Inherent Inspiration Pre-Requisite: Being Connected to Our True Selves

The only source for true inspiration is our true selves.

When we are connected to our true selves, we don’t doubt ourselves. We aren’t unsure about what we feel or what we want or what we like or what we don’t like.

Connecting to our true selves can be challenging for many reasons; We may be too “in our heads” from a really focused day or month (or year) at work; we may have sacrificed self-care and inspiration for too long and are having a tough time getting back in touch; or we may have had childhood experiences or relationships that taught us to hide our true selves. When these challenges linger for too long, we can forget how to re-discover our true selves.

We have to be connected to our true selves to live our lives authentically on the path that speaks to our deepest wants, needs and desires. If we are feeling inspired, it is our true selves shining through in pure self-expression. Feeling inspired is our glimmer of truth and self when we’ve lost that connection.

MY STORY

 

When I found myself among the wreckage of a soul-jarring breakup, I felt like I didn’t know who I was. I just lost myself in the relationship, and without it, I didn’t know how to move forward because I didn’t even know what direction forward was. I didn’t realize that I had buried my true self, the compass of my life, so deeply.

 

I felt like a sailboat that had been shattered by a storm, my scattered pieces of wreckage floating along wherever the waves wanted to take them. Parts of me floated in separate directions and in every direction. I was moving, but not as a whole person. Different parts of me floated to where it seemed they were needed to keep some kind of motion or to stay afloat, but I wasn’t navigating.

 

Throughout my life, up until that breaking and waking up point, I didn’t know myself well enough to realize that I wasn’t connected to my true self. And I certainly wasn’t empowered enough to feel I had the ability to lead or create my life.

 

I had to heal the reason I got so disconnected and fragmented in the first place. I had to reclaim my pieces and mend them back together. I had to reduce the distance between fragmented parts of me and my true self so that I could become whole.

 

The ocean, like life, always has movement. A sailboat with all its parts together, in its wholeness, can lead it’s own way, cutting through challenging waves with strength, ease, purpose and determination, no matter the pull and push of the waves.

We face challenges pushing and pulling us in a million directions all the time, whether we’re being pulled to hide our truths or pushed to compromise our integrity. The more we are connected to our true selves, the more whole we are. The more whole we are, the stronger we are to navigate our own life.

We get whole when we start collecting and reclaiming those estranged pieces. We get whole when we know what to do with those pieces because they are all aligned in purpose with our true selves’ desires, wants and needs.

We get whole when we let our compass be the only compass that guides our life and when we don’t stray because the winds of other people’s opinions, wants or needs are trying to blow us off course. We can get whole by rediscovering our true selves, most easily accessed by allowing ourselves to get inspired.