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Authenticity: Finding Your Soul Within The Dreams Of Reality
by Mateo Sol
“Be yourself.”
This is the sage old advice your Mother and friends have given you countless times. But why is it so hard to apply to your life? Why is it so hard to “be yourself”?
Perhaps it’s because you don’t know who you really are.
As a teacher of Involution the first obstacle I see fellow travelers come across trying to find their path in life, is the realization that they don’t know who they are.
They fail to listen to their inner souls, and instead create mental ideas (dreams) of what they should be like and begin to doubt themselves whether they are living up to them. Afterwards they seek comforting validation by asking me questions like: “Is this what Spiritual People do?”, “If I can’t do ____ does that mean I’m not an Introvert?”, and “Do all Old Souls like ___ and _____ ?”
In this article I want to explore our lost authenticity and how we can learn to find our genuine selves by learning to love ourselves.
A Child’s Authenticity
Watching children play and hearing their genuine laughter is one of the greatest beauties in life.
We were all born as children filled with life, a sense of wonder, and the desires to explore or create and live in the moment. Children have no past baggage or future anxieties so they express what they feel and aren’t afraid to love unconditionally.
After the age of 3, however, children start to become more tamed. This happens to all of us. Something changes within us and we begin to lose that wonder, that innocence of childhood. Our thoughts become more dominant putting our authentic feelings in the background. Slowly we begin to focus more on these thoughts, and in doing so, we begin to accumulate past baggage and future anxieties.
The Birth Of Dreams
This process of losing your authenticity and replacing it with thoughts in the form of fears, shameful memories, rules, social values and beliefs is known as domestication.
Our domestication can turn into a disease if our parents do not have the awareness and wisdom of what they are passing on. Just like pets, we are domesticated with an emotional reward or punishment system. If our behavior is desirable we are rewarded with attention and affection. If our behavior is not acceptable we are punished by the rejection of our parents or peers.
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