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MAY 21, 2018
Monday Motivation: How To Be Authentic
What does it mean to be yourself? It is so much more than saying and acting toward the things one believes in, it is also about awareness of the context in which you are expressing yourself. That is to say, to be truly authentic, it is much more about the way you say things, then it is about just saying it. The manner in which you say and do things reflects your inner character, this speaks to an understanding of the things that have shaped you in life. It may feel uncomfortable to dive into one’s authentic self, it can mean doing away with all the comfortable masks we wear in order to conform to certain environments, however, this kind of vulnerability is essential to connecting with others, whether good or bad – therefore, becoming truly authentic.
This week's article is all about authenticity:
We all awake each day and get ready to head out into the world. We put on our clothes, possibly our makeup. The last thing we put on is the way in which we act in front of others. We operate in a certain way, depending on who is around us. We do this because we think that this is the way in which we gain friends and influence people. All of these actions make our persona.
The Persona
We create this persona because we are often not okay with who we are. We also may think if we act some other certain way then we will gain a more considerable amount of success. The idea that this is an illusion is rarely talked about in the modern western world.
According to Carl Jung: “The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.” [1]
Before we leave the house, we clothe ourselves. This covering is our first layer of defense against the world. As long as we veil ourselves, we conceal our bodies for what they are. We must understand that our bodies are not us, they are but a small part of us.
The next level of defense is through our words and deeds. We create in our mind a particular way of acting or presenting ourselves to others. We do this to try to position ourselves some way in this game called life to gain something.
The Pearl
We can think of what it is that we conceal as some small spec of dirt, or darkness within us. The analogy can then be drawn to that of a pearl. As Jim Carrey so succinctly put it:
“What is the dirt that the pearl is built around? And the pearl is the personality that you build around yourself as a protection against that thought: “If they ever find out that I’m worthless if they ever find out that I’m not enough, I’ll be destroyed.”
The dirt then is the real you in all of your flaws, intricacies, and quirks. This message seems especially poignant coming from someone who is so successful by most measures of society.
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Erin
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