JUMP-STARTING YOUR SENSE OF INNER WISDOM.
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Category: Life
Development takes time, whether it's physical, mental or
spiritual. Life is like taking a train ride to another place
just for the experience, one where you just enjoy the passing
scenery and never ask, "Are we there yet?"
At some point, you reach the destination and then move on to
seeking out the next adventure. The point of the ride is to
learn along the way, knowing all the while that journeys of
learning are undertaken for the process more than the
destination.
Developing contact with your soul or inner being takes time,
along with a delicate touch. Your soul exists at a more subtle
level of consciousness than your conscious mind. While your
conscious mind exists in the noise and clatter of a physical
existence, your soul, by comparison, lives in a world of
whispers. It is an enchanted land where magic happens and
wonders unfold at the speed of thought.
Communications from your inner self arrive as the merest
whispers of intuition. They are subtle feelings that help you
lean towards the course of action which will work out the best.
The more you encourage communication between your conscious
mind and your inner being, the more examples you will
experience of your own inner guidance being full of the wisdom
and foresight which only a higher state of consciousness can
produce.
You can prove to yourself - right now - that a store of great
wisdom lies just beyond your daily conscious awareness. All it
takes is the willingness to perform a valid, unbiased
experiment with no skepticism or self-doubt allowed. If you are
willing to do that experiment, then you will jump-start your
ability to consciously receive inner wisdom and you will prove
to yourself that you really do have an inner resource of
impressive wisdom.
The key to this quantum leap in your intuitive ability is to
give yourself permission to let your inner being - which
functions at a higher frequency of consciousness - to come
through into your daily, conscious awareness. You already have
a higher level of inner wisdom. If you're not used to it coming
through into your daily awareness, it's just because you
haven't opened the door yet by giving it permission. Now,
you're going to let that inner wisdom come through by using the
key act of giving it conscious permission.
Anyone can sit down in a quiet place and, provided they give
themselves permission, allow their inner being or 'higher
self' to produce writings that contain greater wisdom than
any thoughts currently contained in their conscious minds. Try
it and see. It involves the simple tool of role playing. 'Act
as if,' and you'll be pleasantly surprised at what you find.
First, do whatever works best for you to enter a relaxed,
contemplative state of mind, or just close your eyes, relax,
and follow your breath in and out for a minute or two.
Now, see yourself as a seeker of answers, a seeker of wisdom,
and your question is, "What do I need to do to find the most
happiness in the year ahead?"
Then, for the next ten minutes, pretend that you have been
given a window into an inner place of deep wisdom, because you
will step outside of yourself and become the one who will
provide the answers to that question. For the next ten minutes,
you will adopt the role of a famous, yet mysterious Master of
Enchanted Wisdom!
You are now playing two roles. You will be there as an ardent
seeker of wisdom, seated in front of the other you, the Master
of Enchanted Wisdom. As the seeker, you expect the Master to
reveal the guidance that you most need in order to find
happiness in the year ahead. Have faith in the wisdom of the
Master and it will be forthcoming.
Now, move fully into the other role. ACT AS IF you are now the
Master of Enchanted Wisdom. Think over the question, put on
your 'wisdom hat,' and start giving the advice which is
expected of you by the seeker. Write it down as you think of
it. This is important because in the role play, you are going
to a deeper level of awareness and it is too easy to forget
your own words once you resume regular awareness. Don't let
your words fade away into your background memory like a dream
upon awakening. Write them down as fast as you can, never
stopping to judge or critique. Just write.
Then, when the exercise is over and you have told the seeker
all the advice that comes to mind, you'll come back to being
in your normal state of consciousness and be in a position to
review what you wrote. More importantly, save your writing and
review it three days later from a fresh perspective, when the
details of the words have passed away from your immediate
memory.
Evaluate your writing as if someone else had written it. Don't
make excuses like, "Well, I might have guessed that," or
downplay anything. Judge it fairly, without criticism or doubt,
for what it is: The advice from someone different from your
usual self, because that is exactly what it was. You were
different from your usual self.
Three days from now, you'll see those words in a new light
and, provided you role-played the part as needed, you will be
surprised at the amount of wisdom that came through.
Better yet, put those words away for a year, make yourself a
diary entry to review them then, and you'll be able to see, in
retrospect, how good the advice was for finding happiness
throughout that year.
Find your true happiness.
Daniel
