As humanity continues to evolve at an accelerating rate, our lessons (both personal and collective) become more urgent and demanding. We're faced with so much more input and it can be challenging to determine what is true for ourselves in the middle of all of it.
During the years I spent at the Berkeley Psychic Institute I learned a lot about the need to determine what is true for me. As humans we're strongly conditioned to "match" the energy around us, to fit in so that we operate more comfortably in the world. I learned tools that helped me know what my own truth is and what I had accepted as truth from outside myself. I'm grateful for those tools, and can tell you that it's still difficult at times to distill my own truth from the many competing perceptions, expectations and ways of seeing things.
Being clear about our own truth and using it as a guidepost as often as possible is so important, because what we hold true is what we manifest in our lives. The Spiritual Law of Attraction tells us that we magnetize to ourselves whatever we focus energy on; what we expect to see we create in our experience.
Our deepest truths are not always easy to keep in mind when life is messy (which is most of the time!), because we get pulled away by the sheer volume of it all. Still, we can always lean in to the quiet truth that our soul is whispering.
Some of my deepest truths have taken decades to explore and even longer to trust. They also sometimes feel like wishful thinking. That we live in a sane and ordered universe, that everything happens for a divine purpose, that I am co-creating everything in my experience with God for the purpose of bringing Love and Light into the darkness all seem impossible from within this dense human experience. But every time we consciously choose to re-align with a deeply-held truth, we pull more of its energy to ourselves and into the world.
I believe that truth comes from our inner experience and our soul's unique path, so only we can know what is right and true for us. Seeking to know our own truth is an extremely personal, lifelong journey.
I dearly love the idea of all the different ways that Divine Wisdom chooses to speak truth to us. They are individual, countless and sometimes quite amusing!
For me, sometimes truth is a faint whisper that barely makes it to my awareness because I'm busy doing other things, but it somehow does and I think "Oh.... yes!" and am instantly joy-filled with the rightness of how this life works. Sometimes it's a loud, directive voice that talks to me but also is me, telling me something from out of left field that changes my life in a profound way, like "I WILL GET A DEGREE IN NUTRITION."
Truth can show up as serendipity, when I realize that a series of seemingly random things has led to a situation that I know is right for me because getting there had been so unintentional on my part but obviously very carefully orchestrated by the Universe😊.
Sometimes truth comes in a book that presents a new idea to me that makes me feel like I have come home, and my soul says "yesss....." as I breathe it in.
Other times truth can come as a nagging "no" feeling that I just can't push down no matter how hard I try because my mind really wants to move forward with something.
Writing letters to God has for a long time been a favorite way of accessing my truth. I write "Dear God," then let my confusion and concern spill out of me onto the page, and I sign it "Sherry." Then I write "Dear Sherry," and just allow what comes next. God speaks her elegant truth to me in ways that are sometimes directive, sometimes comforting. Sometimes I laugh and she laughs along with me.
Last night deep truth came in an Oracle card that I pulled for a painful question I faced. In an instant my emotional space shifted as I knew the perfection of the answer, and that even in darkness Divine Truth is always there in me and in everything.
How do you hear the voice of truth speaking to you?
May you continue to open to its ever-present wisdom, and may this tool be a blessing.
