23rd September 2014

By Caroline Diana Bobart

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Sometimes you can find yourself at a place where you look around and sense you have fallen out of alignment with the people, places and things around you. It’s time for change. You can feel it.

Like outgrowing an old article of clothing, you find yourself trying on the idea of a new relationship, job, home or town for size. You might even have begun explore and research a new idea. But all the while as you’ve done this, you sense the gap (sometimes a gorge!) between your life now and how you would like it to be, and for all your wishing, wanting and hoping, how you can get across this divide is frustratingly unclear.

Isn’t it ironic at times like this, that you know you need to start creating new experiences and yet feel suspended in time as you wait for inspiration about what you can do next?

This feeling of being suspended can also be another way to describe the detachment from life’s creative flow that comes when you are waiting for that single, mind-blowing, earth-shattering idea to strike. In other words, you withdraw from truly living, responding to and engaging everyday life because you believe when this bolt of insight hits, you will somehow gain the self-confidence and certainty needed to take ‘right action’. And of course, without realising it, as you hover in this space of detachment, you stray further from your inner knowing, self-awareness and your true, heartfelt needs.

Before you know it, one day you wake up and wonder why you feel uninspired, disengaged from life, unsure of yourself and likely misunderstood and unseen.

Often the feeling of being misunderstood, judged or dismissed is a symptom of a fundamental misalignment within yourself, with your sacred purpose and voice. When you experience difficulty loving and accepting yourself, seeing and celebrating your unique perspective and gifts, the people and situations you encounter tend to reflect your own discomfort around being out of kilter within yourself.

The matching of your outer experiences to your inner landscape is how universal order continually spurs you on to restore harmony where there is inner misalignment and unease.

As unpleasant and uncomfortable as the feelings around inner misalignment and unease can be however, what if… just for a moment… you could relax your gaze enough to see them as a trail of golden nuggets of wisdom laid out by your higher self? How BIG would that moment be? How might you feel the moment you discover that there is a map illuminated by golden nuggets of wisdomwithin you, whose sole purpose is to guide you from the relationships and circumstances you have outgrown, to ones that are more closely aligned with your TRUTH?

As this map comes more clearly into view you will inevitably begin sensing the mysterious guiding force embedded within it. This inner guiding force is your inborn intelligence that is always there, in tandem with universal order, spurring you on to better yourself, become more self-actualised, to improve your life.

So, if you have been waiting for inspiration about ‘right action’ you can take…

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Previous articles by Caroline:

• Is Fear Holding You Back From Getting What You Really Need?
• Step Into Your Brilliance