Your Inner Guidance System

All babies are born with an inner guidance system. This system tells us exactly the right thing to do at all times. However, as we grow up, we are taught by our parents, friends, relatives, teachers, ministers, or other well-meaning people, that we should not trust our inner guidance system. We are taught that we should not do what we want to do when we want to do it, and that we have to give up what we want to what others want. All this leads us away from our own inner wisdom. As adults, you can regain your sense of inner guidance and bypass all the unnecessary programming that you have received from parents and other caregivers earlier in your life.

You can tell which way your guidance system is directing you through your emotions. When you are feeling love, acceptance, joy, peace, satisfaction, kindness, compassion, or any positive feeling emotion, you are in alignment with your inner being, with who you truly are, and you are going in the right direction. When you are feeling sad, unhappy, unfulfilled, angry, hateful, fearful, guilty, argumentative or any negative feeling emotion, you are at that moment holding a thought or belief, or acting in a way that is not in alignment with your inner being, and you are acting in a way or believing something that is not right for you. You can be sure you are on the wrong path. Also, any time you make a value judgment about another person's behavior, you are on the wrong path. How do you know? How does thinking about that person's behavior make you feel? In most cases, when you think about the behavior of another person, and you don't like or agree with that behavior, what emotions are you feeling? Do you feel good? Are you feeling love, acceptance, joy, satisfaction, or kindness? You couldn't be, because then you would not judge their behavior or criticize them. It's impossible to hold those positive emotions in your heart and judge or criticize at the same time. Which means, you are feeling negative emotions while judging or criticizing, showing you are on the wrong path.

Babies in particular, when they are born, know exactly what they want and need, and they let you know it loudly. As parents, we need to respect the baby's inner wisdom. It knows when it is hungry and needs to be fed, it knows when it wants emotional support and needs to be held. In short, it knows when it feels right and when it doesn't. It can't explain WHY but it knows. A good parent will start out it's child's life respecting this inner feeling of rightness that the baby has, and doing everything they can to nurture this sense of inner wisdom.

Unfortunately, this doesn't last long as parents feel it is their job to mold their child's behavior and force them to become grounded in what is considered socially acceptable behavior, but which starts a lifelong pattern of teaching the individual to deny their true feelings and behave the way other people want them to, even if it's not right for them. This is where most of the neurosis that adults experience has it's root. I'm not saying you cannot teach your child to be kind, considerate, well-mannered, unselfish and loving, but it must be done carefully and with respect for the child's inner guidance and recognizing that the child really does know what's best for them, and we must listen.

As an adult, don't you wish people listened to you more? Don't you wish people respected what you really want? Aren't there times you do things you really don't want to do, just so you won't rock the boat, just because other people or groups have told you that you should? And you buy into this and do it, just because you don't feel you have a right to decide for yourself how you will live or what ideas and beliefs you will or will not accept, or because it's too uncomfortable for you to stand up for yourself. You've bought into the idea that authority figures have the right to tell you what to do. It's easiest to learn to respect yourself if you start from childhood, and are respected from the very beginning. You certainly can learn to do it after you become an adult, but it is so much easier, so much more humane, to rear a child with unconditional love and respect from the start.

At Inspiration Pointe, we want you to love and respect yourself and your own needs. We want you to feel free to embrace that which makes you joyful, and take responsibility for your own life and whether or not it's going the way you want. You can have the life of your dreams, and we'd like to be there with you to provide support as you learn how.

If you'd like to learn to live a life of unconditional love and respect for yourself and everyone else in your life, follow your emotional guidance system and connect with your inner wisdom, we'd love to help you with that.

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