Thought for the Week
If we can take time to observe ourselves and get to know ourselves, that is, how we react to things, what makes us do the things we do, we will begin to understand how we work in this life and how we can make our lives a little better.
In last weeks post, Observe ourselves, get to know ourselves (part 1), we discussed taking a detached view of our emotions so we can get a better understanding of them and how they affect us. We also looked at our memories and how we can change negative ones for something new and more beneficial to us. This week lets look at our mind, intuition and Soul, to see if we can get to know our true selves.
Our mind is a great tool
The next area we want to look at is our mind. That is the area within ourselves which helps run our lives in a logical and systemised manner. Our mind is a great tool and used correctly it can make our lives a lot easier. It helps us by creating:
Systems, which help us get things done.
Opinions, which give us a quick and easy method of reaching a conclusion.
Habits, so we do things almost automatically without thinking.
We also use its logical functions to:
Work out solutions to problems.
Read, write and do mathematical tasks.
Devise methods of doing things.
The mind is excellent for all of these tasks but we have to careful that we don’t let it take over running our lives. This can easily happen if we believe that life is logical and works in a logical or systematic fashion. Life is logical to a certain extent but if we run our lives according to our mind’s logic, habits and opinions we loose our connection to the life force or the Holy Spirit, which really runs our world and our lives.
Listening to our intuition
We have our own freedom to lead our lives in any way we wish but if we can connect with the Life Force we will have an easier and happier existence. How do we do this? By listening to our intuition.
Our intuition is that feeling or urge we get to do something that often doesn’t make logical sense. It can reveal itself as:
A feeling to go in a particular direction or to avoid a certain place.
A hunch about a place, person or event.
An awareness of seemingly random events giving us some wisdom or insight.
Guidance to do or say something ‘illogical’ but which brings some major benefits.
You can sometimes see this working between team mates on a playing field. In a match recently a player got the ball and intuitively passed it behind himself, where he couldn’t see what was going on, but his team mate was there, took the ball and scored.
Our intuition is characterised by a feeling that what it suggests is right for us but often doesn’t make sense in the logical world that we live our physical lives in. We can have difficulty acting on our intuition if our mind is a dominant force in our lives where we require logic and agreement with our opinions before we act on ideas, thoughts and feelings coming from our intuition. If we are a mental person it can take time and practice to begin to trust our intuition.
How do we become more intuitive?
How do we become more intuitive? We need to build up a trust in the ideas and thoughts suggested by our intuition. We have to listen for the ‘still small voice’ deep within ourselves. This is Soul, speaking to us using our intuition as its way of getting through to us. Soul has a much higher viewpoint of our lives than our mind. It can see the whole of our lives now. It’s not confined by time and space, it knows all it needs to now, in this moment. It is in tune with the Life-force or Holy Spirit. This is how it knows what is best for us and the situation around us.
If we look at this from a mental level, it doesn’t make sense, but if we can reach this higher viewpoint we begin to see how beautiful this truth is. Soul is the happy, loving part of ourselves, our true self, and it only has love for us and our world. It communicates with us through our intuition. How do we recognise its messages?
It takes time to re-establish our connection with Soul. We have probably allowed a lot of mental baggage to distract us. If we try and grasp a few small messages first, test them and then begin to build out trust in the messages bit by bit we can get to the point where we get regular clear messages on all sorts of topics as we go about our lives. We might go into a bit more detail on this topic in next weeks post.
In the meantime, watch your mind and enjoy your life.
*Ed Parkinson
If we can take time to observe ourselves and get to know ourselves, that is, how we react to things, what makes us do the things we do, we will begin to understand how we work in this life and how we can make our lives a little better.
In last weeks post, Observe ourselves, get to know ourselves (part 1), we discussed taking a detached view of our emotions so we can get a better understanding of them and how they affect us. We also looked at our memories and how we can change negative ones for something new and more beneficial to us. This week lets look at our mind, intuition and Soul, to see if we can get to know our true selves.
Our mind is a great tool
The next area we want to look at is our mind. That is the area within ourselves which helps run our lives in a logical and systemised manner. Our mind is a great tool and used correctly it can make our lives a lot easier. It helps us by creating:
Systems, which help us get things done.
Opinions, which give us a quick and easy method of reaching a conclusion.
Habits, so we do things almost automatically without thinking.
We also use its logical functions to:
Work out solutions to problems.
Read, write and do mathematical tasks.
Devise methods of doing things.
The mind is excellent for all of these tasks but we have to careful that we don’t let it take over running our lives. This can easily happen if we believe that life is logical and works in a logical or systematic fashion. Life is logical to a certain extent but if we run our lives according to our mind’s logic, habits and opinions we loose our connection to the life force or the Holy Spirit, which really runs our world and our lives.
Listening to our intuition
We have our own freedom to lead our lives in any way we wish but if we can connect with the Life Force we will have an easier and happier existence. How do we do this? By listening to our intuition.
Our intuition is that feeling or urge we get to do something that often doesn’t make logical sense. It can reveal itself as:
A feeling to go in a particular direction or to avoid a certain place.
A hunch about a place, person or event.
An awareness of seemingly random events giving us some wisdom or insight.
Guidance to do or say something ‘illogical’ but which brings some major benefits.
You can sometimes see this working between team mates on a playing field. In a match recently a player got the ball and intuitively passed it behind himself, where he couldn’t see what was going on, but his team mate was there, took the ball and scored.
Our intuition is characterised by a feeling that what it suggests is right for us but often doesn’t make sense in the logical world that we live our physical lives in. We can have difficulty acting on our intuition if our mind is a dominant force in our lives where we require logic and agreement with our opinions before we act on ideas, thoughts and feelings coming from our intuition. If we are a mental person it can take time and practice to begin to trust our intuition.
How do we become more intuitive?
How do we become more intuitive? We need to build up a trust in the ideas and thoughts suggested by our intuition. We have to listen for the ‘still small voice’ deep within ourselves. This is Soul, speaking to us using our intuition as its way of getting through to us. Soul has a much higher viewpoint of our lives than our mind. It can see the whole of our lives now. It’s not confined by time and space, it knows all it needs to now, in this moment. It is in tune with the Life-force or Holy Spirit. This is how it knows what is best for us and the situation around us.
If we look at this from a mental level, it doesn’t make sense, but if we can reach this higher viewpoint we begin to see how beautiful this truth is. Soul is the happy, loving part of ourselves, our true self, and it only has love for us and our world. It communicates with us through our intuition. How do we recognise its messages?
It takes time to re-establish our connection with Soul. We have probably allowed a lot of mental baggage to distract us. If we try and grasp a few small messages first, test them and then begin to build out trust in the messages bit by bit we can get to the point where we get regular clear messages on all sorts of topics as we go about our lives. We might go into a bit more detail on this topic in next weeks post.
In the meantime, watch your mind and enjoy your life.
*Ed Parkinson
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