Align Your Soul

Of all the attributes one needs on the spiritual path trust is probably one of the most difficult to develop.  How are we to trust the inner promptings that come to us ? That nudge to go right instead of left, to eat one cookie instead of two, to visit the library when we really want to go the coffee shop.  None of these things seem critical in and of themselves but we have no way of knowing that there was a mugger down the left street who would have harmed us,  that there was a person in the library we needed to meet.  Sometimes the reason is more simple-to teach us to learn to live in a stream of intuitive awareness so when it really matters we will do as we are prompted.

To develop this intuitive sense a healthy dose of common sense is always required, and a strongly developed sense of right and wrong is absolutely necessary.   However, tuning into one’s heart is the greatest guide of all.  Check everything against the promptings of your heart and you will not go far astray.   The heart does not lie.   Make it a practice to listen to your heart.  Hold your hand on your heart and breathe into it.  Practice focusing awareness on your heart.  Our heart is the place of unity while our head is the place of duality.  Both are needed but when we can get out of our head and into the unity of our heart we are guided correctly.  This is the part of us that is connected to our higher self, the part of ourselves that is our teacher and guide, that can see all that we can’t see and that loves us unconditionally.

Like everything else it’s a learning process.  Making mistakes is part of the human experience and is the vehicle by which we learn.   Learning not to be crippled by our mistakes is crucial as this is a form of false ego.  We should welcome them for the teachers they truly are.  Mistakes only become a problem when we keep repeating them without learning.  This leads to being stuck but sometimes it’s part of the process we need to experience.

We are all on a journey to experience what we can in this life.   Knowing this can help us trust that the guidance we tune into right now is the perfect guidance for where we are at this moment on that path.