Women's Meditation Week #3

The following is an excerpt from the book "Meditations for Women Who Do Too much" by Anne Wilson Schaef.  I thought it might be nice to share one on a weekly basis for discussion or your own private journaling purposes.  Enjoy!

Week #3 - COURAGE

What I am actually saying is that we each need to let out intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.  Shakti Gawain.

One of the most frightening things in the world is to trust our intuition and follow that trusting.  It is hard for us to believe that what the Quakers call our "inner light" is really the way our power greater than ourselves speaks most clearly to us.

When we are one with ourselves and our proces, we are truly one with the process of the universe.  When we are one with ourselves, our lives seem to fall into place effortlesly.  All of us know the feeling of moments of effortless living.  When we have the courage to trust our intuition, life begins to live itself.

My intuition connects me with the voice I need to hear.

I'm a person who is big on intuition and first impressions.  I find that when I question myself or my gut feeling, the outcome does not fair well.  But that has more to do with dealing with people, not life.  As far as life goes, I'm kind of a day by day person.  I try my best to keep structure and like to make lists to help me stay on track, but for the most part, I take what is dealt day by day and go from there.  It's sometimes hard for me to grasp that there is some sort of divine plan for my boring day to day existance.  Even so, I am thankful and I am up for each new day to see where this universal guidance will take me.

I'm also very into listening to my gut instincts (most of the time) and first impressions I find often speak volumes and I can usually spot 'red flags' almost right away and that's the people side of things. As for Life, I'm very much a day to day person anymore. There was a time when I planned things out weeks and months in advance and banked on those very things. However, that all a part of immaturity in the ways of Life in my opinion. Its growing, learning and experiencing Life and realizing that all we're promised is the here and now. We often here "live for the moment and the day" but how often do we really do so? Gets me thinking quite a bit. Sometimes we get bored and stuck in the "Groundhog's Day" syndrome and we must find new and improved activities and such to become involved in. As for universal guidance as you mentioned that is where for me, the Lord and His teachings guide me. Intuition is certainly something not to be ignored.

Thanks for this Lauren ...
Hugs........

Lauren,

I love these posts!

While I do make concrete plans for some things, I have learned I am a happier, less stressed person when I just "wing it"  

I too find I'm very intuitive...(well OK so I didn't see it coming when my first husband said he was leaving....that's a whole other story!)  My impressions of certain people, things are usually right on the money.