Trusting Our Inner Wisdom
Caroline Myss makes it crystal clear just how important our seemingly little unconscious or semi-conscious decisions each day can be - and how much they reveal about whether we are still in "tribal consciousness" giving away our energy to the group as we shy away from following our own inner wisdom out of fear of what our spouse or coworker or neighbor will think - or- on the other hand, whether we are comfortable and familiar enough with ourselves to trust our inner wisdom and understand that those who disapprove are saying in the only way they know how that they love us and fear they are losing us. In that case, we can feel compassion for the very people that we might have feared before we truly came to know and trust ourselves.
Her model feels like such a powerful transformational tool to help us in our efforts to live more consciously - and act from our own inner guidance tempered by compassion for those who might not understand our actions - rather than out of fear of how others will react.
I could feel this new understanding acting on a conscious and unconscious level to make a difference in my afternoon.
I've only listened to part one and two. There's more to come.
By the way, listening to Mary Oliver's poem set to music and then going out and actually laying down in the tall grass really helped me to integrate what I had heard.
Caroline Myss on How One's Biography Becomes Biology
