Trust your inner voice
Tim Connor
We all have
an inner guidance system and it is always more accurate than our emotions,
feelings, judgments and opinions when it comes to the actions we take or the
decisions we make. The question is – do
you trust it and heed its guidance or override it with arrogance, ego,
immaturity, ignorance or self-absorption?
Think about
it – ever made a decision or taken an action that was contrary to the wisdom
you felt coming from somewhere inside your self- your soul, spirit or heart? You can’t always trust your mind as it is
often filled with prejudice, fear, inappropriate knowledge or experiences.
One thing I
have learned, but unfortunately I haven’t always honored is to trust the
guidance and messages from within me and not my mind. I can’t tell you how many bad decisions I
have made or actions I have taken when I believed that I (my mind) knew
best. Boy, if I could go back with what
I have learned the past few years and redo some of these actions I could have
saved myself a great deal of future pain, disappointment and heartache. How about you? Or - am I the only one who has learned
something too late? The good thing is
that I have finally learned it but as a human I have to be vigilant every
moment of every day to ensure I don’t repeat theses earlier behaviors for the
above reasons.
Where does
this inner guidance come from? Well, it depends on who you ask. If you are a spiritual person it comes from
your spirit which will guide you if you will let it. If you are not a spiritual person it comes
from what you believe from previous experience.
I am not going to argue which approach is right or accurate. The answer comes from your current
circumstances. If life is working for
you (and this depends on how you choose to define working) I’ll bet in many
ways you have heeded this inner guidance in the past. If life isn’t working, I’ll wager that you
have ignored or over ridden this counsel.
If your
inner voice comes from your spirit, evidence has shown over the years by many
reliable sources that the single goal of the spirit within you is for your
happiness, joy and peace. If this is
true and I’m neither validating it or denying it then the spirit doesn’t want
you to make mistakes given the long term impact of actions and decisions. It doesn’t control you but guides you as your
mind can refuse to accept this wisdom and act against it but there will always
be consequences.
The spirit
evidently has access to your past and your future as it comes from God (see numerous illustrations throughout
scripture) and it only wants you to make decisions or take actions consistent
with your future best interests but you do have free will to act in any way you
want for or against it.
I have
witnessed numerous occasions in discussions with friends and family over the
years where they did one thing when they knew deep inside they should be doing
something different or even totally opposite and they therefore inherited some
outcomes that they wish they could have avoided. Does the spirit know the future? Don’t know - but I do have an opinion which I
will not share here but in a separate conversation if any of you are
interested.
The inner
voice can take many forms – as intuition, a gentle inner nudging that you feel
but can’t identify the source and sometimes yes, even hunches. But I’m not talking here about luck or good
fortune just inner wisdom that we can pay attention to or ignore it.
“As soon as
you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Goethe
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