Page 44 - Bliss Planet March 2018 Health And Wellness Magazine

I feel honored to contribute to Bliss Planet and to share my message that I
have learned on this amazing adventure called life. I will admit I'm not always
the most positive person you could ever encounter, not that I can't find positive
things even out of bad circumstances or events, etc., but life has this way of
weighing one down at times and I often can get stuck in those times. I've
thought about it long and hard. A few things popped into my head. I decided to
look around to see what others had to say in an effort to say something that
hasn't already been said, maybe even something poignant. Rahul Kapoor spoke
of "Don't look outside yourself, look inside" and "What you give is what you get
and what you get is what you deserve". She spoke of passions, commitments,
and efforts, etc, and being at a level 10 during these endeavors, and I couldn't
agree more. Darla Logan said "Don't worry what people think of you" and then
went on to say "stop caring what other people think of you". Again, I couldn't
agree more. What both said really resonated with me and is sound advise. I see
people doing these things all the time. Even these days I still find myself giving
less of an effort than I should with some things and sometimes I even catch

myself worrying about what people will think, and people that don't even matter
in my life - often strangers. It's easy to do and we all usually do it on some
level. So what can I bring to the table? My message ties in with theirs. My
advise would be for people to be more HONEST and BE YOURSELF. When lies
are present everyone LOSES, no one WINS. The old saying, "Honesty is the best
policy" exists for a reason, and is true. If you can't be honest with yourself, then
you won't be able to be honest with others, and when this happens you HURT
people. The truth always comes out. Even the truth can hurt, but "Truth is like a
surgery. It hurts, but it heals. A lie is like a pain killer. It gives instant relief, but
has side effects forever”. You can heal from the truth and learn from it. It's
much harder to heal and understand a lie. Some say honesty is the highest form
of intimacy. Being yourself ties in with honesty as well. It's never good when
someone tries to pretend or be something that they are not. The pretender will
never find what they seek because they are not being their true self and the
recipient of this will never be happy with the pretender because it was false. The
recipient will only like the illusion and because it is not from the heart and only

an illusion, the illusion can only hold for so long before the true colors bleed
through. When a person can be themselves and have the people around them
enjoy them for how they are, then they might actually experience some
happiness, but that will never come to be if someone is denying who and what
they are. So again, it ties back into lies. If you lie or mislead people because
you can't be your authentic self, no one is going to be happy. The anxiety and
effort that must go into making yourself keep up what you are not, and then the
person that later discovers the lie is disappointed and shattered. Lies =
DESTRUCTION. NO ONE WINS. To lie is to live a lie. To live a lie is destructive

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