We all make assumptions.

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There are things we feel are true.

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For years we believed we knew we were right.

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It was a certainty for us.

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The story we have been telling ourselves for weeks, months, or years, is implanted in our consciousness.

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And it is because we keep telling ourselves the story that we believe it is true.

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We assume it is true.

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Yet how often to check on those assumptions?

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The facts of the story may be true.

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It is the interpretation of the story that might off the mark.

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When we create an assumption and build our interpretation upon it.

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The assumption becomes so ingrained that we never even think of verifying it.

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Of course it is true, we think, and so it goes on unchecked.

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Until that one day when something causes us to reexamine it.

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Perhaps it is an off hand comment or secondary thought.

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Something small that just happens to catch our attention this time.

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We may have never noticed it before, yet for some reason this time we do.

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So we take the scary step to actually check in and see if what we thought was true all these years, actually is.

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It could be something small, like someone's favorite color.

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Or something big, like how they truly feel about something that happened many years before.

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Whatever it is, when we actually check in and ask about the truth of the situation, we can be surprised.

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For years we might have been so certain that our interpretation of the event is true.

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Yet now, all this time later, when can check and find out we were wrong.

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That what we thought was so true, was actually not.

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Or that our interpretation was way off base.

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For something small, it might not be a big deal.

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Yet for something fundamental, something that shaped our view of the world, it might be huge.

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Maybe this incident shaped our view around money, love, or our own self-worth.

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The meaning we made form the event might have had far reaching implications in our life.

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And the feelings that came from the meaning we made from the event might have caused us a lot of pain.

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There is no need to suffer like that.

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Those long held stories might not be the real story.

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They made need to be examined again.

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To look at them with fresh eyes and a completely different perspective.

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It could bring us to a new truth that is much more supportive and in alignment with how we truly feel.

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Or how we want to feel about ourselves and our life.

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Maybe we can all feel better by just not assuming our assumptions are true.

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So where in your own life have you made assumptions that might not be right?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour