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Coming Home  

By Susan McNeal Velasquez
By Susan McNeal Velasquez

Thanksgiving. Slowing down. Letting down. Taking time off. Does the thought disturb you? You are not alone.

We live in a culture that is obsessed with image, speed and change. We are driven, goal oriented and striving for perfection.

Our intellect identifies the goal and our will tries to force our lives into the correct shape. Too often, we use our will power as a hammer to beat our lives into proper submission.

We all do it. We want to achieve and succeed. We assess our progress. We compare our yesterday to our results today. We worry about how we will stand up to yet another day of expectations on our time, our energy and our resources.

When our intellect is in the driver’s seat, our road trip is preplanned. Our intellect maps out the quickest way to get to our destination. It charts the expected arrival time, straps our emotional range into a sturdy and inflexible seat belt and only allows room for “necessity stops” for the basic needs to be addressed. It demands eat and run meals that will keep the body functioning, while the sensuous soul wilts under the monotony of the packaged, preplanned life.

There is another option. Maybe your intellect is tired of having to be the designated driver. What would happen if you allowed your intellect to take a break from always being the responsible one?

The most common fear that arises is that your life will unravel and sink into chaos. You think you must maintain a tight hold on the direction you are going or everything will stop. The house of cards will begin to tumble. You will be left buried under the rubble of a collapsed life.

Your intellect is a superb problem solver. Intellect uses comparison as its main way of seeing. Therefore, intellect runs on either/or thinking. That includes making distinctions between good and bad, right and wrong, and better than, less than. These ways of organizing our thoughts are helpful but limited. Our intellect stays rigidly locked into using will power because it is all that it knows.

Imagine that today is the day that your intellect falls in love. He didn’t expect it. It came without warning because he is usually moving so fast that he only sees and hears his own plans. This is an inner voice he has never listened to and he can hardly breathe with the surge of passionate energy that has been awakened. His new love is named Intuition.

She has a clear ring to her voice. There is nothing about her message that is predictable or rehearsed. She opens the doors that flood intellect with curiosity, high-minded humor and a sense of endless possibilities. She communicates in pictures, not words.

Intellect is the wordsmith but is content to receive and accept her unique ways of seeing. His words wrap around her pictures to more fully integrate them into clues for a new level of enjoyment in the present.  Together, they are committed to bringing their love into your life. Give your Intellect permission to abandon his predetermined plan for your life. This will allow you to entertain a new way of approaching your day.

Today, intend to find and follow your own unique rhythm, timing and tempo. Practice a new art of kind attention to you and your needs. Open to the pictures that your intuition offers you. Open up to new ways of experiencing your life. Let your stifled emotions out of the strait jacket of locked up, unexpressed and unexplored creative expression. Abandon the starvation diet of numbing tasks that yield no softness, safety or serenity.

Rest. Renew. Rejuvenate. Let yourself down. Down, down, down, into the transforming and life-giving intent to surrender your endless lusting after future outcomes, in favor of coming home to your soul center.

Your soul knows your destiny. Your soul has the map of your future. Your intellect and intuition, partnered, will finally allow you to create a generous pathway that finally brings you home.

Susan lives and works locally and is the author of: Beyond Intellect: Journey Into the Wisdom of Your Intuitive Mind. Reach her at: susanvelasquez.com.

 

 

 

 

 

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