Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The naked truth


When we are looking at the naked truth, we are looking at a situation that has been brought back to its bare essence, such that only the facts remain. And observing the factual truth, stripped from any emotional or ego-driven content, then we would see all of the situation we need to see in order to either handle it, or decide it has no longer a meaning in our lives.

However, while looking at the naked truth, we may conclude that the facts of the situation are correct,  we can still decide that the naked truth as it appears in front of us is not something we want to make part of our lives. In other words, that fact that we can see the situation ‘as is’, doesn’t necessarily mean that we resonate with it, or that it resonates with our personal truth.

A third part of the naked truth is how we perceive the facts of the situation. It has to do with the way we interpret the facts.
For instance, we can walk into a store for a specific item and find that it is out of stock. Now we can perceive this as a negative, or we can go to a different store and buy it at a discount. The naked truth is that the item was out of stock. Our personal truth may be the realization of how lucky we were, as now we have been able to buy it at a discount!

This means that whatever the situation, whether it rings true to us or not has as much to do with our perception of it, as it has to do with the presented facts of that situation. Our perception then is based upon our personal truth, while the facts only can be the basis for truth when they are correct. Either side of this ~ perception as well as the facts ~ may require a little research to know where we stand on it and whether the presented facts are, in fact, correct…

So where we might have thought that looking at the naked truth will paint the same picture for each of us, chances are this is not the case. We may still see different aspects, different things; even a different truth in the same situation.

And when we would be with a group of people all looking at the facts of the same situation, the ‘naked truth’ will be formed by taking all the different perceptions and molding them into one.
The naked truth is not a matter of ‘I am right and therefore you are wrong’, but rather a realization that both are seeing different aspects of the same truth, and therefore both are right!

*Art by Inge

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