Authenticity is a huge buzzword these days and Kristina Mand-Lakhini, co-founder of Mindvalley, helps us decipher what authenticity really is, the core skills that help you be your authentic self, and she also clears up some common myths and misunderstandings about what it means to be authentic.

Kristina explains that authenticity in current usage means to follow your natural interests and inclinations, no matter what society expects from you. Authenticity is an internal, not an external, phenomenon, and that cultivating true authenticity is really about developing an honest relationship with yourself.  

Including, these juicy topics:

While you can’t really “learn” to be your authentic self, there are some core skills that you can cultivate to help you be authentic within yourself, and this translates into being authentic in the world.

Authenticity is fundamentally about the relationship you have with yourself, and when you get really honest with yourself, you can’t help but be honest and authentic with others.

Self-exploration and self-acceptance about what you discover form the basis of true self love, and living from what is authentic to you rather than what and who you have learned to be.

We are complex beings with complex lives, and we all wear social masks, learn how to remain authentic while wearing a social mask with a few simple insights.

Why and how we lose our sense of self during life, and how to stop sacrificing your own happiness to fit other people’s or societies expectations.

The very simple difference between self-love and selfishness, and how to identify it in your life, as well as in others.

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EXPAND Your EDGE Pendulum Play!

If you have taken the EXPAND Your EDGE course, remember to use what you learned to expand what in this conversation pushed your edge. Also, here are some other ways to use your pendulum to play with the energies in this conversation to expand your consciousness. Still need the course? Access it for HERE

Increase my awareness of what is authentic to me

Expand my ability to be honest with myself and others

Expand my ability and willingness to to be kind to myself

Expand my understanding of authenticity and how it feels to be me

Increase my ability/willingness to be authentic to myself even when I am wearing a social mask

Neutralize any confusion between my social masks and my authentic self

Decrease any habit of acting from my masks or believing them to be me

Increase my willingness to develop an authentic relationship with myself

Increase my willingness to love and except myself fully