How to Be An Authentic Person

To be an authentic person, you must love yourself unconditionally, without wavering, and accept who you are, flaws and all. You must be completely honest with yourself and remain true to your inner self.

An authentic person will reflect a sound moral character and values outward towards others—their open-minded, deep thinkers who are not afraid of being vulnerable.

To be an authentic person, you must face your inner doubts and fears, accept your inabilities and overcome the mental limitations you set in your mind. And admit the inadequacies and weaknesses within yourself.

You embrace personal and spiritual growth and live life to the fullest potential when you’re authentic.

The best gift a person can give themselves is choosing to be authentic. The hardest thing anyone will do for themselves is face the truth within.

You can’t be a genuine person or live authentically without facing your inner reality. The two go hand in hand, and you can’t have one without the other.

Are You an Authentic Person?

Are you an authentic person, or do you wear a mask to hide the real you hidden inside?

When you wear a mask, it conceals your true inner self, and the outside world sees a different version of you.

This mask can be hiding things you don’t like about yourself, a secret from your past, inner fears, painful experiences, an addiction to drugs or alcohol, depression, and many other things.

Wearing the mask is more comfortable and protects your inner self from exposure. You hide your true authentic self in the darkness by living with a dual identity.

16 Signs You Wear a Mask and Are Not An Authentic Person

1. Make excuses for yourself.
2. Live for others or by standards others have set for you (not by Gods standards).
3. Always put others needs first above your own (you don’t matter to you).
4. Experience bouts of depression on a regular basis.
5. Going through the motions in life (you don’t enjoy your life).
6. Have inner fears about or from your past.
7. Don’t experience personal growth (mentally and emotionally).
8. Have addictions you don’t want to acknowledge or try to change.
9. Don’t like yourself or how you are.
10. Compare yourself to others (someone else is always better).
11. Wish you were someone else.
12. You’re not living up to your fullest potential in life.
13. You lie to yourself and others even about the little things that don’t matter.
14. Hold yourself back from experiencing a better life.
15. Don’t think you can be better, and you settle for a less.
16. You’re willing to let yourself die as you are today!

How did you do?

The slightly flawed version of your true inner self can be judged harshly by the outside world. When you hide in the dark, you’re comfortable, feel safe, and the only judge to condemn you is yourself.

You Are Often Your Harshest Critic

While others may critique you, you are often your harshest critic.

The constant comparing yourself to others can be overwhelming, and you never seem to measure up or be good enough. The inner fears you have can eat away at your spirit.

If only you were better or like that person, your life would be satisfying. The excuses you make for yourself can further hinder your personal and spiritual growth.

The mask is massive to wear around and can weigh down your spirit over time. This weight can take a toll on your inner self and cause feelings of self-hatred, depression, and even thoughts of suicide.

The price you pay for wearing this mask is way too high.

You Are Loved Flaws and All

The condition of your true inner self or your spirit matters to God. You matter to God, and God loves you just the way you are, flaws and all.

God loves you so much that he gave his only begotten Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for your sins.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV

If you were to die today, precisely as you are, where would you go?

Would you have eternal life with God in heaven, or would you be cast into the furnace of fire with the devil where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth?

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like, unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13: 47-50 KJV

Will you be among the wicked or the just?

Life with God or eternal separation from God (the second death) is your choice, and only you can make that choice. When you choose to have faith in God and faith in His Son, Jesus Christ and accept the forgiveness of sin, your spirit can begin to experience healing.

This healing will allow you to live in truth authentically, and in doing so, you will begin to drop the burden of sin that has weighed you down. Your true inner self will experience the healing powers of God’s saving grace.

No longer will you need to wear a mask to hide your true inner self. You will have complete assurance in your heart that God loves you, just the way you are, flaws and all.

How To Be An Authentic Person

How do I know this is the natural way to be an authentic person?

I wore a mask to hide my true inner self and lived in fear, shame, and guilt for many years. The list of “16 Signs You Wear a Mask and Are Not An Authentic Person” comprised things done while wearing the mask of sin.

I’ve lived by other people’s standards instead of God’s rules for my life. Always put others’ needs above my own and before God. I never thoroughly enjoyed life and was going through the daily motions.

The inner fears weighed me down and prevented personal and spiritual growth continuously. Lying to myself and God, I wasn’t living up to the fullest potential God possesses for me in life.

Worn out, I chose to accept God’s gift of salvation and became an authentic person who dropped the mask of sin.