Integrity.

Integrity is the state of being whole and undivided within your heart, in your word, your deeds and action, which anchors the cornerstones of establishing authentic relationships that are foundationally built upon mutual trust and goodwill. The sincere attempt to connect and honor your word is how we maintain connection in all relationships.

Integrity also carries a temptation of moralistic judgment that measures another’s behavior and our own as being good/bad or right/wrong, which is laden within our conditioning.
How can you honor integrity in our relationships when we fail to honor the commitments, we make to ourselves?

When you have not honored your word, first own your self-accountability by honoring the relationship by acknowledging the breach of your word. For example, if you made a commitment to be somewhere at a certain time and are running late, call ahead to let them know you’re running late. Ask them if your “lateness” will still meet their needs for time efficiency, which honors their needs for goodwill and mutual respect.

Your internal and external breaches are a direct access point for self-inquiry to examine perhaps our over commitment or fear of saying no to someone, or something.

As we evolve our own connection to honoring our own heart, we begin to trust in the divinity that it is safe, and wholly honorable to say no, without the fear of condition. Most often, it is our conditioned fear that causes the breach in integrity of honoring our word through our deed.

Let us look a commonplace breach in integrity. How often have we overcommitted and not shown up at an agreed upon time? If we judge this breach of integrity by seeing “the other” through the eyes of judgment, we miss the shared opportunity to compassionately honor them, and ourselves, with the loving light of “carefrontation” by holding accountability to honor that our needs to know our time and needs matter, we are each given the opportunity to experience the gift of that the reflection of relationship, to know those relationships that truly make life more wonderful, or not..

Every day, in many ways, we have forgotten to listen to the language of feelings of love that lives within our own hearts. When we deny our own sacred heart, the first breach of integrity within our own being begins the cascade that becomes the rippled impact of mistrust that destroys relationship.

If we want to live the path of heart, we must choose integrity within thyself, and within the reflection of relationships.