A crossroad in life is always a fantastic opportunity to grow and flourish and generally get to know ourselves more completely. But how do we know which way to go?
When people have told me in the past to go with my gut, I have always found it vague and dismissive. My gut? Is this not the end of my digestive tract? A space full of waste? I hardly think I should trust it to make major life decisions. It is bound to be as confused as I am.
But as time has gone by I have started to trust myself. I realise that my 'gut' or my 'intuition' (my general inside feeling about the situation) is the one that I should rely on.
The trouble is it can take a really long time before we are honest with ourselves. Sometimes we try to force ourselves down a track which seems more appealing or safe. Our inner voice gets left in the dark, it is far too hard to listen to sometimes as it means making painful change or facing our fears.
I have typed similar blogs before about decision making and paths being fluid, changing and interlinked. But this time I want us to focus on the intuition or inner knowing that we have within us. The voice inside that knows it is right.
We are not our thoughts. Our thoughts can be manipulated and changed based on feelings or intention. Feelings are not real, as they can be created and manipulated by our thoughts. But deep behind the tricky layers of the personality is a space where we simply know what we should be doing. I think we all know that voice, we can bury it, ignore it and pretend it is not there, but it will always find a way to resurface.
We change, we are fluid in our essence, we don't need to be what we believe we are. There are no limits to the person you are. We are not our past or our future. We are all so keen to box and compartmentalise our personalities and our lives. 'I am like this. I am like that. I like that kind of person. I always behave like this'. Let's stop defining ourselves and making decisions based on who we have been. It is limiting and confusing and ultimately impossible.
So, next time you decide to bury that voice away, remind yourself that it is only a temporary fix, a saving grace, a pause, before your intuition pulls you back into alignment and you continue on the path that serves you best. There is always something to be learnt along the way even if we hide our intuition for a while, but let's not do it too long and repeat patterns that are stopping us from being the best version of ourselves.
We are all completely worthy of whatever it is we want to achieve, make sure that the only person standing in your way is willing to step aside once in a while and allow you to move forward (you).
Josie
Wow!
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