Admitting: Acknowledge Your True Self Rather Than the Self You Show to Other People
3 september 2026
Allowing yourself to be vulnerable, you move beyond the realm of your senses and begin to introduce yourself to the universal consciousness that is the giver of your life. You develop a relationship with this greater intelligence, telling it who you have been and what you want to change about yourself, and admitting what you have been hiding.
Owning up to who we really are and what our past mistakes have been and asking to be accepted are among the most challenging things for us to do as humans. Think of how you felt as a child when you had to fess up to your parents, a teacher, or a friend. Have those feelings of guilt, shame, and anger changed now that you’re an adult? Most likely you still experience them, but maybe not as strongly.
What makes achieving Step 3 possible is knowing that we are admitting our faults and failures to our higher power and not to another similarly flawed human. As a result, when we admit to ourselves and to that universal power, there is:
No punishment
No judgment
No manipulation
No emotional abandonment
No blame
No scorekeeping
No rejection
No loss of love
No damnation
No separation
No banishment
Ref: Prune Away the Habit of Being Yourself pg.245