Integrity On All Levels

How many of you often feel incongruent in your personal vs. spiritual vs. professional roles?  Or have the self awareness to acknowledge where these misalignment's occur?  Or, perhaps you are aware but choose to not address such incongruencies?

I know for myself it hasn't been an easy road addressing inconsistencies within my personality and ego desires that have bled into personal, spiritual, and professional roles.  No matter how much I have tried to convince or justify that these are all separate and compartmentalized, more examples surface that say otherwise. The choice comes down to either continuing to ignore or getting real with yourself.

In order to get honest, sometimes you just need to let yourself off the hook.... You are human just like anyone else. Just because you are somebody's teacher, doctor, lawyer, authority, parent, expert, etc., does not mean you are not subject to life's temptations that are not serving, or fall into fear's influences. We are all here to learn or we would not be on the planet. The experiences we have are set up to teach us. Take the judgment out and we can progress through life's lessons much more gracefully. I can certainly look back on many past situations and see that from what I know now, there were higher, less painful ways I could have chosen. As a result, I have been able to be much more loving with myself and others when 'tested' again. This is what we call evolution!

We are human, we are flawed. Being congruent on all levels is a practice. If I want to have strong integrity in my profession, I must cultivate a strong sense of integrity personally, emotionally, and spiritually. For me, in order to be in integrity on all levels, I must be willing to be honest about my feelings and vulnerabilities. Be aware of when I am operating from a place of fear, be willing to dismiss it in order to address whatever the fear defense is shielding me from. It's not always easy confronting fear but get in the habit of choosing it to be. Ultimately there is nothing to fear and we all are vulnerable and it's ok.

I find great strength in vulnerability, it is like a 'zero point' to me. When I am completely vulnerable, stripped away of all defenses, there is nothing that can threaten me because there are no defenses to threaten. From this 'zero point'/vulnerable vantage place, infinite possibilities exist because I am not limited by a false sense of reality that defenses provide.

Now is the time more than ever to 'clean house' of personal defenses that keep you stuck in fear, limitation. Now is the time to practice being in the heart center, knowing it is safe to be there, let the rest fall away. "But, if I do that, I won't have any boundaries and people will just walk all over me!" "But if I do that I'll be irrational and lost." "But, but, but...."  Stop the "buts" and just be in the heart now. It is all knowing and will lead you on the highest/best path once your limited beliefs and fears are out of the way. Trust the truth that resides in the heart, this is the purest form of discernment. You are more vulnerable when guilded with fear, you are buying into some incongruent illusion that you have created or that someone else created. When in fear- you are stuck and cannot move. Ask fear what it is trying to say to begin to move out of it. When you choose love, everything dissolves away, you are free and fluid.

Stay true to what you know to be in your heart, the rest will be taken care of. You are truly an infinite, unlimited being, capable of anything that you desire. All you have to do is believe and it will be so.