attention - my report

[souley]

By gut I mean the strange knowing or feeling of what is right in a situation. It can often be contrary to your own limited logic/thinking but yet you know it to be right. Say you are upset with someone, you find a million reasons that it is unfair, that the other should apologize etc. Yet you know deep down what you really should do, put yourself in the others situation, make peace with him/her/the world, for example. This is probably what you are referring to as inner resonation!

Call it gut or not, I find it available in almost any situation and I have come to trust it and I'm very thankful for it!

[synapticrythms]

This is a similar way I feel about "gut" reactions vs. knowing (for lack of a better word). I say knowing, because it is simply spontaneous clarity that arises that is baseless and, consciously, causeless. It always leads me to the "correct" or holy (as in whole) understanding place... the place where I get answers. It is not precognitive, per se, although that may be in the mix of the knowing. It is an infallible certainty of what will unlock the next non-existent door that I need to unlock and step through.

I have always been amazed on this path that I will always, always, always get exactly what I need when I am ready for it. This forum, for instance, has been the perfect thing at this stage in my journey. I would not have been able to "handle" some of the advice that has come from here at other stages in my journey. It is like I needed to grow up first... then I could understand.

I guess this is the development of trust that comes... while at the first of the journey there was really this blind leap of faith into the unknown, because I was so nauseatingly lie-filled... sometimes to the point where it was unfathomably uncomfortable to be in my own skin. It is funny that the terror I felt then has transformed into such gratitude that I could make the leap.

[waddicalwabbit]

Jun 12, 2010 14:37:33 GMT -5 synapticrythms said:

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I guess this is the development of trust that comes... while at the first of the journey there was really this blind leap of faith into the unknown, because I was so nauseatingly lie-filled... sometimes to the point where it was unfathomably uncomfortable to be in my own skin. It is funny that the terror I felt then has transformed into such gratitude that I could make the leap.

I think it's lovely that the terror and darkness is transformed into gratitude. Like the rainbow after the storm. I often have the same experience. The release of the biggest resistance and fear leads to the most lightness and joy. It supports the release. Feels cumulative. Easier each time.

[waddicalwabbit]

I like a couple of things in this thread, probably because I actually understood them. One was Karen's ref to focusing attention on just 'being' or perhaps as enigma might say, not efforting to hide from the fact (any longer) that you are always 'being' or that 'being' just is and some of us don't often allow it to just 'be'. When I allow myself to just freaking 'be', it feels peaceful or at least there's a sense of OK-ness. It's all just OK not only in this now but it feels like it's always just going to be OK. Ahhhh...

Part B is whoever said (Synaptic?) something about letting the ego do whatever the heck it wants to and 'just walking off the battlefield'. That happened to me today while I was driving over to the Horse Drawn produce place to shop. Delightful place where you wander around in a barn, get your beautiful vegetables and meats from the various coolers add up your own tab and stick your money in a box. No one's ever in there because they're too busy with horses and farming and pigs and sheep. The ego was going NUTS (about something unrelated to vegetables) and I just let it go nuts and really paid no attention to it. The darn thing is never satisfied anyway, like a spoiled kid having a tantrum, I just ignored it. It was almost pleasant to be around, amusing in a way.

Thank you all...