This is You Why You Should Absolutely Stop Listening to Your Inner Voice
I see it often. A “How to Listen to Your Inner Voice (or Intuition)” article. The first tip is listen to your first feeling. As soon as I see that phrase, one of two things happens. I immediately start to feel anxious and begin obsessing over what my first feeling actually was an what it means or I laugh because for most of us that tip is utter bullshit. You cannot often trust your first feeling. To say that your first feeling is your Inner Voice is not only misleading it can at times be damaging.
Before I continue, if you aren’t sure why listening to your Inner Voice is important in the first place check out 5 Powerful Reasons to Embrace your Inner Voice.
Andy Puddicomb states, “Meditation is not about creating space in the mind. [The mind] is already limitless in nature. It’s about letting go of the clutter that obscures our experience of that space.”
If you are like most people, your mind has a lot of that clutter.
Mental clutter is NOT your Inner Voice, it’s a barrier to it.
If you want to listen to your Inner Voice than you first must know what’s stopping you from hearing it.
