Words of wisdom

Listen to your inner voice and trust your intuition

As a follow-up to my thoughts about fear I wanna share a story today about how important it is to listen to your inner voice and to trust yourself.

I was sitting at my favourite viewpoint to watch the sunset as I regularly do when I saw this girl who I really like. It's not like I ever spoke to her or but I see her quite often and for some reason she caught my attention. I looked at her and noticed once again the piercing she had- a small ring ring that goes through your nasal septum. A piercing that I've been thinking about getting for quite some time now. Some minutes past, I just looked at her and my thoughts started turning. Suddenly I felt the urge to get up and walk straight to the piercing shop to get that piercing. "It's now or never" screamed my mind. Usually I think things through quite carefully before I do something like that but today I had the feeling that I had been thinking too much and doing too less. So I listend to the strict voice in my head who told me to do that piercing now. I walked into the piercing shop and told the woman at the front desk that I wanted to get a piercing. She immediately told the piercer to prepare everything and gave me a contract to sign. As soon as I held this paper in my hands my thoughts started turning again. Do I really want this? A calm voice inside of me whispered "don't do it- it's a bad idea" but I decided to ignore that voice. The strict voice in my head was stronger and told me very firmly to go through with this and not to act like a coward. So I signed the paper and went with the piercer to another room where she told me to sit down and started explaining the procedure. Everything went too fast for me and I started to get scared. The voice inside of me became louder and begged me not to go through with it. But I shut the voice down and closed my eyes. The piercer prepared everything and then put a kind of clamp into my nose. At that moment my body started to tremble. It wasn't just the voice anymore, it was my whole body who was begging me not to get my nose pierced. I started babbling about something randon and was very nervous. The piercer noticed and said to me:" Do you really want to do this piercing? Are you afraid of the pain or is it something else? Take a walk, think about it and come back when you decided." Thank God! What an angel she was. I walked out of the piercing shop and took a deep breath. Then I asked myself: "Am I just afraid of the pain or is there something else?" The voice inside of me answered quite strong this time and after two more minutes I had made my decision. It was very clear to me now that I didn't need this piercing and I didn't need to go through with it.

I walked back to the shop and said:"I made my decision. I don't want to get this piercing. I am sorry for the effort." The piercer angel told me not to worry and to relax. I took my purse and left the shop. In that moment I could feel how my whole body relaxed and all the tension was released. I walked home with a big smile on my face, happy with the world and happy that I had listend to my inner voice and trusted my intuition.

So please dear reader- never forget: It's always now. Sometimes we set our mind to reach a certain goal or something we think we really need and our ego becomes obsessive about it. But when the moment comes that we realise that we really don't want (and need) to go through with this (whatever it is) it's essential to listen to that inner voice of ours and trust ourself. Our inner voice always tells the truth and our mind, body and soul will thank us for listening to it.

Amen.