by Rebecca Hartnell

Listen To Yourself

With our western-style, cerebral-centred education here in the UK, many of us have lost touch with our intuition. It’s not that we don’t hear it…… And sometimes our intuition really is ‘shouting’, it is that we have learned to override it. We use our heads, our logic and our thinking, in order to ignore what we are being told by our bodies, our gut, our instincts.

How many times have you given a new friend or colleague the benefit of the doubt, and when they have let you down, found yourself thinking ‘I knew they would do that….’ And asking ‘why didn’t I listen to myself?’….. again. The same applies to the trades person who quotes for a new boiler when you suspect you only need a repair, or the, job that pays so much more, yet may not be a good fit for us culturally….. For the best outcome we do need to start listening to ourselves…..

How can we do this? We need to pause, we need to make a small quiet space in which we can hear our own wisdom. We also need to practise listening to what we hear or feel. Maybe we could be tentative with the new colleague, perhaps we need  get on the Internet and learn about our boiler, getting second or even third opinions. We might need to explore the new job potential with those who know us and with those who don’t but who know the career world, before abandoning a lesser paid position that ‘good fit’ with our personalities and our life style before buying into the idea that a higher wage is the most important metric….,

So what might happen if we made sure heard ourselves and acted accordingly?What might we be freed to make manifest in our worlds and how strong might we become?

“Possible selves and career transition; it’s who you want to be, not what you want to do.” Plimmer and Schmidt 2007


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