Love, inner peace and the life you want
GUT FEELING, INNER STRENGTH AND POSITIVE POWER OF INFLUENCE
BEING IN CONTACT WITH YOURSELF
We all know that when we are in contact with ourselves, listen to our gut feeling, look with our heart, use knowledge and common sense, use our intuition as guide to do what is best for ourselves and the totality, we have the best possibilities to make the right choices.
Some time ago I came across an article in Illustrated Science. This article explains that our intestines contains brain cells. The brain has developed from the intestines and not the opposite way. The article
continued to explain that’s one of the reasons why the gut feeling is so important. Our guts are actually informed about the factual condition due to the brain cells. In any case our guts are a sensitive area. It is very easy for us to store (push down) feelings which we have problems handling.
My own experience is that the best way to avoid misjudgment due to too much fear, anxiety, confusion and panic, is to stay in touch with yourself, your inner core and your soul. Through the contact with myself I can get access to my inner calmness and strength. A healthy balance against the chaotic and confusing situations, which we very often end up in!
Very often we place our center in the upper part of our stomach or under our chest. It does not matter whether we call this our personality, our inner child, the inner core or something different. The most important thing is that we feel we are in contact with ourselves, and not the name we use for it.
We all recognize the "truth" when we listen to it. Just imagine the special feeling you get when "know" that something is right. You do not have any doubts at all. Even if everybody else around you are in doubt, you know inside your self that you are doing the right thing. The truth is always in harmony with our gut feeling. Our heart and intuition confirm it.
When we stand up with our legs solidly placed on the ground, balancing the body physically, we are not only standing up evenly from a physiological point of view, but also psychologically. Thus, we have a natural portal to our strength. Just try to remember a somewhat difficult situation where you were sure of yourself and feeling strong. I am sure you were standing straight at that moment. The body posture is a very important factor. Yesss!
When you are in contact with the strength of your gut feeling and you are standing firmly, you are also more grounded. There is a clear line/contact/feeling from your gut feeling and being grounded to the real world. Have you ever seen that a person who mentally flies over water or is off with the fairies is firmly grounded? I have never seen that.
PS: I’m not talking about the genuine pleasure and joyful high where we are all allowed to take off and jump around in pure happiness.
BEING IN CONTACT WITH OTHERS
Have you noticed that when you are in contact with your gut feeling it is also to easier to discover whether the person you talk to is also in contact with her or his gut feeling? Or is there a feeling, or an inner strength which you feel or sense that the other person lacks or is only partly in contact with?
Children are good at this. Some times they are better than adults in looking through or discovering these things. They are still sensitive and able to listen seriously to their feelings (they collect information from their feelings). We, on the other hand, are very easily impressed by smooth words, promises and a nice personality, while this person really is a con artist. Can you imagine anyone more persuading and credible than an embezzler? They have two faces and can trick all of us during an unguarded moment.
Most of us are good and we would like to believe only the best about others. It is both ludicrous and deeply shocking when we hear that "the truth" about something or someone is quite the opposite of what we imagined. Watching this on TV or in a movie is one thing, but in our every day life it’s quite another! Most of us do not want to think evil about other people.
The solution is to not to become over skeptical, filled with fear and suspicion. That will only make matters worse. The solution is the same as before. Contact your gut feeling, your intuition and all the other channels you possess to collect and assess the information you receive.
THINKING WITH OUR HEART
The path to the higher and spiritual part of us, the part which has the overview and can assess everything from a higher perspective, goes through our heart. It is impossible to be in contact with the spiritual and higher parts of ourselves, without at the same time being in contact with our hearts and love. This part in us can also see the totality. My higher self can put my own short term and selfish requirements to the side if I realise that this is the best for the totality. In other words: When I think and see with my heart I also make the choice from love.
Therefore, the sentence; "Follow your heart", is not at all stupid. It contains a lot, also the totality.
What is best for totality and for all of us will normally be the best for me too. If I act to the best for all of us, it will normally give a better result, for me too, both in the short and long-term perspective. Good cooperation gives strength and results (1+1=3).
Values, ethics and morals, both privately and in business, are deliberate choices. When I deliberately decide not to get rich at the cost of others or the society, it is an active choice. Unfortunately, the negative some times goes more easily than the positive. Positive action often demands active choices or a decision. When we leave matters to their own forces we normally know what will happen. It can be very hard to pull yourself together. Sometimes you just have to work a little bit to achieve things.
However, do not forget the love of yourself. If we cannot look after ourselves and create some limits, then our kindness may be destructive instead. REMEMBER! You are also a part of the TOTALITY.
The clue is balance. When the good feeling of inner quiet, peace, love, community and joy fills us, we know we have done the right thing.