Authenticity
What does it mean to have an authentic voice?
Your authentic voice is what is found when everything that you think you know about yourself gets stripped away and you find yourself asking the all important question, ‘who am I?
It is the beginning of something that is authentically you that is trying to be birthed.
But first we must cut away from our being that which is not real and cannot withstand the light of love.
Your voice is your instrument, your body the vessel, and your spirit is the light shining through and holding everything in place.
There is something unshakable about being in the presence of someone in their authenticity. The difference between being with someone who is being in their ‘power’ and being with someone who is in their ‘authenticity’ is the ‘authentic’ person brushes off on you and you want to be around them, the ‘powerful’ person makes you feel less than they are.
The sound of your voice will tell you everything you need to know about where you are now, which is in itself a powerful statement to make.
Your voice represents your emotional inner landscape and is a barometer of moment to moment authenticity.
There are many voices inside all of us.
Voices from different ages that appear through our voice attempting to come home like lost children looking up at others for love and acceptance.
There are also the voices from certain archetypes that are working their way through us transforming us, evolving us and peeling away the dried paint of yester years.
There are the voices that are there to protect us that also stand before us kind of like a storefront.
These archetypes, these protective voices represent us for the moment and speak on our behalf. As we develop the awareness of these protective parts of us we start to slowly start to separate from them. Underneath all of these voices, is your authentic voice.
When the voice is open and free from any physical trappings or hindrances it appears and transports us out of this world and into another.
It has the power to mediate between worlds and can access an authority from other worlds which at first can be quite unsettling.
It can feel unsettling because who we are and what we are in those moments brings many unanswered questions with it.
The voice helps us to access the mystical realms and the wisdom that is always there waiting for us.
Rumi say’s ‘people are going back and forth across the door sill, where the two worlds touch.’
Your authenticity is your true essence; you with nothing of the past or the present in front of you or blocking you.
It is from this place that we can truly create. But this authenticity is not for sale and has no need for productivity and placement.
If your creativity naturally flows from this state then it is in alignment with who you are, however, authenticity is not interested at all, in success.
We say we want this, to be authentic and to experience what its like to sing or live from this place but there are very few that are willing to go to the place that this authenticity demands.
There is too much at stake.
Our attachments to our identities of who we think we are have a huge investment in them and to say after all this time that this is not who we are is a death, and can feel like a huge failure. This failure is also good and necessary if you are on the authenticity bandwagon.
Rumi say’s ‘Love comes with a knife and not some shy question, and not with fear for its reputation, I say these things dis-interestingly accept them in kind that Love is a Madman working his wild schemes.” Indeed.