TURN ON YOUR INNER GUIDANCE SYSTEM

Over the past year, I've come to realise that guidance is everywhere and it's there for usalways.

It comes in a myriad of forms and our job on the journey to becoming empowered in this lifetime, is to practice and develop the art of listening, because guidance that may be life changingly powerful, could also be so subtle it could be missed if we're not open to it.

We may receive messages fromangels, guides or ancestors, through tarot or oracle card readings, through meditation or prayer or possibly downloads we receive through our varied, personal, spiritual growth and healing practices.

We may receive guidance from "random" interactions with people we meet (with a little faith we may see that these interactions are not random at all and more like highly intelligent interactions with sacred contracts that convey messages and teachings on levels we may never fully understand.

We are being guided all the time.

The big question is... Are we open to receiving the messages and do we have the power to listen, to discern, to accept and respond to the intuitive guidance that comes our way?

I don't think it's an understatement to say that most of us are actually afraid of being empowered because owning our power means having deep faith, being able to trust and surrender and not tiptoe around what we know we need to do (even if it feels uncomfortable, difficult or even terrifying at times)

It may be just a brief, intuitive feeling that is guiding us towards or away from something and we choose to ignore it.

"Oh no, I don't like that guidance... I'm not going to listen to that... I don't want to do that... I think I'll do this instead... This is what I want to do... This is what I'd prefer to do... This is what I really need... This'll be easier."

Control. Control. Control.

Our lower mind and ego loves to try and control our life.

When we shut down the guidance, we shut down our growth and when we shut down our growth we're just going to continue getting the messages (maybe in different forms, from different places or from different people) over and over, until we learn the symbolic lessons that are meant for us to learn.

However, as we open to the guidance around us and commit to ourselves, it becomes easier to hear, trust and accept and we start to develop the courage

and power to respond without fear of what may happen if we listen deeply.

To be truly empowered, we must surrender control and connect to forces that are greater than ourselves. We must learn how to listen and act from a place of deep inner knowing.

We don't always know what the universe has in store for us and we're not meant to. It's part of the highly intelligent process of life.

A simple and profound way to open up to guidance is to commit to a daily meditation ritual.

Just starting with a few minutes a day to get quiet, tune in and simply listen, will help the guidance (and life) flow with more grace.

You can meditate anywhere, anytime and for as long as you like (maybe just not behind the wheel) and keep it super simple so you can commit to it and then you can build on it.

Just find a place where you can get still and quiet, remove yourself from the distractions of life and start taking slow deep breathes in and out.

Getting present as you focus on your breath.

With each breath in you expand with inspiration.

With each breath out you release the past as you open up to the limitless possibilities of the future.

Maya Morris