How’s this for a statistic? Studies show that we may be lied to anywhere from 10 to 200 times on any given day! In her recent article for CNN Pamela Meyer cites a further study that shows strangers lie three times within the first 10 minutes of meeting each other.
Clearly there’s an awful lot of lies and deceit going around. It seems we are all vulnerable to being tricked, deceived or manipulated on a daily basis.
So what is our defense in the face of this staggering onslaught of dishonesty? Learning how to physically spot a lie might be helpful. However this may require more sophisticated skill than previously thought because, as Meyer says, the research debunks conventional wisdom about lying: people may well lie whilst looking us in the eye, and they don’t always ‘stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.’
Consistent with the approach to life based on the notion that our thoughts, actions and intentions determine and create our experience, the best defense we have against the deceit of others is to be completely, utterly and entirely honest ourselves.
On the basis that everything is energy, different emotions are actually energetic impulses that vibrate at different frequencies, according to the degree to which they reflect love. The closer the emotion is to love, the higher the frequency. The more high frequency thoughts and emotions we have, the more able we are to access the full spectrum of qualities at that frequency.
So when we have loving thoughts and intentions we access much more than just the emotions and qualities, both in ourselves and in others, normally associated with love, including kindness, consideration, generosity, acceptance, compassion etc. Once we operate at the higher frequency we are also able to access high value qualities like truth, power, and protection.
So the longer we are able to remain at a higher frequency the more lower frequency thoughts and behaviors start to feel incompatible with our sense of things and eventually become intolerable. When we are accustomed to thoughts of acceptance and peace, exposure to violence and attack seem to have an even greater impact than when such experiences are a part of daily life.
It follows then, when honesty and truth are our modus operandi we can immediately detect when we are presented with words, actions and ideas of a baser frequency. We may not be able to see it with our eyes, or hear it with our ears, because lies only have their desired effect if they ‘seem’ eminently sensible and logical. But when we live in honesty and truth no matter how few telltale signs exist to inform our rational brain that we are being deceived or even tricked, we will just ‘know’ it, through some inexplicable sense or feeling.
The next step of course is to learn to listen to our feelings even when they fly in the face of seeming circumstances, reason or logic.
Honesty isn’t just a virtue or an admirable quality to aspire to. It is an intrinsic part of our protective armor that ensures our safe passage in a tricky world.
