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Awakening the Inside Explorer: The Kick Off of a Series on Authenticity

• THeresa Marie

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What if the most important frontier isn’t out there but in here? We take a clear-eyed look at authenticity as the foundation for a kinder, more humane world—and why the survival of our species may depend on our willingness to live congruent lives. Instead of outsourcing truth to headlines or influencers, we examine actuality: the felt integrity that shows up when your actions finally match your values.

I walk through the first step of a new AUTHENTICITY series: appreciate your divinity. Fear thrives on shame, comparison, and scarcity, but awe cuts through—five minutes of embodied gratitude for a beating heart, effortless breath, and a mind capable of attention can reset your day. From that grounded place, it becomes easier to spot matrix programs in daily life: performative kindness, borrowed outrage, and beliefs that never fit. We talk about practical ways to choose real compassion over performance, to create boundaries without venom, and to swap slogans for lived service.

You’ll also hear a preview of the full acrostic roadmap we’ll unpack in future episodes: unlocking your inner child, trusting your inner voice, serving humanity by honoring yourself, embracing change, returning to natural states, following truthful trends, rebuilding imagination, deepening connection with self, nature, and God, staying committed to the inside job, practicing radical transparency, and yielding to truth so insights become action. No guru can do this work for you—and that’s the gift. Each day becomes a lab for presence: ask for the lesson, notice where you were congruent, and decide one small change for tomorrow.

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Many say that exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species. And let me tell you we're gonna explore some stuff today about the inside job of authenticity on Free to Just Be, the podcast empowering humanity to courageously step out of old programs and patterns and embrace brand new ways of being. And I hope this finds you in the greatest health with vibrant energy today, because you have chosen like I have to accept the full responsibility for our body, mind, and soul. Here on Free to Just Be, I'm gonna attempt to inspire you to truly be who you came here to be. And it starts with authenticity, which is really what we're gonna talk about today, about being free and aligned with our highest potentials. So join me, Teresa Marie, an ambassador of God's Chi, on this transformative journey of awakening to rewrite our narratives and live lives of purpose and passion. And I do, I welcome you back on this magnificent open your mind Monday, and I want to discuss today one of the basis of uh what free to just be is all about, and that would be authenticity. And we open with a quote by Buzz Aldrin saying that um, you know, adventures, exploration, it it's part of our destiny. But if you've noticed on this awakening journey what's happening, yes, you know, travel to outer space and uh finding new inventions and uh new innovations, yes, that's all well and good and it all helps our destiny. But if you haven't noticed, there is this huge awakening happening on the planet. And what is that exploration about? It's about going inside. This awakening journey, as myself and anybody else talking about this awakening journey um does, it's that it's an inside job. And that is the massive exploration that is happening around the world now, and people are beginning to realize that getting back to authenticity is really the biggest part of this inside job, and it will ensure the survival of the human species. Why? Because authenticity, let's define it for a minute, it's the quality of being genuine and real. Now, I want to show you a contrast, a massive contrast of that opening quote. And you know, there were influencers way back in the day, and back in the 30s, 35, 1938, right around then, um, Errol Flynn, he was a very big actor, and he has gone down into posterity to s as saying this particular quote. Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It's just simply a dream of young idealists. In practice, it's a misnomer. So what is he saying? That we are terrible to each other. Oh, yes, this is actually very true, right? And the falsity that he states is that it rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. So let's look at that for a minute, the reverse, you know, an actuality. What's an actuality? An actuality is the state of being real, just like authenticity or existing in fact. So what he was saying is the fact is we are terrible to each other, so we can't have humanity. And what is the other definition of humanity? The quality of being kind, compassionate, or humane. That's what defines humanity, right? Humanity is humanityville, like I always call us, or the human race, but the qualities of the human race are being kind, compassionate, or humane. So this influencer way back in the 30s, Errol Flynn, was saying, no, it's not possible. We're never gonna get to that state of of you know being kind to each other. It's not happening. And yet that is exactly what is happening. And more and more people are recognizing the sheeps that are really wolves in sheep's clothing, and that all of this is by design. And again, I um I highly suggest if you haven't already checked out the documentary Beneath Sheep's Clothing, that you do so. It'll give you a whole new perspective on what's happening in Humanityville. But today I wanna I'm I'm introing a a new series, so to speak, that really um the spirit gave me uh a couple of years ago. And it it kind of like um there was a time when I was given this playlist of songs, and I've talked about this before, and it was a list of songs that um uh I felt like the spirit gave me, and it it all came at once. Thirteen songs and the amount of minutes of playtime, and some of the artists I knew and some of them I didn't, and I just wrote them down, boom, boom, boom. Well, um a couple of years ago, I was given this uh across stick for the word authenticity. So each letter of that word was like um a little chapter of education on authenticity, and I just never did anything with it, and that's where Spirit took me a couple of days ago, and I came back to it again this morning, it was on my heart, so I have decided to go ahead and roll this out. And so it's uh taking authenticity to a whole nother study level, if you would. And if it's the quality of being genuine or real, and it describes a person's actions as congruent. In other words, their actions and their values and desires all line up. Well, that is exactly where the planet is right now. And people are recognizing that it is not their values or their desires, and that's what's happening. Everybody is waking up to the fact that wait a minute, I don't believe this, I don't believe what the TV's telling me, I I don't jive with this section of politics, I don't like this food. Um, I've never wanted to do XYZ, and I'm standing up and finally saying, I don't want to do this anymore. So in every level, in every part of society, that is what's happening. Because in order to be a human being, with the attributes of humanity being kind, compassionate, or humane, that comes from who we truly are. And we are truly pure energy, the energy of love and light, which is bright and shiny and pure and unadulterated, and that is who we are, and that's why this awakening becomes the inside job. Because all of that that I just described is inside us, humanity. We are kind and compassionate and humane because we come from the author of those things. We are sparks of God, and we as a collective are beginning to realize that the way we were told to be does not line up with the way we want to be. And we're beginning to wake up to that, and it's uh it's a it's an incredible time to be alive. So I want to kick off this um this series about authenticity with that first letter. You know, we talked about what authenticity means and what actuality means. Actuality is the state of being real, true, existing in fact. Now, that's the other aspect of this awakening. There are people that want to say, you know, show me the facts, show me the facts. And when the facts can't be shown to them, that's when the kickoff of the red pill kicks in with people because then all of a sudden they decide if their questions aren't being answered, they're gonna look for themselves. And thus we're now differentiating between fantasy and fiction, which is the antonym of actuality. Now the world will have you think, like Errol Flynn. The influencers on the propaganda news will have you think that there's no hope, that the world is going down the toilet, that everything is getting worse and worse and worse, and these are all lies, and these are all the layers that we have to respect uh ex accept the responsibility for moving out of the way of our own love and light. Okay? So the first letter in authenticity is the letter A, obviously. So the first aspect of this, you know, and every mental act that we do on this awakening journey opens us to a brand new dimension of this actuality. If actuality is the state of being real or existing in fact, then each time we take a step towards being true and genuine to ourselves, what does that do? It opens up a new dimension of learning. Because we are literally birthing ourselves back out when we begin this inside job of awakening. So the first thing I want to talk about, which is a very, very important step to think about, is A is for appreciate your divinity. Now that is an extremely important aspect of awakening because when you begin, you the the basic programs of the matrix, the the main um course, if you will, that just about everybody in the human collective deal with, the massive one, it's it's like um the umbrella of all of them is fear. And fear is the opposite of love, which is who we are. So fear creeps in and fear encompasses so much. Fear will um remind you of your past mistakes, um, the guilt that you have from making them, the shame that was uh thrust on you uh because you didn't measure up to somebody else's um uh view of the way things should have been. All of those things, all of those um quote unquote human experiences that we have to go through come up to the surface. And this is when knowing and appreciating the fact that we are divinely created, we are fearfully and wonderfully made, the word of God tells us. And if you just spend some time meditating on that, like just take that aspect for the next week. And every day, just sit for five minutes and think about the awesomeness of your physical body. The heart is beating and keeping you alive. It's pumping blood to hundreds upon hundreds of miles of veins. Your lungs are breathing without any effort on your part. We have joints that move and enable us to do so many things with our hands and our feet. We can see, we can hear, we can uh smell things. Uh, I want you to just think for a moment as you're driving. You're driving a vehicle. You're using your hands, your feet, your eyes, um, your ears. You are able to drive that huge thousand pound tool at the same time as you're looking at houses passing you by and the cars around you, and you're listening to music at the same time simultaneously, and you're thinking what you're gonna have for dinner, and you're driving to a specific location, and your heart is still beating. I want you to just ponder the absolute wonderment and appreciate the absolute divinity that we are that God created. Human beings are incredible divine pieces of creation, and each one of us is a spark and made in the image of our creator God. That is the starting point of when authenticity and awakening begins. When you begin to recognize that it's far more than you on this planet, it's far more than what you hear on the radio or on TV or what you read in social media, that you and you alone are in charge of this destiny that's rolling out, and God in his graciousness gave you the free will to come into the knowledge of that truth, to come back to the true, genuine, real divinity that you are, and that changes everything. And just like I said, each time you get a nugget of truth, that opens a whole new level of the facts, Jack. And then you move on to the next thing. Well, if I am divinely made, then how do I become more like my creator God? And then you start recognizing all these different ways that the matrix programmed you. You you see racism and you see hate and you see condescension and you see comparisons and you see jealousies and you see greed, and all of a sudden, all of these different aspects of the matrix, which for years and years, sometimes your whole life, you believe that that is what Humanityville is. It's full of nobody able to get along. We hate each other, and it's all about war, and it's all about um conflict, and and it's it's just not the case. If you look around, there are more people awakening to the fact that they're tired of these wars, they're tired of the conflicts, and we really do want to come back home to just being real and authentic and ourselves. And the more people that do that, the more peace that they gain on the inside. And then as we encourage each other to do that, the collective grows, and more and more people in the collective are now coming out the gates with a reality of being true and real and going inside and rooting out those programs and those false beliefs and healing from the childhood dramas instead of remaining in the victimhood, which again, those are all aspects of the control of the matrix. So, in looking at the word authenticity, there are so many aspects of just becoming your authentic self. And I'm gonna run through the list real quick and then we're gonna revisit them every time that I feel so led to pull up another letter. So authenticity. The A was for appreciate your divinity. Then there's unlocking your inner child, trusting your inner voice. Help humanity by honoring yourself. The E is for experience the power of change, N is for natural states. Oh yes, returning to our natural states, and we're gonna talk about those. T is for truthful trends. Yes, the truth is beginning to become something that I would suggest to you soon and very soon is what's gonna be trending. Then there is I for internal inspiration, and what is that? Internal inspiration is our imagination, and we're gonna learn how to resurrect it. C is for connection, connection with what? Yourself, with nature, and with God. I is for wrapping it all up as what it is, an inside job. And we might add the I of it, you're it, you're the one that has to instill a desire to go inside and heal thyself. And T is for transparency, going back to authenticity. You have to be transparent. And the first place that transparency really, really begins that walk is when you are transparent with yourself. And then the why of authenticity is about yielding to these truths that all of a sudden you become aware of. So authenticity, which is the basis, it's like the foundation of becoming free to just be, and getting off that matrix merry-go-round, and jumping instead onto that rolly coaster of life. And true life begins with authenticity, with recognizing that maybe you weren't genuine, and maybe you weren't lining up with what your values and desires are. And let me let me share that that is something that I'm even revisiting now. You think that you know what your values and desires are. Well, um, in future episodes, I'm going to talk about an exercise that I'm doing with uh the mastermind program with uh Tony Robbins and Dean DeGrassio. And when you think that you have it honed down to what your values and what your um desires and your personal ethics are and all of that, man oh man, you do these assignments that they have and you hone it down to really what your purpose is, what it is that you're supposed to be doing, your mission to contribute back to humanity. It's it's all an inside job. And if we begin to recognize that nobody can do this work for us, um, I hate to tell you, Humanityville, but in 42 years of uh working on myself, there ain't nobody coming to take your role. I mean, it'd be nice to have an actor that could just come in and double for us when we have to get in the fetal position because we're going through yet another dark night of the soul. Oh yes, Humanityville. You do realize that dark nights of the soul are plural. You don't just go through one season in a lifetime. Oh, you know, we would like to say, you know, uh, if we had a choice, let me just go through, say, five years of the dark night of the soul. And then when I'm done with those five years, I'll be done. I'm home free. How many of us would take those five years? No, unfortunately, dark nights of the soul sometimes can be five minutes, five hours, five days, five weeks, five months, five years. Some are millenniums, and some we are here to break the chains of those carmetic effects. Oh yes, and nobody is coming to do this inside job for us. We have to do it ourselves. So the quicker we get on the train of transformation and the quicker we fall in love with discovering, let's be the pioneers of ourselves. Let's begin to uncover who you and I truly are, and then we can turn around and contribute back to humanity by helping our fellow human beings. We can reach out our hand then and say, hey, I went through this really sticky matrix program of let's say guilt. And I see that you're really struggling in that area right now. Let me give you a hand up. Oh wow. You've already gone through the whole issue of guilt parenting? Well, I'm still in the midst of that. Maybe we can help each other. I'll I'll let you know my secrets of going through the guilt of um childhood trauma. And if you could help me through the guilt that parenting brought me. You see, how exciting life would be if we could literally put on explorer glasses and say, Alright, you wake up every morning and say, Alright, what aspect of who I really am are you gonna teach me about today, God? And then be looking. Go on a God hunt. Go on an authenticity hunt. Say, how can you show me the area today that I need to be more authentic in? Or maybe he'll give it to you as you're doing your daily sadhanas. I don't know what you do, but you you do. Everybody has their morning ritual. Maybe it's um uh something that you listen to. A lot of folks listen to uh, for example, the the Bible on tape. So every day they get a few verses of the Bible, and maybe during that particular segment of your morning ritual, he'll say, I want you to become more authentically kind. I don't want you today, Theresa Marie, to be kind because other people are around you watching when you really didn't want to be kind to that person. I want you to work on being kind from the depths of your heart, and then maybe that will take you on an exploration of the times that you aren't kind. And then maybe the spirit would have you look at, well, why wasn't I kind to that person earlier today? Why did that person that cut me off so enrage me? How was I not being kind to myself by reacting like that? Because that person in the core didn't even know I was flipping out. Do you see how this starts to open up a flow of new birth within your own self? And more and more, the more you do it, things actually begin to happen. People who don't love the moment are always trying to achieve things, but they miss the very lessons that they're in the midst of learning. So if we start our day saying, What can you show me today? Help my eyes to see every lesson. Help me to recognize when you are reflecting back to me the very things that I am being ingenuous or inauthentic, and help me be more human. Quality of being human, being kind, compassionate, or humane. And those words, kind, compassionate, or you and humane, have to begin with creation. And that creation is you, humanity. So take a look inside, and maybe as you think of the word authenticity, maybe you need to write it vertically, and maybe the Spirit of God will give you your own set of words and your own set of lessons as we go through the acrostic of authenticity. And when we come back to the next set of lessons about authenticity, we'll talk about unlocking your inner child and what that does to help in the exploration of becoming our authentic selves, which ultimately is the awakening journey. We are to awake to our true selves, and as everybody around the world does this, we're gonna shift because our true selves is not this 3D duality of right and wrong and left and right and Democrat and conservative and uh you know Republicans are better than libertarians and I I I deserve more because I'm black and you're white. All of that doesn't exist where we came from. And if we truly want to bring this planet to that level of existence, then it has to start with us. So if you haven't already awakened to the freedom of just being, then you have found one of the best podcasts to do that, along with many, many others. And I dare say, Humanityville, you have a gift to share too. And there are people whose ears will only hear your voice and will only jive with what you've experienced. And the more we share our awakening experiences with each other, the quicker we're gonna usher in true humanity, true kindness, compassionate, and the ability to be Christ-like. I love you, humanity, and I hope that as I muse and I think about the things that are affecting my journey towards being more authentic and my journey towards contributing to humanity, maybe these words spark something in you as well. Where are you not being authentic? Where today can you see a little bit more of your true self? Have a magnificent Monday, and I'll be back with you again tomorrow. Peace.