We all have "secrets." In fact, one of the greatest experiences I've had is when I took a workshop with Millennium 3 Education and one of the exercises was to tell our buddy we were paired up with a secret about ourselves.

My biggest fear when I told him my secret was that he would judge me. It was so scary to share with him and be open with him just as much as it was for him to be open with me. The thing which is amazing is we each have secrets, or what we might call "things we keep personal" about our own life, even with the people we are closest to...why is this?

I realized today, for me, it's mostly because of a fear of being judged. A fear that if I share about myself, maybe the person I am sharing myself with won't like me or worst yet, love me for who I am...

One of the principles of Yoga, called a Yama, is Satya or Truthfulness. The word Yama, according to the great sage and father of Yoga, Patanjali, means:

"The great universal vows or the sarvabhauma maha vratas, because they are not limited by either class, creed, time or circumstances. They are the guidelines for how we interact with the outer world, the social disciplines to guide us in our relationships with others. These five are:

• Ahimsa (non-violence),
• Satya (truthfulness),
• Asteya (non-stealing),
• Brahmacharya (celibacy/moderation) and
• Aparigraha (non-covetousness)

Patanjali describes truthfulness as: "To be in harmony with mind, word and action, to conduct speech and mind according to truth, to express through speech and to retain it in the intellect what has been seen, understood or heard." A perfectly truthful person is he who expresses in his speech exactly what he thinks in his mind and in the end acts according to it."
(from Life Positive)

Perhaps we can begin to become aware of where are thoughts and our speech are not in alignment. What things are we thinking, but not saying? Inevitably, our thoughts ultimately become matter in one way or another, so the truth will always reveal itself whether it is through our speaking it, or it coming back to us in some shape, form or manner.

I see this at work in my life more and more all the time. What I am not expressing through words...is still being expressed through my thoughts or thinking.

"When asked, "Can you pass energy to people?" Swamiji says, "Certainly you can. Energy is subtle matter. When it is gross, it is Matter and when it is subtle, it is Energy. As per Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, energy becomes matter and matter becomes energy. When people asked Einstein how energy becomes matter, he replied, 'Here ends Science and starts Spirituality'."
(from dhyanapeetam.org)

It's time for me to begin sharing myself and practicing the 'fullness' of Truthfulness with a new level of awareness for what it means to speak the Truth, being open and moving through my fear of being judged, because only in Truthfulness can love actually exist...

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