Truth can be elusive, and our authenticity can be deeply hidden. Think for a moment about how you respond to the question: ‘How are you?’ Do you have a stock response, ‘I’m fine’, which resonates with a feeling of tension, depression, or resistance? Or have you heard that same stock response in others? Truth resonates in harmony with our thoughts, words, and actions… there is no dissonance to it, and that’s how we recognise it; it feels harmonious, it feels attuned, and we can trust it.
Functioning with some degree of dissonance in our lives is standard for many of us