Is Honesty Always The Best Policy?

Honesty is always the best policy, but sometimes it doesn’t score you points with the family, or win you any friends.

Honest people want so desperately to speak the truth at all cost, because they know that honesty makes you feel a ‘lightness of being’. It is a liberating feeling. Not telling the truth makes you feel weighted down and guilty, and creates dis-ease in the body. Being dishonest is not good for your health.

The old saying goes, “The truth shall set you free.” This can be interpreted many ways, but I find this quote to have deeper meaning on many levels. Sometimes people get in the habit of lying, because they fear someone won’t like them, or maybe they feel they need to tell people what they want to hear for fear of rejection, or hurting someone’s feelings. Sometimes we refrain from being honest around family, because we do not wish to be perceived as a back-stabber, or whatever. There are a number of reasons why people resort to not telling the truth.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal ~ Arthur Dobrin

The evil one loves for us to feel like we are doing it with good intentions. That is how he works, he makes you feel that it’s okay to sin, lie, cheat and steal. He wants you to fail and keep you from the light in any way he can. He means greatly to seek your down fall, and he has been doing a really fine job on this planet in making what is evil and bad, look good and right. He has done such an impressive job of confusing many on this planet. Many are blind and so unaware of what is of the light, because they have become so desensitized by media and popular culture.

To be connected spiritually takes great work, and you almost sometimes have to separate yourself from many to stick to what you know to be right and true. When I’m not with family I spend much time in solitude, spending time with God and connecting in this way with what is bigger than me, gives me great joy and such a feeling of bliss. I can’t even put it into words.

If people could slow way down and not be so inundated with the chaos and drama of the world, they would see that much of what they do they could do without, and they may make different choices about where they spend their time and who they spend their time with. Once you get connected to that divine spark inside of you, you will see that nothing is worth getting out of alignment with that feeling. Certainly not bearing false information about anything, as that is one of the many things that keep us from the light. It separates us from that wonderful feeling of energetic well-being, when all of our chakras are open and in alignment.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom ~ Thomas Jefferson

One thing we can do, when we feel that being honest isn’t the best thing to do, you might encourage them to rather ask the other person themselves. For example, a friend who wants to know about a mutual friend whom they haven’t seen for a long time. You may be aware that person in question is in drug rehab, or whatever, and you don’t want to reveal that information without their permission. It would be wise then to suggest they ask someone else, as you don’t feel comfortable relaying that information, as you feel it’s not your information to share.

There are many ways you can get out of sharing information without feeling like you had to lie. You don’t always have to say something. Lying creates a horrible negative domino effect, but withholding information can maybe keep you from feeling like you just shared something you felt uncomfortable sharing. Instead of saying something that isn’t true, just choose to say nothing. I find I have to do this a lot, especially around family.