Hi,
This is Guy and we've come to our 30th key in our 31 keys to change your destiny.
This 30th key is called Catch Yourself in the Act.
And if you like,
This particular key is very closely connected to the 25th key which was to follow your heart,
Not your head.
Look,
All of us know,
At least we should,
That when we pretend to be something that we're not,
Even if we become a past master at it,
That fear and pretense go hand in hand.
It's just a law.
I can't pretend to be something and then have to keep that role up wherever it may be,
Whatever the stage,
And not be afraid that someone is going to see through my act.
We've all heard the expression that suddenly the mask fell off.
We know what that's like.
Suddenly finding ourselves in a defensive position or attacking someone because in that split second,
Whatever the role was that we were playing in that relationship,
The thing has come apart.
And now the scramble to put everything back together takes us over.
And instead of being free of that part that we believed we had to have that was pretending to be something that we're not,
Now it's strengthened in us as will be the fear that follows.
The problem with acting out any role is that our life can't be both a show and real at the same time.
Wanting and winning the attention of others with a performance of any kind doesn't make us real any more than smiling at ourselves in the mirror makes us loving.
You might want to write this idea down that follows.
Life is only real when we are.
If we can understand that to catch ourselves in the act,
Meaning catch ourselves in some defensive posture,
Catch ourselves trying to make somebody see what we see as being the only way something should be,
That that insistence in that moment is because something in us is trying to protect an appearance.
Appearances are the source of our fear.
What is real never tries to appear real any more than a lion tries to appear like an elephant.
Its nature is its strength and our true nature is our strength when we will live from it.
That's why catch yourself in the act has such power to change our destiny.
Because when we can drop the act,
Understand the appearance can never give birth to what is real,
Then we enter into a new kind of reality where our destiny is set for us because we're no longer set against ourselves.
See you tomorrow with our 31st and last of our 31 keys to change your destiny.
