Maybe it is a little voice you hear inside telling you what to do. Maybe it is a twinge in your heart or a tightening in your stomach. Maybe it is a sudden outbreak of goosebumps, shivers, tingling, chills, a glimmer of a vision, or just an overwhelming knowing. Your inner compass has a way of communicating with you. It tells you what is right and wrong. It points you in the direction that is meant for you.
These messages come to us in times of despair and depression. In times of uncertainty and confusion. In times of difficult decisions and changes in life. If you listen, you will always be given the answers, and your inner compass will give you the next step. Your inner compass will lead you to the path forward, the path of self-discovery, and give you a sense of intuition of what your next step should be.
This is not a new concept. In 1933 the psychiatrist, Carl Jung wrote letters to people who asked him how to get through life. He wrote,
“…if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other. If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the pathprescribed by your unconscious. Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live. And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing.”
“…In every littlest thing you do in this way, you will find yourself. [Everyone has] to do it the hard way, and always with the next, the littlest, and the hardest things.”
Notice that Jung said your unconscious will tell you what the next most necessary thing to do will be. Your inner compass gives you the direction.
Go forward 86 years to 2019 and listen to the lyrics of the song, “Next Right Thing” from the movie Frozen II. Some of the lyrics are:
This grief has a gravity
It pulls me down
But atiny voice whispers in my mind
‘You are lost, hope is gone
But you must go on
And do the next right thing’…
…And with the dawn, what comes then
When it’s clear that everything will never be the same again?
Then I’ll make the choice
To hear that voice
And do the next right thing.
Who would think that decades apart a psychiatrist and a children’s movie would both be speaking about listening to our inner compass? They would both be speaking of our path forward. The path toward self-discovery led by our unconscious. Our inner voice. Our sense of intuition. Our inner compass.
Whether it is a little voice, a twinge in your heart, a tightening in your stomach, goosebumps, shivers, tingling, chills, or aknowing- your inner compass has a way of communicating with you. It catches your attention and nags at you until you listen. And every time it is telling you to do the next most necessary thing. The next right thing.
When you listen and follow the directions you will feel content. Life will feel right. When you ignore your inner compass long enough you will feel off balance, uneasy, and continually feel like something is missing or wrong.
Your inner compass doesn’t lie. Do you listen?
Pennie’s Life Lesson: Listen to your inner compass. Do the next most necessary thing — even if it is just taking one step forward.
Pennie Hunt is a Wyoming-based author, columnist, and speaker who teaches how to Love Your Life ... NO MATTER WHAT! She is the author of three books including, “Love Your Life- NO MATTER WHAT -76 Tips to Live Life with Love and Gratitude,” “…76 Tips to Journey Through Grief and Loss,” and “…76 Tips to Create Joy and Happiness.” Find her Corner of Spirit & Brave online at: www.PennieHunt.com Email: penniehunt@gmail.com
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