Hearing Your Inner Guidance

Hearing your inner guidance and conscience is not as hard as people think.  And that’s just the point: don’t think.  Use your emotion to guide you.  That is the whole point of quieting the mind in meditation.  By quieting the mind you are able to feel what your heart or emotion is trying to communicate to you.  Ask a question about anything that is troubling you and then quiet your mind and observe your feelings about the subject.  Your feelings will tell you how to address the issue.  If you have a negative emotion about a certain action then that is the not the way to go.   Whichever action feels good is the way to go.  Now it is important to distinguish between the difference of feeling good to the senses versus feeling good to the inner part of you.  If you make your decision just because it feels good to your physical self then you are not feeling deep enough.  It has to resonate with your whole being.

Now the mind is a powerful instrument and when we have a strong attachment or aversion to something we can cause resistance to actually hearing the message from our inner guidance.  Sometimes we don’t want to hear the answer that our inner guidance is telling us because we have strongly formed opinions or beliefs about an issue.  Being able to release this resistance is important to getting a clear message.  One way to release resistance is to consider all of the possible outcomes of a situation and make peace with all of these outcomes.  Find a positive perspective to look at in all of the outcomes.  This will diffuse any strongly held opinions and allow for a clearer message to come through.  If this is too difficult then first practice bringing up the circumstance in your mind and visualizing a powerful healing light surrounding the issue.  This will create positive energy that you can hold onto whenever the issue comes up and eventually will illuminate other positive outcomes.