What does it mean to live life authentically? It’s taken so much work for me to understand this question fully. I have hit roadblock after roadblock on my healing journey. It wasn’t until I started living authentically that I felt like I was making progress. I hope this article helps you take steps to live an authentic life. It’s a huge step closer to inner peace and freedom. Your soul deserves it.
What Does Living An Authentic Life Mean?
Living an authentic life might seem like a no-brainer. You think, of course, I am living authentically. I invite you to dig deep and feel into that. Ask yourself what living an authentic life means. There are so many layers to living authentically. Do you listen to your intuition? Do you follow your heart? Do you say what you want to say when you want to say it? Are you following your dharma/life purpose? Are you filling your cup? Are you escaping to feel good? Do you have people around you that feed your soul? Are you constantly growing and evolving? Ask yourself how am I listening to what my soul desires? Am I showing up for myself every day? How can I nourish my mind, body, spirit and social connections? Slow down and listen.
Why follow The Path Of Authenticity
When You are being your true self you are raising the vibration in the world. You inspire others to be their authentic selves and follow their soul’s journey. How beautiful would it be if we could all inspire each other every day to get up and be who we truly are? The sad thing is the world is so “busy” that we’ve forgotten who we are and why we are here. We are here to be fully present and love one another. We are here to speak our truth and share our gifts. We are here to help each other when we need help. We are here to walk through life with joy and ease. Living as an authentic human is our birthright, but sadly the busy culture has a lot of us not even knowing what that means.
Easy Ways To Connect to Your Authenticity
- Meditate: Some of my best ideas come from sitting and meditating. You can really feel everything coming up without distractions. It truly is a time to be quiet and listen.
- Journal: I journal almost every day. I sit and dump my thoughts into my notebook. The best part about journaling is to go back and read your past entries. Do you see any patterns or themes? Connect the dots. What do you need and where are your entries pointing you?
- Listen to your intuition/pings: Your intuition speaks to you daily. Are you listening? My intuition has guided all my twists and turns in life. Pings are ideas that pop into your head. This is a TBM term. I believe pings are guidance from god, spirit, angels, or whatever you believe. I try to follow my pings and see where they take me. I try to trust the guidance I am being given.
- Surround yourself with people who ground you and help you grow: I pay attention to the people who come into my life. People come into your life to reflect who you are. They are mirrors. We need people in our life that help us grow and speak our language. Our chosen family is so important for the journey of life.
- Practice self-love: Loving yourself requires you to be present and pay close attention to the negative noise between your ears. Catch your negative self-talk and meet it with love. Get to know your shadow and love that too. All humans have things they want to run and hide from, but those things are our greatest teachers. We get the most out of the hard stuff. It teaches us to be better. Love it all and practice this daily. Love is the way to authenticity because you aren’t hiding from anything. Love is the answer to most if not all things.
Life Is Magic When You Are Living Authentically
When we are fully present and living our truth our life flows with so much ease. When we are doing what we think we should be doing we are met with a lot of pain, stress and resistance. Finding your true authentic self and your life path is definitely the road less travelled and it’s a lot harder than just following societal norms. But finding yourself and creating a life around authenticity is so beautiful and meaningful. It’s full of ups and downs, as we are living the human experience, but it’s full of purpose and peace at the same time. I invite you to dig deep and connect to your authenticity. Sending you all so much love!
xo Alayna
