Finding And Living Your Truth...

It sounds simple right? Just find your truth, and then apply it to your life?

If it was that easy society would not be obesely overweight, hooked on prescription drugs, addicted to alcohol, and using a device as a digital babysitter.

Let’s do some unpacking... I’ll start with my journey to my truth...

We are conditioned from birth to react for acceptance. If you did something you weren’t suppose to you were yelled at, or your hand slapped. As an infant you knew this didn’t feel good, and felt icky.

So after a few times of feeing icky, you stopped.
I understand that it is different when you are barely walking and reach for a hot stove and your parents slap your hand, etc.

I am only referring to the feeling that is established at a very young age of acceptance, and making others happy.

Back to my journey...
I was born in a small town in Indiana in 1979. Yes I am 41 at the time of this writing :)
I have one brother (hey Troy!) who is one year and two weeks younger than me.
We grew up in the country surrounded by farmland and blue skies.

We had plenty of acres to run and play, and plenty of woods to build forts play war in. I had a a lot of fun as a child.

It wasn’t until I went to school until things got “heavy”.

Let me unpack that statement...

I have always had such a free creative spirit. For fun, practical, creative things like music, art, drawing, playing in the dirt, etc. Needless to say I didn’t excel in math, English, history, etc. I didn’t learn the way they were teaching it.

To memorize something one day, be tested on that memorization the next day, and then be retested on a final exam in 8-12 weeks of the same memorization.

And yes, it is as crazy as it sounds right? 

I learned by doing. I could always do the work, and ace an exam to pass if I had to, because I applied myself.

All of the above subjects just never resonated with me. I excelled in band, sports, art, and swing choir (I was the drummer :)

As I grew older and was ran through the system I never lost sight of my true self. Sometimes that inner light grew dim and was buried, but it still shined as much as it could.

I barely graduated high school (again by choice, I applied myself just enough to pass).

I was the drummer for Chronic Chaos. A band we had together with a great friend Chris and my brother Troy.

We went through a few lineup changes through the years, but it was always us core three. We started playing together around 13-14yrs old, and we played together until I was 23. What a great time, and so much fun.

After high school we wrote, recorded and toured for two albums and an E.P.
We kept bullshit jobs that we could quit to go on tour. It was a truly fun and innocent time. I was back to living my truth.

At the age of twenty three after we arrived back from warped tour, the band disbanded a few months later. Life happens :)
In the mean time when we were not touring I had started my own contracting company doing utility work (climbing poles, trenching, etc).

So after the band was no longer an outlet for me I dove into this venture.

It felt good, It felt close to my truth, but I was never 100% at peace. I was a statistic in the working world and had bought into the “system” that never resonated with me.

I proposed to my girlfriend at the time, was running my business, and looking at houses. What I thought I was “suppose” to be doing at the ripe old age of 23.

Accomplishing all of these things felt good...but there was always something missing, something “better” out there...my truth.

Let's jump ahead three years.

I was 26, single, and needed a change.

That change was selling my company, moving from Indiana to Florida, and meeting a woman I would eventually marry in 2012.

All of this felt like my path...but I was still missing something...my truth.

For the rest of my 20’s and the start of my thirty’s I was in constant distraction from my truth, just as most of the world is today.

I feared and ridiculed change, and what I didn’t understand because it was easier than looking at my life and within my self at the decisions I was making.

I was overworked, in the middle of a marriage that eventually ended, fighting depression, and using alcohol to numb myself so I wouldn’t have to deal with my poor life choices.

Needless to say...I was for sure not living my truth. At this point in my life I was the farthest I head ever been from my truth.

Let's jump ahead to the fun age of 37. I had worked all over at this point. From Florida I went to Texas. From Texas to Virginia/West Virginia. I spent three years in Pennsylvania, and almost three years in the north east.

I was pursuing and running from my truth at the same time if that makes any sense. I kept a constant distraction in front of me so I didn’t have to look at myself, or look within.

At 37 I knew something had to change. I was either going to keep working myself to death, or starting living for my truth. It was not easy at all, but I dug super deep and found my inner light that was so buried, my truth.

I decided to take my power back. From everyone and everything I had given it to. I decided to be true to myself and remove all negativity from my life, and keep it out of my aura for good. I had no idea how to do this, but I believed in and Loved myself enough to try.

My path led me through a divorce, from Massachusetts to California. And the biggest and most mental, physical, emotional, and energetic detox I had ever done.

I was back on my path...the path to my truth...:)

At 41 now I am living my truth everyday. I wake up grateful, and excited for everyday, every moment, every opportunity, every breath.

Ever since I took my power back and started thinking and feeling for myself, I have been living my truth.

I know use my life experience and acquired knowledge as a wellness coach and the owner of Limitless health and energy to help others on their journey to their best self. 

It is so easy to “drink the kool-aid”, do what the masses are doing, wear something that does not work to make people feel better, live in constant fear because everyone else is, and the news told you to do so. No thank you. 

If this truly feels good to you, and you find comfort in others lies, sweet...may you be blessed...and have a great mediocre life. Maybe you will find and live your truth in your next life time. No judgements here...No worries :)

But if have always had the burning in your soul that there is something so much more to life...if there has always been a void in your soul that you could not explain...this is your truth calling you. I hope you choose to listen.

The ways to help find and live your truth are being healthy:

Mentally healthy
Physically healthy
Emotionally healthy

Energetically healthy

Some tools to help you achieve the above:

Clean nutrition
Clean water
Positive environment

Being physically active

Meditation

Being patient and consistent with all of the above.

I hope each and every one of find and live your truth in this lifetime.

A good starting place is turning off the news, and start to think and feel for yourself. Keep outside sources and emotions out of your decision making. Do something because it feels good and resonates with you, not because someone told you too. 

If not, that is ok too. I still Love each and every one of you as I Love myself...:)

Here’s to your health...

Cheers!