By Jane Offer
Have you noticed that your intuition – gut feeling – has intensified over the last while? It’s a strange thing how our inner senses suddenly come over us and we just know. Of course, it is a natural part of our ability, but we often are unaware of it, don’t notice or just put it down to coincidence.
We often say ‘I should have followed my first thought’, when we disregard our instincts and follow our head. We say, ‘Well, that was strange!’ when we get the phone call or meet someone we were thinking of only the day before. Even with that strange goosy feeling when the hairs raise on our arms when something just feels right.
Our senses have been relaying messages to us from our moment of birth. Obviously, we know when we are hungry, thirsty, tired or scared, but it also gives us more subtle messages. When we get a fancy for food, say strawberries or oranges; this is the subtle workings of our mind telling us our body is low on Vitamin C. We may dream of, or get the desire to go to, the sea. This would be another message telling us that we need to relax and slow down or, more importantly, that we are low on salt and that we need to put salt in our foot spa or bath. As we start notice and understand this language, we begin to work with our intuition even more strongly.
Within us all is that knowing of what the most appropriate action is to take, in any given circumstance; we know just what to say or how to respond. However, our doubt in ourselves often over-rides this natural knowing and tries to fit with all the information that is stored in our brain. You know the stuff I mean – our brain tells us that we must please everyone around us, that we mustn’t stand out or make a show of ourselves, that we mustn’t challenge or rock the boat in any way; all the training we received as children.
When we go against this inner guidance, we are not being true to our own needs and we often end up frustrated, angry and sometimes even suffer ill-health. Now is the time to really listen to ourselves, to build trust in the information we receive. We need to rely on that rather than the millions of voices that are in our brain each pushing the information they put there in the first place; every book we’ve ever read, film we’ve seen, words spoken to us, overheard conversations, someone else’s translation of an event and what it meant and how we are supposed to feel about it and more and more. Those voices that tell us we SHOULD. They don’t belong to us, they are not us; it is just stuff that may or may not be relevant, useful or even match our truth. It is not unbiased information but mostly other’s interpretations of life from their point of view. Is that us? Not at all, and it is important not to fit around it to please others. We have our own opinions and feelings so it is important that we use discernment to identify what is ours and what is someone else’s.
I’m not saying, go against everything we hear, just to be aware that it may not fully align with what is right for our life. Listen, of course, but then filter it to find the gold within it; that little nugget of information and guidance that is helpful and grows our own knowing. When we begin to follow the inner voice that comes from deep within, life seems to flow more easily, stress levels reduce and there is harmony and balance in every sector of our lives.
You know that you are your own GURU – Gee U R U
A Personal Story
This is a personal experience to illustrate how the body can speak to us quite graphically. Recently, in the Meditation group, we were working with the Sacral Chakra to elevate its frequency. A very strong childhood memory suddenly flooded my mind; an incident that I remembered for the first time in many years.
I could see it and feel the emotion that surrounded it but, more importantly, my body reacted to it. As the story began to release from my cellular memory, it mirrored exactly what happened at the time. I began to feel very upset, I felt sick and my gut reacted very strongly. I knew I wasn’t ill or had eaten something suspect because I know when my body talks to me with that language. It continued to react for some days until finally the words that had made the most impact at the time floated to the surface. They told me I had nothing of importance or interest to say and that no-one would ever listen to me. These same words have stayed with me throughout my life, popping up each time I felt under pressure; right through from when I had to take an exam at school, during my days as a schoolteacher to facilitating an adult session now. I wasn’t consciously aware of the impact of these debilitating words or that they had stayed with me since they were spoken initially. Challenging as this event was, at least now I could release the power that the words have held over me and move on.
Jane Offer
Jane is a Soul Mastery Facilitator, Counsellor, Meditation Facilitator and Psychneuroimmunology Practitioner. Jane is passionate about the empowerment of the individual. She has worked with the holistic approach to life for 50 years, starting in the UK as a teacher and counsellor.
She is the owner at The Purple Dragonfly, and Director of The Oak Tree Organisation Australia, a not for profit training organization where she creates and delivers accredited courses in Personal Growth, Natural Health and Healing, Metaphysics, Spiritual Approach to Empowered Living and Career Related programs.