you’re in a room with a crowd of people.

you love these people.
maybe you feel a sense of security with them.
the door is open.

you have the floor.
the opportunity to be completely transparent. the opportunity to be truthful. to be who you really are.
and you know // were you to really be who you are and give voice to that, that odds of losing that security and that acceptance is pretty high.

so what do you do?
your only job here is to keep all of you in the room.

IF authenticity is your aim. IF integrity and loyalty to your own heart is your aim. IF genuine connection and elevation and expansion is your aim.

(if not, this isn’t for you. carry on)
how much of yourself are you willing to mask to stay secure? to be accepted?

your job is to keep all of you in the room. your sovereignty.

by doing this, you’re not only honoring YOUR sovereignty, you’re honoring the sovereignty of everyone else in the room.
you’ve given them the truth of who you are and you’re trusting them enough to make a decision to either stay in company with you or to exit their room, with their own free will. FOR THEMSELVES. anything less is manipulation — of yourself and of others.
the beautiful thing is— the more you practice this, from the very beginning, the more you’ll be surrounded by those who are actually serving (and you, them) your expansion, your growth, your potential, and your fullest genuine expression.

this is a choice.
(this is based on a workshop facilitated by Neale Donald Walsch.. one of the best i’ve listened in on).
this process at first sight seems really self serving.

i thought that when i heard it.

& then i began to practice it and realized how selfish it was not to share all of me and allow people and situations the freedom to evolve as they were meant to without my need to control.
when we manipulate to keep others in the room, we not only compromise our wholeness— we trick people into staying in environments that are likely holding them away and back from their own personal truth and free expression. that’s the cost.
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