As you move up in consciousness, you will sometimes find that your outer world is out of sync with your new realizations. The good news is that you have gained a new level of awareness. The challenge is in reorganizing your outer world so that it aligns with the inner truth as you now know it.
Living in integrity is done by integrating your actions with the inner truth as you experience it.
My good friend and teacher, John-Roger (J-R), defined integrity as: Going with the truth as you know it, as a heartfelt response, with care and consideration for others.
That definition applies perfectly to those times when you find your outer world, including your own behavior and words, to be out of line with the truth as you know it.
So what is required to match your outer experience with your inner truth?
The first step is the awareness that there is a mismatch in your life between your awareness and outer expression. I was working with a client who was describing this experience. She said, “I am in this new experience that is more spiritually connected, but as I am driving to work I find myself going into old ways of seeing things, and then I get caught up in old habits when I’m at work.”
Her habits hadn’t caught up with her awareness.
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