there is one person
13 months ago
I can be completely honest with. I can tell him everything, bar nothing.
How to be completely honest
It made me
relaxed 
"So much freedom of thought and communication."
How I did it: I just stopped lying to myself and started to notice how I SO MUCH MORE EASILY began to be honest with everyone else too.
So it really is just a bunch of inner work. You must identify your triggers and reasons for lying and fight them back. Forcing yourself to say the truth even if you don't want to helps too; this takes DISCIPLINE to be achieved.
Lessons & tips: Stop being afraid of whatever is blocking you from being
honest. Are you scared of hurting others' feelings? Or running into
trouble for saying the truth? Or disappointing someone? Find out WHY
you aren't being honest to begin with, get to the roots of it all and
change this on your own.
Also, realize that when you lie to others, you are only helping to fool yourself.
Resources: You don't need any resources. Just carry on with the action and it will become a habit. No amount of articles and books about honesty will change you if you do not resolve to truly change within yourself!
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I want to do this but
13 months ago
it scares me!!... It scares me so much, I feel like I can’t do it all the time.
Putting it all on the table
14 months ago
is the only way… being open to the positive and the negative that comes from honesty… When you are truly open then there is no negative… Excepting feelings for what they are and excepting that they are valid for the other person… Being close enough to understand that if they are valid for the other person then they are valid for you… Being willing to not try and change the other person but Love them because of who they are… In my eyes if you love someone you love all of them unconditionally… You give them the freedom to be who they are and help them to be who they want to be… That is pure honesty to me…
Freedom
14 months ago
There is a raw freedom to being completely honest… When you know that you can speak your mind and your heart and your other will except you for you… Never having to hide who you are, really are behind lies no matter how small they may be… It is freedom pure freedom…
I have found
18 months ago
how very important this is to a strong relationship… That is the foundation for everything else…. Recent events have shown me that being completely open and honest is the only way to work out a problem… No matter how big the problem…
with at least
18 months ago
one person…totally and completely honest about everything on every level, everytime, no exceptions to the best of my ability…and if after I’ve expressed myself and upon thinking about it later, it seems that I have done so inaccurately or could have done a better job, I will go back to that person and rephrase what I said in order to clarify.
I feel like this is the only way to be congruent within my own self…and hopefully the person with whom I am completely truthful, will also be completely truthful with me.
Untitled
21 months ago
Wow, it’s incredible how much in my life I can relate to this now that I have become aware of its importance. I’m talking about hiding my true nature, my true self. If I am not being completely myself, that’s a form of dishonesty, isn’t it? So my goal, “Be Myself” goes hand in hand with, “Be completely honest.” Come to think of it, many of my goals are closely related. Self-esteem, honesty, taking action, letting my light shine. It all starts with being honest with MYSELF and loving who I am.
The most important!
21 months ago
I know what it feels like to lie. I don’t think there is a feeling any worse. I’ve come to realize that I have been lying for much of my life. Including little white lies I told as a child and teenager (and beyond) to my parents because I didn’t want to get in trouble. It evolved into the most despicable, disgusting mistake I have ever made. “BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD.” This is now my golden commandment. “THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE,” is not just an empty maxim. It’s the truth. From something as huge as coming out to my family to something as tiny as, “Yes, I broke the lamp and I’m so sorry,” it’s amazing the release I felt after being honest rather than wasting energy and karma on being dishonest. I grow stronger every time I am open and honest, no matter what the circumstances. Little bits of fear dissolve. Sprouts of confidence are strengthened. And I even feel a little happier. I feel I could meditate on just this one goal for years…..
Be honest to everyone, not just myself.
23 months ago
I used to not be able to lie, no matter what. But last year changed all that. I started a “secret” relationship, and no one really knew the real me. Then secrets became not just necessary, but an obsession. I loved knowing other’s secrets, and still not telling my own. To be forced to tell a secret was like being forced to be a completely different race, or gender. It hurt. Now that I’m in the new college environment, I’m finding it easier to open up, but I’ve still heard people say that I’m very private. I can’t help it, really, because I’m surprised at how honest I’ve been lately. But still, every once in awhile, I find myself lying, sometimes for now good reason. About what I’ve been doing or where I’m going. Stupid stuff. And I don’t know why I do it. It’s pointless really. But yeah, this is my goal, and I know this one will take awhile, but I’m ready.
=)
2 years ago
I’ve based my whole life on honesty…. In my view, without honesty, there is nothing. If you can’t trust a person, there is no relationship, it’ll never work out.
So I’ve always been completely honest.. through thick and thin.
I don’t like to admit it, but I had cheated on a girlfriend a few years back with an EX, and I told my girlfriend exactly what happened. We broke up because of my stupidity, but we are still friends. She respected my honesty, and told me she was glad she heard it from me, and not from someone else.
