SABOTAGE AND WAR

by Eoin Scolard

You know what’s right for you.

You know what’s good for you.

Yes you do.

We all do.

Physically - we know when we eat too much, drink too much, exercise too little.

Emotionally - we know when we are holding back truth, holding in resentment, holding back love.

Mentally – we know when we are thinking negatively, judging, criticising, belittling.

And yet we continue to do these things. Why is that ?

It’s a fascinating question, almost as if we are deliberately sabotaging our own wellbeing and happiness. Why would we want to do that ? Why would we continue to ignore the needs of our bodies by eating too much junk food and not exercising, adding to the woe of the high/low life of sugar and caffeine ? Why would we continue to ignore our emotional need to love and be loved ? Why do we not live and speak our truth, a truth that is often deeply embedded in the wisdom of our emotional world and our bodies reactions?

We have been given the wonderful gift of intuition (which we often describe as gut feeling), and yet we continue to ignore it. We see clearly and we know intuitively, for instance, that we need to change something in our lives – because what’s happening right now is not right for us. We know it. It means less and less to us. There is no real LIFE in it. We may feel trapped, like life is on hold somehow. But we stay. For months. For years maybe.

And in all that time, we become what I call incongruent. Our energy is telling us something – but our mind gets in the way. It starts to tell us fear-based stories “You’ll never get that job working with people. Stay with the telemarketing, you might make manager soon. Sure what good are you with people?”  Or it tells this story “Save up for a while first, until you can afford to take a break and then see what you really want.” And of course, that time never comes. You never save enough. You never take that break. There will always be another story that the mind will tell you. Anything to put you off. And suddenly you’re 40 or 50 or 60. Where did all that time go ?

So what’s going on? Why do we deliberately choose to ignore our intuition and our gut feeling and therefore, continue to choose to be unwell, and to stress our systems. Why do we choose to become incongruent ? It’s like one part of us knows - “Get fit” “Say exactly what you need to and stop holding back” “Stop smoking” “Relax” “Drop the alcohol” “Get out of that situation” “Start writing” “Call that person” – and the other part of us ignores or avoids it, or says ….“later”. And so we become split, disconnected. Its almost as if we are two people. It feels like there’s a war going on inside – and that’s exactly what’s happening !

We all know what happens in war. Perhaps we’ve never thought of it in these terms before – that there’s a war going on inside you. If there is, you can be sure that the war inside is having a physical effect on you. Every time you ignore your gut feeling you increase the firepower of the enemy. You’re handing over weapons so that then enemy can fight harder, meaner, longer. You expend a lot of energy fighting this war – and you develop headaches, IBS, whatever it is. Your energy levels go down. Of course they do. You have no congruence. You’re not living your truth. You’re not acting on what you know to be true. Fear, or fear-based habits, fear-based thinking, fear-based beliefs and conditioning – that’s what’s in charge. You’re certainly not.

The more unwell you feel, the more you know that you need to do something, to act on your gut feeling ! That’s what happens. You expend even more energy staying in wrong “place” and you start telling yourself lies about the truth. You’ve been fooling everyone else, and now you start fooling yourself.

But the good news is, that you don’t have to. The reason we have intuition and gut feeling is to steer us in the right direction. It’s a gift. So stop, look, listen – and act ! Follow that inner truth. It’s there for a reason – that inner voice that is there to guide you, to help you to maintain one flow of energy in your wonderful body, to stop the internal war - and start cooperating with divine wisdom. Sure, it will challenge your fears. That’s a good thing. We all need to break through fear. Why ? Because on the other side of fear is freedom and expansion – and an absence of war.

Interestingly, if we all stop the internal war, there won’t be any war on this planet. War can only exist in the world (outside) if war exists on the inside. Because what’s outside is just a manifestation of what’s on the inside. And that’s another truth, whether you agree with it or not.

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