The people inside your head.
Posted on March 02, 2012 by Harlene Weijs, One of Thousands of Career Coaches on Noomii.
Perspective, choice and self-talk - the voices inside your head are real and one of them is your higher self!
This morning was talking to my best friend. We were reading old emails from a few years ago when we were in very different places in our lives living with big questions about who we are and what we wanted out of life. Our communication to each other was often framed as though we were speaking out loud to our own hearts and as I read page after page of the personal struggles of that time, some key phrases stuck out. And then the most amazing thing happened – I realized was that the answers I was looking for at the time were all there………………IN THE EMAILS!
It was as if I was reading various perspectives on my life at the time from different people living inside of me. I was seeing how I unconsciously gave voice to them all: the lover, the empowered independent, the mother, the victim, the visionary, the girlfriend, the daughter, the inner child, the artist, the fool, the higher self…
In deep inquiry, I naturally called upon and gave voice to my multiple selves.
Encoded in that email was my inner wisdom trying to surface. I discovered that I already knew what I wanted at the time. Not the logistical stuff, but the feeling and the vision for my life was already very real inside of me. All I had to do was say YES! to what was alive inside me trying to grow, and bring it forth. Eventually I did say yes, but in the moments of trying to figure-it-all-out I remember feeling limited by the options in my life. I was conscious of only a few realities that existed in my mind and reading those emails was like seeing a schizophrenic mind battle between all of my multiple selves, all of whom wanted to lead the next phase of my life. But the reality of who I wanted to be when closed my eyes… that I always knew and as evidence to it’s power (conscious or not) I am now in the vision I had for myself two years ago, with a few more grey hairs.
All this has got me thinking about this law of attraction business and about the choices we “think” we have and the power we think we have to create the reality we want. I don’t believe in rules for attracting what you want. Naturally, I think your heart knows and the best thing you can do, is get to know your own heart and listen intently.
What if your multiples selves are so loud, they crowd and cloud your judgment? What can you do? In coaching, there is a way to build awareness of these different aspects of self. Once you meet and greet the crowd in your head, you can learn to pay close attention to who’s speaking and see all the perspectives that are living inside you. Soon enough, you’ll be able to kick out the ones taking up too much headspace and work with the ones that are your allies!
From which perspective are you living?
Who’s speaking on behalf of your heart?
When’s the last time you gave voice to your higher self?__
