Living with Discernment

When you are a person with discernment, you are in the business of gathering and intuitively interpreting information. You tend to be quite a wise decision-maker.

You often know exactly the right questions to ask and you know how to pieces of a puzzle together, whether consciously or not.

This is why toxic and manipulative people avoid you.

They quickly learn that you are a threat to their façade.

The complex fortress of lies they have comfortably surrounded themselves with easily crumbles around you without you lifting a finger or saying a word.

You can see right through the wool they try to pull over everybody’s eyes.

All of their manipulation tactics - love bombing, subtle power plays and attempts at gaining leverage - are futile against you.

Because your focus is on living in truth, those tricks don’t work on you for very long, if at all.

As well as avoiding you, toxic and manipulative people may attempt to destroy your image before you get the chance to expose them for who they truly (even though that probably was never on your to-do list!).

From their perspective, you threaten their entire world.

Their friendships, relationships, career and social life are built on their foundation of untruths, which worked just fine for them until you showed up.

So in their mind, you have to go.

And if they can’t get rid of you, damaging the way the world sees you is just as good.

This is the plight of living with discernment.

It is challenges like this that can tempt you into stifling your own curiosity and ignoring your discernment.

In a world where evil seems to reign, it can be very scary (and sometimes dangerous) to be the person who can see it all without even trying.

Discernment makes you stand out; it puts a target on your back and can make others uncomfortable around you, but you have to be real with yourself: what outcomes do you want in your life?

Do you want what is best for yourself or do you want to please the temporary people around you?

Yes, discernment makes you powerful, a force to be reckoned with, but would it threaten a person who is transparent and doesn’t have any hidden agendas?

Could an honest person possibly be threatened by the ability of another person to see them for exactly who they are or does that sound more concerning for a manipulator?

When you realise how often your ability to see clearly disrupts the status quo, you will stop worrying about alienating others and start worrying about the state of humanity.

I know that’s what has happened for me.

How can walking into a room without saying a word change the entire dynamics of the environment?

It’s a rhetorical question, but I’ll answer it anyway:

It’s because you can see and everyone else can see that you can see, so they feel naked...exposed.

Your mere presence not only brings out their feelings of insecurity, but it mostly makes them feel bad for not living in truth. They feel guilty for deceiving those around them, but mostly for attempting to deceive themselves. You remind them that they are, in fact, living out a theatrical performance, where the audience is not real and there is no Oscar award to win at the end.

Most people go through life in willing ignorance, because they don’t want to ‘rock the boat’.

They accept the lies they tell themselves, the lies society wants us to believe, the lies that allow the world to run smoothly...into chaos.

But whoever popularised the phrase “what you don’t know won’t hurt you” must have really wanted to fool a lot of people.

Not knowing, or choosing not to know is just setting yourself up for failure.

You are guaranteeing that you won’t be ready for what is to come.

The fact is: ignorance is bliss until you get blindsided.

Just because you don’t know that your food has been poisoned, doesn’t mean that you’ll survive after eating it!

Although it may not be easy to live with discernment, you have no business sticking your head back in the sand along with the rest of the world.

Knowledge is power, and don’t you ever forget that.

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