Our Internal guidance system

The last 6 months have felt like I've been in some spiritual "cast" of an injury that I've had for 2 years. I am using the cast as a metaphor for the "coming into myself deeply" stage of healing and personal development that required a good amount of withdrawal for healthy self preservation sake. It's fair to say I can use the snake shedding it's skin metaphor as well. It was a deeply sensitive and unstable time that required me to reflect a lot and put all my energy into healing and creative endeavors to prepare for an immense change and stepping into a new phase of my life, leaving a 2 year cycle or theme of thoughts, ideas, feelings, beliefs, and behaviours behind. I completely focused on looking at these deep layers of my conditioning that required serious attention and healing. As of the last month it's felt like that cast has been removed and I've been slowly rehabbing myself (mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually) into new directions, movement patterns, ideas and behaviors that align me with this clearer version of myself. It's been feeling pretty raw but I'm feeling solid about it aside all the external challenges that I've had to meet that are really trying to shake that foundation. It feels good to look back at where I was last fall and see the differences and growth especially in my writing. It makes me think about the importance of daily journalling which allows me to break my unhealthy mental loops through its expression. It's been the most important part of creating my goals as it's through this type of creative self expression, for myself, that allows me to bring the buds of my truth to the surface. It enables me connect to my internal guidance system that helps me create these goals, track the progress and hold myself accountable.

Each of us receive messages from our internal guidance system that manifest in many different ways. It's very important to be able to tune into this part of us so we are able to make the right choices for ourselves to survive and thrive. With the constant giving into uncontrolled desires and overstimulation of technology and it's degenerate manifestations, it truly drowns out that voice.

Without this connection to self you can see yourself/others making the same mistakes over and over again and getting caught up in the victim narrative and unconscious nihilistic behaviours, thoughts & feelings- a slave to your toxic subconscious patterning.

To break these loops, we must tune into it through self-awareness tools like journaling, meditation, fasting, prayer, exercise, active visualization, sensory deprivation, self-discipline/sacrifice, psychedelics etc. There are many ways to do this and it's unique to the individual. It is something you have to learn from and for yourself. Nothing external will teach you the way of your spirit, mind and body. No guru, no retreat, no diet, no workshop will take you there. Those things may only be at most, useful in experimentation in helping you see things differently out of the context of your own mind. But the answer is that the truth was always and will always be there. This intelligence is within us all and I believe one of the mysteries of life lies in clear communication with this knowing.

Understanding this is vital for our progress, living in our potential and ultimate goal of living deeply meaningful and purposeful lives. Not just for us as individuals but for everyone connected to us as well.

What are the tools you use to connect to your internal guidance system? What helps you stay attuned to you goals? What internal process helps you stay accountable? What are the signs in which you know you are aligned with these systems?