I’m feeling a bit out of integrity this morning. With myself.

Yesterday I was trolling my Google feed reader of all my blog subscriptions, and left a comment on Liz’s successful-blog.

She wrote an interesting post,

“5 Ways to Help You Find Out Who You Are”.

Here’s one of her points:

# Pay attention to your inner truth — you have the intuitive detail.
You are the sum total of everything you have ever done, ever experienced, ever dreamed or thought. Stop to reflect on what your heart says is so about you. Sometimes the voices around us are loud and the negative noises are many. In your heart you know what you are really about. We all do. Hearts speak the truth if we quiet ourselves to listen without letting other voices in.

Yes! Slowing down and listening to our inner quiet heart is important, and of course our heart knows what is best for our lives.

The challenge is not listening to those negative voices that are flittering about in our heads. That’s the monkey mind voices. You know the ones: those voices that scream to us that we ’should have’ or ‘could have’. It’s the voice that says we are too old or too fat or too ugly to have what we want.

Those voices are never our heart speaking, regardless of how convincing it may sound in our head to us. And really, that’s the key. The voices are in our head, not in our hearts, and when we drop down, we can hear what we need to hear, or feel, or sense what our next step is.

But yesterday, I was rushed, trying to get a lot done, not dropping into my heart and I left this comment on her post:

I’ve spent years learning to listen to my heart and inner voice. it’s not always easy to hear it! Sometimes I can’t tell the difference between ‘the guilt’, ‘the should’ and ‘the intuition.’

The truth is, I can tell the difference. Sometimes I’m just to scared, rushed or lazy to stop and listen.
Yes lazy. It can be easier to stay on the treadmill. Ignore the signs. Just not pay attention.

We all have busy lives. I don’t need to tell you guys about trying to fit it all in. Sometimes I just let that ol treadmil go faster and faster and I forget to slow down. Listen.

Thanks to Adam (Monk at Work) who reminded me yesterday when I was frustrated:

He responded to my comment:

Hi Michelle — if I may be so bold as to offer a tidbit I’ve found in my exploration of intuition…

If you’re ever stuck “between ‘the guilt’, ‘the should’ and ‘the intuition’” again, try tuning into your heart; the level of your knowing that’s underneath all the personality-level chatter. There you’ll find that your heart is either constricted by what you’re listening to, or expanded.

Your personality can be doing all kinds of somersaults, but your heart will tell you in a flash where the voice you’re listening to is coming from… doubt/fear (constricted) or truth/love (expanded).

It takes time, sometimes, to wade through the reactions that our selves are having, but the heart always knows… good luck!

So true. Thanks to Liz for writing the post, and to Adam for jolting me out of my frenzy yesterday.

Today I’ve got a busy day. Kid stuff, Mom stuff, business stuff, you know. Life.

Today I promise to slow down. Take it all one step at a time. Stay in the present.

Listen.