The answers within are usually right !

Hello, beautiful Souls! My message today is about learning from within, mostly because going outside to ask for advice is exhausting.

Intuition is our self-help manual when our brain needs time out.

Let’s be honest: We constantly think we have the answers, yet we absolutely need a sounding board. It’s like standing in front of the fridge at 11 PM—you know what you want, but you just need a friend standing next to you to confirm, "Yes, that block of cheese is indeed dinner." We want that comfy confirmation that our decisions are the right ones. Good mentors facilitate us to see in them what is helping us help to help ourselves!

The gut feeling or intuitive knowing particularly applies to our physical well-being. I have on more than one occasion, heard from others and felt myself that I know my body best. Of course we have to refer to our medical resources to confirm our own instincts, however mostly we find we work out our ailment or pain ourselves as it’s coming from within. It is often also metaphysical too.

Our deep, earth-shattering thoughts are determined in our mind... but they usually start the moment we stick a toe outside our comfort zone. These thoughts are the caffeine shot (the catalyst) of our emotions, and our emotions inevitably enable some kind of questionable behavior (like buying that block of cheese! ).

When we seek the support of others—a mentor, a guru, or that very wise person at the coffee shop—we have to take into account that they are operating on their map, not yours. You are the main character, the veteran, and the chief executive of your life! You have to treat your own experiences as a solid source of growth and a seriously valuable lesson. You know yourself best! (If you don't, you’ve got a bigger problem than I can solve in this post.)

To level up, we have to stop outsourcing the inquiry and ask ourselves the right, slightly annoying questions to find the answers from within. What brilliant, blindingly obvious solution are we currently missing that could change our outcomes?

We need to each find our own glorious, slightly muddy path and possibly a winding road to follow our own, crayon-marked map of what we are wanting to achieve.

When we can recognize that every human being has an individual, spectacularly complex thought process, it’s a huge relief. It means when they give you advice, you can nod, smile, and think, "Thank you for that lovely perspective, I'm going to use the perspective of the person who has to live with my decisions—me."

Find what resonates with you, what serves you and your situation best, and go with your inner voice. It’s the voice that has never once told you to buy a lemon-yellow suit. More often than not, if we permit ourselves the opportunity to look at things with an open mind and a slightly skeptical, different perspective, we will receive an intuitive reply

The knowledge and the solutions we are seeking are always waiting for us within, quietly judging our cheese-for-dinner habits.