The journey of awakening is one where we come home to ourselves again.
That also means we learn to trust ourselves and our inner voice over the voices of other people and the world.
Most of us have been guided away from that inner voice.
We have been guided away from our natural guidance system and learned to trust ideas, people, and systems outside ourselves over our inner guidance.
But by working on our inner life, we can remove what is in the way of our inner guidance. We can take back our energy to ourselves and learn to trust our inner voice again.
Trust your true self, not the ego
However, before we can trust ourselves and our emotions, we need to do some inner work.
Because it is our true self we can trust. Not our conditioned self, our ego.
The ego is a product of our culture, family, experiences, and ages of human conditioning, and that identity is not to be trusted. It will do all it can to keep us in the old and familiar, sometimes even in patterns that are harmful to ourselves and others.
We need to become aware of and stop those patterns to free ourselves so that we can be who we are and hear and trust our inner guidance again.
The inner work
If we want to hear our inner voice, we need to remove what is in the way of it – the old patterns that are part of the ego.
It takes tremendous courage, persistence, and willingness to stay with what is happening inside us – to look at it and to refuse to go into the old reactions, thoughts, and behaviors that are part of the ego.
The awakening can be very turbulent because we must go against what we have learned and against what our bodies and nervous systems may be screaming at us to do.
But when we can stay with what we are experiencing instead of going along with it or becoming it, we are beginning to break with the old patterns.
Then, we can also go deeper and look at the deeper reasons behind what we are experiencing – the reasons why we think, feel, and act the ways we do.
When we find those causes and reasons we go to the root of the problem, the places inside where it all started.
And that is where we become free.
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