How do you feel inside when you knowingly tell someone a lie? How does it feel when you have told something that you believed to be the truth only to find out later that it was not? You may feel guilt, remorse or possibly no feelings at all. Even if you are not aware of your feelings, your body is! Your body knows the difference between the truth and a lie. When the truth is spoken, the body gets stronger, the immune system is supported and more energy is felt, colors are often brighter or more vivid, clarity of sight is often improved and there is often a heightened sense of well being. Lies produce an opposite effect in the body. How can we know these statements are true? There probably are scientific studies to validate these body responses. You could search out studies if you are intellectually inclined. But what is more important for most of us are that we validate them for ourselves empirically. How empirically aware we are of the changes depends on how chronically we have told lies. Chronically doing things we don’t really want to do or enjoy doing has the same affect on us as telling lies. Lies and unhappiness keep our body in a state where one more lie or unhappiness cannot be discerned. To prove just one of your body changes to yourself no matter how chronic your actions have been, start with a clean slate. Erase the old Body State! How? Let go of thinking or visualizing and just allow your memory to take you to a time or place when you felt totally uplifted and inspired. When you feel the body energy or “rush” again from that re-experience, extend an arm and pick up something that is heavy enough to be slightly taxing to your strength. Record in your mind what it took to pick the item up. Now tell a blatant and malicious lie or think of doing something that you really detest doing. Pick up that same item in the same way and notice how much more effort it takes to lift it. Pretty amazing isn’t it? Our body responds immediately to our thoughts and words. We cannot lie to our bodies and get away with it. Do you desire to take the struggle and effort feelings out of your life? Tell the truth and commit yourself to doing what your passion leads you to do. Now what happens when you are on the receiving end of a lie? What did you feel when you were told something you knew was a lie? Anger? Revenge? Distrust in everything you are told by that person? Do you believe those feelings would have no affect upon your body? Of course not; you know if you are feeling them, they have the power to affect your body and even your subsequent relationships with other people.