support a rhythm where you do not have to forcibly say No to food.

564. Michael, I really used to and sometimes still do this, ‘Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do, but then I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle.’ I have a very clear knowing of what to do and reading this I can feel how I can override this very simple, clear feeling. I can feel how in society it is almost expected that you weigh up, evaluate, think about things before deciding, this feels like a waste of time, if we follow our initial feeling I find this to be much more true and saves lots of time and energy.

565. Honouring our first feelings really does make life simple and honest, and although this takes practice it is well worth it and opens the doors to a very different way of living. I have found it brings an integrity and healing to my life also which is beautiful to feel and reflect on. Thank you Michael you are an inspiration and I love your writing.

566. Ha! True – if we are honest, we KNOW what is going on.

567. “…in one moment it can be better to eat something that I feel I am craving, although I know that it is not really good for me. This is loving in so far as the enormous amount of tension and hardness I would have to bring to my body to not eat it would be even worse.”
     This blows open the way that so many of us approach ‘healthy eating’. We go into a kind of austerity mindset, where we end up holding back everything and literally going into a state of bodily tension in order to fulfil an idea of what we should be eating or doing, and not looking underneath the craving to see what is driving it in the first place.
     From my own experience, when I addressed what was motivating the desire to have and do certain things that I didn’t want to have in my life anymore, those cravings simply went away. Quite often those motivations were trying to cover up something that I did not like about myself or that I did not want to feel, and I was trying to numb out.
     But there is nothing that is not worth feeling in our lives.

568. To see the world as a huge playground in order to evolve brings up feelings of playfulness and lightness and cuts the belief I could do things wrong. It supports me in my commitment to life because coming from this attitude life can only be beautiful.

     1. I love this Kerstin as life is exactly that. Constant opportunities to grow, develop and so evolve together through the way we live and share if we choose it. Through being honest the beauty of our truth and love can be lived and as such we can return to living in a way that is natural for us all.

569. Michael I love how you woke up feeling the same as the way you went to sleep. This alone is a revelation. The way we finish one day and begin another makes a huge difference. It is a transition. So wind down and sleep in worry and stress than wake in the same way…. Wind down and sleep in tenderness than the new day simply brings that energy through✨

     1. Exactly, life does not consist of seperate moments, everything is linked.

     2. Because it is not a new day, it is the same day, lived again.

570. Michael I love the way you write – its like you open up a doorway and lead us gently and knowingly to a place where there is so much more space and understanding and warm support – more realness and the need for the same old avoiding just melts away – you hand us back permission and a beautiful held space to just feel – and let go of all that we often try and hold at bay. Thank you for the loveliness you are and the way you share.

571. I love what you have shared about the learnings that reside within what challenges us for it completely changes the way you can look at and address anything that you find more difficult than usual. The challenge is to remember this and not resist, and instead appreciate and be open to what is there to be exposed.

572. “honesty and self-love are not something we just leave it sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them” – love this Michael, we spend too long looking for love and expecting it to perform miracles whilst not giving it the foundation it needs to work for us. Mainly because love can never work FOR someone, it works with them.

     1. ‘Mainly because love can never work FOR someone, it works with them.’ Love this Joel L – very cool! We can’t expect love to do all the work while we sit back in comfort, it requires an active relationship and engagement in making the choices for Love to express itself through. Really feeling the call right now to look at the foundations I’ve laid myself and how supportive they are…. or are not. What do I expect from love?

        1. This is a great question Rachel. And the fact that it is a question is already imposing an expectation on love, as if it is some kind of outer thing to strive for or try to harness – I can already feel the tension in my body – when in fact it is about us walking back in to love and with love with a daily dedication and purpose; as we all used to and, eventually, will all again.

        2. Great question to ask…’What do I expect from love’, the word associations that come are a scary insight into the conditions I put on accepting love, in essence

573. This finding really resonated with me today;
     “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation”.
     I love the clarity and truth you bring here Michael, a wonderful inspiration to go deeper and discover more, thank you.

574. We don’t often relate our level of honesty with the tension felt in our bodies. But it is true. The more surrendered and honest we are with ourselves, the less tension and fight there is to counter what we have already felt.

     1. True Kylie – there is fluidity and flow and a natural ease in place of tension, disease and protection when we surrender to the Love we are and are honest with ourselves.

575. When we don’t address our hurts, all we can do is ‘put on a face’ that all is well, when in reality we are lugging around a backpack full of emotions just waiting to be placed into the nearest bin.

576. I am discovering more and more the importance of honouring what I know is the truthful choice to make in any situation. It really does impact the next choices that are available to us, and the ‘options’ we pick. Once we have made a few dishonouring choices, life can pretty quickly become foggy or difficult to understand. Coming back to our innermost, and choosing to start from there – in every small detail of action brings us back to the state of honouring we can then work from, in truth.

577. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover”. This is so true and I have found that although I may still feel initial trepidation to take the first ‘step’ I have, however, experienced an increased willingness to do so and that it is becoming ever easier with every new challenge.

578. Another one-liner that is pertinent to me – “I always knew what would have been a wise choice for the next steps in my life, but have often let myself be guided by anxiety or by the wish to avoid things which seemed challenging or difficult to me so I have walked a different path”. This is an all to common act for me too.

     I agree with you Michael, if I already do this in some areas of my life what challenges do I really have, if I know the truth of the next steps I need to make instead of avoiding them? The only way to not avoid them is to create some space, go for it and get them done — it is a thrilling feeling and it can happen daily too !!

579. Michael I love the example you use regarding food… when awareness is the name of the game, it is not the denial of ourselves and our impulses that matter, but what we’re prepared to allow in awareness and understanding that eventually shifts the impulses. I have known for many years that ‘willpower’ was not the answer to poor food choices.

580. Absolutely Doug. We resist looking at situations, when in fact every situation is presenting something for us to look at.

581. To base our foundation in life on honesty is such a loving, joyful choice to implement as opposed to the tension and anxiety that is caused by living dishonestly with our body’s and others in a constant compromise. Bring honesty into my life has been greatly supported by Serge Benhayon, his family and Universal Medicine, for which I am very grateful.

582. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.” I have felt terror and trepidation in these moments Michael, that if I go with what I felt and express that to others it will be the end of the world, instead it has opened up a feeling of expansiveness stillness and joy in me, and deeper connection with others.

583. Freeing ourselves from our expectations, pictures of how we should be and the expectations from others, is a very loving and powerful self loving choice we can make, and it inspires others around us that this too is possible for them, should they choose it.

     1. Nothing is a more powerful inspiration than what others are living. What we see lived we cannot really doubt anymore, whilst if someone only tries to convince us with words, we can easily choose to not accept this.

584. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.” I totally agree Michael, when we are not prepared to choose instantly we complicate our life’s, putting it on hold, living from our heads or minds, trying to control life from fear of making the wrong decision, we end up not committing to life, although by not deciding yes or no we are in fact also making a decision.

585. “Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do, but then I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle. In truth, I was just constructing arguments to defend against the world and myself, something that had already been decided long ago.”
     I love what you are saying here Michael, I have also experienced what you are describing, we get a clear feeling or impulse of what we need to do next, then out of fear or not trusting we sometimes complicate it with “analysing the situation from every angle”, which causes us to delay and complicate, a task or action which initially was simple, supportive and straightforward to carry out.

586. No true evolution takes place without honesty.

587. I came back to this blog again because I thoroughly enjoyed what is on offer. This is another line I enjoyed “but had simply been very honest with myself, letting myself not be guided by my thoughts or knowledge, but by what I was feeling”. This is another line that hits the spot for me. It brings me back and reminds it is not so hard if you are not guided by your thoughts especially if you are not feeling so good and something is a challenge.

588. If we are constantly saying ‘no’ to what is actually called for, we are saying yes to a quality that isn’t true. No wonder so many of us are exhausted. My experience is just as yours Michael that the comfort gives itself away by what it tries to escape and stay hidden from. Honesty shows we do know, the truth about everything that is going on.

     1. Honesty shows we do know and makes it senseless to fight what we do know anymore.

     2. ‘If we are constantly saying ‘no’ to what is actually called for, we are saying yes to a quality that isn’t true.’ Well said Joseph and this ‘not true quality’ then builds forward in new choices, unless we stop this pattern and choose truth.

        1. We are without a doubt the end result of every choice we have made and lived and nothing in the universe can hide this fact. It pays to choose wisely.

        2. Yes, Deborah – it’s amazing how at times we fool ourselves into thinking that we have fooled others as well, when the truth is that we all innately know and feel exactly what is going on. As you say it pays to choose wisely – and leads to a way of life that is simple and spherical.

        3. Yes Deborah and this also shows that we can re-imprint choices that were not true at any time. We are responsible for every choice we make.

589. Michael this is such an awesome blog two of the points you made really stood out for me: •The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover’ this is so true and it is such a deep healing if I choose to look at my hurts around whatever the situation is. The other point was where you are in a moment where it feels like the world will explode if you express what you are feeling but actually there is usually nothing but complete relaxation and I really get this, sometimes I get anxious about speaking up about something and find it is not only accepted by others but actually welcomed like – someone actually said what was being felt by others.

590. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.” We are the most important reflections to each other to assist us in our evolution, do we choose to look in the mirror with love and honesty or do we shy away from seeing what is really there?

591. Michael, I can so relate to this, ‘the difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease’, it feels amazing to make instant decisions, there is always a knowing at the time for yes or no, i can clearly feel how sometimes I want to say no, but go into my head because I know that ‘no’ will not be an acceptable answer and will cause reaction and so I unwillingly say yes – always to later regret this and feel that I should have gone with my initial feeling.

     1. Absolutely rebeccawingrave, if we make an instant choice it means that we have to step up in that moment. Perhaps going into an analysis of the situation is a way to avoid our power.

        1. True Donna – it is a set up to avoid our own power, and to remain in the comfort of staying small and contracted.

592. Their is beauty in being honest, and that is the acceptance of all our choices and where we are at without harsh criticism or judgement.

     1. Great response Joe, love your expression here.

     2. There is no greater beauty in a human being than that of somebody who holds him- or herself truly in love. The joy and sparkle that we radiate when we are in love with ourselves is beautiful beyond words.

        1. Yes so true Michael, there is nothing more appealing and uplifting than being around someone who loves themselves to the bone, and likewise, it is hard work to be around someone who is always hard on themselves or choosing contraction. In that sense we have a responsibility to love ourselves… and to radiate that sparkle and joy as you say.

        2. Yes Michael ‘BEING’ in Love. This is true beauty ✨

        3. Agree Michael and Jenny – we do indeed have a responsibility to hold ourselves, and by that, everyone else in love. This should be the number one learning and study in every home, school, workplace or institution.

     3. Beautifully said Joe. As with this acceptance there is a confidence in knowing the truth at that moment, of who we are and what is needed next to be more of ourselves, knowing as well that there is more greatness to be explored.

593. ‘The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again.’ I feel this too. Letting go of an aspect of comfort in my life however small allows for an opening to a greatness that had been obscured by this very comfort.

594. ‘Well, I have to say that in fact I always knew what would have been a wise choice for the next steps in my life, but have often let myself be guided by anxiety or by the wish to avoid things which seemed challenging or difficult to me so I have walked a different path. These paths never carried me off track totally but looking back, some proved to be quite a detour’ – I feel when we are truth-full we can all say yes, we have done the same. I know that I still allow my spirit to sway me when I am feeling tired and needy and craving identification and this awareness does not need to become a base ball bat that I use to beat myself up but a gentle reminder that there is another way that is so much more self loving and gentle, and with this there is a sense of power and beauty that supports me to change.

     1. Absolutely gorgeous Susan and so true. No baseball bats, just gentle reminders ✨

595. Michael, each paragraph of your blog carries gold. This one made me smile ‘As honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them, the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.’ Simply beautiful. Why would ever choose to walk away from something that supports us in every moment?

596. Honouring those clear first feelings is our pathway to evolution.

     1. Yes Jane, it is that simple… and makes perfect sense. We know everything, and if we listen to those first deeper feelings, then it’s a YES to that part of us. Enough Yes’s and there can only be evolution!

        1. The simplicity of this Jenny is profound.

        2. Beautifully said with such Joy to read the truth expressed by you – ‘We know everything, and if we listen to those first deeper feelings, then it’s a YES to that part of us. Enough Yes’s and there can only be evolution!’

     2. Honouring our first feelings is simplifying our life in the most amazing way.

597. Your first paragraph is so powerful Michael. I love how you share that you did not do anything different to feel rejuvenated and relaxed, but the day before you had honoured your feelings. So often we look to what we ‘did’ in our day that made it a good or bad one when in fact it is never what we are doing that makes the difference but whether we are giving power to how we are feeling or letting our minds override our bodies constant messages.

598. To have an honest relationship with all, has to be the most important thing after Love it self. I feel inspired to be focussed more on honesty in all my relationships. Thank you Michael.

599. Your writing Susan (and Michael) let me realize that there is in fact no other way than the way of truth and back to God. But by saying ‘no’ to the way we stopped going on it and then – with no alternative – we turn around ourselves again and again like a cat which is trying to catch its tail. So we end up moving a lot with going nowhere. No wonder that we are exhausted and unsatisfied, always on the search to find a way out of our mess, ignoring the only way which is just asking us to say yes to it and to take the responsibility about our being.

600. “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.” This I have found true, when I am connected to my body, the answer is always clear, when I am not connected and not in my stillness the answers don’t come and I can feel the tension of delay in my body. More and more I am becoming to understand the importance of stillness, conscious presence in each moment.

601. Good point to realize that self-love and honesty is not something for ‘moments when needed’ but for every second and to build as a normal into our daily rhythm. That is the way which will lead us to truth.

     1. Very good point Sandra, when we are living consistently twenty four hours a day (without perfection of course) in self-love and honesty we build a foundation that is clear and solid, from that foundation its easy to make decisions as to what is needed next for us to do.

602. Thank you Michael, in all you have shared what I can feel is how simple life can be when we are just honest as there is then no space to create otherwise and cause the issues and tensions we do in life with ourself and others. Beautiful!

603. “The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve” when we look around at the state of the world it could be hard to see this at first, yet the more we are honest with how we feel and how the world is I can appreciate that no matter what is going on its showing us the choices we make individually and as a collective. Yet with everything that is going on its a great reminder to still be playful.

604. “Honesty creates a space and frees us from the need to play a role”. Feeling that I have in the past gained many oscars on my mantlepiece of the many roles I have played out to avoid ‘feeling’, being really honest. As you share so well Michael there is a beauty in being honest, no more hiding/holding back with excuses which takes so much effort. Just a natural flow and the next choice will present itself – no more delaying tatics.

605. Doubt only creeps in when one does not want to accept the truth of what they have felt. All thoughts after that doubt has set in are designed to reduce the clarity that was given to us in that moment.

     1. Yes Adam, when we already the truth of something, doubt is the signpost that we’ve already departed from the source of that knowing. The harder we try then to ‘find the answer’, the further we get from the original knowing. The answer at that point is not to do with the original question, but rather restoring the relationship to the knowing part.

     2. Well said Adam and Jenny it is not about the doubt, but about our relationship with truth and us knowing it all. We are masters in blurring the all known and move away from knowing. Such a set-up. But when we start listening to our bodies we can learn to re-connect back to the knowing and living by our bodies as the marker of all truth.

     3. Clearly and beautifully put Adam, we all clearly feel and see the truth of all things, but sometimes choose to not accept what we see or feel, because of our un-dealt with hurts, from there on in we bring in un-clarity or confusion and complication to a situation, which we then try to solve, all of this can be avoided if we accept, trust and act on the first impulse that we received.

606. Great reflection your blog. Just living every moment of the day like children do, enjoy, feel, playfully move through the day. Living in this simplicity is something I have experienced as well. I am just in the process of getting used to this utter simplicity, continuous lightness and joy on a daily basis.

     1. We have strayed so far as a humanity from simplicity, joy and playfulness, we have brought in complexity and a false way of being that has a huge level of dishonesty, we are living a big lie, but its lie we have all agreed upon, therefore making it are so called ‘normal’ way of being.

607. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ Hear, hear, hear; otherwise are we all not simply actors? Each of us playing our part 🙂

     1. Playing our part and dissatisfied with not being seen for who we are. Maybe a good start would be to drop the mask and let others see who we really are?

608. This is gorgeous Michael. ‘The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again. It has let me shine again with the same beauty and ease that I can well remember from my early childhood.’ It is so yummy when we feel the beauty we felt as children in our adult life and bodies.

609. This is one to visit again and again, Michael. Thank you for sharing such a profound meditation on honesty and what it brings to us.

610. ‘Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.’ For me Michael, your sharing revolved around this sentence. Choosing to be honest and take responsibility is so empowering and expansive. It’s like putting on my work boots and claiming myself in a way that leaves nothing behind – the doubt or lack of confidence is over just by making the decision to be responsible. This does not mean that we necessarily know the next step! Just the choice to be responsible will open that up… loved your sharing here Michael, thank you.

611. What I realise and get confirmed from your blog Michael is the fact that we’re debating, thinking, analysing, etc. a lot with both ourselves and others which in fact is completely unneccesary. And in fact creating turmoil that is only there, because (!!) we choose to not follow what we’re instantly feeling. What is really supportive to me is the fact that I’m allowed to give myself my own space to grow, rather than having to learn fast, immediately, etc. I’m still not always holding myself in this space, but allowing myself this more and more is building a beautiful foundation to “discover myself playfully, nurture myself and evolve”.

612. “the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.”. When I read this I was struck by the simplicity and ease in which this can be applied. We are often tricked into thinking we need to make these BIG changes in our lives, but what I am (re) learning is that it is more power in the small moments as they ultimately make up the big. When we take care of how we close the car door, or move a cushion from the couch, or open a door….and if we do so in honesty and love, then we build up small moments to be a big part of our lives.

613. Michael I love this understanding you offer: “The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.” I’m discovering if I simply choose then what unfolds will show the quality of my choice and then I can just simply choose the next step and flow on from there. Your wisdom of anything else more complicated is a delay in our evolution is great, thank you.

614. Michael the way you write is so very stilling, it feels as if no matter what the words, it unfolds something in me each time I read. Very much a body experience. You really inspire as to how what we write and what serves is about the energy it is written in.

615. ‘ Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do, but then I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle. In truth, I was just constructing arguments to defend against the world and myself, something that had already been decided long ago.’

     This paragraph really stood out for me as I so often claim confusion about a decision. Perhaps, what I’m actually doing is looking for ways to justify my choice so as to not upset anyone along the way…and the moment I worry about others, is the moment the confusion sets in and I get lost in anxiety.

616. Love the simplicity and the way you have presented this Michael. The detail makes it a study. I have been studying your words and ‘practising’ what you have presented. What I realised is how much I am there when I choose what is felt. My confidence remains. I can build my way if I continue to feel what I have chosen to feel and act on from my body.
     It is very important to not let it go and disappear without grounding it in you because “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no””, and all the good moves will have to be made again. So, if we act, the natural thing to do is to confirm what we just acted.

617. Yes Brendan… it is part of what taking responsibility involves. And to live this way provides the richest life imaginable…

618. I love how Michael lets us know that it actually brings ease into the situation and our lives rather than dis-ease. This is fabulous support to step forward in this.

619. Because we are living dishonestly it not only causes confusion for ourselves but also for those around us. It creates a spiral of anxiety because noone is then communicating in honesty or being true to themselves. The lack of being true to yourself is always a cause of tension in the body. Really inspiring blog; thank you Michael.

620. Thank you for the illumination on how I have been living as the queen of complication. I can feel deeply that my often inability to make decisions and choices in the actual moment is tied up with how I am perceived and received in the world.

621. Fabulous blog Michael. This explains so much – the complexity that is brought into our lives. To break it down to something so simple as to make a choice in the moment is gold.

622. I enjoyed reading this blog as it made me feel the level of honesty we can develop with ourselves without striving for perfection. As we observe what we feel, there seem to be more choices to be honest and self-loving. It is a beautiful blog and thank you for sharing!

     1. And in this way we realise that honesty is our most natural way of being.

623. I have just honoured and put into practice to feel that all important decision in the moment that was there and followed through in executing it. It had lead me to that place within for the next, with a more confident return to accept the next move. Its beautiful to feel it is actually me making those steps. This blog offers great wisdom and practicalities to live life the way it can be lived.

624. There is something so simple about being honest and part of that honesty is having the knowing to speak up and say NO instead of trying to please – I’ve spent a long time learning this and checking and evaluating, which means I’ve said NO to what I know is true, and it’s great Michael to hear your expressing this in the way that you have.

625. What a cracker of a blog I really enjoyed the detail you described the process of being honest. “… we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time”. This is true when we make it about self-love. If we do not make it about self-love we follow the comfortable way of repeating the same thing that is familiar and in the same context. Great educational blog explaining why self-love is the key and first step to building LOVE in our life – very important !

626. ‘The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve;’ – Beautifully said and very true Michael. In the past I used to take life too seriously and it created too much hardness and life became dull. I now choose to live with more joy and lightness in my life and notice how this supports myself and others to grow.

627. What I found over the last few years the more I have been honest with my feelings and expressing my truth. My body has felt lighter and more spacious. I have also noticed my relationships have changed with others as they have started to express more openly and honestly. When we are open we inspire others too.

628. This was so beautiful to read Michael, thank you, this line too stood out for me too, “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no””. I have felt the indecision and the mulling I go into when I go into the delaying, tactics creating anxiety. Other times in the moment it is instantly clear as to whether it is a yes or no and it definitely has an ease fullness about it.

629. I too have found that at different times different things will be supportive to my well-being and unfolding, also over time the requirements and the tolerance of my body to various factors changes. And I am only ever able to pick this up if I am choosing to be honest, otherwise I will carry on imposing the beliefs and assumptions instead of paying attention to what my body is actually communicating.

     1. Honesty is actually a surrender to the truth that is already being communicated to us from our body.

        1. Beautifully said Kylie, honesty its just another step towards truth. With honesty truth unfolds, as truth just is.

        2. Powerful comment Kylie, no room for excuses then just a delay.

     2. Absolutely Golnaz being honest and choosing to listen to what our body is communicating gives us the opportunity to constantly evolve rather than getting caught in the comfort of repeating past behaviours which may no longer serve.

630. Thank you Michael. What stopped me was when you say “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no””. I had not considered this before but can feel how it is a way of delay as when I know, I just know – no thinking needed!

     1. Yes, this was a lightbulb moment for me also, jsnelgrove36. Saying ‘no’ to the evolution which is on offer to look at a behaviour or issue.

     2. Yes, good point jsnelgrove36!

     3. Yes jsnelgrove36. When we think about it gameover, but to feel from our bodies conversations and sharing’s it is a resounding yes and high fives all around.The body knows all.

     4. The funny thing is jsnelgrove36 about that sentence ‘ “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no”, is that it wasn’t a light bulb moment for me because I went straight into my head and tried to work it out from there. Tricky isn’t it !

631. This is spot on, and explains how it is that we can instantly know things, as opposed to that all too familiar feeling of indecision and prevarication that happens when we let the mind try to evaluate all the zillions of options. Our ability to discern, by feeling the truth, is the real decision maker and it is about time that the mind stopped masquerading as ‘the’ control unity.

     1. Absolutely simonwilliams8!! How we love to believe that the mind knows best. It’s an ignorant concept these days, particularly with all the research becoming available to us.

        1. Indeed, its been fascinating to watch as science starts to wake up to the fact that feelings affect their environment (trials on freezing water), and that decisions register in the heart quicker than in the head – with the potential to radically alter our understanding of how we ‘think’.

     2. Yes how true this is Simon – we give power and credos to the mind with little regard to whether we are mind – full impulsed by Love or mind – less and a container for any means of filler.

632. Great blog Michael, so often I over think stuff and go into scenarios that may not even happen which can be totally avoided if a bit more honesty is applied.

633. ‘The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully’ Thanks for this line especially Michael. I can feel how often I make life serious. To see it is a wonderful playground makes it so much lighter.

     1. Great point Jane.

        1. Totally, I am all for going lighter and being more playful with this very serious topic of being in life.

     2. Me too Jane and then I am much more likely to get caught in ‘got to get it right’ thoughts which bring instant complication.

        1. I agree Helen – and I find there is no fun in having to get it right. My body hardens and I feel anxious. No fun in that!

634. Michael, if this is living in honesty, sussing out how you are day to day and learning from whats going on with you, then sign me up ! you have given a such good example of truly living life and learning from how you are.

     1. Isn’t it crazy that we make it anything else. Our current schooling system doesn’t help the situation – as we are taught to be ‘right’, ‘perfect’ and we can get in trouble for not doing so. It is not based on honesty and truth, but instead results. No wonder we live in an anxiety of trying to please at the expense of what we feel.

        1. And this is mirrored everywhere in society, the need to better ourselves, be somewhere other than where we are at, to improve our lives, jobs and selves, to strive, perfect and please and never to be at ease in our own skin or to accept where we are at any moment in time or to celebrate our natural beauty and quality. This is role modelled from generation to generation until those of us come forward and pave the way with Truth and a return to our natural lived way.

        2. So true Kylie, we grow up learning that how we do things naturally is not good enough and so we contort ourselves to fit in to the system of the current world…everyone will get sick of it eventually though.

        3. Emily not only are people getting sick ‘of it’ but they are getting sick ‘because of it’, that is contorting themselves to fit into the current system.

635. If we choose honesty we are able to truly connect and meet ourselves and others.

     1. When we choose honesty we can get to truth.

636. Michael what a gorgeous blog, and to be honest, I read to the end before seeing it was you who wrote it, expecting it to be a woman author. Thank you, it is a great gift to us all when someone expresses from such a place of tenderness and honesty, and all the more beautiful when it is from a man for some reason… perhaps just a little less commonplace currently.

637. I love this honest finding Michael, it is so profound and wise;
     “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly”.
     Honesty truely does create space and simplicity.

638. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – though this will not mean that we will not meet this situation again in a similar or different form – especially if it is something very profound for us to learn”.
     Learning to choose instantly and respond accordingly is the key. Of late I have had very profound and significant lessons re choosing instantly and following through with this wise impulse.
     A great blog thank you Michael.

     1. I like that Shirl and also know the feeling of being able to connect and just know instantly what is right for me. The freedom and confidence that can be so liberating when you can just make a decision and get on with it. Instead of the indecisive torment of questioning and uncertainty. Such a different way of being in the world.

639. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.” I am going through a really difficult time at the moment and these words feel so supportive Michael – I can feel the absolute truth of this.

     1. Leonne, I too am in the same boat as you… I keep regarding this person with frustration and scepticism, wondering about my lesson. I guess that prevarication is one and also the knowing that would ironically release this person’s hold on me. Thank you for your words Leonne, they have brought to me a realisation that I had previously ignored.

     2. This is gorgeous Leonne. Imagine the difference it would make around the world if we all adopted this approach? Instead of everyone being so angry and removed from each other, each of us having the wisdom and humility to understand that the tension I feel supposedly ‘because’ of someone else – is actually a place for me to unfold an issue inside of me.

        1. Absolutely Simon and Leonne – what great understanding is there for the masses and with wisdom, our inevitable return to True brotherhood and oneness.

        2. I am so grateful to be reminded of this today. I would much rather know what I need to deal with now than allow unresolved issues to fester away and impact my life.

        3. I couldn’t agree more Leonne.

        4. Agreed Simon, there would be so much more understanding for each other and how we are all in this together to evolve and learn from each other.

     3. Great sharing Leonne, I have been confronted with someone who is very angry most days and the outbursts just seemed to get worse. I was in reaction most days and now have since realised adding to the tension along with assisting the behaviour to continue – then when looking a little deeper I realised I hadn’t looked that closely at my own anger, something shifted and my reactions have lessened and I am more light hearted even when an angry tantrum arises in the other person, but having said that the outbursts are less often and to a lesser degree. This whole process was asking me to speak up and deal with things in an adult manner and then to let things go.

640. Michael your title ‘The beauty of being honest’ caused me to reflect on ‘the ugliness of being dishonest’. I have been dishonest a lot in my life and it feels incredibly awful in my body. When I have said things that I have known not to be true then I have had a constricted feeling in my throat and that feeling of constriction has also effected my neck and chest. The feeling of constriction did not stop at my body but like a fishing net was flung out and covered whoever I was lying to and the space around us. Dishonesty shrinks and shrivels things, whereas the truth is very expansive and sets things free.

     1. So true Alexis, lying creates the most awful energy in the body that infects others too. What a relief to finally discover that nothing is so freeing as the truth and honesty is the best place to start. It is so amazing to be able to simply get all the cards out on the table so to speak, nothing to hide, be ashamed of or dark secret to expose. Honesty is so refreshing, expansive and freeing.

641. ‘As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – though this will not mean that we will not meet this situation again in a similar or different form – especially if it is something very profound for us to learn.’ I have discovered this too Michael. Staying absolutely present with ourselves is the only way to truly live.

642. Yes by interrogating something we can actually delay. i find it interesting how if I am honouring my body and present with what I am doing, and then I am faced with a choice, the way forward is instant.It is quicker than thought, it is my body knowing what to do before it even gets to my head. In that moment I know that there is something much greater than the mind, and it is about the body working as a vessel for whatever is needed.

     1. So beautifully expressed hvmorden.

643. I agree with your sharing, Michael. When I am honest towards myself gives me a very freeing feeling in my body.

644. “….the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover.” Robyn this is such a great example of how we can learn from any situation if we don’t make it about us or them but use it as an opportunity to evolve.

645. Yes so true Susan, we delay so easily without really realising what we are doing. Our bodies always know, so any deviation from this knowing, any “I need to think about it” is us over riding what we feel and know is true in our bodies.

646. Life is a circle as you have shown Michael. We start with living playfully only to enjoin the world to play a role. Through what has been presented by Serge Benhayon, the return to being joyful and playful is just a choice away.

     1. It is Steve, so true and all it takes is one person to remind us that life is not about roles, but about joy to support us all to make that loving, joyful choice. Can take a little while to unpick the lifetimes of choosing the roles, but hey ho, its never too late to make a start!

        1. It seems at odds to seek acceptance of self through playing a role and identifying with it, but over and over we do hope that we might get a different outcome. The other choice is to return as you say Rowena and connect to the joy and love that we are.

647. Michael, i can relate to what you have written here, ‘ I woke up feeling very light, rejuvenated and relaxed… and it was only 2am. I realised that this was exactly the same feeling that I had gone to bed with the day before’, I have noticed that if I lovingly, gently get ready for bed, then I wake feeling refreshed and ready for the day, if I go to bed a little later or if im on the computer not long before going to bed or have a conversation just before going to sleep I notice that I wake up feeling much more groggy and often sleep in a little and feel less ready for the day.

     1. Thankyou for sharing this Rebecca, I definitely need to put in timeline boundaries for certain activities at night so that my wind down is not disturbed. Even small intrusions at this time can influence my sleep.

648. Michael I know for me there are many tensions that can arise during a day, yet the key you’ve shared here is how we are with what we feel. I especially love your discovering that “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.” I’ve had a similar experience yet don’t always choose this, now I know that when I feel tension the power of being honest is the first step.

     1. That’s a pretty liberating way of looking at things David and Michael. – go to the tension and look at it and be honest about what it causing it – instead of avoiding, numbing or ignoring it. Instead of it building and building – it gets dissipated and let go of.

        We need to develop a relationship with that tension.

     2. I agree David – Life can be that simple, making ‘honesty’ the first step and then trusting. The moment my head gets involved, I can start to create stories around the situations and this leads to the ‘Detour’ that Michael talks about. It makes sense to listen to the body first.

     3. That power also means that I need to stop, feel and acknowledge what I have already over ridden otherwise it will just resurface later on.

649. Honesty has to start with ourselves first. The degree to which we are prepared to be honest with ourselves about our hurts, our reactions and our investments, the greater the honest we can bring to others.

     If we are avoiding honesty with ourselves we will protect that which we don’t want to be exposed when with others and in so doing cap the truth we can bring to those around us.

     1. Yes Kate, I’ve found that in the past I had a lot of solutions and answers for others. But I can clearly see now that they were with the best intention but void of lived experiences. In that I also missed the connection with the other. Now I found that much less words are needed, there’s a lot been said in stillness and in allowing the other to just be, share and feel whatever there’s inside waiting to be felt. Honesty with ourselves and dealing with our hurts builds the authority within.

     2. And it’s no wonder we then feel exhausted, when we have to put energy into firstly lying to ourselves, and then to others.

        1. Thank you for this insight Kylie. Indeed, being dishonest with myself is always depleting me and leaves me with a feeling of exhaustion and incapacity.

        2. It is amazing how much our bodies continue to communicate to us, it is never ending.

        3. That’s quite a lie to satisfy with its unquenchable thirst and appetite for the fuel to keep it activated….and we willingly hand over our life-force to fuel a living lie to our own peril.

        4. We do then need to pull in a lot of force to keep all the lies rolling.

        5. Agreed Kylie, and it is only a matter of time before our bodies collapse for not expressing the true light that we are.

650. I do appreciate what you have written Michael about that we only have one chance in making a decision and that is the moment the choice has to be made and that the answer is only either yes or no. The ‘maybe’ or ‘I will come back to that later’ does in truth not really exist but is rather a denial of the fact that that we always have only one of the two answers that is already made before the question even pops up in our conscious mind. Therefore the measuring maybe, or the I will com back to it later are the clear signs of how dishonest we can be with ourselves as when we are honest there is no need to measure but instead the honesty will always be loyal to ourselves and to all of humanity.

     1. ‘we always have only one of the two answers that is already made before the question even pops up in our conscious mind.’ I agree Nico, we can think we have to find the answer to a question, but the answer is already there for us to connect to it.

        1. I have noticed that life actually becomes so simple and joyful when I allow myself to be that honest with myself as going into the ‘maybe’ or ‘I will come back to that later,’ I treat myself with disrespect and in that I completely dishonour my inner knowing and in fact reject a part of myself.

        2. So true Nico, and that is when we start searching for answers forgetting that it is always within ourselves.

        3. Very true Nico, when we reject our knowing we do indeed reject a true part of ourselves.

        4. Exactly Doug and I also love how there are always these perfect constellations of a reflection from someone else which connects you back to the answer within.

651. I totally agree, Michael, that the people and situations we have the most trouble handling are those that we can learn the most from. It is as if we choose our families before we are born too, because many times (in my experience) those are the people we find it the most difficult to get along with, and react to them the most. Ironically though, this seems like a perfect opportunity that’s been set up to finally deal with the issues and past hurts as you mentioned, that are holding us back from living together harmoniously. In addition, I have noticed time and time again that if I don’t deal with an issue I may have with someone, I have inevitably run into the exact same situation with another person. Another chance to finally deal with it, which I am learning to do – and the results have begun to spawn many supportive and mutually respectful relationships, both at work and elsewhere.

652. Somewhere along the road we forgot or left out the love of ourselves. We feed ourselves, wash, dress, work and interact, but all this without love is just running a body on empty.

     1. Absolutely Matthew – when we are void of expressing love we express everything that is not love. Sure we can go through the motions of life in functionality and seemingly get away with it, but the emptiness remains. The hole we try and fill with everything that the outside world has to offer without being shown or taught that everything comes from within, the fullness is there if we choose it. We show kids how to dress, eat, swim, talk etc.. but what about self-love and honouring oneself and what they feel?

     2. And we take this loveless body and way into the world to model to others to give up on ourselves and to not be true. Thank God for True role models such as Serge Benhayon and ‘me’ to light the only True way – Love.

     3. Exactly Matthew, this is running a body. Without a foundation of love there is no living!!

     4. The way most of us grow up without self-love is probably one of the biggest issues humanity has… and yet why would this even be present? Why would we resist loving ourselves and showing our children the same?

653. There have been many times in the past when I have known what is true and what would be my next step but have then questioned it. I would then talk myself back out of it or start to procrastinate and switch backwards or forwards, no longer sure of my original choice, getting myself confused, and complicating what had started out to be a clear ‘yes’ or ‘no’. What I have learnt is to listen to what I first felt, my first impulse, and if this does not jar or feel uncomfortable in my body then I will act on it without trying to work it out and wonder if I will be making the right decision, it is so much simpler and saves so much time.

     1. I know exactly what you mean Alison. it’s like a whole bunch of other voices jump in your head and make you doubt what you know so clearly.

        1. I know this one too Simon and when I buy into it I find myself considering options I am not even interested in! It’s ridiculous really.

     2. I have recently started to accept the power of simplicity and it has exposed how complicated I’ve made life to be. Simplicity also confirms how much we do know when we follow and honour that 1st feeling.

        1. Its a big one to choose simplicity over complexity for there is so much recognition in being able to live a complex life. But once the gorgeous clarity of simplicity begins to be felt, everything can change and there is an open path full of purpose in life that may never have been there before.

        2. I like what you have said Shevon, “Simplicity also confirms how much we do know when we follow and honour that 1st feeling.” it is so true the way we like to bring complication in life when we can connect to the stillness within our bodies and realise life is meant to be simple in every way.

     3. Yes Alison listening to your heart is a home run but when we question ourselves and allow the mind chatter to take hold we are continually hitting foul balls.

        1. That is a great and playful way of expressing it Kelly, I very much agree with Alison and have been working on this myself.

     4. So true Alison as soon as I go into my head and start doubting I am lost – trusting my first feeling and what my body confirms saves so much time and energy.

     5. Yes Alison, learning to trust ourselves and simply follow our first feeling not only makes things incredibly simple, it saves the drain of getting sucked into the chatter of ifs, buts and maybes.

     6. I recognize this pattern alisonmoir. I have often been caught in the trap of feeling a clear impulse and then going through all the pros and cons and ending up in a mess. I have found that when I have a clear impulse if I truly feel this in my body and have this as a marker, I can then do all the required due diligence and come to a clear decision with the initial impulse still with me.

     7. Perfectly said Alison. Life is complicated when we dismiss how simple and clear a situation really is. I love why you have shared, I can relate to it completely! Allowing ourselves to stay with the original feeling and not pollute it with doubts and thoughts, would indeed contribute to clarity in life and feeling solid in oneself. Not only would we allow ourselves to know what the truth is, but also the next step. I can imagine having this clarity and power is quite disturbing and confronting for ourselves at times! Not following through on our original feelings may not just be an avoidance of power, but also of responsibility.

654. Thank you so deeply Michael for your sharing.. i love the clarity and simplicity of “Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do..” but as soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating we have already said “no”…. to that which we first felt.
     I do have this experience a lot of the time, but other times I am not so immediately clear, because there is something that obscures my ability to feel and this takes some time to unravel. I reflect on this and it is usually due to accumulated moments of not being aware and feeling ‘cloudy ‘ and out of touch.
     “Such decisions can only come from honesty and self-love” . This statement shows me how I have not yet consistently put my ‘ beingness’ and connection to myself as a priority where I would then create time and the space for myself to feel and observe what is there.
     As i work on this, I realise connection doesn’t need to take a lot of time. it’s just as you say “the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives. Once implemented, this love for ourselves will support us in holding ourselves in the more difficult moments in our lives and will set us free to stay independent of what others might expect us to do”

     I am also developing trust in my self which is the underlying theme for me, even if others judge me or reject me/ my actions.

     1. Dear Michelle, recently I was talking with a friend about a moment that she said I don’t know. What we found out is that there were multiple layers of feeling just in a split second. She and myself found out that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves by telling ourselves that we need to feel all the answers instantly. This takes away all the space and grace. After taking the time to unravel what was all there, the decision (what to do) was easily made. I could relate to her experience that whenever I’m not clear there’s most of the times a few layers to feel before coming to the answer I was seeking.

655. ‘Very often what we want to avoid is the pain of old hurts.’ When I think of the phrase ‘old hurts’, I usually think of old childhood issues and perhaps even past life ones carried forward. But my current feeling is I use food to sabotage my power and my light. Yes, there is no doubt an absolutely ancient hurt behind this but I’m finding it’s more useful to go with the ‘what is’ rather than the ‘what is not’; to register and appreciate when I am in my power and build my foundations from there.

     1. I agree Victoria, and this has been precisely what I have been feeling and experiencing. A resistance to my power and my light, food is a very easy way of dulling this quickly and keeps you dull for a while.

     2. Yes Victoria, food is such a common and simple way to sabotage oursleves. I too do this when I am feeling super powerful and light, crazy as it may seem, but it is a way of making myself less, as you say, I feel it is sabotaging myself, in order to not outshine others.

     3. I love the what is rather than the what is not Victoria. I find that all too often I focus on the what is not and this can then fall into a pattern of never appreciating the what is and building on this.

     4. Well said Victoria, it is definitely much more supportive to build and strengthen our relationship with “what is” and truly embody the appreciation of who we are and the choices that we have made thus far.

656. Michael the example you use of food is a great one and I love how you have identified how resisting a certain craving would mean introducing more hardness, and that it would be better to eat the desired food. I think the key lies here in then being seriously prepared to look at what was behind the craving, because I know I’ve done a version of this that acknowledges there’s something more going on but have done nothing more than have the thought, so that it becomes an all too easy rationalisation. In other words, my spirit is running the show and I’m buying into looking like I might be bringing honesty to the situation but the reality is I’ve found a comfortable way to pig out.

     1. This is great Victoria and very honest, opening up the discussion with ourselves and others is huge as it allows us to really understand that we always have a responsibility all of the time. Food is one I go to so it brings about much more honesty for me to consider.

     2. Thank you for your honesty Victoria and I can feel how I have been acknowledging to myself that I am eating too much and need to look at what is really going on but still carrying on and not being prepared to look honestly at what is behind the behaviour despite the messages from my body getting stronger…

     3. Such a trick to feel the truth of our choices and food is a great example. I have found that when I am in this situation if I stop and feel the underlying reason for the craving the craving will then leave and no hardness is required but a deeper understanding of the root cause of the craving is revealed.

     4. Indeed Victoria we have a myriad of ways to defend, rationalize, bury, distract from our non-loving choices and all are just a way of lying to ourselves that we are creating our own misery.

     5. You raise a great point Shirley-Ann that often I justify eating more because deserve the reward of getting through a difficult day, or that I am not enough and need to be bolstered by a ‘good solid meal’. Which in reality may make me heavy and dull and not able to deal with what the day brings so well.

     6. There is much honesty in your comment, Victoria, yes when the spirit is running the show, it is easy to rationalise in knowing something more is going on, but then doing nothing about looking deeply at what it is that is making us want to eat something that we know is not what serves our body. I can relate to that one, can so easily use food to dull my awareness of what is going on. Something I am working on.

     7. ‘the reality is I’ve found a comfortable way to pig out’. Truth pure and simple and brought a smile to my lips Victoria, possibly because I can relate to it!

657. ‘As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – though this will not mean that we will not meet this situation again in a similar or different form – especially if it is something very profound for us to learn.’ It’s amazing how what we avoid will show up in our lives to be looked at once more. And if we think we’ve avoided it this lifetime, sure as eggs it will pop up in the next. That’s the beauty of patterns and momentums and cycles, of which reincarnation is one – there is no avoiding of that which we have not yet mastered.

658. Michael I had a similar experience to you the other day too. I’d set my alarm for 2am but woke a minute before it went off, and felt exactly as you described and had a very productive day. I didn’t think to look at the day before and can’t remember now how that might have been but feel the possibility of what you present to be true. Where I am not yet at is the consistency of this because the next day when I attempted the same thing, I woke at the too early time of 12.30am and had a day that was more challenging – I felt tired and gritty at times. So, applying the ‘day before’ principle, I can feel I went into too much doing, effectively exploiting the lovely sense of ease I had been feeling. I’ve often noticed how I can do this – I get over-zealous and think (note ‘think’) “I can do more”. There is then a balance to be struck here; a way to do this that does not involve abuse of the body and being. The argument I construct around this often looks like “But it’s for a good cause” as I’m usually doing something for a project that will benefit others. Not much use when I’m running myself ragged in the process – something you would never see a child, or animal, naturally do.

659. I can really relate to what you have written Michael. I love how you describe the simplicity of making a choice. Yes or no – any thinking, mulling, analysing….is just delay.

660. Lots of golden offerings here in your blog Michael – thank you. One thing that stood out for me was around actually knowing the answer when we need to make a decision but having the tendency to bring in complexity and so argue with ourselves and delay or get off track with our response. When I pause and reflect on this point I can see that this is something I often do, telling myself that I am being careful and thorough. While those aspects are important, what is also important is that I honour what I am reading in situations and hold that as the yardstick rather than allowing myself to keep moving the goalposts and then ending up confused and uncertain.

661. I love the simple way in which you express our fearful prerequisite for honesty Michael. Your words are quite profound. Thank you.

662. Michael what stood out for me is this:- “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.”
     With every obstacle there is an opportunity to learn from ,and evolve if we choose yes. Otherwise we are just delaying, what will come around again.

663. I can’t help but come back to how simple our choices are – and the immense joy in feeling that – like really really simple.

664. If our decision is not an absolute then it’s not from God.

665. Honesty is an exploration of something we realize does not work or is not it anymore. It is a way that leads to truth, where no questions are open anymore.

666. Yes to me too, this is really a great way to say it, no to thinking I should hurt.

667. This is pure joy to read; the world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve. And I can confirm that it is that simple, since I am not doing things out of need for recognition anymore.

668. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.” I can so relate to this Michael, thank you.

669. This is such a great blog Michael I love it from the first word till the last one. So clear and so honest. I’ll stick with these words every single day:

     “… it become really obvious to me that we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say “yes” or “no”.

     As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – though this will not mean that we will not meet this situation again in a similar or different form – especially if it is something very profound for us to learn.

     The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.”
     Thank you Michael

670. Honesty is a discussion that needs to happen. I always believed I was an honest person and that I didn’t tell lies. Reflecting on some of the patterns I have held in my body has caused me to look at ‘speaking up’ – when I choose to speak up and when I choose to stay silent. One day I became aware that a person can choose to omit details of something that is going on, and sometimes choosing to not say something can be ‘lying by omission’, it is not being honest. When I discovered this, I found that I too used to sometimes leave out details because I didn’t want to loose favour with the other person. To choose to ‘omit’ can be manipulating and not ‘Truth-full’. Being honest is something I value in my life and relationships – it keeps life simple and loving. Great Blog Michael – Honesty is part of a living foundation that supports us all.

671. When we start expressing honesty and truth, it frees our bodies enormously. Now when i do hold back, express in a way that is going into being nice, trying to please another, or holding back, my body instantly feels heavier and more dull. Every choice either lightens our body bringing it more vitality and expansion or dulls it down. It’s like the food we choose to eat, we can choose to eat something that numbs us and checks us out, or something that deeply nourishes us and warms us to the bone…. Every choice we make is something we have to digest as well.

672. When I choose to be honest and tender about how I am feeling it allows hardness in me to melt away and is healing for another to see the real me, no masks – they just melt too.

     1. We all need more honesty in our lives… well at least I can say that I definitely do. I can see how I can avoid honesty, but when I am honest I can feel the healing and blessing of it so wonder why I avoid it in the first place.

673. Honouring that first feeling is so important. I have so often overlooked it, but find that the more I honour and just go with that things in life just flow and there is more simplicity for myself and others. It pays to listen to our bodies!

674. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.” How true. Our head can tell us many things but our heart knows what we feel and how to express it.

675. “The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out.” Wow now this is an amazing realisation and way we can all live and is being shown to us all thank you.

676. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role” – Michael this is a quote and a powerful one at that – it reveals how we often play roles and lack the honesty to say so, but once we do then we are freed from the constraints of the ideals and beliefs that come with the game rules.

677. This is beautiful Michael and I can feel the real joy in you and your connection and thank you for sharing this . I love the knowing of what we already know and that Honesty really does create space and frees us from the need to play a role.

678. This is a gorgeous blog Michael. Coming back to the simplicity of honesty is the way.

679. ‘The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.’

     This is such a huge statement. I am realising that all the issue in my life, any drama, and frustration or anger towards anything or any one- all comes from my own attitude towards the situation. The more tension or resistance I have towards something – the more I know there is something for me to look at.

     1. Yes I find the same Simon, if I feel resistance it is a fair indication there is something I can go deeper with and bring more understanding to.

680. “Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do, but then I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle. In truth, I was just constructing arguments to defend against the world and myself, something that had already been decided long ago.” I can very much relate to this process of decision making and I’m just reflecting on what turmoil this was. These days, thanks to Universal Medicine and learning to live in a way where I am connected with my body, decision making is a process guided by my connection with my body.

681. The pause or stop button may give the illusion of working but it cannot as life continues on. I got the sense of a production line where someone is trying to stop the machine because it may have jammed but the packages keep coming and keep piling up and it all has to be cleaned up and sorted before it can move on and work productively again.

682. By the time one has a food craving for something that is not right, it is too late. We have already lost connection with ourselves. What we do not tend to do in life is look at our issues – whatever they be – when we feel clear or on top of things. We only look at our issues when we are in them – and thus why we can never develop clarity on what is truly going on.

683. Very beautiful blog Michael! “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” If we become honest and start feeling and start expressing we don’t have to go into old ingrained patterns we have used to avoid dealing with what there is to be felt.

     1. That same quote spoke to me too this morning Janina. Being honest requires no face to put on for effect, no aim or struggle to be something we’re not. We are enough as we are, so why not be honest and simply be ourselves?

684. I really enjoyed this blog Michael, honesty is something that I feel comes easy to us but as you say it’s like we brush it aside not wanting to accept what has been universally presented for us to learn from.

685. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.” I know exactly what you mean Michael, often the ‘unsaid thing’ is exactly the thing that needs to be said and once this happens everything seems to flow more easily.

     1. Yes totally agree Leonne, the unsaid things cause stagnation in any relationship, and what I find is that stagnation causes the same feeling of stagnation in all relationships. What we have with one, we have with all… as Serge Benhayon has been presenting for years… it is too true.

     2. I have had the exact same experience also Leonne. it’s hilarious how we hold it all back in fear of something we think up that hardly, if ever, happens.

     3. So true Leonne. Our minds create scenarios that are actually a set up to put us off expressing truth. When we do choose to express what we have felt – Michael has found out ‘instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation’.

686. Michael thank you for sharing your developing relationship with honesty, it has reminded me of the fact that honesty is such an integral part of my life and so necessary in revealing the truth. I think it’s the quality I love and admire most about children, their ability to say it as it is, it’s a beautiful quality and something I know if lived and expressed by us all would make such a difference to the way we live. As you have shown it is worth developing our relationship with honesty as it supports us to live a more loving and truthful life.

687. I love what you have shared here Michael, as it reveals the true simplicity we can choose in our lives when we choose to live honestly. I find the more I am honest about what I feel the more life flows. I so agree with your revelation to choose instantly a choice, rather than to go into the delay of thinking or mulling over, as when we live in this way it reflects the fact that we trust and honour what we feel. I know those times that I have lived this way my life has flowed, it is only when we go into the doubt that we create the tension and anxiety that so many live with. Living honestly is a beautiful way to be.

688. Beautiful blog Michael. I love how you say that by incorporating self love into our day it is then there to hold us in the more difficult times in our life. This is so true. Self love then becomes the foundation for all else.

     1. So true Lee, only our own self love knows how best to support us so very beautifully. And when consistently chosen builds a truly loving foundation.

     2. I love to feel that I am being held, by myself, by the love I have for me and by all the universe.

     3. Absolutely Lee and Katie, when we are consistent with self love, it eventually becomes something foundational that supports everything else in life. What’s also cool is that it is forever evolving… we can’t just keep doing the same things and expecting it to feel self loving. Once something has become part of a foundation, it is then to review and refine what is next.

     4. So true Lee. our relationship with it gets deeper and deeper until eventually it never wavers. Such a supportive thing.

     5. This makes sense and I can feel that every choice counts.

689. “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” – to love.
     As soon as we go into our head to try and work things out we are in fact in complication. It is that simple.

     1. Thank you Gyllianrae for this reminder. We can be so used to living a complicated life that we forget that simplicity can be so easy, by just going with that first feeling from inside.

        1. And the fact that in every moment we always have a choice.

     2. Well said gyllianrae, it is that simple. And exhausting too when we go down that road!

     3. So true Gyllianrae- “As soon as we go into our head to try and work things out we are in fact in complication. It is that simple.” But we see many people in society believe this is the only way- until we are able to show them that indeed there is another way- by connecting to our inner heart and allowing the natural wisdom to forge the way.

690. “set us free to stay independent of what others might expect us to do” – I didn’t realise how much I harden to not feel others expectations on me, until I read this line. It’s actually brought tears to my eyes, to literally feel the huge physical pressure we impose on another when doing this. It’s one of the worst things we can do – we are literally dumping our issues on someone else, leaving them to carry them around with them. This is where we have to take huge responsibility, one for not doing this and two for not taking on other peoples issues.

691. This is so utterly delightful to connect to Michael, thank you for sharing the Beauty that is your expression.

692. You have written so much here and all of it I can relate to. I am feeling how even though I am more honest than I have ever been there is another level to go to in listening and responding to my body that I have been delaying in going to. I love the examples you have given which make it far more tangible in how we can do this; and what you have shared here ‘I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.’ is very exposing in that what we perceive and what the truth is, is very different. For example I perceive taking and being 100% responsible to be big, harder work and a bit of a burden! However, this is because it is about me stepping away and out of the comfort I have lived in. Yet I know in truth and can feel in my body taking and being 100% responsibilty for my life actual brings more joy!

     1. What an awesome revelation Vicky. Honesty is like pulling all the skeletons out of the proverbial closet. If we have been avoiding honesty for a while (and hiding those skeletons) there is sometimes a very uncomfortable clean up phase (and some explaining to do) but afterwards the cupboards are clear and things get much easier.

693. I enjoyed reading your honest, playful, loving blog! Thank you.

694. Honesty creates space because it makes transparent the walls we otherwise erect to safeguard what we don’t want to be seen. Without walls, there is only space and with space there is room to move – delicately, lightly, joyously so.

     1. What a simple and absolute strong picture Liane! Honesty nominates our self created walls and so make them transparent. Then we can see again. And the space we’ve got back with that leads us to … the world of connection and joy. So honesty is re-connecting.

     2. So beautiful Liane… ‘Without wall, there is only space and with space there is room to move – delicately, lightly, joyously so’. Your writing offers this very space… reading it I know exactly what you are referring to.

     3. Beautifully said Liane. Honesty gives us the room to move. and see it all so clearly so that everything is manageable. Nothing seems too big as it is all laid out in front of you.

695. Truth is gorgeously simple. We only go into complication when we want to avoid it. By analysing all angles, fretting and over thinking, we successfully override our very natural impulse to feel the truth of all things and thus delay our return to love. Another great blog Michael, thankyou.

     1. I love that Liane.. ‘We only go into complication when we want to avoid it.’ When we express truth, we are expressing our power, something we also are addicted to avoiding and hiding from. The irony of course being that whenever someone does express truth, they ignite this spark of freedom for everyone and they pave the way we all long to walk back to.

     2. Beautifully said Liane Mandalis. The world could do with more honesty and less glamour.

     3. Hear hear Liane, “Truth is gorgeously simple” and when we choose to complicate our lives to not feel the beauty of simplicity we miss out on connecting to the grandness of the love we are.

696. Some things we say no to may or may not come back but it is always an amazing miracle how, once we have said ‘yes’ to a true impulse, things roll out very quickly to support that decision and everything flows simply and easily.

697. There is so much here that I absolutely love, your talk of playfulness and the beauty of the world as children see and experience it is my favourite and as I also grow and learn I am finding ways to rediscover this place. Its magic and yes honest, self honest is the key.

698. “The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again.” I find this very revealing Michael, that comfort does not mean relaxation and making life simple, but is in fact causing complications and is deceitful. There are many who will not agree, believing that comfort is even the goal, and to stand up and express this alternative view can bring big reactions, even anger, as it is threatening to a life lived in this way. There is such beauty in your simple words which comes from your own life experience of finding the truth for yourself, so what you express carries great power and love and an opportunity for all to hear if they so choose.

699. I do love your blog Michael. You have such a beautiful and elegant way of expressing that it is always a joy to read your words. How you end this blog reminding us we are living in a wondrous playground in which everything is set out for us to evolve is great. It brings a warm glowing feeling to my being 🙂 Thank you!

700. Saying yes to what is offered in that moment allows for magic to happen…it allows the unfoldment of whatever is needed – saying yes to the first step allows the next steps ahead to present themselves…there is an ease and flow to life which becomes a study of grace.

701. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.” Yes, I can completely relate to this one. There are so many times when I have created an image in my head of an outcome to a situation that I have felt super uncomfortable about, usually when I have had to express something and am fearing a reaction. Then when I actually go through with it, it has been nothing like my preconceived idea, and a lot of the time it has in actually fact been much better. These are lessons in learning to not listen to our mind so much.

702. “The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out.” This is a lovely thing to remember Michael (and I can connect to and remember this as a child) and to know that life is only as complicated as we allow it to be.

703. Honesty is a great starting point to get to the truth, without the honesty first about how we feel, it would not be possible to get to the truth.

     1. Yes Sally, and without truth, we don’t evolve!

     2. Spot on Sally, its the starting foundation for truth to reside.

704. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover.” This is so true. I have also observed that when situations and people bring up lots of tension in my body so that I want to avoid them, it is usually because there is something for me to learn from them, another layer of hurt to peel back. It can feel uncomfortable but it is always worth facing them so as to bring about another bit of awareness and evolution.

     1. It does take application to put ourselves in situations or with people that we find difficult. Recently someone and I uncovered some really yucky stuff that was being reflected in our relationship. At times it seemed much easier to not see each other as it was so uncomfortable to do so but we both persevered knowing that to not go through it, was simply to put it off. Yep it was painful momentarily but having come out the other side it feels like an infected growth has been removed from my body as the problems that we were both having only existed as a result of what had been festering on in the inside. Everything on the outside is a reflection of what going on in the inside.

705. I love what you say here about self-love and honesty and how “the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.” This is such an important thing to be reminded of. To build up a more solid living quality of self-love in our bodies we need to be consistent in applying it to all situations, even when we are behind doors with no one else to to see. It then becomes much more of a natural part of our daily lives as opposed to something we need to make a conscious effort to do.

706. “If we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.” Wow, this is such a great revelation that makes perfect sense. The moment we think about or churn over a decision we are overriding what our body has already communicated to us as to the best direction to take. Fantastic! It’s a bit like what we have heard so many times about following our gut feeling.

707. I love this : “just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future.” When I choose to live every moment connected to me I know what to do next and when this is completed I know what is next, this enables such an easy flow to my life with no stress or anxiousness about all the things that I think I should be doing.

     1. I agree from own experiences here marylouisemyers – if I am with me, connected to my body and allow me to feel, I become also aware of my connectedness in the brotherhood of men as in the divine plan and so feel the purpose of life, feel held and safe.

     2. This is one of the big pieces I took away from the blog… the head is ill equipped for decision making and will just analyse and complicate something. This behaviour is the opposite to the love that is available.

        1. Yes Simon… it is crazy that for 12+ years of schooling we are conditioned, coached, coerced, complimented and rewarded to think that our ability to problem-solve and think things through logically, to analyse and work something out… IS intelligence, and that it is where our decision-making skills are honed. No wonder it takes so many years of schooling to achieve this… to go against the simplicity and naturalness of knowing from within us, takes a lot of hard work it would seem!

        2. Its beautiful to rediscover that small voice inside that always has an opinion, a feeling of what is clearly right. It leaps straight to the end result with a knowing… it’s then taken me a bit of time to play with it, practice and learn to trust it again.

        3. Yes and when you do it this way it’s a fun version of school where you are your own teacher and pupil of life, all rolled into one!

708. I agree Michael – how we live in all areas of our life lays the foundation for how we will respond in the next moment.

709. ‘The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; ‘ , that’s a great point to observe and catch that we can be off track or in our heads with thoughts. Having been used to burying stuff, I’m finding those early messages very important to notice, thank you Michael.

710. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover;” Wow, if everyone understood this what a different place our world would be….!

     1. Yeah that’s my favorite to Rebecca Turner.
        If you look at life like this – it changes everything!

     2. This stood out for me too Rebecca. It makes so much sense that anything that is challenging us is at the same time reminding us that there is so much more for us to experience. At these times we have a choice, yes to uncovering even more, or no and resisting all of that. The no is actually saying yes to staying in the comfort of the struggle – as ironic as this sounds.

     3. I so agree Rebecca, this is the wisdom we could all be living and what a joy it would be if we did.

711. Sometimes we can make the world so complicated and we forget the simplicity we had as a child in how things were and how we expressed so honestly. They did not need to play any roles but loved being themselves. Thank you Michael -there is a lot to ponder here.

     1. Its so easily seen in children. and they are so brutally honest. Its so great.

712. Michael when I read the sentence ‘As honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them, the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives’ I really got the sense that honesty and self love are like lubricants to an engine.

713. I love how you have expressed the beauty and simplicity of being honest Michael. Recognising how often I have gone into my head and delayed making decisions is helpful because I have the choice to start afresh and trust my initial feeling of what is the right action in any moment. The more I do this the more it unfolds – like a muscle that gets stronger with use.

714. The term “the wisdom of hindsight” is well known and experienced by most if not all but actually it is with hindsight we realize that we have known from the very beginning but didn´t choose/act upon.

     1. Yes, that is very empowering. We do know, we carry the wisdom within us and only need to make a choice to connect to it (again).

     2. Absolutely. Thank you for this wisdom, which I had never seen as such. Of course I can only see in hindsight what would have been wise, because I already knew that in the very moment when I made that choice. With every choice that we make, we deep inside know what we are doing and if this will support us or not, yet there is no need to lament or beat ourselves up for choices that were seemingly wrong. From my experience I must say that the choices that have offered me the greatest learning have been those that by classic standards would have been defined as wrong. There is no wrong, just another way to learn the same thing.

        1. Those seemingly wrong choices usually expose areas and themes in us that we have been unaware or in denial of, but could get away with so far. As awareness is the name of the game those things we protect most at times need to be exposed somehow ‘unintentionally’.

     3. And how much harm and delay is created just because of this Alex, the unwillingness to face and take the responsibility about my choices? Thereby, by expressing honestly, I found it so refreshing and easy at the end to go on with life and expand by accepting old choices and do beautiful new ones. Honesty creates such a space and wide view – just lovely and facilitative.

        1. Indeed, avoiding honesty and accountability for one´s choices and actions is burdening oneself and others. Acceptance clears the air and sets us free to make fresh choices on a fresh foundation.

        2. And how much time is spent just for nothing by the negotiations about ‘who is responsible’?! At the end it is me, and I am the only one who I can truly change.

        3. Well said Sandra!

     4. That is so true Alex, we do always know but may not choose for a myriad of reasons, and when we don’t act it usually causes unnecessary complication and delay.

        1. Yes, and sometimes the consequences must become so uncomfortable to make us crack and overcome the unwillingness and resistance that keeps us from raising our awareness and to feel what we have avoided to feel and admit for quite a while.

715. Thank you Michael, the more honest we can be with ourselves the more we get to see and appreciate things for what they are. Honesty leads to truth and helps us to see what is really going on for ourselves and for those around us.

     1. And with honesty we get to connect to people in a deep and true way, what is beautiful.

        1. It is beautiful and gives us the freedom and space to simply be ourselves. I love being around people who are not asking me to be anything or a certain way. To be given the space to express the way I feel to is a huge gift. Serge Benhayon has been someone who has consistently done this since I first met him, which has given me the confidence more and more so to be me with others without trying to be someone for them. It is a massive shift for me, as I used to live like a chameleon always changing my colours to fit into crowds or situations but exhausting myself and never feeling content.

716. Rediscovering the feeling of beauty in the body comes to each of us through a unique set of circumstances. To me, the key is to honour a certain way of movement inside my body. Now that I know this, I can feel the pain that comes along with another movement that consecrates ‘alteration’ inside me. So, my path back to beauty is to come back to a movement I can trust is true.

     1. This is exquisite Eduardo. I can feel what you are describing but have never felt it in this way or so profoundly. Thank You.

     2. That is an extraordinary experience and understanding of what truth is, that it can be felt and thus known by feeling and that it is beauty as much as it is a movement. The body recognises truth by movement and the sense of beauty, harmony and order that goes along with it. This fact might blow some minds that try to own truth only intellectual.

717. Honesty is indeed allowing for the space to no longer pretend or hide and hence to accept and be – that is the only place from where to make wise choices.

     1. oooo so great to read this line Alex as hiding now feels the same as what it is to “dull” oneself and when I over eat Im feeling that Im doing this ! awesome conformation!

     2. Truth is found in transparency and nothing less.

     3. It seems like honesty is the bedfellow of responsibility.

     4. So, wise choices come from ‘being’ – not ‘thinking’.

718. The science of being a student of oneself and life described from living it, a true sharing of the process of evolution – that is the way to inspire, thanks Michael.

     1. A student of oneself, a true mastery of life.

     2. Beautifully said, and agreed Alex!

     3. A great way to see that l am a student of my own … so lying to myself will not bring me forward in my study, I will stagnate and become stunted. And isn’t that the way we feel even we maybe have reached a lot in technic and a few of us can fly to the stars or become ‘a star’ in music business or where ever – we miss the star in us. By starting to study ourselves again we may can rediscover our shining and can let go of searching of ‘it’ in the outside.

719. “Honesty, Self-love, Truth and Beauty – such a joy to have chosen them again.” A long forgotten elixir returns.

     1. the elixir of LIFE 🙂 – instead of existing

720. “pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle.” Isn’t it amazing that we have to convince ourselves contra to what the body impulses.

     1. yes lucindag – This line has helped me a lot – I can see that I often feel the truth but then heap on a whole lot of untrue analysis on top to avoid the fact that I need to take action.

721. When I think back to times when I choose Yes and it turned out to be a bad decision I only need to go back to the excuse I used to defend the wrong choice by saying I ‘thought’ it was a good idea at the time.

     1. A classic saying Steve, and one that I too have used. It now shows why it wasn’t the right choice. Once we add ‘thought’ we are already choosing to move away from the true way.

     2. Spot on Steve Matson, i often find myself excusing a bad choice with “I assumed this would happen” I am quickly learning that assumptions sit on the same fence as evaluating and analysing.

722. This part about feeling tension with challenging situations and how being honest with that can bring a greater understanding and a deeper healing, is something I am learning a lot about at the moment. So, instead of blaming the situation for how I feel, I am learning to be honest about I feel, and this is quite often exposing of much stubbornness, or reluctance to take the next and very necessary step. However, because of being honest in the first place, I cannot help but then be gentle with myself and give myself support in letting go. Thank you Michael for a fantastic blog.

723. Michael, this is very interesting to ponder on, ‘we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say “yes” or “no”. As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no”, I can feel the truth in this, I can feel how I can make things really complicated by not deciding straight away, I always have a feeling of yes or no, but I can go into my head and over think it and then the decision drags out and becomes complicated. I love the simplicity of what you have written, I can feel how much easier life would be to live this way, simply responding in a way that feels true without the head getting getting involved and making it complicated.

     1. Like you Rebecca, I always have a feeling of yes or no, its just whether I am willing to be honest about it… If there is something in the way, then I doubt that initial impulse and the clarity is lost.

724. Honesty is really like a prior status of truth. It gives space.

     1. Sandra what I love about the way that you write is that your use of English, although not standard always seems to add an incredible depth to whatever you say.

        1. I completely agree Alexis. Sandra’s expression is revelatory and as still as the space it comes from.

        2. Totally agree Alexis, for me the magic within Sandra’s words is the fact that she has lived them.

     2. absolutely allows space as well as grace and permission to be super tender and sensitive and Joyous !

     3. And creates humbleness and grace.
        Honesty leads us to truth.

     4. I like that Sandra – a prior status of truth!

725. And it covers our choice, which is already made.
     We could create habits and lifetime stories with this drama around our ‘no’ – or be honest and cut all these stories. What gives a lot of space to feel…

726. “The more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover” – and I have to ask me: what is the challenge? Is it really ‘the other person’ or is it me not able to stay in harmony with them? To be ‘not be able to stay in harmony’ in truth means I did react and it means I did give up on love. And lets be honest – this is what makes me angry or sad, not the other. To be honest here means to take responsibility about my emotions and reactions – this is so self-empowering! A joy to do so, and soon proud is called off.

727. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ This, is very true indeed. Honesty provides us with a platform from which to observe so that we are not swimming around in all that is going on, so we are free to choose from what feels true.

     1. Honesty is a rocksolid basis underneath our feet.

728. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover”. I love your sharing here Michael, to me this shows that in those situations by being honest, sticking with whatever feelings I may have I can discover far more about me and life. It turns on its head the avoidance of doing something that can be challenging.

     1. This is true David, the head can create all sorts of stories as to why we should not do something which is considered challenging, but what I have discovered is that after having taken on the challenge I sit back and wonder what all the fuss was about.

729. Choosing is not as special as we think, but is actually happening every moment. Thank you for this reminder Michael that everything comes down in life, to yes or no to truth.

     1. Important point you have brought to the fore, Joseph. Choosing is nothing special because it is actually happening in every moment, even though we may not be consciously aware of this. Wow. This really brings a sense of being responsible for being aware of what is in fact driving our lives and whether the choices we are in fact making, especially those that we are not fully aware of, are aligned to truth or not! Wow again… That is big.

730. Thank you Michael for providing me this blog to read this morning. The line “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role” is outstanding for me and I can feel the profoundness of what you share with this. When I am honest with myself there is indeed not any role that I need to play but there is only a desire to just be me and to accept myself for that in full in all my playfulness, nothing more and nothing less.

731. An amazing blog Michael. I can relate to all the stalling techniques you have outlined here. Choosing momentary comfort is definitely not the way to go, for it will return again at another time or in another guise…………. a big price to pay.
     Thank you for putting it in ‘lights’ for me.

732. It’s all about opening our eyes and hearts to the world.

     1. I can agree with that Suzanne, “opening our eyes and hearts to the world” is the honesty we have to allow ourselves to be with. So simple actually 😊

733. Yes me too Susan, that line really stood out for me also, we’ve already said no when we start evaluating — what this showed to me was an absence in trusting feelings…because when we trust, we know what we feel instantly, and know it to be true, or clear cut. No sitting on the fence in evaluation.

734. Wow Michael,
     That blog is simply amazing, so true, breaking apart the issues I may have had with honesty
     I now find that honesty with self leads to truth, which then enables a beautiful flow with my choices, saying ‘yes’ ‘yes’ ‘yes’!

735. Yes often Michael, and what i’ve found to be true — is often that our greatest resistance is where our greatest strength lies – and that, when we deal with the hurt that is stopping access to knowing or feeling this truth, there is great spaciousness .. like the removal of a stone or boulder from a packed soil. And the feeling afterwards creates a clarity … to see the greatest strength.

     1. Yes Zofia, that is something that I have discovered as well. The more there is to learn from a situation or the more I could bring to the situation the more I will fight it or react to it.

     2. I love what you’ve mentioned here Zofia – could it be that the engrained issues that we absolutely do not want to look at are where our greatest strengths are? And that we are only resisting addressing those issues because we know how powerful the spaciousness of NOT having the issue would be?

        1. Often i have felt the potential of something long before it happens and will deliberately choose to revisit an issue in order to hold myself back. The revisiting an issue is/was a comfort for me which kept me in the cycle of playing small.

     3. Sofia, you have described the process beautifully. I have created many boulders that fill my space, and that I falsely think of as stone too heavy to move. More and more I recognise this boulder as a point where I now know I need to go deeper, and see the boulder for what it is, a stone I have created out of air to stop me feeling the incredible space within.

     4. This is a gem Zofia. Thanks so much for sharing, its amazing to consider. Letting go of our hurts, can only reveal more of the amazing person we are within, and to let this out we can’t have our hurts get in the way. Sometimes I have thought holding back was the answer, it is only a temporary solution to avoid feeling that spaciousness, knowingness and being very open and exposed. Its great to ponder on the fact that, we are our most powerful when we are open and not holding back.

736. Michael what a great blog and an incredible sharing. The sentence….As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no” is such a timely reminder of how in that split second we know what choice needs to be made but can be caught in the games of doubt.

737. honesty is great because it is what brings us back to our body. Truth can never come from what is in our mind but only the energy that is lived in our body, because our mind can run the show with its interpretation on how life ought to be, but this could be damaging the body. The body in stillness is where we will find our truth, and it is a way of living that is far beyond being honest.

     1. Spot on harryjwhite, being honest with ourselves brings us back to our body, and simply is the best medicine we can give ourselves and it does not cost anything!

     2. I agree Harry, honesty is a great start but to truly heal we need to be willing to go to truth

        1. That is the way, and no other way is leading us to truth other than our honesty with ourselves and with others.

     3. So gorgeous Harry! Absolutely relate to what your sharing and find the way you share it wonderfully insightful. “the body in stillness is where we will find our truth” I love this line especially 🙂

     4. Very well said Harry ‘Truth can never come from what is in our mind but only the energy that is lived in our body,’

     5. True Harry. Our body will never lie to us.

     6. Beautifully expressed Harry – bringing it back to the body of truth.

     7. Thank you Harry this is true how honesty is the best way to come back to our body which is probably why we avoid honesty so much as then we don’t have to feel the ill of our ways but in the end the body is the marker of all truth. It is just how long we deny getting to it.

     8. This is what occurred to me also Harry and you have expressed it so well. I deeply appreciate how Michael has brought a focus to honesty as the way back to truth that resides in our bodies. This feels poignant in particular for understanding how the mind works to avoid truth.

738. Beautiful Michael. “I had not specifically done things differently, but had simply been very honest with myself, letting myself not be guided by my thoughts or knowledge, but by what I was feeling” This is so awesome. TO not be guided by thoughts or knowledge but to acknowledge our feelings is a true way to honesty and it is a lived way that we can experience from choices that we make every day. Sometimes our ‘feelings’ are not always what are true for us but are ones that will keep us comfortable, this is something to watch out for.

739. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation” – I can definitely relate to this! And much of what you have written here Michael. It’s amazing to feel how much energy we waste holding back our true expression, when it is what was needed all along. Thank you Michael, this article is indeed very exposing and supportive – equally so.

     1. ‘Expecting the world to explode when we express’ shows how much tension and pressure we have put on ourselves to live up to expectations, conform with ‘the world’ and avoid any chance to get rejected and hurt again. It is the hurt (past experiences) that we hold on to and then project onto life that keeps us caught in a creation of our own making. Whereas love is fresh and open in every moment.

     2. Well said Amelia.
        Deep down everyone wants to hear the truth.

        We can all see it and know it in our bones. When we do let it out and say it as it is – it often lets people drop the tension of the imposed ‘niceties’ of what is imposed on us by what we “should” say or do – instead of that we know it true.

        1. That is why we say ‘honesty is disarming’ – “Deep down everyone wants to hear the truth.” We just fight against each other to protect us and don’t get hurt. Thereby we hurt ourselves the most by not being honest and living, reflecting and supporting the ‘what is not truth’. Lets put the weapons and protections down, be honest and let space expand again. … Who starts?

     3. It’s true, we waste so much energy daily by holding back what there is to be expressed.

     4. It actually happens the reverse of what we imagine, rather than the world exploding if we choose to express, the explosion happens inside of us if we don’t express. Holding back what is naturally there to express causes illness and disease in our own bodies. if we do express there is more space and clarity within us and an openness for everyone.

     5. Yes Amelia, total expose, because it is really true holding back hurts us all. Not to forget that giving our all heals us all;)

740. Making things more complicated than they need to be is just another way of avoiding dealing with our hurts – how can you when life is such a drain? Choosing simplicity and honesty allows space for healing and evolution. How we react to what life ‘throws’ at us is a choice.

     1. I agree, Carmin, and to get aware that we do react most of the time to what is thrown towards us is something which supports us in our evolution, so that we can come to a point seldom where we feel there is a deep inner knowing or a true impulse, which can guide us instead.

     2. Agree Carmin, even though I’m squirming in my chair. I’m amazing at uncomplicating things that are not directly affecting me, but when it comes to being honest with myself…I’ll choose complication every time. And it is a drain, a massive drain, but I have to accept that I choose it and accept that I actually know better!

741. “As honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them, the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.” Reading this made me laugh as I recognized those times I have waited until my back was well and truly against the wall before I gave in and chose to start being honest about what was going on. What you say is so true the more we apply these qualities in our every day the easier it become to access them during those more challenging times.

742. I could relate to everything you have written here. Such a gorgeous and supportive article to read, thank you so much.

743. I feel like being honest allows us to be free in our expression, conversely we can become incarcerated by our own lies.

     1. Definitely we can become trapped in lies. One lie leads to another to support it and in little time a life becomes a lie. There is such nervous tension in maintaining a lie with the constant threat of exposure and what that entails. Honesty allows space and time. The truth simple is, it stands solid, no justification required.

     2. I agree Michael, very well said

     3. Great point Katie – it feels like this is key to expanding our awareness and developing our expression.

     4. Yes totally Michael ! We create our own prison by lying – our reality becomes narrower and we become more desperate.

744. I think you make a good point Michael about not just putting our connection to one side, until such time as we think we really need it! There is the saying ‘dig deep’ when going through a tough period or situation in life but what if we were to live from our innermost all the time?

745. Dear Michael, beautiful to read. It is very beautiful to be honest. I am realizing how much breath and space it gives to be honest , just in my life, towards myself and others. Simply beautiful it just requires dedication to building truth in your life.

     1. So true Danna – the honesty allows us space. There is no need to concoct something or energy wasted in hiding. Just a simple pure honesty and we have the space we need to breath.

        1. Exactly Lee, when we have space we can breath more freely, which is great!

     2. When I am honest, it is like a relief. The tension dissipates and it allows an openness and intimacy with myself and others.

746. ‘These paths never carried me off track totally but looking back, some proved to be quite a detour’. We cannot avoid what is already written we can only take the long way round.

     1. I really liked this part of the blog as well. I have taken the long way round many times to only be offered and presented with the same opportunities in different forms. I really loved this part of the blog actually.

     2. Well said Kim, ‘we cannot avoid what is already written we can only take the long way round’. We choose to self abuse, distract ourselves and check out to avoid looking at certain things. Although in the short term it may feel as if the tension we felt from these issues has reduced, our period of checking out does not change the fact that the issue is there.

     3. No we can certainly not sustain avoiding what is already in motion as it goes against everything we know to be true, but I know I certainly tried for awhile to withdraw and deny all that I was unwilling to see or deal with. Nowadays I am much more willing to live my life in an ever increasing awareness rather than avoidance. This feels like an ongoing process as I expose all the areas that I have avoided feeling for so long.

     4. Yes and we can create quite a lengthy journey in the process too Kim, I agree. Meeting Universal Medicine and its teachings brought me home to a real beauty within me that I have spent a great deal of time avoiding. So daft that we put so much energy into not being who we are. Michael writes with such a beautiful innocence, an innocence reclaimed that lies within us all and shows us how easy it is to return this innate quality, when we choose to just be very honest with ourselves.

747. ‘As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no”. This line to me showed how delay creeps its way in through our thoughts. Once we choose to leave our bodies we are in delay of walking what is already laid out before us.

     1. Yes it shone a light on thoughts and delay for me too, and offers another way to make decisions and move forwards from the body not mental calculation.

     2. This was perhaps the key idea for me in this blog (although I truly enjoyed the whole article!) The practice, it seems to me, is to be present enough in each moment to notice what our initial response from our body is. Is it yes or no? The rest of what goes on in our mind is just a distraction or justification for not paying attention to that initial response.

        1. And building on what that ‘yes’ feels like in our bodies is what I’m finding a major key, or more so what the ‘no’ feels like. My marker for truth is becoming such a natural way that when the what is not creeps in, it’s become easier to spot.

748. Michael, that was an absolute joy to read. Your absoluteness could be felt and the ease of which life flows when living in absoluteness was presented so clearly. I loved it, thank you.

     1. I really enjoyed how it felt reading the blog and what you share Kim makes so much sense as to how I felt, the absoluteness is there and the loving acceptance also makes a big difference to being able to hear what is being shared.

        1. Absolutely Vanessa, it was a great example of how when we are sharing in our absoluteness alchemy is created.

749. Oh Michael You are such an amazing man! Love Your blog! And You 😉 with love and deep appreciation this is so light here and really rounds up my day now as it was absolutely not perfect – though I learned a lot as I always do – on the beauty-full playground.

     1. I agree Nadine, I love what Michael has presented here. I can feel the absolute honesty he has in what he has shared. None of us are perfect, but admitting and sharing the imperfection is a challenge to me and what Michael has shared is so freeing.

     2. Perfection is so crippling and it stops us from naturally growing and evolving.

750. I have always had a strong relationship with honesty and have found that being honest has lost me friends and put people off side. I backed away from being honest to the degree that I could be mostly to ‘keep the peace’. But I could never sustain this, as the pull to be honest was just too strong for me to stay away too long. So as I develop an even stronger relationship with honesty these days I have come to realised that honesty is very powerful as it begins to break down the falsity we have been living in up until that point, and this can be a challenge for some, so I am not their favourite person and have seen people go to great lengths to avoid me. For a long time I took this very personally, but I now know that they are not actually avoiding me, they are avoiding themselves, and that is entirely their choice. Honesty unlocks an extraordinary amount and it is up to us whether we will accept this or not.

     1. A couple of really good points you make Robyn:
        a) not to take things personally (refining this one); and
        b) people are not avoiding me they are avoiding themselves!

        1. A timely reminder too for me to read your comment today deborahmckay, as I allow myself to let the honesty flow, in terms of having not been consistently honest in an aspect of my life. In allowing this now there is much upheaval happening and I can see the reaction that is going on is not about me, but about what I am being honest about. Isn’t it crazy that we have become so irresponsible that we are not even able to distinguish between a person being honest and what they are being honest about.

        2. It’s true Robyn that often we don’t separate the person from what’s being delivered, choosing to react instead of appreciating the honesty of the other. It is sad to feel the depth of irresponsibility and the level of protection, which is coming from a hurt that is avoiding being felt which is where the irresponsibility lay that then leads to the reaction to the person expressing honestly instead of being able to hear what’s being offered. I feel this is where bringing in our understanding could be very supportive – for ourselves and others – something I’m learning to do so that I don’t then react to the reaction which has been a pattern of mine which has stopped me from expressing more honestly.

        3. I have just realised that I have been protecting a hurt about the way in which what I express has been received in the past. When this hurt is activated in the present I pull out an assortment of behaviours to shut down the other person to make the hurt go away. But this only distracts me from feeling it, as it never goes away, and the other person feels like I didn’t hear what they were saying. Which is in fact correct. I stopped listening as soon as the hurt came up because my focus became all about covering the hurt up. So when we actually deal with our hurts we free ourselves up to be more present, more available, and can listen more deeply. Pretty cool!

        4. What a wonderful realisation Robyn – when we can see what it is we’re doing and take responsibility then it’s game over for that energy. I love your honesty and ability to lovingly self-reflect.

        5. So true, deborahmckay. Taking responsibility by allowing ourselves to feel in full what we are doing that is harmful for ourselves and others is stopping the game we have been in. This brings with it a sense of freedom, along with a rawness, as what we were covering up is then given the space to surface, to feel and release.

     2. Love this line Robyn…”I now know that they are not actually avoiding me, they are avoiding themselves, and that is entirely their choice. Honesty unlocks an extraordinary amount and it is up to us whether we will accept this or not.” It makes such a difference when we no longer take things personally – truth is truth and can be pure gold if we cease the opportunity in that moment…some are ready for it and others not…but truth will come around again and again until we choose it.

        1. It sure will Paula. And I am allowing myself to respect those who are not ready rather than judge them.

     3. Yes Robyn this has been my experience too. I have always felt a strong connection to honesty and have found it difficult to understand when others choose not to see the truth that honesty reveals. I feel the reason so many react is the fact that with honesty we must become accountable for our actions and choices and for many this level of responsibility can be a bitter pill to swallow. As you shared, honesty unlocks a lot and it is up to us whether we choose to see our part in the choices we have made.

        1. So well said Jade. Thank you.

     4. Thank you Robyn for sharing this. From reading it I appreciated the strong relationship with honesty I have as well. I have always had a strong beacon for truth and am known for being a straight shooter, this too has set some people off course but as you say, it is their choice.

        1. Absolutely it is their choice, as it is ours in how we deliver the honesty we have such a strong connection to.

     5. I agree Robyn Jones, honesty may not make us popular with some people, but there are others who deeply appreciate it and feel the evolution in a relationship when it is offered.

        1. So true, Donna. Respecting the process that we each have on this road of evolution is part of it as well. And for me I have struggled to accept, therefore I have been judgmental, that there are people who will fight and resist the truth that honesty opens us up to.

     6. How gorgeous Robyn that you chose to remain honest with people even when, in the face of it, you end up being ‘not their favourite person’. I can not imagine a greater level of love to choose, even when it is uncomfortable to do so and even when the other person’s reaction lets you know they don’t like what you are saying, to still commit to honour them with a loving and fully honest expression.

        1. Thank you Golnaz. I needed to read this today as I am currently reclaiming my relationship with honesty more consistently, and it is not going down well with someone close to me. To be reminded that to be loving in our expression by being honest is a gift and one I very much needed to be reminded of today in particular.

     7. Same as you I’ve tried to back away from being honest. Recently I felt really sad having lost a long lasting friend because of my honesty but finally I reached the point that wasn’t because of speaking my truth that she doesn’t want to talk or see me anymore but because through my words she’s facing things she just can’t handle. So definitively I agree and thank you for these words ” For a long time I took this very personally, but I now know that they are not actually avoiding me, they are avoiding themselves, and that is entirely their choice.

        1. It is important for us to claim our relationship with honesty, in full, and never doubt the strength it is. For me, I have also tried to water my level of honesty down to be able to continue expressing but not upsetting people. I have recently re-embraced my relationship with honesty more fully, because I realise my intent is never to harm, and maybe sometimes it comes with a hard edge, but it is ultimately the other persons choice how they respond or react to what has been delivered. As it is my choice to allow my natural expression to flow.

     8. Yes I to had a similar experience with being honest growing up Robyn. I never understood why people were surprised by my honesty especially with adults and I would be told I was very bold or to young to talk like that. But I now see that it was not me that they felt uncomfortable with but the truth that was shared. Honesty is very powerful and holds all in the equality of truth. That is golden.

        1. It certainly is golden, Kelly, and to be so open and honest as a child is a godsend for all those who come into contact with them, as honesty and the innocence of a child cuts through the games that we can play as adults. I find this refreshing to be around.

     9. “I now know that they are not actually avoiding me, they are avoiding themselves, and that is entirely their choice.” Robyn, this is a beautiful understanding that you have come to which frees both you and the other people. By not taking it personally you don’t react and therefore you give them the space to be as they are. This is something that people rarely feel and even though you may have ‘lost friends’ you have offered them a reflection that they will not forget and one which may encourage them to speak up in other situations.

        1. This is so true, Sandra. Even though we may not see the effect we have by bringing honesty to a situation, it doesn’t mean there have not been profound effects felt. Reading your comment was a beautiful reminder to never give up our ability to be honest as it is needed in a world that prides itself on corruption and dishonesty. To be honest is like a breath of fresh air, and I can understand how this can make people feel uncomfortable.

     10. Love that Robyn, as someone who often would call things out but not lovingly I agree often was pushing peoples buttons because of what was being exposed. I have learnt to be a lot more loving with myself and as a result more loving with others so when I share they are less defensive.

         1. Thank you Vanessa – I feel I have sometimes used honesty as a weapon to justify a strong urge to express something, when in truth it was not coming from my soul but from my spirit and was more about identification than truth.

         2. Me too, Vanessa. I have been able to see that there is an art to delivering honesty with strength and power that also comes with a enormous dose of love. Because being honest first and foremost is loving as we are not holding back what we are feeling and allowing ourselves or others to continue on with what is not serving them. How we deliver that also needs to be deeply considered.

751. Thank you Michael, a very gorgeous blog reminding us ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ I can totally relate to this. I have also found that honesty with myself have assisted me to let go of many hurts and resentment, it allowed me the space to dissect my hurts or whatever I was avoiding to then release them piece by piece with more awareness, understanding and clarity.

     1. So true Chan. Honesty allows us to be our own healer or counsellor – to understand ourselves and see things clearly.

     2. Yes I really appreciate Michael sharing this insight into what is going on behind our choices and to be super loving with the why and what.

752. I’m appreciating the benefits of being honest. It really does keep things simple, and I go to bed feeling at peace because I have left nothing unsaid, even to myself.

     1. I agree honesty equals simplicity. It keeps things true and very real moment to moment.

     2. That’s very true Debra, and its makes sense because of the ease I feel in my body as well after sharing something honest.

        1. I often feel the tension in my body if there is something to be shared and I haven’t yet shared it. The first tension is the anxiousness of how it will be received, but once it is shared there is a spaciousness felt. If I don’t share it, that anxiousness stays in my body which I then carry.

        2. So very true Donna. Recently a beautiful friend said something that came across as quite unfeeling towards me. I played it down at the time, as we had work to do together, and swallowed it. But at a recent course we were being so honest and up front that I was able to say how it made me feel. This helps us to fully let people in without the slightest guard.

        3. So true Donna, the body goes into a phase of uncomfortability and dis-ease. I know this all to well too, but once communicating what needs to be communicated to ease of life and space, the simplicity of life returns again.

        4. Oh, yes Natasha – and then we wonder why we ever held back on communicating – which as you say brings simplicity and a surrender to our body’s knowing.

        5. Absolutely ~
           Sometimes, even though the body has the most amazing intelligence we don’t listen .. Why is that?

     3. This is lovely to feel Debra. Creating a truly honest relationship with ourselves and leaving nothing unsaid even to ourselves is huge.

        1. That is gorgeous Debra, and gives me something to ponder on as I never just go to sleep there is always something churning in my mind.

     4. This is a very powerful statement Debra, completing each day.
        “Leaving nothing unsaid, even to myself” feels super important because it is often very easy to ignore or bury how we are truly feeling and so ‘less than honesty’ creeps in and must eventually be sorted. The body feels very different, light and open when self honesty is applied. I can get a pressure against my throat if I haven’t recognised there is something to be said, even just to myself. Once I have realised and named what it is the pressure goes.

     5. I can relate to what you are saying here Debra. Honouring what is there to be expressed and leaving nothing unsaid leaves your body feeling light and complete. Holding back what we feel to express or even watering down what is there to say leaves a tension and incompleteness in the body. Could we even go as far as to say that unsaid words are a poison in our body?

     6. This feels very lovely Debra, to go to bed “feeling at peace because I have left nothing unsaid, even to myself.” I too am working on this, and it is a beautiful feeling to express with honesty, and leaves my body feeling deeply relaxed. Such a difference from the tension of carrying around a heap of anxiety about something that doesn’t feel right, and not expressing it.

        1. I love this too Sandra and Jeanette – it feels super important to finish the day as I prepare for sleep and allow for a new template to open, to present the next day. I also love Michael’s comment – ‘The difference is, that if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself’ – holds a lot of power when this choice comes from the body and with absolute commitment, trusting the instruction of my soul and what it next presents.

     7. That’s pretty awesome Debra!

753. Michael there is much I agree with in what you have presented. I liked this part where you say ‘As honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them, the most loving choice is to implement them into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.’ Its so true. Unless we have a rhythm of being loving, its not so easy to just pull it out of the bag.

754. I can so relate to this. How often have I chosen to take the easy route for fear of facing something challenging. As you say ‘ .. I have to say that in fact I always knew what would have been a wise choice for the next steps in my life.’ The Truth is we do know, it’s just whether we have the willingness to take the steps needed. This blog is truly beautiful and very supportive for all. You share some great tips and understandings about why we choose complexity.

     1. Yes I agree shevonsimon, what Michael presents offers us all the opportunity to explore our own relationship with honesty and why as you say we may make our life more complex at times then it needs to be.

755. I love this line Michael–”Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.”

756. Isn’t it interesting that our thoughts of how something will turn out are often no where near the reality when we begin to bring honesty into our lives. I know the thoughts that I have had, I have let them control an outcome, which means I end up not being honest. Crazy! Wheres when I am honest, those thoughts instantly go.

     1. Ha ha — I had to laugh at this because it’s so familiar. Fists tighten up and face pulls into a narrow focus that it has to be this way, I won’t budge and no, I will not dare look deeper at what’s really going on. It’s a bit of drain and tough way to go about our day and lives this way. But letting the ebb and flow of life’s grace be what governs us can most certainly be how we live, when we claim honesty as a bedrock in our lives; honesty is a key ingredient to self-love.

757. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role’. Revisiting your blog this morning has brought the increased awareness that it is so simple to be who we truly are and lives that. What a waste of energy complication, delays and avoidance are. Thanks Michael

758. What I am learning, is to be contented with the simplicity of life instead of making it more and more complicated. This can only happen when I am honest and trust my inner-knowing. “If I choose honesty those seemingly huge tensions just simply fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly”. I totally agree with what you have written here, Michael.

759. I very much enjoy being honest and agree there is a real beauty that comes with it. I have found honesty to be a gateway to the truth, for when I am honest I open up to what more there is to be felt and lived. It’s like it is the beginning of letting go and pulling ourselves out of a lull or a comfort zone and we get moved onto where we actually need to be. Healing and living our divine nature.

760. Thank you Michael for a great blog. I love the first paragraph describing how you woke up and your understanding why this was so. Nothing more complicated than choosing to live in the moment. A very precious and immensely important wisdom.

761. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” Just to read that, Michael, feels so very supportive to me. How simple that truly is. If we were to truly live that all the time, how free of complication our lives would be. We tie ourselves in knots trying to work out how to live our lives, making excuses to ourselves and others, lying even to ourselves about so many things. Yes, how important it is to really get to know ourselves and what is true for ourselves and make decisions from that position, it is so simple really if we connect to our bodies and let ourselves make the decisions that are true for us personally. When we spend time analysing and viewing all aspects of a decision to be made, from the head, how we tend to complicate the whole process. We are not then being truly honest with ourselves, making everything not so simple at all. I wish I could live this way all the time, it is a process I am endeavouring to follow, which is very much a work in progress for me. Really a process of surrender required here for me. Big ouch.

762. When we choose to be honest we can transcend telling people what we think they want to hear and we are liberated beyond imagination. We find that our fears are largely unfounded and that we become an inspiration for others to get real too. Sometimes this in not the case and people react against the truth but that is not because we have spoken honestly but because they do not want to hear it. Honesty is the key back to yourself – love this blog Michael.

763. Michael, this article you have written is simply stunning! I can relate to so much you have shared – particularly the difference when you simply allow yourself to make a choice based on your initial feeling – rather than going into analysing the “for” and “against” (in my experience that is super draining!). The interesting thing I have noticed when I do simply trust my initial feeling and make the choice in that moment, that not only does it bring an incredible feeling of spaciousness as you have described, it also is incredibly confirming of me, my connection to myself, and how beautifully simple life can be. One thing I’ve learned to watch for is the sneaky thoughts of doubt that may come in after making such a choice, designed to shake you from that steady, simple place – the “maybes”, the “what if’s” – if I allow myself to go into this it creates the same drain as the to-ing and fro-ing before making a decision so all I need do is simply see them for what they are and brush them aside. Thank you again Michael, super inspiring 🙂

764. The more challenging something is the more there is in it to discover, that is so true Michael, even the most difficult moments in our lives offer a reflection, an experience and an opportunity from which we can learn and often then avoid repeating the same patterns of behaviour. For me this might mean the difference between staying in relationship with people in the same withdrawn manner or developing a freshness and a new level of openness and intimacy that wasn’t possible before. The pattern may require a new level of honesty that is hard to initially offer but always worthwhile once achieved.

     1. I agree Stephen, for a few months I felt a situation involving another very challenging. I did ask for support which was very much needed. I can say now I learned so much about myself when I said, ok what is my part in all of this….. then and only then did I start to let go what I was holding onto which only longer served me….. Now I feel so much more space inside of me with a deeper connection to my body. A blessing indeed as it turns out!

     2. So true Stephen, the beauty of being challenged is beginning to dawn on me as I realise without these challenges I will remain stuck and block myself from unfolding and honouring my true path. It no longer feels enough to have reached a comfortable plateau where I can hide away from the world. As Michael says ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role’ and from here we can expand and reach our potential.

765. Such lightness and strength/power in your writing Michael. I felt tension leave from my body reading this today as there is such power and freedom in seeing each situation as an opportunity to learn and evolve and to be as honest as you possibly can in each situation. And that there are no right or wrongs – what’s right for one person in one situation may not be for another, or the same given another situation.

     1. Love this Sarah, as I read your comment I felt how there is no room for self-critique when we are honest and truthful with ourselves. Because truth is, any self-critique is dishonest, it is a barrage against the grandness we innately are.

766. Hi Michael, I really liked how you explained that you can have a decision to make and the answer is there for you but how easy it is to get into anxiety and create all the different options in your head and what I realised when reading this is how complicated we can make things when really they can be so so simple.

     1. Yes Rosie, it is learning to trust your decisions, your inner knowing. The only way to do this is to give it a go. Trial and error just as we did as children. If the impulse is love then we will rarely do harm, we may just create more complication for ourselves and others in the process, but if the intention to learn from each opportunity that presents itself is there, then honesty will support us not to be making unloving choices on repeat.

        1. So true Lucy, to remind ourselves that we are forever learning, is a beautiful thing as then we don’t have to be so hard on ourselves or beat ourselves up if we made a choice that wasn’t so great. The important thing is to learn from the process as you say. Thanks.

     2. This exposes how much we expect to be rejected when simply presenting ourselves from what we feel to be true or natural, and thus have learned to consider all the possibilities of what could happen, basically trying to calculate and avoid all the reactions of others due to their expectations, needs and hurts.

        1. Aha Alex, well nominated, catching why we go into unsure/indecisive behaviour is what each of us needs to do for ourselves, because if we don’t clear the energy that catapults us into indecision, then it will continue.

     3. Exactly Rosie it is so simple if I listen to my first impulse, this is always true. What happens is at times I will go into doubt or go into my head and start second guessing my decision and loose sight of my knowing. When I do this now I know that I am not surrendered in my body so I stop and surrender and then I make the decision.

        1. What I do these days is if I manage to notice that things are complicated, and I feel unsure, then that is a sure sign that I didn’t listen to my body or to my first impulse and therefore must of got lost along the way in either anxiety or what my head thinks I should do. I then just stop and take a moment, and even just laugh at myself for getting caught up in the complication again…. and start fresh again. We can always start again.

767. For a very long time indecisiveness ruled my life and I was constantly feeling drained and tired from this. I would spend hours trying to work out what was the right thing to do and play our scenario’s over and over in my mind. It felt like I was on a merry-go-round that was leading no where but to insanity. What changed? Learning to connect with my body, to feel my body and trust what it was that I was feeling. Now when I feel an ounce of complication come into decision making, I know that I am disconnected, I offer myself the space to pause, reconnect and then let decisions come from the body.

     1. Beautiful Donna, so simple, this is sound confirmation that we have all the answers within us.

     2. It really is that simple isn’t it… our bodies are never indecisiveness. They know what is true, what is in harmony and what isn’t. It’s when we disconnect from our bodies that the complication arises, so the answer is simple — to keep building our connection with ourselves and with our bodies. Life then becomes amazingly simple.

768. ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ It brings a simplicity into our daily lives and this is deeply beautiful.

769. Michael, what you share here is profound — there is an enormous energy drained that keeps us in a constant momentum of ‘quiet exhaustion when we don’t deal with our hurts and wobble around in indecisiveness. Every time we are absolute in claiming love in our lives we release pockets of stagnated energy in our bodies and have more of the real us back, which is an exquisite way to live.

     1. I love how you have expressed this Katerina and can really relate to the exhaustion of not dealing with hurts and how ‘claiming love in our lives we release pockets of stagnated energy in our bodies and have more of the real us back’.

770. I agree Michael that honesty does indeed create space. Whilst we resist being honest we stay in tug a war cycle and arrogance of wanting to be right or a state of indecisiveness that takes up an enormous amount of energy. When we open up our body to being honest it has all of the answers right there and if we stay connected, listen to what our body is sharing and allow decisions to come from the body, life becomes very simple indeed.

771. What a sound blog, so often I go into humming and harring about stuff only to make a bad decision and then beat myself up over it.We all know in most cases what the right answer is and after reading this blog I will make sure I am aware of it when the next decision arises.

     1. Yes indeed kevmchardy because, as we know, they all come end and round again!

     2. I can so well relate to that: making a decision I know will not support me to have something that I can beat me up for. Something I still catch myself doing whenever my life feels just to good to handle. Absolutely absurd, but such a gift to see through it and now being able to stop it along the way.

772. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” Honesty is our path to truth and our gateway to heaven.

     1. Very beautifully expressed Monika, this is so, so true. Honesty doesn’t allow us to hide behind our hurts but exposes them.

        1. Beautiful, Chan, I agree, honesty is an essential ingredient in our evolution and responsibility. And it’s big sister truth encompasses honesty, which is not the case the other way around.

        2. Absolutely Chan, and very lovingly if we let ourselves be truly honest. We feel held by something bigger than the hurt that owns us because each time we open up in honesty we come closer and closer to our own love.

773. “if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself. Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves.”
     In fact we are delaying our own evolution and stop the next step and grow moment to come our way by denying our first feeling.

774. “Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do, but then I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle.” Boy oh boy do I know this complicating tactic. Making a decision is actually very simple if I only allow myself to feel my first impulse and act on it.

775. Imagine if we all lived this simplicity, this is nothing new as we all know this deep down.

776. Michael, honestly I could probably write a comment about every line of this blog, I absolutely love it – no room for any complication to get in the way – it simply is yes to love or not. I am going to go back and devour it some more. This is one that’s a definite come back to for me.

     1. I agree Gillianrae, I too could write a comment on every line, there is so much in what Michael has offered here. I too will be returning to this blog, as I can feel how it will grow and expand as each of us grows and expands as we choose with ever more consistancy to live our love.

777. Whoo hoo I Love this ” Only since the last few days has it become really obvious to me that we have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time. Here we can either say “yes” or “no”.” – no if’s or buts, just a simple very straight forward answer or decision of yes or no, that ALWAYS comes from our body first.

778. There is so much JOY to be felt in simplicity.

779. I only read to to the end of the first paragraph this morning of this bog, (no internet connection at work) but in all truth that was more than enough. When I came to the last few words “letting myself not be guided by my thoughts or knowledge, but by what I was feeling” I was up out my seat and out for a walk.

780. A confirmation of simplicity and truth at it’s finest.

781. I love this blog and it really shows how we can’t rely just on our minds. Our mind works on recall and would apply something that ‘worked’ once to every similar situation but, as you explained in your example with eating there is no one way of dealing with one certain situation in life. This is where that inner knowing we all have comes in and I am amazed by how much it knows and as I am learning to listen to it more what the supportive effects on my body are.

     1. I agree Lieke, my body is the best advisor ever: always knows the truth and has all the answers.

     2. I agree with you, Lieke, making decisions from our minds is not the way to go, that really complicates things for us and our lives. I did that for most of my life, and I see the huge difference it can make to simply go to my inner knowing and make decisions from there. How much more simple our lives can be when we let ourselves be led by that wonderful inner knowing that we all have, once someone like Serge Benhayon has helped us discover that place for ourselves. I was not one of those who had that natural ability, I had buried it deep within for so much of my life and had to be alerted to the fact that it is there within us all.

782. I have found this to be true form also “If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.” The opposite of what I have feared happens, this is a great lesson in life, there is less tension when we choose the truth.

783. The tricks I have been playing on myself, in attempt to not feel where my hurts lie is astonishing “Very often what we want to avoid is the pain of old hurts.” What I am learning now is that I can be more understanding with myself and this allows issues of old hurts to arise without it being a big issue, but instead more something to learn.

     1. I agree davidsonsamantha, it seems that the more tuned in we become with our bodies, the easier it becomes to recognise that these long held hurts do not own us.

784. This is revolutionary, with simplicity and consistency, prevarication and indecision will melt away…”…if we are prepared to choose instantly, it will be with ease, and then naturally the next choice will present itself.” How we prepare ourselves to live is key to all that we express and choose. Awesome!

     1. I love that Samantha: “How we prepare ourselves to live is key to all that we express and choose”, it really highlights that each moment or choice is a preparation for the next, and that what we choose will effect and determine the very next expression. We therefore have no excuse to wonder ‘How on earth did that just happen?!’, we, made it happen.

785. I know I have done many a detour in my lifetime and can feel the delay of it now, Michael. I love what you write here..’the most loving choice is to implement them (self loving choices) into our daily rhythm and apply them to all the small moments that make up our lives.’ I am becoming aware how every moment matters.

     1. I love that Gill – “every moment matters” – not only a call to responsibility but a reminder of how empowered we actually are.

786. As a child there were always dire lectures about telling the truth and not lying, I was also brought up with a religion that preached this as an important cornerstone of moral behaviour. Thanks to Serge Benhayon I have been able to explore what it means to live with honesty, in a much more effective way than the fire and brimstone lectures I grew up with.

787. As a child there were always dire lectures about telling the truth and not lying, I was also brought up with a religion that preached this as an important corner stone of moral behaviour. Thanks to Serge Benhayon I have been able to explore what it means to live with honesty, in a much more effective way than the fire and brimstone lectures I grew up with.

     1. I grew up in a similar situation too Nicole and its taken a while to undo the ‘need to be good and perfect’ driven by ‘you will be punished’. Understanding that we all make mistakes, that is part of being human and being honest with ourselves and others is great medicine for our body and wellbeing because it frees us from those held beliefs that are not part of who we are. Thank God for Serge Benhayon.

        1. Yes the you will be punished has lingered for me as well and I can see when I try to use that on my kids how ineffective it is in the long run. Showing them by living with an understanding of personal responsibility and consequences has proven far more effective. The need to punish my kids rears up in me when I feel lost and not sure how to handle a situation. There is always a reaction to everything we do.

     2. Yes Nicole, fire and brimstone makes behaviours go undercover not go away.

     3. Yes Nicole, seeing the huge difference between ‘just’ telling the truth and living truthful has been massive for me. Like you I was brought up to always tell the truth and even as a small child rebelled against it as I could so clearly feel that telling the truth was just a pattern and a masquerade, that hid away all the truth that was not lived. Later on I discovered, with the help of various workshops with Universal medicine, that living what I feel is true is the key. If I do that, not only will my life feel step by step more joyful, fullfilled and easy, but I also will be able to connect to others on a whole new level: not wanting them to be in a certain way anymore, but allowing them to be who they are as they are and inviting them to live more of there real self by nothing more than just living my life.

        1. I agree Michael – living what I feel is true is the key, and so different from the superficial version of “just telling the truth” there used to leave out a lot of information and not be lying but I was definitely not being honest and very far from living what I felt was true.

788. This sentence caught my attention this morning – is a great exposure on how easy it is to fool ourselves, appearing to be wise whilst we in truth getting caught up in mind chatter, keeping us away from being aware of the wider picture and thus remain stuck in old ways of dishonesty with ourselves.
     “I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle. In truth, I was just constructing arguments to defend against the world and myself, something that had already been decided long ago”.

     1. I also appreciated these lines Stephanie and what Michael “decided long ago” was the simplicity becoming the Son of God and not hold back from this connection to God and this made it easy to discern the truth, which is presented by the soul.

     2. Totally Stephanie! The futile act of Creation demonstrated [QED]!

789. Ah! I enjoy reading your beautiful blogs Michael – they are always very inspiring, relatable and offer many truths to ponder upon. Thank you.

790. The world is as simple as we chose it to be simple. When complexity kicks in, we can be sure that we have allowed ourselves to get in the way.

     1. And so tiring to go around and around in circles, chasing our own tale.

     2. Oh my goodness Mariette this is so true. When something becomes complex we can feel the way we have got ‘heady’ with it. There is nothing complex about honesty. Pure and simple. 🙂

     3. That is a good point Mariette, if we find ourselves in complexity, the honest thing would be to look at the situation and see how WE have gotten in the way.

     4. I agree Mariette, getting in our own way definitely complicates things and stops any natural knowing or impulse from coming through.

791. Having honesty in ever moment in our lives is extremely healing!

     It allows us to make all the decisions we really want to make.
     Make our life what we want it to be
     Do no harm to others
     Live a good life.

     All simple points however from there honesty can blossom into the most profound and evolving teaching that support ourselves and many others.

     1. Thank you for this beautiful reflection Luke. Indeed, it is as simple as that.

792. Decisions, Decisions – I lived in fear of making the wrong decisions and when the children asked me if they could do something, I could never be pushed into saying ‘yes’ and would warn them that if they pushed it would be a ‘No’. Reflecting on your comments I am realising it could have been much easier, I could have felt the truth and then responded to that, instead of bringing ‘Me’ and what worked for me into the equation. Your comment – ‘ Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves’ has left much for me to ponder, thanks Michael.

     1. Thanks for mentioning that about not saying yes ch1956, I did the same thing and would often wonder why I had such a stubborn difficulty with saying the word ‘yes’. It makes so much more sense now and I can see I wasn’t only delaying myself but also putting a block in the way of my children and husband, effectively delaying them also. It was a form of control. This is a great blog Michael, thank you again.

     2. I love your honesty here ch1956 in sharing how you allowed yourself to get in the way and what worked for you in the equation rather than just knowing what the truth was and trusting that you had the answers and really it doesn’t matter if it is right or wrong, it is just a choice in that moment and in the next moment, you can make another choice. There is no need for perfection. That is something we have self inflicted.

     3. Yes ch1956, the line ‘ Anything other than choosing in that moment means we are simply delaying ourselves’ really stood out to me too. I have had an experience recently of finally making a decision that I had been delaying for sometime, when it came to it, the decision was simple and I made it there and then and with that decision I felt myself expanding, I felt more sure of myself. It was like making that decision opened me up to seeing so much more of my potential, to allowing that flow and I could really feel how the delay had been like damming a beautiful, powerful river.

     4. I can relate to what you shared, ch1956, I used to procrastinate regarding decisions for the children, fearful that I would make the wrong decision. How much easier it would have been if I had known how to go within and feel from my body what was the right path to take. Instead, using my head, I went into all the ramifications and possibilities and got myself quite into a knot at times, trying to work out what was best for them (and for me of course). How much simpler it can be when we really let ourselves feel what is best for them, and far, far less worry for us.

793. Michael, there is so much in your writing here that I want to comment on. You share so beautifully the absolute simplicity of being our selves and allowing the honesty of what we feel to guide our lives. This sentence below rings so much truth for me, it is something that I am now living and the freedom is immeasurable.
     “Once implemented, this love for ourselves will support us in holding ourselves in the more difficult moments in our lives and will set us free to stay independent of what others might expect us to do.”

     1. Living from our body does set us free. It sets us free from the games we play, some of which Michael has described here, we use to delay our own evolution and in turn the evolution of others. By living directly from the body we cancel out all these games of delay and time wasting and are able to simply respond in the manner needed. I am only just starting out with living this way, as I have recently been able to connect more deeply to my body, and feel the absolute wisdom that comes from this connection. This is an unadulterated way of being that accelerates us when we choose to stop mucking around and just honour what we feel from deep within.

794. I have never been honest, not towards myself and not towards others. I have nearly always chosen the easy way out and compromised but because of the knowing of truth that has been there so strongly in my body I suffered a lot of migraines and all sorts of ills and pains in my body. I choose frustration and playing myself down to have an easy life. Not any more the more honest I get the more I feel this is the only way, to observe my past choices and deal with them going forward with space and freedom to choose expressing truth.

     1. I chose lack of honesty and frustration too Annelies, and like you, not any more. Developing awareness about choices and consequences being totally my responsibility and getting honest about those has changed my life completely with the bonus of never having migraines and headaches any more. As they say “Honesty is the best (insurance :-)) policy.”

     2. Amazing Annelies your honesty is like a healing in itself. Our bodies suffer when we do not live the truth that they know. Thank you for sharing. 🙂

        1. Indeed ladies, for as long as we continue to flounder in self, the body pays the price.

     3. Yes, Annelies, I too “chose frustration and playing myself down to have an easy life”, for most of my life, until I met Serge Benhayon about 9 years ago. I learned to take responsibility for my own life from then on, to look at the choices I had been making and deal with the issues that came up as they occurred, no more just burying them, being truly honest with myself and what I was seeing/feeling. How freeing this has made my life, and I have learned to step up and get out into the world more and more, rather than hiding myself away. Still a work in progress, but how worthwhile it has been and will continue to be.

     4. This comment shows how refreshingly honest you are Annelies!

     5. That is a really interesting point Annelies “because of the knowing of truth in my body I suffered a lot of migraines” I too suffered migraines when I was younger and it feels so true to say that it was frustration playing out because I knew truth and did not speak up or have the confidence to express what I was feeling. That sentence offers me a great healing.

     6. Awesome Annelies, such an honest comment and one that inspires us to be this way too. Once we choose to be honest with ourselves amazing healing can begin and from here we are also able to be honest with others. What we reflect to others can inspire and support them in so many ways.

795. Thank you Michael for another awesome blog, I love the simplicity of what you share in your blogs and the stillness I can connect to when I read them ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.’ And truth empowers me to stand in the knowing of what I have lived, truth is known in my body and when I start to be honest the next I can choose is the connection with the truth.

796. I love how you describe the tension that builds before we speak our truth, in terms of the holding back of how we really feel- why do we do this constantly instead of the inner wellbeing that is found when we say what is right for us? I love how you explored for long enough to know the subconscious dread so many of us live with about speaking our truth doesn’t need to be a barrier- once we start speaking up, we learn there really is nothing to fear.

797. “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role.” love this line here, when we bring honesty to each interaction we have or even with ourselves, it releases us from the confines of roles and how we should or should not behave.

798. “Honesty, Self-love, Truth and Beauty – such a joy to have chosen them again.” Yes Michael choosing ourselves again is a joy.

799. So so true Michael, the most challenging and difficult situations and people hold the key to unleashing a much needed-to- be-looked-at part of our illusions, ideals and beliefs. After we honestly feel what is going on within us and observe the truth of it, great riches of livingness are released to us and to all. That person you would have liked to be living on the opposite side of the world becomes a beloved friend!

800. Our feelings, no matter how big or scary and no matter how many times we ignore them or believe that all that is there are the deep pains (which is a big fat lie) and nothing else, when made friends with are our greatest friends. Thank you Michael.

801. Very lovely and refreshing blog Michael. I know well the times where there is a decision to be made and that first clear feeling, then the kicking on of the thought mulling around, sifting and sorting, looking at the choice from all angles and imagining that this is an intelligent way to go about things! As you present, the key is to go with the clear feeling and desist mulling! Our digestion will be much clearer and vital for choosing this!!

802. “The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again. It has let me shine again with the same beauty and ease that I can well remember from my early childhood.” This is beautiful Michael and bringing life back to honesty and simplicity opens us up for magical opportunities in all facets of our lives.

803. The space you have mentioned Michael that comes from honesty, feels like a clearing and that honesty naturally brings, this quality brings us closer back to ourselves, something which we all miss. 

804. In love, there is absolutely no picture to follow and no destination to achieve. Every step of honesty and honoring opens a deeper love to be felt. Every appreciation that shines through doubt, show us a deeper surrender back to the fullness that we came from. 

805. What a delightful blog Michael, there are many lines that I want to repeat but the simple truth of this one is glorious ‘The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow’. What an incredible take to have on the world and in such stark contrast to the majority but one that I none the less share.

806. Thank you Michael, I get a sense that I will be back to this blog as there is much in it to see, feel and understand. I am a big fan of honesty and thought I knew it very well but there is something in this blog that is asking me to consider honesty from yet another angle. This sentence was one of many that stayed with me ‘If I choose honesty, those seemingly huge tensions usually just fade away and something deep inside begins healing very simply and profoundly.’ I am forever appreciating the blessing these blogs offer me and I look forward to reading other comments, I am sure it will add yet more to the already overflowing pot of wisdom!

807. I used to avoid anything that put me under pressure or into overwhelm, but I know now that this is just avoiding life and all its riches. It is in fact the challenging things in life that help us grow and evolve and while feeling the pressure can be a little uncomfortable, it is worth every moment to feel the joy that this brings. A very wise man said that we are not given anything that we can not handle and this is so true, all we have to do is take the steps and allow life to unfold without the need to play a role, and life becomes the play ground of joy that you talk about Michael. “The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out.” Love it Michael so different from the way the world is run at the moment.

     1. Yes, avoiding what is there, not dealing with it then and there makes our life much harder. It takes courage not to delay but it tremendously simplifies our life the more we are able to deal with what is there when it is there.

808. Honesty creates space inside us …. A great image and very true, as dis-honesty fills us up with detritus, and weighs us down

809. Honesty is such a big part of living truthfully. It gives us the open opportunity to change things and helps us to see clearly what is going on.

     1. I agree Benkt, I love your comment. I have found when I choose honesty my body feels lighter, expanded and I feel more connected to people.

810. “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.” I can relate to this, there is always more to discover about myself in whatever form it presents itself, therefore it always comes back to me and thus empowers me to deal with it.

811. Thank you Michael, your words are very soothing and bring the quality of honesty out, there is no need for complexity when we start with honesty.

812. Thank you Michael – I was beginning to feel immense discomfort for all the ‘delays’ there have been in my life and that old feeling of wanting to run away came up…….and then I read ‘Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role’ and somehow life fell into place. When we see the world as our playground we can begin to embrace everything that life offers us and we can then begin the process of unfolding ‘The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out’.

     1. “When we see the world as our playground we can begin to embrace everything that life offers us and we can then begin the process of unfolding”. Love that, Susan, that feels so playful and yet so profound in its simplicity. Something to tuck away as a great reminder to me to keep life simple and play-full. Thank you.

     2. Exactly Susan. The deeper we allow ourselves to feel that the world always is and will be as simple as we felt it when we were children, the easier it will be to see through the moments when we are drawing up any other scenario in our mind. When I get anxious, I know always remember from deep within me, that this anxiousness is not what I feel when I am 100% with me and in my natural flow. Therefore I then can look at where the reason for this anxiousness is rooting in me and gently unwind these roots.

        1. It feels so much more supportive when we remember that we are not the anxiousness and this way we can put a stop to the cycle of self defeating behaviour that has over taken the human race. But this will change as we commit to living life more honestly and lovingly. We are strong and we are powerful when we are connected to ourselves and to one another, which is our natural state of being.

813. Michael this is beautiful and so true and i love your ending “that the world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow.” This comes from your choices to work on self love, truth and the beauty you are with a consistency that is deeply felt. Thank you – inspirational.

814. Thank you Michael. This point stuck out for me; ‘…usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation’, because not often do we consider that maybe our strong avoidance of something only occurs because there is such a huge lesson for us to learn there, that we do not want to look at. When this is known, it becomes much less of a ‘fight’ because we can begin to see that the issue is not a tripwire or disaster waiting to happen, but a learning package for us to open and explore.

     1. Yes Susie and there is actually nothing in that package that we cannot handle if we first and foremost choose honesty. It is an incredible freedom and, coupled with tenderness so we don’t fall into self bashing, is a beautiful opportunity for healing.

     2. Hi Susie. Reaching this point of honesty is significantly as once I can see the learning that is presented to me I feel much more willing to embrace the situation at hand – after all it is natural for us to learn, grow and evolve.

     3. I like that image of a ‘learning package’ for it shows so very well that it is our choice to open that package and explore it or to just put it away and ignore it, because we do not want to see what is inside being anxious about the contents.

815. “The choice for honesty and letting go of my comfort has brought stillness and simplicity to my life again. It has let me shine again with the same beauty and ease that I can well remember from my early childhood.” Beautifully expressed Michael. Comfort can be such a distraction – a ‘work in progress’ for me.

     1. Here too – there can be so many ways comfort manifests itself, including quite sneaky ways. It can be as slight as hesitating over a task, which brings us back to the ease that is possible in making that initial yes/no choice. If I hesitate when something needs to be done and go into delay, that’s a comfort. I’m simply avoiding what is there to be done in that moment, which creates a complication and extra strain as I have to return to it once the true moment for doing it has actually passed.

        1. I see this now Victoria, but hadn’t related it to comfort before. Recently, I created my own complication when I delayed admin tasks that then became a source of stress. Instead of completing them one at a time, I waited until faced with a mini mountain, now cleared, but could have been avoided.

816. In your words “Honesty creates space and frees us from the need to play a role” So very true and for myself not feeling the need to justify my actions or words. A timely sharing for me to feel into Michael thank you.

817. I absolutely agree Michael that: “honesty and self-love are not something we just leave sitting in a drawer waiting for the next moment we may need them”; they are actually the essential foundation blocks for a true way of living. To be anything other than honest or self loving is to live in total opposition to what we naturally are and as a result our body feels the effects of this in every moment, with our quality of life diminishing the longer we live this lie.

     1. If ‘The body is the marker of all truth’ as Serge Benhayon has frequently presented, the buck stops there. Everything we do ultimately shows up in the body, which means if we live without honesty, we will have a body that is dishonest. That’s an interesting way to consider it.

        1. So a lot hinges on the moment of the initial choice, which as I feel into it more, seems characterised by the feeling of great ease. Making that initial decision is actually easy, it’s the complication that’s not. If complication sets in, it becomes a moment of that is not easy, or, we might even say a moment of un-ease or even dis-ease. Add up those many moments of dis-ease and we have the corresponding reflection in the body of disease.

        2. Agreed Victoria, and there is so far we can go with abusing our bodies in such a way against our natural essence of love and harmony within.

818. Thank you Michael, your honest and tender sharing reminds us of just how powerful honesty is and how it “creates space and frees us from the need to play a role” What a massive relief and how simple life becomes when we drop all the pretence, trying and bravado and just be ourselves, no axe to grind or burden to bear.

     1. Yes, agreed and as Michael says, this kind of honesty and simplicity leads to the natural playfulness and joyfulness that is waiting for us to step into. There is an ease to all of this!

819. Next cracker!! “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover” – I can agree from my own experiences here deeply so. If someone seems ‘difficult’ to me – I am the one who can (have to) learn something here.

     1. There is something here too for me about difficulty and complication. If complication has set in, it’s a good sign the head is far more engaged than the heart, and over-thinking and the desire to control an outcome has taken over. Michael’s discussion of the simplicity of that very first yes or no captures the elegance of simplicity perfectly.

        1. I can relate to this too Victoria and while I was previously not consciously aware of this, I am now finding that things starting to become complicated usually means I’m over thinking things or getting ahead of myself. Staying with my body is definitely supportive in keeping things simple and clear.

     2. I agree, I have found that in the past there was a consistent run of people who were very direct, they didn’t do waffle, they challenge me and I found it really difficult and quite overwhelming. I could have avoided them, their phone calls and contact but I knew, deep down, that what they were saying and representing in my life was necessary for me to look at and understand. It wasn’t that they were always right and I was wrong, but there was a repetition of the type of person till I understood what there was to learn and then that ‘type’ of challenge no longer felt like a challenge, more of a conversation. My guarding, defensive, fear of being wrong was what made it feel difficult. The moment I was willing to be honest, the connection was there to have an open conversation it was no longer difficult. We have the tools to change so much in our lives if we are open to look honesty at our own reactions and why they are there.

        1. I can very much relate to that repetition of a certain type of person/situation. I would go ‘Gosh, another one of those. They are EVERYWHERE!’ and blame the world for not delivering what I was expecting; or I would stop and go ‘What did I do wrong, AGAIN?’ and let self-doubt run wild. For me it feels like it is about bringing more honesty and more love to understand what truly is going on without judgment on either part, and not about learning to better handle the person or the situation.

        2. So true, learning how to cope is an interesting one as it is a big part of resilience, but it does nothing to address why the pattern is repeating and that is the key to bringing greater understanding to our lives. Blaming the world feels like cutting my legs off now, making me feel powerless to change anything. Yet looking for what my part in the relationship is has a much more expansive effect on my understanding and therefore how I move through it.

        3. Lucy the transition from avoidance to honesty is profound. I remember well the moment in my life when a ‘type’ of challenge no longer felt like a challenge, more of a conversation’ simply because I let down my guard and let people in.

        4. I completely agree and this is my experience too, our part in it is to let down the guard and simply be open to the conversation.

     3. I agree. I used to think people/situations that were difficult were what needed to change and I was just a victim of the circumstances, and I never considered my part of responsibility in that.

     4. Beautifully said, thank you Sandra and a reminder to me to keep re meeting these difficult and challenging situations and people with all the love and truth I am.

820. Thats so strong “As soon as we start thinking, checking or evaluating, we have already said “no”” and great to realize. We could otherwise think us into hell…

821. As to each of your four findings. The first is super prevalent to me right now, and your brief paragraph is a brilliant reminder of the opportunity that is afforded in these situations. Vital to remember that and gorgeous to hear your joyful openness to it. Very inspiring Michael and I thank you deeply for your wisdom and appreciation. Thank you.

822. Michael there is stillness and gentleness in the way you share your unfolding journey to more deeply love yourself. Thank you for sharing the findings of your own honesty research project, I can certainly relate to some of these. Moment by moment, we face choices to confirm or not our love for ourself and humanity. We don’t always choose wisely, but can learn from what-ever choice we make.

823. Oh my goodness. Where to start?! Each of your four ‘findings’ is worth of a whole follow up blog of their own. What I have felt recently is the essentialness of lack of judgement in any process of observation. It’s amazing how, if I manage to not to go into judgement, how that sustained openness then just deepens the observation to reveal so much more. Judgement is a get out clause. A cheap and irresponsible indulgence.

824. Thank you Michael for a beautiful, loving and informative article. I find how you describe your process of choosing how to respond a food craving very confirming and so simple and straight forward to understand. Superb.

825. Michael – you make a very interesting point about food and cravings. I am newly pregnant and in that experience my body has been asking for foods that I would not normally eat. I resisted for a while and denied my body eating them but felt very sick. So then I decided to see what would happen if I did eat what I was drawn too. What is important for me in these experiences is that if I eat because my body is asking for something, that I check in to see how my body feels afterwards too – was it indulgence, how am I feeling, is it nourishing or numbing. It has offered me a very interesting experiment to see where my body is at, most of the foods have really supported me and I’ll let them drop away after eating them for a day or 2, other foods don’t feel great afterwards and it is a marker for me to look at why I have chosen them and what was I not wanting to feel. I am loving my sensitivity and honouring my body in this time. We are all so aware of our bodies, to allow this is to open up to a whole new level of responsibility.

826. ‘I realised that this was exactly the same feeling that I had gone to bed with the day before.’ Upon reading this I realised that I have fallen for the illusion that sleep will clear the day away if it has been difficult. It doesn’t though, just offers a little respite sometimes. It is our quality in each moment that determines the next.

827. ‘I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation’. Through honesty Michael, I found myself and my true voice, a total revelation and liberating.

     1. Yes kehinde2012 I experienced that today, a situation where another could of been of the defence but through connection and being honest it lead the conversation gracefully to truth.

828. Michael, this is so beautiful, ‘The world is as simple as we felt it was when we were children, just living every moment in the day, not experiencing anxiety about our lives or our future: a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out.’ This is what I am feeling more and more, I’m feeling less anxious about the future and simply enjoying my day to day, the people I meet; my work, all of the simple things in my day, this feels lovely compared to living with the anxiety and stress that I have in the past.

     1. True Rebecca, I am learning to appreciate just how amazing I feel. Its so wonderful to have a body that is free from abuse like I used to live with. To get to the stage where I enjoy each moment by breath is when I do act on all I feel. One moment will feed to the next.

829. Honesty is something that I have chosen to avoid, but as you share Michael so gently, it can bring healing of old buried hurts. As I am beginning to let myself feel I realise how dishonest with myself I can get, but I am learning that honesty is so worth making the choice for and what a transformation it can make to my body and to how I feel.

830. “a time when joy was as natural to us as breathing in and out.” Beautifully expressed Michael, the joy in being.

831. “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it, only to realise that instead of an explosion there was usually nothing but total relaxation.” Once again see how these self created assumptions and expectations stand to hold us back from the purity of expressing our truth.

832. Thank you for your beautiful inspiring insights Michael. It is certainly true that if you are aware of your feelings in the moment, trust and go with them, and express your truth it supports the flow of life and then there is no effort or trying involved.

833. “Whenever there was a decision to be made, there was at first a clear feeling deep inside of me about what to do, but then I would let a spiral of thoughts kick in, pretending that I was evaluating and analysing the situation from every angle. In truth, I was just constructing arguments to defend against the world and myself, something that had already been decided long ago.” So true Michael, why do we not trust the first answer that our all intelligent bodies provide? Why the need for complicated justifications and reasoning? Could it really be this simple?

     1. True Lucinda because we make it about self and invest in an image to how it must look.

834. Honesty is such a refreshing quality because when it supports us to get to the truth it cuts through all the layers of gunk we have accumulated in our denial. When we can begin to be honest in the moment and to make loving choices from our bodies, as you say a flow is generated that is natural and without effort. Learning to let go of the mind but listen to the body, lovingly staying connected to it is for me still very much a work in progress but honesty is certainly a super tool to use in order to get there.

835. It’s interesting how often we fear being honest – fearing that the world will explode as you say, that something terrible will happen, the other person will react etc – when actually the opposite is true: expressing what we feel is true can actually lead to great healing for both ourselves and others, because everyone else also knows what is true.
     Holding back and not expressing what is true just leads to complication and exhaustion as we go into our heads to try to figure out what is right or wrong. It leaves a gap that gets filled with all this reasoning and justification. There is a flow and ease to life when we surrender to what we can already feel, and express from there.

836. This line stood out to me, and I am sure many people who have held back what they want to say will understand ‘I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express’ – It is such relief to say what I feel and have the confidence that whatever the reaction from others, I am able to cope with it.

837. This is beautiful Michael and on many levels it presents simplicity. I can relate very much to what you are sharing here and I too have and continue to work on these moments where I go to food as a form or relief from what I am feeling or not wanting to. I make myself laugh now at times as I see it about to happen way in advance so slowly this reaction is changing without the hard lash on myself after. I was pondering just the other day about how it was when I was a child and how it can be today even though I am 34 yrs old and there was much JOY I could feel in just enjoying the moment I am having before moving to the next, such a simple way to live life.

838. Thank you Michael for this very relatable blog. I had to laugh to myself when I read the following line “I have met many moments where I felt that the world would explode if I chose to go with what I felt and to express it”. I spent years thinking the world would come to an end if I shared anything of what I was feeling. As you say Michael the world does not come to an end and in fact there is a possibility created for more love, warmth, care, understand and support. What we imagine is always far worse than what is actually happening.

839. Whenever we make a choice we are saying ‘Yes’ to something. Are we saying ‘yes’ to the truth we know and feel, are we saying ‘yes’ to delay, are we saying ‘yes’ to bury and ignore what we know is true, are we saying ‘yes’ to being dishonest with ourselves, are we saying ‘yes’ to be less than who we truly are? One ‘yes’ leads to the next ‘yes’ so the more we say ‘yes’ to the love we know we are, the more love there is to say ‘yes’ to.

840. Honesty is simply the willingness and humbleness to see things as they are. In this way, honesty provides the pathway to the understanding that will lead us to the truth.

     1. When you put it like that Adam it becomes clear how absurd we can be as a collective – this thing we call the human race. And how much we really avoid honesty.

        It’s not a big deal – its very simple. But we have our entire way of being for the most part including a total unwillingness to even acknowledge what is really going on.

        One could even call that insanity.

841. Michael, another simply beautifully divine blog from you where I can tangibly feel the love and learning in it as I read every word. Thank you.

     I especially love these words, ‘The world is a wonderful playground to discover ourselves playfully, nurture ourselves and evolve; a place where we can joyfully connect with ourselves and others, to discover even more together and constantly grow.’

842. Gorgeous blog Michael and I agree, honesty does create space and I would add, honesty is the best medicine one can give themselves.

     1. Yes, and not only three times a day before meals, but more so it’s the medicine that I learn to take more and more until it is my every breath.

     2. I agree Jacq, honesty provides a true path of return, instead of a path of no return.

843. Beautiful blog Michael. It inspires me to continue deepening my honesty with myself so I can get to my truth.

844. “We have exactly one chance to make a decision, and that chance is the moment we meet a question or situation for the first time” – this really stood out for me. I can recall some situations where I would have felt a ‘no’ but not verbalised it, thinking how it could be turned into something I would say ‘yes’ to, only to find not long after that the ‘no’ really had to be expressed when it was felt initially – because the ‘no’ I had to say later already had many tendrils grown and it was less simple and carried more tension.

845. Wow Michael – this is precisely where I am at right now and so needed to read these words…. This is a very supportive blog to me, thank you ❤️❤️❤️

846. I’ve begun to notice that when I just stop, right there, and ask myself what’s really going on with myself, that the answer is always there for me. Always was and always will be too. It’s just that in the past I’d have done anything not to feel the answer. But I’m increasingly aware now, that to just acknowledge the answer is more than enough, because the feeling dissipates. Sure I might feel lousy, anxious, disappointed for a time. But that passes way quicker than when I push it down deeper by numbing it with whatever’s available to stop me feeling it. And I get to understand myself better which allows me to be more accepting and appreciative of myself.

847. What a wonderful blog Michael. I can attest to knowing that what is presenting me with what I’m predicting is a big challenge also holds great learning and unfolding of wisdom should I embrace and allow it to reveal itself rather than bury. If I delay looking at it I know it’ll come up later – probably in a way that is a little less graceful and more show stopping. The freedom that comes from no longer running away, of healing an old hurt is joyful because I find I am able to unite with the world again.

848. Great blog Michael- What stood out for me is this:- “The more difficult doing something feels to me, or the more challenging someone seems to be, the more there is for me to discover; usually something that is sitting deep within which I am resisting looking at because I don’t want to know what I could learn from this person or situation.”
     It’s interesting how in this situation I can eat more food or distract myself to avoid looking at what is truly going on and what is the lesson for me to learn. However, by not going into reaction, or blame and just surrendering to my body, I usually will get the answer, by being honest with myself.

849. Thank you Michael for this timely blog for myself for it reminds me to keep things as simply as we are able without complication and tension, allowing space for trust, honesty and joy to naturally be our companions.

     1. Very true Roberta, this keeps things and all we do very simple. A place to come back to. A stop to consolidate and make a decision and be honest about if we are thinking too much …

850. Huge observations. This is true wealth.

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