The Risks and Rewards of Seeking Truth Outside of Ourselves
Seeking truth outside of ourselves can be risky. Yet we can use destabilization to integrate truths for beneficial transformation.
What happens when we seek truth in all of the wrong places? Or, perhaps, it is better said as, “What happens when we seek truth outside of ourselves?”
How much of our seeking is actually an effort to be witnessed and recognized, validated for our questions about ourselves or the world?
Is this seeking laden with the hope that someone else will reflect the truths about ourselves that we cannot see, invisible in how they live beyond our conscious capacities?
There is beauty in being truly seen. And there is risk in asking others to peel back our layers, move through our energy fields, and reveal what was until that point invisible to us. In some cases, we feel more rooted and whole in the gaze of another or the words of a well-studied text.
Yet, in some cases, we are giving our power away to an outside force that can destabilize us and bring chaos crashing into our realities.
The flavor of the chaos becomes important because chaos and instability are two of the most powerfully transformative forces in the Universe we play in.
There is chaos that comes from someone preying upon our vulnerabilities, which can destabilize us in detrimental ways that pull us further from our truths.
There is chaos that comes from someone lovingly holding up a mirror to us, showering us with words of affirmation, and destabilizing us in beneficial ways, illuminating a truth that we need to integrate so it can be consciously embodied.
Our minds can become too crowded as they try to hold onto the old truths they once carried and the new truths we have received. This can feel overwhelming, destabilizing, and downright confusing.
We need to let all that we have been told, learned, heard, felt, and seen filter through our bodies, where true awareness lies.
Through this process, we must find the balance of surrendering to the natural transformation processes while moving our bodies and energies to avoid stagnation and remain in flow with the transformation.
We need to be okay with the mist in the air that obscures our view of the path forward, moving through it slowly and with as much grace as we can conjure.
This journey is about returning to yourself and your truth without worrying too much about the end destination or the perceptions about the journey. There is room to dance and laugh, to pick up something new to try, and then put it down again.
Not everything needs to be a delicate balancing act. Sometimes, we have to let the spinning plates fall and crash to know what is meant to last.
[📸: alex geerts]