How Embodying Integrity Deepens Relationships
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Find out how to live more consciously by embodying integrity using enhanced awareness and honesty. Learn ways you can make wiser decisions, and build deeper and more lasting relationships.
As we endeavor to live more consciously, focusing on how expanding and deepening our awareness can help us find our way. This is why it’s so important to look for ways we can enhance our awareness, and practice applying our greater awareness in all areas of our lives.
Let’s look at some practical ways to ensure we’re in integrity so that our decisions are wiser and more encourage greater connection in our relationships. And, less likely to come back and bite us in the butt.
The Power of Personal Integrity
Operating with rock solid personal integrity is a core aspect of living consciously, and decisions that flow forth from being in integrity are inherently wiser.
When we demonstrate integrity-in-action, we inspire those around us, and are seen as more trustworthy. This tends to generate the most stable relationships. But how do we get there? What does it take to truly embody integrity — to be conscious enough to act in accordance with our higher personal and professional values?
The Role of Self-Honesty
Being absolutely honest with ourselves is a core piece — having and exercising an ironclad commitment to being authentic and transparent with ourselves. Not fooling ourselves. Not pretending we’re in integrity when we’re not. (Links to Video 23)
Not tricking ourselves into being able to justify getting what we want when doing so is out of alignment with other commitments or our values.
The Role of Self-Awareness
Being vigilant with self-awareness minimizes the chance of blindsiding ourselves. When we’re not being in truth with what we know — effectively hiding something from ourselves so we can get or do what we want — the burying of that awareness can easily result in undermining our relationships.
Those who live consciously are sincere in our dedication to not hide the truth from ourselves. Being aware helps us see through the subtle illusions we may have unknowingly designed to convince ourselves that what we’re doing is right when our conscience knows it is not.
We’re human, and every one of us faces situations that can test personal integrity. The more aware we are of the types of situations in which we tend to be at risk of breaching integrity, the better.
The Role of Clarity and Values Alignment
This increase in clarity and self-awareness can allow us to see potential risks for breach on the horizon and dramatically reduce the chance of getting caught in a breach of our own making.
Rather, we remain fully able to operate at our best, selecting a path of action aligned with our higher values.
Thus, to live consciously, we must commit to operating in integrity — actively seeking to optimize our internal and situational awareness in service of being able to properly assess the wisest course forward — that which is aligned with our values and best serves all involved.
Reflecting on How We Show Up
Pause for a moment and reflect on how you’ve shown up in your relationships. What are some of the situations in which you operated with heightened awareness?
What were the outcomes? How did that serve you, and others? Did anything surprise you?
Now, scan for any situations in which you dimmed or turned aside your awareness. Was there a resulting situational cost to the dimming? And even if not a situational cost, what about a cost within yourself? Did it change how you viewed yourself? Your ability to sleep well?
Optimizing awareness and sincere self-honesty is a most freeing and empowering place from which to live.
Once that step is taken, we are more and more living in reality from our higher values — in integrity. This is what we’re endeavoring to evolve toward.
Deeper and More Connected Relationships
The more aware we are of how we show up, of the impact we have on others, of the energy we’re operating from, the more we can communicate and show up as our most open-hearted, compassionate, wise self.
As we relate from a place of integrity, sensing and responding to what others are experiencing, our connections deepen. Bonds are strengthened. All forms of love blossom.
And because our relationships are foundationally more stable, there is a greater chance for them to grow, expand, evolve into something new. This keeps relationships fresh and interesting.
Explore this in your relationships and see how they evolve.
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