Slowing down, taking time for yourself and establishing new habits that will last a lifetime.
Theme - Tuning into Guidance
The focus this week was to tap our inner knowing.
In what ways do you feel more aligned with your higher self?
The idea of sixth sense is something that I have been aware of all my life. I am a great believer in the premise that if something is meant to happen then it will, but that there are some things that are instinctively flagged up in our brains as needing a bit more thought. What we do with the information received depends on how much logic we place on if it should be acted on or not.
There are a lot of times that my sixth sense kicks in and on most occasions, I take heed.
Example: we were due to go to Glasgow to the Christmas markets, out for a meal and then to end the evening seeing a live band at a club. It was all planned and we had been looking forward to it until about an hour before we were due to leave. Then I just didn’t want to go. It had started raining which didn’t help but that was not the only reason, but I couldn’t really explain why I had changed my mind. Anyway, we decided to leave it until tomorrow and go in the afternoon but as there was no band on we would be home at a reasonable time. Chilling-out on a social media site later that evening there the news flash was all about a disaster that was ongoing live from a pub in Glasgow. A helicopter had crashed through the roof of the pub that, if we had gone out we would have been in.
On 29 November 2013, a police helicopter crashed into the Clutha Vaults, a pub on the north bank of the River Clyde in central Glasgow. The aircraft was operated by Bond Air Services for Police Scotland and crewed by a civilian pilot and two police officers. Ten people died as a result of the accident: all three who were on board the helicopter and six on the ground, and another person who died two weeks later.
Other times when I haven’t pushed the issue things have not turned out too well.
One Minute Clearing Practice.
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, take a deep breath in and let it out.
Sink into the chair. Notice how you are feeling, is your breath shallow, are your hands hot.
When you feel centred just ask your higher self to guide you to an area of your home that could use some love and attention for just one minute.
Whatever it is, just allow yourself to be directed towards it.
When you are ready, open your eyes and go there. Attend to whatever it is that is required.
Do it for just one minute.
If you are not directed to anywhere specific do something mundane like dusting for 1 minute.
Repeat every day for one week and notice how much clearing has been achieved
This is now something that I now do regularly and have been surprised at how often it works. So far this week I have managed to do all the things that have been on my mental ‘ToDo’ List around the house. The little things that have been put off until later, but until this week ‘later’ has been a long time in coming. One I now do as the first job of the day, make my bed. I have always done it but at various times during the day but now by doing it as I step out of it I have found that it is not always lurking at the back of my mind until done. As a result of that, and the daily meditation the house is a lot more uncluttered and stays that way.
To deepen the experience, complete these phrases:
- Some of the signals that my body gives me to indicate that I'm on track are:
I seem to instinctively know when something is not right, however I do not always act on that information … often to my cost. The feelings are in themselves nothing I can adequately explain but when they come they are very strong, and I know that I must be on my guard. Sometimes there is nothing I can do but ride it out and on those occasions the outcome is generally less favourable. Work plays a huge part in most lives and it is there that I have witnessed these ‘feeling’ the most. If at all possible I have changed jobs but when that is not the case it is more like awaiting fate and even though I do not know the details of what is to come I always know something untoward is going to happen. In one job that I hated but had high hopes it would improve it became very obvious that the boss wanted me gone, so rather than end up dismissed for something that would mark my cards I gave them the perfect opportunity to sack me for a misdemeanour of the rules. They insisted that communication as to changes in shifts was done through a social media site however, they also banned the use of that site whilst at work, so I ignored the rule and the result was that from immediate effect I was to leave … result. Granted I was lucky enough to be in a position financially to allow that to happen, in earlier years I would have had no choice but to have stuck it out and ride the impending storm.
- The best time of the day for me to tune in and trust my knowing is:
- What I know for sure, and why I know it is:
I suppose it’s a bit like the notion that all children have the ability to see ghosts, communicate with the afterlife or have memories of past life but as they get into adulthood they lose the capability. Now I am not saying that is true, I don’t think any of us know but maybe, just maybe the concept of having a sixth sense about things is akin to that principle. Maybe we will never know.
Going off on a tangent with all this it still surprises me that it is commonly taught to children that human beings have five senses: sight, touch, hearing, tasting and smell, when it is common knowledge that there are far more than that.
- Pleasure and pain
- Movement and proximity
- Sexual drives
- Familiarity, empathy, hatred, trust
- Pressure
- Thirst and hunger
- Electroreception – electric fields (Example: an oppression during a thunderstorm)
- Chronoception – Time
- Distance and direction
- Kinaesthesia, a sense of movement
- Equilibrioception - Balance,
- Acceleration and even gravity
- Thermoception – regulating body temperature (shivering/sweating)
- Proprioception - The ability to know where our body parts are without looking
Even if we do not instantly think of all of these as senses they are still things that we comprehend. They are still things that we sense, often without realising it.
All senses are simply a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.
However, they are not always infallible.
‘Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear.’
(Mahatma Gandhi)