The inner compass
Hi there,
Those of you who’ve been reading my newsletter will have read how much of our intelligence is unconscious. – Which makes it no less real or important, quite the contrary.
Up to 99% of all the information we pick up, during every second of every day, gets stored in our unconsciousness, our whole body and senses.
It’s okay
There are billions of data points informing us at each moment, – so much of stimuli and information and sensing that’s going on in our systems, that there is no way for our focused, conscious mind to grasp everything.
We’d go mad if it did, and so it’s okay that we don’t consciously register it all.
But what’s not okay…
But what is not okay is if we are totally unmindful of what we are paying attention to and we start to follow and react to whatever is coming our way.
When we do that, we basically become like trash bins (imagine what that could look like!). – We are open for anything thrown at us and our systems work just as hard to process and make sense out of trash as it does meaningful stuff. All the while, we are filling our tanks, forming our perceptions, outlook on life, thoughts and attitudes. – Our attention is a powerful force.
When we unmindfully give our attention away, into the hands of external forces that are hungry for our attention, we risk becoming disconnected from within ourselves.
We begin to doubt our own experiences
It’s like losing our ground, to get disconnected from within, from our InnSæi.
We become unsure of what our opinions are as we swing from one thing we hear, to another. We begin to doubt our own feelings and experiences and so the confidence in knowing what is our own InnSæi, or intuition, gets lost in the noise inside our minds.
What sparked this particular piece of my newsletter, was something a colleague and a friend told me after having read the manuscript of my book, InnSæi; heal, revive and reset with the Icelandic art of intuition. Let’s call her Anne.
She lost her ground
Anne said she related to many of the things I share from my own life in the book, and was referring to the work experience I had at a younger age. She travelled the world for her work in development, had confidence in herself and her intuition that gave her a good inner compass as she navigated various challenging environments, interactions with people and tasks.
It was only when she became a mother that she said she felt as if she totally lost her ground. She explained to me (now in her fifties) that in hindsight, the reason was because there was nothing in her inner being, her body or DNA, that gave her the inner guidance she had been able to rely on in so many other life’s challenges.
Perhaps it was her own upbringing or a challenging relationship she had with her own mother growing up, she wondered, which did not leave her with an inner compass, or a strong intuition into the role of being a mother.
She remembered how frightening it had been, to not being able to rely on an inner knowing that she was used to for other areas in life.
And so she felt quite lost and alone in the unknown territory of being a mother, until she started to ‘map the the territory’ with her own experience and advises from others.
Sense of security and groundedness
For me, Anne’s story nailed such an important part of our relationship with intuition and InnSæi, that has ripple effects on so many aspects of our lives, because it is so fundamental to our intelligence and navigation skills.
Being aligned with our InnSæi, can give us the greatest security we will ever find in life. Material belongings, titles and credentials do provide us with security to an extent, not to speak of a roof over our head and the prospect of being able to feed ourselves and our family.
But what can stay regardless of material belongings or work-related badges, and makes us resilient and able to grow through life’s storms, is being firmly grounded in ourselves. Like a tree that has strong roots that go deep into the Earth and allow flexibility through turbulent weathers.
Better prepared for the unexpected
How we attend to the relationship we have with our inner selves, defines how we show up in the world. The better we are aligned and in sync with our InnSæi, the better prepared we become for the unexpected and for taking the best possible decisions under pressure of time.
We can’t have inner knowing about all there is, but it’s a good start to realise that it may be a lack of alignment with our InnSæi that may be causing us to feel lost and ungrounded. It can also show up as exhaustion or feeling drained. People everywhere are expressing how tired they are feeling a lot of the time. We hear noise that distracts or drains us, and want to find both inner balance and inner guidance as we navigate life and work.
We are tuned into the systems, people and living things around us. And as the world changes extremely fast, polycrisis cause uncertainty in most areas and the natural cycles of our weather systems get disrupted after thousands of years of stability, standing strong in ourselves and being able to separate the wheat from the chaff becomes hugely important for us professionally and collectively.
When we lack direction, we want to ‘get back home’; inside our own bodies and being, and find that sense of centre from where all else unfolds naturally.
We are able to find clarity in what our next best steps should be.
Knowing what’s best for us
We are the only ones who can be experts in our lives and we can’t know what’s best for us, unless we stay aligned and in sync with our soul’s frequency.
How do you practice the muscle of intuition and InnSæi in your everyday life?
How do you know when you’ve become disconnected from within, in your personal life or professionally?
And what do you do when you find out?
I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below or email me on hrund.gunnsteinsdottir@gmail.com.
With love and respect,
Hrund
