What are you hiding behind? It’s a barrier between you and what you genuinely want.

Everyone wants the same thing and we hide from it in different ways. Everyone wants to feel the aliveness of being comfortable in their own skin. Let’s call it the comfort of being complete.

We cannot complete ourselves when we hide behind false fronts.

The truth is we came into this world complete and then we were conditioned out of our completeness. The search for the way back to completeness is a lifelong trek for most. That exploration becomes complete when we come out of hiding.

We hide behind our conditioning. We have come to believe that our conditioning is who we are rather than whom we adopted.

The longer you hold onto the fallacy of the conditioned you, the longer you’ll stay in hiding.

If you constantly feel you are missing something in your life, you are being held prisoner by your conditioning. Conditioning is most often a limitation - a limitation we’ll argue for. Anytime you argue for a limitation, your head is buried in the sand.

Look at the person whose quality of life is being impaired by some sort of addictive behavior. They will offer up absurd arguments to stay in hiding. They will justify their limitations and remain incomplete.

You don’t have to make them wrong; you just have to coax them out of hiding. They learned that their conditioned behavior takes the pain away, but have yet to see it only lasts for less than a day.  Help them and you learn that when you are complete, the feeling lasts a lifetime.

Ask yourself, “What am I hiding behind?” That’s the first step towards completeness. You may find that you are hiding behind a role that was given to you to play, not one consciously chosen by you. When you recognize you are playing a role, it’s easier to push it aside and no longer hide.

When you realize that you are separate and apart from your conditioning, then the complete you becomes revealed.

Completion is the aliveness we seek.  We find it when we come out of hiding.

 

All the best,

John