In your everyday life do you notice more and more people misrepresenting the truth? No matter who we interact with there is constantly some level of concealment. What is it that causes us to have to conceal? Sometimes it might be done to protect someone you love, sometimes we don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, other times we might just be protecting ourselves from the truth we are unwilling to face or confront, still other times it is done on purpose to produce the result you want.

I have mostly come across the reason why we deceive ourselves and others, is to protect our ego. We are consciousness, spirit, soul. We are not our ego. Our ego deceives us into believing, it is us. It isn’t. It tricks us into playing its game. Either way be careful. If you use it as a tactic, it might work for a while but used over and over as a weapon of choice, and you may notice it stops working for you.

When your ego produces negative thoughts and we buy into them, we are being played. When our ego produces negative emotions and lures us into stories about past or present painful situations, we are being played. We play the game because we are being deceived into believing we are IT, we are not, we are that which observes IT.  You, the real you, doesn’t need to be protected. Your ego does.

When you lie and rearrange the truth to suit your needs, your ego makes it acceptable and pretends to protect you by making it seem like your reasons for doing so are noble and good. When your deception is revealed to others, your ego makes it acceptable and pretends to protect you by rearranging things to make you appear the victim. Your ego does all this only ever to protect itself and get its own way constantly. The less you identify with it, the less its grip on trying to control you.

The more you deceive and suppress things, the more they have a way of coming to the surface. Have you heard about the law of reversed effort? Sooner or later that which you have tried to keep hidden, will find its way out. This may take a while to happen, sometimes, but once it does, its like the floodgates have been opened, and it cannot be stopped.

No one can control the deception told to them. The best way to counteract your own deception is by asking yourself to prove the facts you believe about yourself. So if you say you are kind and compassionate and caring, then can you come up with examples from your life that would validate your belief? I also find it helpful to pull away from one’s own viewpoint and start to see things from the other person’s perspective. This way ensuring you are not deceiving yourself, as you don’t need protecting.

You can handle the truth!

We seem to be in a maze between trying to figure out what is true and what is fake. We are moving towards governments telling us what is true and not, as we humans are deemed unable or incapable of deciphering that we have been ably figuring out for centuries!

What is the truth? Well before you can figure out if something is true or not, you have to change the way you listen to the news. When you listen to the news, notice how they move from information to information, topic to topic, never quite allowing you to be able to piece things together. For example, news of the economy is never related to any news about the banks, debt, companies being granted monopolies, tax avoidance, layoffs, or zero hour contracts.

Listening to information in isolation, is the beginning of the end of truth. Not only do they never connect the dots, they never want you to either! It would lead to the end of all news readers, although real journalistic endeavours, and those who present the full picture, will become the truth seekers, this world needs.

One key to putting the puzzle together is personal judgement. I have always lived by this saying, just because someone says something doesn’t make it true.

Many times in my life i would listen to the news or read articles and I would hear the government say things like we need to help people eat more healthy foods and then you notice the government allows the most unhealthy foods and ingredients to be allowed into everyday food items! Then you hear the government say we need people to save more but they allow the banks to offer practically 0 interest rate to savers! Then you have news about needing a strong military and the next thing you hear is there are more cuts to the military!

Sometimes I would ask myself what is going on, here? Why is all the information contrary to each other?

Information given without context is given to manipulate public opinion. Without context you cannot put things together for yourself in a cohesive way.

Another key to piecing the puzzle is perspective. A wide perspective. See perspective can only be gained if you step away. The way they try and get you is by sucking you into the day to day trickle down information, never allowing you to see any issue from a long term perspective, but rather getting you entwined into this or that issue that just occurred, that is urgent, requiring your complete, total and undivided attention, which of course it doesn’t. It’s the veil they use to distract, isolate and incubate us.

So here is my question to you. Can you handle the truth, when you are presented with it?  Do you shy away, from it? Intimidated. Do you mull it over and decide for yourself , whether an issue is being portrayed with neutrality or biases? Through facts or half truths and manipulations?  Through cohesive analysis or incoherent psyops?

The truth is out there. The key to finding it, is to look at the same issue from as many different viewpoints as possible. Seek and ye shall find. Let’s use the truth to set us free!

Are there things in your life you would like to transcend? If only you could, you say to yourself. Well there is a concept that allows you to do just that, the realization and practice of it provides you the ability to transcend.

To transcend something is not to get rid of it, it is the capacity to rise above it. The present moment is the only space, where you can transcend anything. The past is just that, it cannot be altered as you have already made those choices. Those choices bring this moment into being. The future depends on the choices you make moment by moment.

The reason we keep making the same choices is because the same situations keep coming round, and you react the same and that brings round the same situation and the circle keeps going. Transcending the situation is going to require you making a different choice to the same situation.

To do this, it is helpful to learn to detach from the five senses. What decides your state of being is your thoughts, your emotions and your actions. If you want to transcend your life situations, this requires learning to control your thoughts, emotions and actions, from moment to moment. Another helpful concept is to allow yourself to get into the practise of observing yourself, your thoughts, emotions and actions.This is not a new concept by any means, but it is a life changing one, once you put it into effect in your life.

Detaching yourself from your thoughts and emotions, allows space and space allows you to make a different choice and that results in a different outcome, which brings a different result and this break, frees you to transcend.

The space, that this creates, is what is required for you to transcend. I am not saying the problems you have will disappear. In fact the chances are they are not going to disappear, however, your reactions to them need to get to a neutral space, so that your problems are no longer holding you hostage. Therefore creating a space where you are able to decide for yourself how you want to react to your life situations, is essential. If you work to create the ability to detach and rise above it, you will be able to cope with the issue, maybe not solve it immediately but it will not be all powerful in your life anymore.

So how do you create this space?  The practice of meditation is a good start. This simple exercise allows you to silence your thoughts, and center yourself away from the non stop constant dialogue going on in your head and allows for some peace of mind.

Peace of mind allows you to choose your action in a way that then allows you to transcend the situation you are facing, by allowing you to react in a new way which will bring about a new set of consequences and thus guide you onto a new path, ending the merry go round effect in your life.

And so begins with baby steps your journey into transcendence.

The good life does not exist, not in the conventional sense anyway. Not in the easy, comfortable, floating in the clouds way, you may imagine life is possible. Thinking and imagining your life this way is a sure fire way to dwell in constant discontent.

The good life is one where you choose to do good in your life daily. The faith I was born into teaches, good thoughts, good words and good deeds. I would include good [positive] emotions as well. This would most certainly be called living the good life, not the easy life but definitely the good life.

This life is not the less challenging life, far from it. Love, goodness, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, empathy, caring, generosity, righteousness, peace and joy are not worked on easily. It is a constant choice. Everytime you choose to do the right thing you open yourself up to opposition, all who speak their truth, know this from experience.

While you are deciding whether to do good, it almost feels like suddenly the lure to go negative appears out of nowhere. It is the mind that tries to get you to choose the easier option giving you reasons for doing so. However if you stick to your decision to do good, then the real opposition steps in to block you, and thwart your path. It is always you that decides. You can ignore everything and do what you believe is right regardless of difficulty, or you can stop in your tracks. The more good you do, the greater the challenges and blockades that come your way which is a fact you have to know and understand.

So i hear you ask the follow up, well why should we choose to live the good life, then?

Well i see it like this. There are two reasons why. One is doing right for right’s sake. For those of us who try daily to live this way, it isn’t really a choice, we just try and do so because it is right, and no other reason is necessary. Another reason is this, everytime you choose to do good, it’s like you are putting aside money for a rainy day. When the storms arrive you are protected more than you can ever imagine.

I have experienced this personally, there have been so many times I was unaware, I required protecting but i know I was protected only by looking back at events in hindsight. This is the thing, when you do good, and just keep at it, it may appear as though all the good you are trying to do is amounting to nothing, because you are still not getting what you want. However all you do adds up and you receive your blessings in ways that are not always plainly visible and may not be visible till after the fact. So don’t despair, it is working.

If you look at your life as a mirror and what you do gets reflected back to you, don’t you want love, goodness, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, empathy, caring, generosity, righteousness, peace and joy reflected back to you? I do.