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Core Truth

When you practice affirmations, you consciously remind yourself of where you want to be, of what you want to be.

But you have to keep on doing it because the effects fade pretty quickly.

Because what you cognitively think is only one small part of the process of you, there’s also what you feel, what your body says, and what patterns of response are embedded at a subconscious level.

Together with what you think, all of this is the real you. The subconscious isn’t limited to just automatic functions; it also has a compass of where you, as a unique individual, need to go. It gives you that sense of certainty that a chosen move or action is the right one for you.

You could call it your core truth. The part that really does know the way. The other problem with affirmations is that they are frequently what you think you should be aiming for, not what is core for you. That’s because they are so often externally derived.

What is there when you drop all the noise of “should be” and think about what you truly want?

It could be scary, disruptive, seemingly impossible, yet it has the power to align all the parts of you in the same direction, helping you become who you are.

Core truth is from the whole self and has the power to transform lives.