Show Up Naked – Honor Your Authenticity
“A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a
poet.” – Bob Dylan
When you show up naked, vulnerable, authentic and open, you
allow others to genuinely see who you are. You’ve heard
the old adage, “Actions Speak Louder than Words”. It’s
true. When you fully realize that what you do is the
fullest expression of who you are, you are enlightened. You
honor the integrity of you. What you do honors your
authenticity. You live consistently with the highest
realization of what you know to be true.
Is your life experience is a reflection of your deepest
authenticity?
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – Shakespeare
When you live from a place of deep authenticity and let
others to see your true self you a free. The proverbial
chains of self-doubt and fear that hold you back from your
fullest expression as a person, an artist, a creative
spirit, are dissolved. You are free to create with abandon
abundantly. Your inner most thoughts inspire you to fulfill
your unlimited potentiality. You are energetically and
enthusiastically engaged in each moment of your life. You
feel good!
“No one man can, for any considerable time, wear one face
to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally
getting bewildered as to which is the true one.” -
Hawthorne
Living an inauthentic life doesn’t feel good. My people
cover themselves up with trappings of who they are not, or
who they think they ’should be’. And in the pretending
comes the despair of the lie. The despair isn’t created
from lying to others, it is delivered through the lie to
oneself. Dishonoring who you are. Doing inauthentically.
Being a lie.
“To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage
in some activity or practice that questions what we assume
to be true about ourselves.” – A. H. Almaas
So, who are you? Who is this true self? Your true nature is
the unconditioned part of the self that lies buried beneath
the acquired traits, characteristics, and habitual patterns
of your personality. It speaks through you as your
Intuition, your Higher Self, or what I lovingly call the
Wizard Within. The conditioned part of you, the “supposed
to be, should be, unexpressed” part of you is the ego, the
Inner Critic. Unlike the inspired Wizard Within, the Inner
Critic is full of self-doubt and fear. These to parts of
you are integral a physical being, a human. Both play a
role.
The question is, which part of you is showing up in your
life expression? You may be asking, “If both parts are
integral to me as a human being, am I not both the Higher
Self and the Inner Critic? And the answer is no, who you
are is the Higher Self, a full expression of your truth and
potential. As a human in physical form, you’ve created this
misguided Inner Critic to keep you safe, hold you back from
fear and pain.
And now you might be thinking, “I need to feel fear, pain,
self-doubt in order to create my art. I won’t be the artist
I am if I don’t have fear, pain and self-doubt.”
True. You can travel to the deepest depths of pain, fear
and self-doubt, totally immerse yourself in those emotions
to create your art without showing up in your life from
that place. When you show up in the costume of pain, fear
and self-doubt you are presenting yourself to the world
inauthentically. You can remain authentic to your Higher
Self and use the expressions of the Inner Critic as a tool
rather than a way of being.
I invite you to explore the Inner Critic beliefs,
expectations and vows that do not represent your truth. Try
showing up naked in your life. Realize that when you fully
connect with the Higher Self, the Wizard within, the one
you’ve always known was there, you can create a profound
meaningful relevant impact in your art and in your life
experience.
“Be who you are and say what you feel. Those who mind don’t
matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
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Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mentor who specializes in
empowering creative people to succeed in their craft and
business. She teaches people in the visual and performing
arts how to tap into and trust their intuition, acknowledge
their truth, and disarm their fear and self-doubt. Valery
spent years developing and implementing a proven unique
“Inner Wizard” methodology to empower other creative people
to create more profoundly, more prolifically, and more
profitably at http://www.InnerWizard.com . Get Free “Artist
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