Connecting To Your Inner Guidance System

Let us suppose that we all come to this earthly plane with a suitcase full of gifts, talents and abilities. If we can find ourselves able to subscribe to this belief, what would be our next inkling?

First of all, what happens to this suitcase? Do we open it ourselves, wait for someone to come along and give us the combination that will release the contents, or perhaps we might just set it aside for future use?

Even if we undertake to open it immediately, does this secure our position? Allow me to give you a couple of examples in order that you might grasp how this all can work either for us, or against us.

Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills ~ Sylvia Clare

Little Susie is a vibrant, imaginative four-year-old who has just started preschool, where her delightful abilities are excitingly waiting to be unleashed. She is given a task of coloring in the drawing of a most magnificent elephant. At once she begins to paint the drawing in a spectacular purple, as she is seeing the creature only from her own intuitive, inner world.

The teacher looks at her endeavors and because she feels she has the interest of little Susie at heart, calmly explains to the child that elephants are actually grey, or brown. This does not immediately connect to Susie’s thoughts and imagination, but it just begins to gently instill in her that she is not looking at the world in a rational fashion and it is the glimmer of the plant of self-doubt.

We next see her again at perhaps the tender age of six, as she is watching her older brothers playing a brisk game of football in the backyard. Of course she wants to join in, after all, it looks like they are having so much fun. Because the brothers care greatly for their little sister, they tell her she cannot play as she might get hurt. Does Susie receive the message as it was intended, or is she beginning to realize that her place in the world is not as she thought and another seed of doubt is deeply implanted into her tender psyche?

The two most important assets at our disposal, regardless of who we are, or what our intentions might be, are our intuition and a sense of loyalty. These are inborn and should be used at every possible opportunity. The one thing I must stress is the fact that this loyalty is above all to ourselves first.

Where does this leave us in the grand scheme of things? Our intuition is our inner guidance system. It tells us if we like working with people, animals or the environment.

Suppose we enjoy working with people. How does this equate to staying on our spiritual path? Well, for certain we would rebel against aligning ourselves with trying to cope with a job that left us working with animals. We may love them, but that does not necessarily connect to our working with them.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner ~ Jonas Salk

To test if we are being true to ourselves the easiest question to ask is, if money were no object would you still be at the present place of employment? If the answer is yes, we can then accept we are in alignment with our inner guidance radar. If the answer is no, how did we distrust ourselves so wantonly that we allowed ourselves to get so far off the beaten track?

If we joined a company because it is a family business and we felt we had to be loyal to the rest of the clan, and went against our own sense of resistance, then we can safely say we are being totally disloyal to ourselves and it will almost guarantee future unhappiness and resentment. But will the resentment be towards the ones we felt had coerced us into this position, or to ourselves for not trusting the strong feeling that helps keep us in check?

Also, along the way we must be able to discern what are helpful props and what is not real to rely on. We often have different beliefs and this is always to respected, but even in knowing this, we should forever be able to trust and count on ourselves first. We perpetually seek higher ground, which is the equivalent to our own perception of awareness.

What keeps us going, even in the face of adversity? It is cemented into a connection with our inner guidance surely. As long as we check into ourselves periodically and trust the feelings we are experiencing, and ask ourselves frequently if we are being true to ourselves, it is hard to go wrong.

Our personal guidance system is the same as releasing a homing pigeon, it always brings us back to the home base, the place we trust and return to at every opportunity. Once we begin to connect to it, and trust what has been put in place for us, it is all we will ever need to keep us on the path that was set out for us. Locate your inner guidance system. Trust it and always remain true to yourself.