Intuitive Wisdom

Did you know that you have access to a profound source of wisdom, guidance that is tailored to your specific needs and makeup?

Yes, you do. Every human being is wired with intuitive wisdom, guidance that comes from our emotions, our physical responses to stimuli, from thoughts and ideas which seem to appear out of nowhere and disappear just about as quickly. Yet, these sources of information are ever-present and intended to support our choices and actions in this life.

What is often missing, though, is the knowledge of how to access this hardwired wisdom and the willingness to slow down long enough to hear it. Today, consider adding a practice of listening to your intuition. Consider trading in an activity such as:

  • 10 minutes of reading others’ wisdom
  • 10 minutes of TV
  • 10 minutes of complaining or gossip
  • 10 minutes eating what your body doesn’t need

for 10 minutes of sitting still, breathing, listening to your body.

Can you do this?
Will you?

Are You Present?

I am just back from guiding a yoga class with the intention of being fully present to what showed up in and around me, an intention of being in the experience, not doing it. Yet, it took 17 minutes (of 30) to realize that I had not made the clock available to my eyes.

While you could suggest that if I was fully present and in the flow, I would just know when our time was up…

True perhaps. But the point for now is this:

Are you DOING tasks, checking them off the list?
Or are you BEING PRESENT to the moments, fully engaged?

When I am fully PRESENT, I am aware, alive, centered. Life – and the activities I participate in – flow with ease. When I am DOING the tasks on the list, there is often little satisfaction, pause, awareness of impact.

Take a minute. Or take five deep breaths. Or close your eyes and turn within. Notice the you that has been DOING.

What are you present to?
What presence will you bring to the next task?