Can We Handle The Truth?

Lately, I've been observing how much resistance there is to people hearing anything that doesn't match their current beliefs. I see people lashing out at the person who has attempted to shine the light on something, whether it is a concern about increasing government restrictions and the motivation behind them or the chemtrails blanketing our skies. They react by ridiculing the person or flat out bullying them with negative comments, labeling them with harsh things like "idiots, conspiracy theorists, fear mongerers" etc. or demanding that they "prove that with irrefutable scientific evidence."

As someone who has been on the receiving end of it, as well as a witness to it happening to others, it can be incredibly disheartening when you see how downright ugly we can be to others when we are presented with something that we are not ready to consider. It seems that the more we don't want to believe something is true, the more resistant we can be to it. Why we are so afraid to open up to the possibility that we may not know the truth about everything?

Seeing someone or something that we have believed in or felt was a trusted authority crumble before our eyes can be difficult to wrap our brains around. I get it. I have experienced this myself, many times, when someone I looked up to fell off the pedestal I had put them on. I didn't want to see it at first - I just didn't want to believe that the "truth" that was being shown to me could be possible.

There's that feeling of overwhelm that comes with it, the fear that everything we thought was true is going to come crashing down around us if we accept this new information. And yet, it can be much harder on us when we continue to resist the truth.

Over the years, I have come across a lot more information that I didn't want to believe at first. Even though it often initially had me reeling, I learned to just sit with it. I learned to wait and see if more information on the topic came across my path in the coming weeks and months. I learned to keep my eyes and my mind open so that if more information DID come along that either confirmed or refuted what I had read before, I would see it.

I know that the only thing we can truly control is ourselves . . . our reactions to things . . . so to me, that's usually a good place to start. When someone says something that riles us up, rather than lashing out at that person, maybe we can stop and ask ourselves "Why is that bothering me so much?"

Is it possible the person is sharing information that you just don't WANT to believe? What if what was being shared WAS true? What would it mean to us and our life? Would we be able to continue living as we assimilated that new information? or would our world truly fall apart if we accepted a new "truth" into our reality?

If you still think the person is an idiot or a conspiracy theorist, can you keep that to yourself rather than publicly slamming the person with those labels? Can you just file it away and be open to the fact that everyone has a right to believe what they believe? Can you maybe even consider the possibility that there might be some truth in what they shared?

Sometimes new information forces us to let go of some of our old beliefs. That isn't always a bad thing. Decades ago, I was given the opportunity to learn that doctors don't always have all the answers. Does that mean I think all doctors are bad? Not at all. It just means that I don't expect them to be perfect anymore. And it means that I do a lot of my own research instead of relying solely on their knowledge and opinions. Was it disappointing at the time? You bet it was . . . and yet I can also see how it helped empower me . . . how it helped me build trust in myself and my own knowing. Ultimately, some good came out of the situation.

I keep having this very strong feeling that many of the things that have been "hidden" from us for decades (and centuries) are going to start coming out . . . that we are going to be told things we don't really want to know or shown things that we won't want to accept. It seems like now is a pretty good time to prepare for it, to look at ourselves and see how we react and respond to information that is outside our comfort zone or outside of our "reality bubble" . . . and I think it will really help us to look for ways to process new information that we might not initially be comfortable with.

I think our current "reality bubbles" are going to be popped - one by one - and whether that is a horrible experience or an experience that ultimately allows us to begin spreading our wings will be entirely up to us.