INTEGRITY

Dear Reader Friends!

We mention the word *integrity* ...
We all may understand it is our very valuable and necessary tool to move on to our next better and higher experience on our evolutionary path ...

There is the saying “Do to others what you would like done to you” ...
This is in a few simple words what integrity may involve really, isn’t it?
And going beyond the saying ...it seems to take more than just knowing the expression to activate the process of change for our self ...
...and on our planet in general ...

We actually need to live this awareness and with it, until it is a belief ...
...a belief able to affect our other beliefs, thoughts, choices, actions and consequently our life circumstances and humanity’s outcome ...

“So, in summary, integrity appears to have a great deal to do with living truthfully or living a life in alignment with one’s own truth.
Now living truthfully may at first seem like a simple task until we recognize that individuals clearly have diverse beliefs about many things and what the “truth” is, is one of them.
Hence the concept of “truth” may be more elusive than at first thought.
In fact, aren’t people killing each other on this planet “in the name of the truth”?
I would like to point out that such confusion largely arises out of our “beliefs” about where the “truth” resides in us.
Most individuals turn to their repertoire of “beliefs” when asked to ascertain the truth about something.
This repertoire is stored in the mind/brain and is added to and modified daily as the individual learns new information throughout their life.
Mysteriously, at some given point in time, an individual “chooses” to “accept” one belief over another as being more credible for that day, week, month, etc. and hence it becomes the “truth” for them in that period of time.
Sometime later, the tides might shift and the old belief becomes supplanted by a new belief that then becomes the “truth” for them.”

What is the truth for you?
What about integrity?

How much of a role does integrity have at this moment?
How do we know it’s there, and how do we know it isn’t?
And what will be the consequence to us as humanity if we choose to remain ignorant of its crucial importance?

So ...what is integrity to you?
Keeping your word?
Honouring and following up on agreements, decisions and promises?
Following things through?
Respecting others’ choices and experiences?
Treating others with respect?
Making things fair for all involved?
Taking others’ best interest into consideration and not only our own?
Being ethical?
Not pretending or playing mind games?
Being honest?
Being truthful to our self and to others about everything? (“everything” being the key word here ...)

It all seems to come to this:
When we live from our own Truth and Integrity, we follow through on our commitments without stress, doubt, confusion, or fear.
We are constantly inspired and energized to respond to change with our eyes wide open.
We are clear about who we are and what our purpose and goal are.
Our actions are in alignment with our heart.
Each day is a beautiful and playful co-creation with our Higher Self based on what we believe “is right.”

We have been taking on rules and beliefs that have been handed down from our parents and grandparents, church, schools, and communities.
Often these rules are not in alignment with who we are, or are completely contradictory!
And yet we still try and "be good" and follow what the outside world has told us is how we should be in the world.
Or we rebel, throwing our energy into the opposite polarity without really knowing what is true for us.

At our core, we each have a beautiful and unique essence and purpose.
But we cover this shining light of clarity and inspiration with layers and layers of other people's opinions, thoughts, expectations and desires.
We live not “who we are,” but who we believe others want us to be.
We ignore our own truth with the hopes that we will be accepted and loved if we are "nice."
Or we spend all of our precious energy fighting other people's opinions.
So ...is integrity about our willingness to go deeper into our self to find out who we are, beyond fear or self-doubt?

Isn’t integrity then about finding what feels right to our own self first ...and then to experience it?

With love,
Eveline and Franco