Your Inner Voice

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Your Inner Voice

by Dr. Rita Louise, N.D.

Words are expressed thoughts, and they carry the message of our

intentions with them. Our external speech can be thought of as a

reflection or external manifestation of our inner programming. The words

we use can tell us a lot about how or what we think. Words are either

charged with the positive energy of love, which helps us expand, or they

are charged with the energy of fear, which causes us to shrink away from

who we truly are.

Our words have power, and our speech has the power to set the energy or

the directions we choose in our lives. If we say good and positive

things, good and positive things (experiences) happen to us. These words

give us the opportunity to experience life from a positive or optimistic

point of view. If, on the other hand, we come from negativity and say

negative things, accordingly, negative things happen to us or we end up

seeing life as one big problem or disappointment.

While we are all familiar with our external speech or voice, we also have

another voice that we work with and interact with daily. This is our

" inner voice. " At first, you may think " what inner voice? " When you come

right down to it, however, we are all familiar with our inner voices. Our

inner voice is that small utterance that comes from deep within us, whose

job it is to provide us with guidance. This is a different kind of

communication than what comes from our normal waking conscious mind,

which I call our analyzer. When our analyzer is talking, the

communication we receive tends to seem more like a nonstop conversation

that goes on inside of our heads all day and sometimes well into the

night.

It is through the mechanism of our inner voice that " Spirit " communicates

with us. This can be likened to the images portrayed on television of a

little white angel standing on one side of our heads telling us the

" right " thing to do, while our brain or analyzer stands on the other side

(the little devil character), telling us what we " should " do, regardless

of integrity or merit. Our inner voice can be thought of as our

conscience, poking and prodding us into action or inaction as the case

may be.

How many times has your inner voice told you to do something, you ignored

its promptings, and you found out it was a big mistake? I'll bet, in that

moment, you said to yourself, " I should have listened to myself. " This is

a case of you not paying attention to the guidance provided to you by

your inner voice.

Your inner voice is there to help guide you along in life. Sometimes the

promptings of our inner voices are subtle, reminding us to pay a bill or

call a friend. Other times, our inner voices can be more insistent; it

may seem nagging, reminding us over and over of some unfinished business

for perhaps days, weeks or even years.

Many people confuse thoughts or passing emotions for the information they

receive from their inner voice. In fact, many of us mistake information

provided by our brains, or analyzers, for the inner promptings of Spirit.

But if you quiet your mind, you can easily tap into this source of

information. This can be accomplished through meditation, quiet

contemplation, exercise, art, dance and even music. Each of these

activities helps to turn off the analyzer, allowing us to commune with

our higher selves, our spirits or the universe.

If these techniques aren't working for you, here is a good rule of thumb

to follow. If your inner voice, those inner promptings that urge each of

us into action, persists for more than a week, (you find the same

thoughts and feelings coming back to you over and over again) then know

that this is your inner voice looking for expression. Trust the

information you are receiving, and use it to guide you into action.

Our inner voice also works on another basic principal: if you ask

yourself a question, you will always receive an answer. So if you ask,

" What should I do now? " you will always be prompted as to your next step.

At times you may receive a whole lecture as to what you could or should

be doing. Our inner self always provides us with information that is for

our highest good, even if the tasks it requires of us are hard. It will

always lead us on the right path, but it cannot compel us to follow. We

were all given something called free will. It is our power to choose what

we want for ourselves. Bottom line, we can choose to follow Spirit, or we

can choose to take a different path.

When you listen to the promptings of Spirit, life becomes much smoother.

Things that may have been a problem or issue in the past seem to be

miraculously avoided, and life is good. When you choose to not listen to

Spirit, it is as if you are taking your life into your own hands. Spirit

will poke you and prod you, it will even nag at you with the things you

should be doing.

The more you don't listen or choose to not pay attention, the further and

further you are moving from your center and your true path. Your inner

self starts to become unbalanced. The more unbalanced you become, the

stronger or louder the promptings become. Obstacles or tests that are put

in our paths increase in intensity. Finally, the last straw is placed

upon the camel's back. It is as if the universe smacks us up the side of

the head with a 2 x 4, with an index card pinned to the end of it that

reads " Are you ready to listen now? "

Listening to Spirit, your higher self or the universe is all about

trust...trusting that what you are being told or led to do is for your

highest good. Trust is a challenge for many of us to master. Working with

the promptings of our inner voice makes us acknowledge that we are not

necessarily in control. In fact, it forces us to give the steering wheel

of our lives over to someone else. It is hard for us to give up control

of our lives. But once you choose to follow Spirit by trusting and

surrendering control, you will see miraculous changes happening in your

life almost immediately.

Rita Louise, N.D., of Body, Mind & SoulHealer, helps people rediscover

their wholeness on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. Dr. Louise

is a Naturopath, Medical Intuitive, lecturer and teacher. She is also the

author of the newly released book entitled " The Power Within. " Visit her

website at http://www.soulhealer.com.

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