why we struggle to embrace the truth?
The truth, by its very nature, can be confronting
and
confrontation is what the ego mind doesn’t like as it threatens its’ carefully constructed reality that it clings to.
When a person operates from lower states of consciousness, they are deeply rooted in the mind and heavily influenced by the ego construct.
This makes embracing the truth feel particularly intimidating
let's explore the deeper 'why's':
Fear of Change
The truth has a way of challenging the familiar.
It can demand that we rethink our beliefs, relationships, or choices—things that may have defined us for years.
Change, even when it leads to growth, often feels unsettling.
Emotional Discomfort
Sometimes, truth shines a light on parts of ourselves or our past that we’d rather avoid. It can stir up feelings like guilt, shame, or regret—emotions that are hard to face and be in.
Fear of Loss
Accepting the truth can mean letting go—of relationships, identities, or illusions that once gave us a sense of security and contentment. The fear of what we might lose often outweighs our trust in what we might gain.
Inner Conflict
Truth can create a clash between what we’ve always believed and what we now know to be real.
This internal struggle, known as cognitive dissonance, can make us question who we are and what we stand for.
Perceived Threat
Sometimes, the truth feels like an enemy. It can threaten the stability we’ve worked hard to maintain or expose vulnerabilities we have tried to hide.
Societal Expectations
Certain truths that we embody can challenge societal norms or invite judgment from others and that’s intimidating and even scary as the ego [ Homo sapiens ]mind perceives a serious risk here - a risk of "not belonging" to the tribe if acting differently that the tribe itself.
The fear of being alone triggers our primal instincts, as survival once depended on belonging to the tribe.
We like it or not these primal instincts by default are leading the show
unless we start to transcend them and work our ways to higher states of consciousness [being].
Fear of the Unknown
The truth often leads to change, and change brings uncertainty.
Facing the unknown requires trust in ourselves and this trust is not neccesarity something that we all have because the majority of us were taught to not trust the self and the signals that it is sending to us. In this case some work with one’s energy has to be done for that trust to be reestablished.
It's important to understand that the ego-driven life is a natural stage in human evolution.
From a higher perspective,
the ego serves as a tool for growth ➡️
it is weighting down our being through fears, attachments and struggles until we reach a point where we can’t help but look deeper inside of us to address, explore and finally resolve this uncomfortable stuff
it challenges us to reflect and evolve beyond it
sooner or later :)
