Grab your journal and drop into a moment of reflection and self-discovery. In Season 2 of Present Moments, we're using the 'What Really Matters' deck of cards created by MetaFox to explore a variety of core values. Each episode is a 5-7 minute guided process that reviews the card and it's meaning, before mindfully evaluating what the value means to you and how it is represented. You'll also be given examples of how you can create opportunities to embrace the value in your daily practices and routine.

Today we explore the core value honesty. How many times do we withhold information, tell a little white lie, refuse to acknowledge a hard truth or flat out lie to avoid confrontation, failure, shame, guilt, pain or another lower vibration feeling? Whether we are choosing to avoid pain for ourselves or to spare another, honesty asks us to be comfortable in the discomfort of truthfulness. When you feel secure and your 3 lower chakras (root, sacral & solar plexus) are in alignment, speaking and acting from your heart with the intention to do no harm becomes the most honorable, honest thing you can do. You do a great kindness to others when you can hold your frequency with integrity and can be truthful about your feelings, needs, dreams, hopes, desires, fears, frustrations, pains, etc.

Truthfulness, or satya, is one of the five yamas (restraints) in yoga philosophy. We cover this topic in detail over several episodes in Season 4. If you'd like to take a deeper dive, you can head over to the website and become a subscriber to the full podcast with access to a complete library of content and unpublished seasons at www.ascendingspiritwp.com/present-moments