Ever since we leave childhood behind, we expose ourselves more and more to the world around us. We diversify and increase our interaction with the people we meet through work relationships, study collaborations, romantic interests, friends and family connections. The relationships are more often than not very complex and there’s a fine intertwining of emotions involved. A need for authenticity evolves.
This is why it’s particularly easy to get caught up in games and diversions that we play in order to cover up our intentions or faults, or downright even to mislead. We end up doing these things so often that we end up forgetting what it feels like to be morally upright. Or we even forget who we really are and what we yearn for in life. And without realizing it, guilt, shame, and frustration find a way in before we can realize it, leading to low energy levels and poor emotional connections. So what is there to do? How can we restore our authenticity and start generating positive feelings about ourselves once again?
How to Restore Your Authenticity and Feel Better In Your Skin Again
1. Start by Cleaning Up Your Life To Fuel Authenticity
The one thing you need to do before you can implement actual change in your future is to identify the situations in which you have been dishonest and incongruent with your thoughts regarding other people. Once you’ve done this – and be certain they exist somewhere in the unconscious, buried down – you need to take action on your findings. You need to get in touch with the people you’ve wronged in the distant past or even recently and make amends with them, so you can stop this internal and ever-present worrying cycle.
Start by admitting what your real intentions or feelings were, apologize to them and promise to offer a new and better type of behavior with them in your future interactions. The wonderful part about this is that you’ll feel immensely relieved and that you’ll build a different type of relationship with the people involved. In other words, you are creating a foundation for a fresh new start in your life and will start to harbor truly good feelings.
2. Stop Yourself In Your Tracks As Often As You Get The Chance To
After clearing up your past more doubtful interactions, you’ll notice that your vibrational levels will rise. You will no longer be able to keep yourself at a level where you can turn a blind eye to your own actions. This is why you’ll gain this amazing and powerful capacity to identify those old types of intentions as soon as they form in your mind.
This is where decision-making comes in. You’ll have the possibility to either act based on your previous inner layout or to continue forging this new person you’re becoming. The more you resist the urge to go back to old patterns, the more power and clarity you’ll gain in all aspects of your life. By allowing yourself to grow into a new and better person, you’re also allowing for more positive emotions to enter your life and nourish your soul.
3. Practice Gratitude On a Daily Basis and Power Up Authenticity
There’s a magical aspect of gratitude and practicing it regularly. By acknowledging the goodness in your everyday life and zooming out on it, you attain a sort of powerful humbleness. This, in turn, allows you to become more authentic towards your own self, which will then radiate towards the others as well. You’ll start to feel more at ease with your path in life and, as a result, you’ll become more in tune with who you really are and what your soul longs for. On the outside, this will translate to a higher level of authenticity and alignment with yourself.
The road to authenticity is clear and easy to follow, you just need to practice mindfulness every day in order to clear all the obstacles along the way. By taking the time to center yourself daily, you’ll get a clearer vision of who you are and what your inner voice really longs to speak to you and to the entire world. Transformation always comes from the inside out and it starts manifesting accordingly in the way you relate to your environment and the people around you.
About the Author
‘Claudia Spataru is a free spirit located in Bucharest, Romania and always in search of answers to life’s greatest questions. She loves to understand how people work, what makes them tick and find ways to help them reach higher grounds. She adores the sea, traveling and laughing.’
