Who is Driving the Bus?
Are you dragged along by your fear or are you leading with all the best of your creativity, passion and curiosity? Do you know that inner voice? It starts out as a nudge in your gut, or a twang in your heart, some wordless voice whispers to you and you are guided if you listen.
This is the eternal, inextinguishable part of yourself that is endlessly loving you, leading you towards the fullest expression of your unique purpose in this life. Some call it the, “Higher Self” or “Higher Consciousness”. In spiritual traditions it is thought of as the god within. This is where your intuition springs from. This is who you are and your thoughts and words and deeds arise from this place of Knowing.
When this is NOT the voice in your head, who is speaking and deciding? Who is driving the bus? Often it is a voice of fear and hesitation, an overly critical voice that stops you at every turn. This inner critic has a nasty way of taking a tiny piece of truth and twisting it until it becomes a loud argument against transformation and pursuit of your dreams.
I heard a great story by author, Elizabeth Gilbert, at the 2015 Women and Power Retreat at Omega Institute. The take away was that fear has a purpose in keeping us safe, that it is not possible to completely rid ourselves of fear, nor is that wise. Instead, she gave a metaphor of fear as a passenger in the road trip of life. “Fear is NOT allowed to hold the map, and it is certainly NEVER allowed to drive the mini-van!”
If you want to live life boldly and courageously, if you strive for a life of purpose, it starts with this inner connection or alignment. The degree to which you listen to, connect with, and create from a place of alignment, directly determines the satisfaction you feel in your life. When you are not in conflict, you exist in a state of Flow, a place of allowing. Conflict arises within when this sacred contract you have with yourself is being squashed. Where in your life are your values not being honored and what will you do to remedy that?
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?Melissa Eppard is a Life Coach from the Hudson Valley of New York. She uses her gentle and grounded intuitive nature, along with a good dose of directness and humor. With powerful questions, body centered improvisational games and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique “tapping”) in her tool kit, Melissa will help you shift where you feel stuck and bring new focus and energy into your life. As a young breast cancer survivor and a mom with a special needs son, she has first-hand experience on what it takes to pursue your dreams in the face of adversity.
Melissa is a writer who blogged intimately about her experience of healing from breast cancer. You can view her writing at Melissashealinghope.com. She lives with her young son and talented musician husband and derives inspiration and energy from various spiritual wisdom traditions, nature, poetry, art, music and her family.