Lovely said,
To be authentic is to choose the characters you want to play,
And to be brave enough to let go of the ones that no longer serve you.
I'm Sunny T.
Conner and you are listening to Trapped in the Illusion.
For those of you who this is your first time,
Who is Lovely you may be wondering?
Lovely is my higher self that I tune into through meditation.
She is one of the many ways I release the illusion of life.
Yes,
Life is one big illusion.
So let me just repeat what Lovely said.
She said,
To be authentic is to choose the characters you want to play,
And to be brave enough to let go of the ones that no longer serve you.
So I had asked Lovely,
Why do I feel like I'm not myself?
Like why do I feel like I'm not being authentic in this life experience?
Because I tend to change depending on who I'm around.
And so when I'm with my mom,
I'm like my real,
Real self.
And when I'm with some of my family members,
I act a little bit more crazy because that's what they expect of me.
When I'm with my children,
I'm in full-blown mother mode.
And when I'm with my significant other,
I find myself acting more like him.
I'm picking up a lot of his ways of speaking and a lot of his lingo,
Right?
I was feeling a little lost.
I was feeling like I have all these characters.
Who am I?
And so I asked her,
Why is it that I feel like I'm being fake almost?
And she told me that all of those characters are me.
They are all versions of me.
I'm not one way.
I'm not one-sided.
And she gave me the analogy of a lion.
She said,
A lion is not always a killer.
A lion is not always hunting.
It's not always this beast of the jungle that is ruling the jungle.
A lion is also lazy.
And a lion also likes to get intimate with a lioness.
And a lion also likes to play with his cubs.
We are not one-dimensional humans.
We are multi-dimensional humans.
And so we can be our higher self.
Sometimes we are lower dimensions of ourselves.
Sometimes we pick up these different personalities and characteristics.
And so you can play around with different characters.
But one point that Lovely said is to be brave enough to let go of the ones that no longer serve you.
To let go of the characters that no longer serve you.
And that really resonated with me because I have versions of myself that I haven't played in that little game of life with those kind of people doing those kind of things in quite a while.
And so that character that I built to survive in society when I was hanging around those type of people is no longer needed in my experience.
I no longer need to be that character anymore.
And so Lovely said it's 100% okay to let those characters go so that you can evolve.
Even if you want so that you can pick up new characters,
Right?
You might want to be a higher version of yourself.
For me,
For an example,
I don't like using profanity anymore.
But I used to be a potty mouth,
You know?
But I have evolved into this version of me that it doesn't suit me to speak that way.
It's not the way I want to speak as a lady.
It's not the way I want to speak to my audience.
It doesn't suit me to play that character of that bad girl potty mouth.
I love that Lovely gave two perspectives.
And the first one is that it's okay to have different characters.
It's okay to change up,
You know,
Who you are depending on the environment that you're in.
It's almost like being a chameleon,
You know?
You can change to what best suit you in that situation.
You know,
You don't always have to be professional.
But in a professional environment,
You're going to want to be professional,
Right?
And so it's just our way of playing around in society.
But it doesn't mean you're fake.
So that was the first point that she made.
And then the second point was to know when to release the old characters,
The ones that no longer suit you.
And unfortunately,
When you let those characters go,
You will let go people in your life as well.
New things are coming.
If you got anything from this,
Anything at all,
Please take the time to leave me a review.
It just lets me know that I'm not alone in such a crowded world.
It lets me know that I'm actually talking to someone.
And someone was on my frequency of what Lovely and I experienced today.
And I'll close with this.
Every day,
I'm trapped in the illusion.
And every day,
I forget that I'm really free.
