Using Your Inner Guidance System

Using Your Inner Guidance System
By: Brian Tracy

You have incredible powers of mind and emotions that give you timely and accurate feedback in every area of your life.

In this newsletter, you learn how to "tune in" to yourself so you can
make the right decision in every situation.

Using Your Inner Guidance System
We know that the body has a natural bias toward health and energy. It's designed to last for 100 years with proper care and maintenance. When something goes wrong with any part of our body, we experience it in the form of pain or discomfort of some kind.

We know that when our body is not functioning smoothly and painlessly,
something is wrong, and we take action to correct it. We go to a doctor; we take pills; we undergo physical therapy, massage or chiropractic. We know that if we ignore pain or discomfort for any period of time, it could lead to something more serious.

How to Tell Right From Wrong
In the same sense, nature also gives us a way to tell emotionally what's
right for us and what's wrong for us in life. Just as nature gives us
physical pain to guide us to doing or not doing things in the physical
realm, nature gives us emotional pain to guide us toward doing or not
doing things in the emotional or mental realm. The wonderful thing is
that you're constructed so that if you simply listen carefully to
yourself-to your mind, your body and your emotions-and follow the
guidance you're given, you can dramatically enhance the quality of your life.

Just as the natural physical state of your body is health and vitality,
your natural emotional state is peace and happiness. Whenever you
experience a deviation from peace and happiness, it's an indication that
something is amiss. Something is wrong with what you're thinking, doing or saying. Your feeling of inner happiness is the best indicator you
could ever have to tell you what you should be doing more of and what
you should be doing less of.

The Messenger
Unhappiness is to your life as pain is to your body. It is sent as a
messenger to tell you that what you're doing is wrong for you.

Very often, you'll suffer from what has been called "divine discontent."
You'll feel fidgety and uneasy for a reason or reasons that are unclear
to you. You'll be dissatisfied with the status quo. Sometimes, you'll be
unable to sleep. Sometimes, you'll be angry or irritable. Very often,
you'll get upset with things that have nothing to do with the real
issue. You'll have a deep inner sense that something isn't as it should
be, and you'll often feel like a fish on a hook, wriggling and squirming
emotionally to get free.

Divine Discontent
And that is a good thing. Divine discontent always comes before a
positive life change. If you were perfectly satisfied, you would never
take any action to improve or change your circumstances. Only when you're dissatisfied for some reason do you have the inner motivation to engage in the outer behaviors that lead you onward and upward.

Listen to yourself. Trust your inner voice. Go with the flow of your own
personality. Do the things that make you feel happy inside and you'll
probably never make another mistake.

Action Exercises
Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into
action.

First, listen to yourself and trust your own feelings. If there is a part of your life that causes you stress and unhappiness, resolve to deal with it.

Second, identify those areas of your life where you are dissatisfied or
frustrated for any reason. What changes should you, could you make?

Third, remember that nature wants you to be happy, healthy, popular and prosperous. Any deviation from those conditions is a signal to you that action is necessary.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Angels or Hallucinations: Who Is Watching Over Us?

Angels or Hallucinations: Who Is Watching Over Us?

Third Man FactorReview of The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible

Source: Macleans Magazine

Joshua Slocum, on his way to becoming the first man to sail around the world alone, encountered one in 1895, an inexplicable presence that steered Slocum's ship through a 48-hour gale while the Nova Scotian lay prostrate with food poisoning.

Reinhold Messner, the great Italian mountain climber, felt its comforting nearness in 1970, during the nightmarish descent from Kashmir's Nanga Parbat mountain that killed his younger brother.

And on 9/11 one called Ron DiFrancesco by name and convinced the broker that the route to safety in the stairwells of the World Trade Center's south tower meant running though flames.

Once you start looking for accounts of a "third man," a mysterious, saving — and literally impossible — presence who appears to people at times of extreme stress and danger, you can find them by the dozen, says John Geiger, who presents an array of them in The Third Man Factor.

They're fascinating to read, but this deeply humane book is far more than the sum of its parts: Geiger elegantly demonstrates how these divergent and very personal experiences reveal our profoundly social nature.

The sensed presence takes its name from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922), perhaps the most famous modern poem in English: "Who is the third who walks always beside you? / When I count, there are only you and I together." (That's despite the fact Eliot was inspired by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, who described a fourth presence he had detected in his party of three, and even though he—or, just as likely, she—most often appears to a single soul in deep physical distress.)

Certainty about the sex of the "third man" is one of the intriguing common features of the experience. Sometimes the presence is behind the sufferer, urging him on, or far ahead, showing the way to safety, or glimpsed from the corner of an eye. "But even if they don't know anything else, everyone knows whether it was a man or a woman," notes Geiger. That's a detail utterly fundamental to human interaction — the first question that we ask about a newborn baby.

Sometimes, though, the presence is recognizable. Slocum, who had Christopher Columbus much on his mind when he set out on his epic voyage, was powerfully reassured after he concluded that the pilot of the Pinta, one of Columbus's three ships — a man who had successfully sailed a tiny vessel into the unknown — had taken over his helm. A female polar explorer saw and heard her paternal grandmother.

For DiFrancesco, a devout Roman Catholic, the voice urging him through the flames was indisputably a guardian angel's. What social scientists call an individual's cultural narrative is key to how they visualize the third man. "If you're religious," says Geiger, "you'll know this was an angel — it's the only possible explanation. If not, you will see or conclude something else. Interestingly, I've not encountered any conversion experiences, where a non-believer concludes he is in the presence of an angel or God himself."

But angel, grandmother or grizzled Spanish navigator, seen or unseen, the presence is always trusted and always authoritative.

The third man does not only offer sympathy and consolation — those who experienced that on a frozen mountaintop might well lie down and give up. No, the presence takes over, and tells the nearly dead how to save themselves. James Sevigny — bleeding internally, his back and arms broken, his face smashed by a Rocky Mountain avalanche that killed his companion — was about to slip into unconsciousness and death when a female presence told him exactly what to do: get up, go back to camp, follow the blood dripping from the tip of his nose, to avoid travelling in circles. She stayed with Sevigny, just behind his right shoulder, for the entire, agonizing, day-long journey, not leaving until three skiers found him.

Geiger is relentless and persuasive in investigating the science behind the experiences, and describing the cascade of factors involved, starting with monotony (humans don't cope well with sensory deprivation) and multiple triggers (deadly combinations of hunger, thirst, fear, isolation, loss).

But what he keeps coming back to, rightly, is the social nature of the phenomenon. Whether it is our brains or our guardian angels providing the solution, they do not proffer it as the fruits of our own wisdom. "We're hardwired for companionship," Geiger concludes. "What's more natural for us in dire situations, that when we're most in need of a helping hand from another human, that is what we have."

Edited by: Lawyer Asad