Staying present to and committed to expressing my truth is important. I need to say what I believe and not hold it back, or create reasons to not say what I need to say to others. We have a tendency to hold back, to not say what we want to say to others, creating the excuse that we do not want to hurt the other person’s feelings. What happens is that we hold our truth back and are not honest with the other person and inauthentic with ourselves. We end up not being fully self expressed with the other person and the relationship suffers. While we say that we do not want to hurt the other person’s feelings it is really we do not want the other person to leave us. If I say what I want and need to say the person may not like what I have to say and will leave me. That is the fear. That is truly why I do not share my truth with the other person. In the end the relationship may not survive if I am honest but then again maybe it was not meant to be. Holding onto something that maybe should not have been, because of my fear, my fear of being alone, is truly inauthentic and in the end, will not continue regardless of what we hold back.
