A cliche? Perhaps. But still, many of us won't fully embrace our true selves and live a life of joy and freedom.
We're crippled by the fear of being seen as dumb, weird, or stupid, which we're afraid will lead to being ridiculed, humiliated, unaccepted, unloved and ostracized, which would be hell for most of us.
Just for being who we want to be, and doing what we want to do.
So instead, we do what we think we're supposed to do. And we're unhappy.
We could change overnight, but it can be difficult to overcome years of conditioning.
Yoga and meditation helps immensely, and fairly quickly. Counseling and workshops help also.
Being in an inquiry about it is a great open-ended way to approach it. It means that "even if there are no easy or immediate answers, I will continue to inquire and focus on it until I'm healed."
As long as we acknowledge it's there in the first place.
It helps to have a little support.
To sum it up, we pleased X people by doing X things, then later realized we liked Y things. We knew X people didn't like Y things, so we buried it and kept doing X things unhappily, not realizing the Y people were waiting for us to be Y with them.
Then we couldn't bear it anymore and starting doing Y things. X people got confused and went away, but we found Y people and that was good. You can't get mad at X people for not liking Y because they're X people. To them we changed. To us we took off a costume we didn't know we were wearing. Now we feel freer.
The end? No. The beginning.
