My Near Death Experience Arts and Thoughts

What’s the first impression you want to give people?

First impressions are often fabricated

“First impressions are often manufactured—by fear, by expectation, or by the stories we’ve been taught to believe before we ever meet a soul.”

If first impressions can be shaped by fear, expectation, or old stories, then the question becomes: how do we know what’s real?

There are a few reliable signals:

1. Time exposes what instinct distorts

The initial snap-judgment is loud; the truth is quieter but steadier.

When you sit with someone—past the first minute, past the first mood—patterns emerge that don’t lie.

2. Consistency reveals character

A manufactured impression can shine for a moment.

A genuine person stays aligned with their nature over days, weeks, interactions.

Watch what repeats.

3. Your body recognizes authenticity before your mind does

A true impression feels calmer, clearer, less “forced.”

A fabricated one feels tight, urgent, or strangely scripted.

Your body often knows before your thoughts catch up.

4. Ask: “Whose story am I seeing through?”

Is the impression coming from you?

Or from old wounds, old lessons, someone else’s warnings, a lifetime of conditioning?

When you untangle that, clarity arrives.

5. Allow curiosity to replace certainty

When you stop needing an instant answer, you start receiving a real one.

Curiosity opens the door; certainty slams it shut.

So we know by waiting, watching, and letting the surface settle.

The truth is always beneath the first impression—it just needs a moment to rise.

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