I believe the key to healing our societal and ecological issues is for individuals to foster a healthy relationship with their inner world valuing and developing emotional intelligence, listening to and validating feelings and intuitions and acting wholistically from that internally connected place. I learned that my emotions when acknowledged and released in a healthy way, freed up this path of internal communication and connected me to my internal compass. My logical mind was now in healthy and supportive partnership with my intuitive knowing. Quietening my busy and sometimes anxious mind and listening for inspiration became my mode of operating. I say I was ‘led’ as I began to see a wisdom at play that inspired my choices with unexpected outcomes far superior to anything I could have or would have created through my limited understanding or logic alone. The process continues to lead me toward a life that is more balanced, fulfilled and sustainable. It was organic and visceral, I began to feel discomfort in my solar plexus if I reached to buy something in plastic packaging. I naturally moved toward connection to community, in a regional area rather than a city, connecting to the earth through regular time in nature and these both led to a deeper felt sense of spiritual connection, a direct experience of being connected to an intelligence greater than my own.Īn unexpected outcome was that I became more conscious of the way I, and we humans collectively, are impacting the health of the planet and began modifying my consumer choices to reduce my consumption of resources. David Whyte says, “that the price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears, that the price of our passion and commitment involves the shattering of deep personal illusions of immunity and safety.” I learned that life can be a dance between receiving and acting.Ī brief synopsis of what happened for me personally as I took one intuitive, committed step at a time, was every aspect of my life changed and I continue to be led to more authenticity, creativity and connection. I chose to, as Susan Jeffers advises in her book of the same name, “feel the fear and do it anyway”. It required an act of faith to listen and then act, no matter what. I quickly learned that listening to my feelings and acting on my intuition meant embracing uncertainty, letting go of perceived control whilst acknowledging but not catering to my fears. I made a decision over 25 years ago to not only listen but to act on the knowing I receive. When I ask for guidance or clarity about my current circumstances or challenges the answers I hear sometimes surprise me and always feels supportive. It shines a light on my circumstances when I access it by quietening my mind, asking a question and then listening and by that I mean being in a receptive state. Whilst sitting quietly in nature one day asking for clarity, I was guided to ‘listen to the whispers’, the quiet, wise voice inside us all that is connected to the source of all things. ![]() ‘Listening to the Whispers’ is a phrase that came to me many years ago, when I was writing about how to come back into balance and wellness both personally and planetarily as part of a Masters degree in Social Ecology, having recently left a corporate career that felt unhealthy, unsatisfying, and unsustainable.
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