Hello, and welcome to the Evolved Emily Show. I am your host, Emily Hayden, and you are listening to another Monday message.

Every single Monday, I bring a new message of the day to you guys.

So here's today's message.

Today's message is one of self-reflection.

I oftentimes work with clients that really struggle to align their behavior with what the highest version of themselves wants to do.

And one thing I've learned in my experience and in my experience with all of my clients is that you cannot modify your behavior and your actions beyond the current posture and status of your heart.

So while your mind will recognize that a certain behavior is what's best for you,

if your heart hasn't been convinced, you will keep failing at this.

You will keep falling down.

So my encouragement is to look at the posture and conditioning of what's truly in your heart.

Be brutally honest about it.

If you're fake with yourself or with God,

then you'll never be able to receive the help you desire. Brutal honesty is the first step to dealing with what's actually in your heart, which could be things like anger, bitterness, shame, guilt,

even insecurity, all driving your actions. So anytime that I have a client that's really

struggling with aligning their action with what the highest version of them wants to do,

I kind of say, okay, well, it must not clearly be about this action. What's actually the

root behind the way that you're responding to people, the way that you're showing up for

yourself and also for other people. And oftentimes by

digging through it, we get to the bottom of it to realize that there's insecurity there. There's

bitterness there. There's anger. There's shame. There's guilt. All these emotions that happen due to

real life circumstances that haven't really ever been addressed or dealt with. And it's really important because no matter how much your mind really desires to be that highest

version of yourself, if your heart posture is simply not there yet, if there are things that

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