Tag: honesty

• My mind now knows it.

  My feelings are like energy magnets and they seem to either be drawn to someone or pushed back, I am unable to steer my feelings, they have a life of their own.

  I can be friends with someone, and then they do something that changes who they are, and I don’t even have to wonder what to do, inside of me the desire to be with them changes and I move away.

  Some will say the friendship or love began to cool, and what I believe happens is new information comes in and it changes the ingredients of their energy system. And then we act differently, it isn’t a conscious thought, but unconsciously our body is leading us.

  I am now very astute as far as my body’s signals are, even a slight change sends a ripple across the water inside of me.

  In the past I believe my insides were very choppy waters so I couldn’t tell if an outside stress was stressing me, for the insides were already such a mess, it is like looking for ripples on 8ft waves.

  Each time a new ripple comes in I stay with it, I discern where it is coming from, what is going on in my world, and who is carrying it?

  My body doesn’t lie; it knows when something in my world is off kilter, when peace has been disturbed, when an untruth has walked into my space.

  Hints to my dis-ease float to me, unannounced and land like odd objects in an otherwise normal world, beckoning me to notice. If I miss one, a second one appears like messengers relentlessly waking me up.

  Once you notice these mess enders, the mess in my understanding clears up, and I see clearly.

  What I see isn’t always what I want, but what I need to see.

  I used to dismiss these signals and over sedate my body so I didn’t feel their uncomfortable truths, now I know if I don’t get the first message the problem doesn’t go away, I am just wanting to play in denial.

  The land of denial is only a temporary home, a respite on a journey towards the truth, and it seems the longer you put it off, the more you have to face in the end.

  I now prefer to face things one at time and as they happen, and to see the nuances and changes in people’s personalities and stay recent with the affects of their behaviors, so that we are not familiar strangers.

  My daughter’s face is familiar but everything else is getting stranger and stranger, my body no longer is comfortable with the ‘truth’ that she presents, it seems to be a token or crumb tossed my way to chew on, and bit by bit I am being fed a book full of lies to deflect me away from who she really is.

  To be honest, I wish my body believed what my ears are hearing, it would be so much easier, but they disagree and there is dis ease inside of me.

  My body is a lie detector and my mind now knows it…

  March 8, 2011

  body, children, detector, familiar, feelings, honesty, lies, messengers, parenting, relationships, ripple affect, truth, unfamiliar

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• Go with the Flow.

  United we stand united we fall, divided we stand divided we fall…are two phrases that ran around in my head as I laid my weary brain down to sleep.

  There has been a humming of difference going on in our home, a vague and nagging two party rule.

  This split difference seemed to be two strong individuals doing what they felt was right for them and it didn’t affect the atmosphere within our home, for our individual expressions were directed to those who did not live with us.

  Sure we had awkward uncomfortable moments, but they would only arrive when say a party was to be attended and we both didn’t go…yet we both could please ourselves.

  Me by staying home, and them by going, two drastically different responses to one event.

  It seemed to be this great wide-open free space of self-expression and allowing, and it was.

  What happens if our differences fall into our own home, where a person in our relationship changes and our responses are different?

  It became crystal clear to me that we were at a cross roads, both individually and as a team.

  The individual harmony of our home is tipping and sliding and churning over the way we both deal with actions that go against our moral code.

  My daughter’s changing actions have set in motion and are displaying our stark contrasts, where we are both sitting in a very tight spot.

  A spot that we both drew comfort in and it allowed us to be ourselves, we may be asked to leave.

  What we are being asked is to stand with that sentiment or to reverse and head in another direction; it truly is a turning point in our relationship.

  If my daughter continues in the direction she seems to be heading in, she will also change the direction our marriage, it will be the trigger that goes off and we will then be asked to change as well.

  She is the key that will turn this all.

  Our response is the echo and the reply and what I know from past behaviors, we answered differently.

  Can we form as a team and come up with an answering response that will honor both of us?

  I see the looming bends in our river, the rapids that will require each of us to hold to our course and see not one boat called family, but three different canoes.

  I see how the current in each of our lives may lead us down separated journeys, how the potential for parting is strong, how our differences become stronger not weaker, how their forces propel and repel.

  Within each of us lies our sense of self, our value and self worth and that alone is the motor that steers our choices, speaks our voices, and their clamoring for individual power drowns out the unity we once had.

  It isn’t the direction that they are heading in, or the rapids beneath them, but rather the integrity within each boat, the honesty and character that directs these boats in their direction.

  It seems that the Universe pulls them toward like-minded boats; our separation isn’t what the heart wants, but rather what our actions lead.

  The freedom that I lovingly gave that had us all happy in our separate boats, is now coming to bear.

  There is a fork in the river now, a change in the stream, a curve that bends their lives from mine… what I can’t know for sure is will they take the curve or change something inside of them.

  It isn’t me, but the river of life and how you change or it changes you.

  At the end of the day, I am a lady of my own character who has no choice but to follow where it leads…reality wins only but 100% of the time, it is futile for me set my canoe against it.

  This is what happened last time, six years ago, where my canoe didn’t go where the rest all went, where the river bent, and my character simply couldn’t go with the flow against the river of reality.

  I see my daughter’s canoe swirling lost in the struggle against the rivers flow, not wanting what is and lying to make it right, twirling in the swirling waters going against life’s truth, trying to make something right out of what is wrong.

  I have seen this branch of the river before, I have watched as many family members’ canoes got stuck in the madness of seeing an illusion and following.

  My shouts fall short and are lost in the waters of time that race by, telling them it is useless to fight what is.

  Now this time, the illusion has my daughter in its grips, the fantasy that is but a mirage above the river, and I can’t seem to break the spell that will plunge her back into seeing what is.

  And I can’t know the strength and conviction she has with this mirage and how far will she follow it and for how long, and if she does, what will my husband do?

  Will his canoe ride with her?

  Will his words to fall short?

  Will she hear us as we shout; will she trust the mirage or her old reality?

  Where will these three canoes go? Which ones will fight reality and who will go with the flow?

  March 2, 2011

  Character, choices, deceit, differences, fooling, honesty, lies, life, marriage, reality, river, self, struggle, time

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• A Liar too.

  There seems to come a time in each relationship where the titles and names do not matter, where instead lies the meat of the relationship, the giving and the taking, the feelings we feel in the wake of their actions, the way we are treated or the lack thereof, it is like we can finally see what it is we are tasting.

  I asked myself if lies was an ingredient in love and could not find one recipe of Love that included lies.

  Not the love of parents, friends, lovers or self. Lies and Love don’t match.

  I also know that all relationships no matter what kind are subject to renegotiations if and when the ingredients change of one party.

  There isn’t a relationship out there, as far as I can see, that holds this sacred space of no negotiation.

  To me, all relationships are fluid and are living breathing exchanges between two people, that will change as the individuals in them change, and in fact the relationship is only as good as the weakest one.

  The weaker one is the sum total of the relationship, for if the stronger one settles, so goes the relationship down to the lowest denominator.

  My experiences with dysfunction is the strong lower themselves to be okay with dropping down to the low level, it is seen as kind and loving and accepting, and to forgive all actions, and call it unconditional love.

  Unconditional love to some is allowing all types of negative behaviors to messy up a relationship and you are to love no matter what.

  The ingredients of dysfunctional love is that anything goes and all must be forgiven, and relationships are made of steel there is no renegotiation, and you and I are locked behind the wall of our relationship.

  The relationship between sister and sister in some is non negotiable.

  Between parent and child…

  That what started out has to remain, we are locked in forever, like a steel cage within there is no way out, we must forever and a day be held together, withstanding bad behavior for the cause of Relationship.

  Two victims behind the relationship cage.

  I say, that if one in the cage changes, the other gets to leave if the changes can’t be reversed.

  When one changes, the whole relationship changes. It isn’t a cage, but rather the dance within the cage.

  Some put high regard on the titles, Mom, sister, daughter, father, and I see the individual behind the title, and I believe that the sister is only as good as her actions in the cage.

  Lies are lies no matter whose mouth utters them.
  Abuse is abuse no matter whose bodies are delivering it. It is convenient only for the one who is doing the bad behavior to use the trump card sister, to put that out in front of the poor behavior.

  Well, in my world I have taken down the cages that held me in and I am free.

  I no longer will be victimized or blinded by a title.

  Actions are actions, lies are lies, and deceit is deceit.

  Setting aside the relationship and seeing you as you, lies are not becoming.

  No good can be grown from a lie.
  No self worth can be gained from a lie.
  No love can be sown from a lie.

  In my childhood family they live among the lies and are not even aware that who they are playing with isn’t so, raised in the darkness full of lies, it is their normal. They don’t even know they live a lie for they never lived outside of it. Lies is all they ever knew. They have said and do say, that my parents did the best they could, and they did. But their best is to present one thing to the front while doing something else behind the scenes.

  A lie I call it.

  Most will not deal with the ‘thing’ behind the scenes; they would rather just play with what is in front, the pretend relationship label. Father, Mother instead of really looking at the actions within the cage.

  What happens in the cage is what you have a relationship with.

  Action to action is how we dance and relate to each other.
  If one says a lie and the other does not see it, the lie still happens, one is just denying it.

  It changes the dance from love to love and trust to trust… to lie to love and what they want is for us to continue to trust them while they lie.

  How?

  What is the point?

  Who trusts someone who lies?

  I can trust that I will not trust you when you lie.

  I trust that I will tell you I don’t believe you.

  I will say love doesn’t lie.

  I wonder why you lie?

  I wonder if you know that our relationship can’t hold what you do?

  It almost seems that if you have to lie, you know that if you spoke the truth, that it would change what we have.

  Yet sadly the lie does the same thing.

  Whether you do something that would jeopardize our relationship or you lie about doing it, it matters not.

  You have breeched its integrity, you have changed its value.

  As a child, my relationship with both my parents changed at a very young age, the seed of mistrust, conditional love was planted. In order to remain in the relationship, I had to keep their lies.

  Keeping lies changes who you are.
  Keeping lies of another doesn’t make them better, brighter, loving, happy, kind and compassionate.

  Holding a bag full of lies makes you a liar too.

  February 27, 2011

  cheating, child, deceit, dyfunction, family, father, go…, holding, honesty, integrity, letting, liar, lies, mistrust, mother, on, relationships, separating, trust

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• Real Me.

  “Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication.  They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others.  Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.” 

  ~Author Unknown

   

  When I began following my truth and spoke with emotional honesty, it really never occurred to me that I was sealing the deal on having no relationship.

   

  How sad and telling that most of my past relationships were based upon phoniness, either theirs or mine or both.

   

  When I could no longer tolerate the absence of emotional honesty and the other side wasn’t ready for the full exposure to emptiness, our relationship ended.

   

  Our phony relationship lay exposed.

   

  It is funny how you can miss what wasn’t there, how you ache for the closeness you falsely created, incredible to grieve a loss of something you did not have.

  It seems mental to feel separated and alone when a phony relationship dies. 

   

  How can I grieve something phony?

  How can I love something phony?

  How can I have a relationship with phony?

   

  Phony was the only family that I knew, was the only me I knew.

   

  It is funny that you can crave a false thing, something that has no substance, like a drug.

   

  It isn’t the drug itself, but the feeling.

   

  I felt like I belonged.

   

  Now I am standing separated from them.

   

  I am different, perhaps no longer co-dependent.

   

  Feeling strange at being totally alone and separated, yet totally connected to feelings, my emotions and me!

   

  The phony me died, the phony relationships died and they gave birth to a real me.

   

  “It takes two to lie.  One to lie and one to listen.” 

  Homer Simpson

   

   

  May 30, 2010

  co-dependent, dishonesty, exile, honesty, lies, phony, relationships, self, superficial

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