Instincts
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Good Day!
It has been a while since I have written. I hope this finds all who are reading in a good place or on their way to serenity.
Today I am writing as I watch the ocean roll in, wave by wave, like our breath; in and out. We don’t pay too much attention to our breath, it just happens. Breathe in and out just like the ocean waves.
I for one take advantage of the fact that I don’t have to think about oxygen coming in and out of my body. Instinctively my body knows what to do.
This morning’s dally reflection in the book, “A Deep Breath of Life” by Alan Cohen was about instinct. The reading was about whales and birds. Both have travel instincts. For example, whales travel thousands of miles each December to Maui, Hawaii to deliver their babies. The whales stay until April then they start their trek back thousands of miles to the North where the water is a lot colder. How do they know where they are going? Year, after year they make the same trek and how? Instinct!
Birds also go away! In the cold months’ birds fly south for the winter (just like human snowbirds hahaha). They fly in unison down to a warm state until the weather thaws and then make the reverse commute back to the north. How do they know each and every year? They don’t have GPS! It’s instinct.
God, your higher power, the Universe, whatever you want to call it has given these whales and birds instincts to know. I believe we all born with instinct. We all know inside which way to go. But outer distractions get in our way. Those distractions can be alcohol, drugs, other human beings anything that we put on a pedestal. NOISE! We let the noise guide us when our God has already instilled in each and every one of us instinct!
Trust your instincts. Do yourself a favor and get quiet enough to hear what your instincts are telling you. It is hard to listen when your really busy.
During prayer and meditation is when I can hear. It took me a long time to get good at meditation. Time takes time. I started with a minute of meditation and eventually I could sit for a half hour. But it is when I get quiet that I can feel which way to go and what decisions to make.
For a long time, I had to ask at least 5 people what to do? If I had any decision to make I had to get others opinions rather than trusting that I knew what was best for me.