Abiding Wealth: An Exploration of Our Inner Resources

What are inner resources? How do they impact our lives?

Feelings and needs/values

I've been teaching feelings and needs since January, 2005. During this time, I've noticed that there are very few people who know what they are feeling and/or needing in each moment. I mourn this because how can we get what we need if we don't know what it is?  Yet our education system, all 12 years of elementary school, doesn't mention feelings or needs or teach us how to recognize them. Why? What would happen if people were in touch with our feelings and needs/values?

Navigating by our internal compass provides autonomy and personal power 

We would be less easily controlled by outside forces, certainly. We would follow our inner longings and guidance. We would be self-directed and less easily manipulated by others. This would not serve those who are in power in the world. Yet it would support each of us in our individual "pursuit of happiness".

This greater fulfillment would, in turn, make it even less likely that "the powers that be" would have us doing what they want us to do. It would mean that we each would be listening to our internal compass and navigating our lives from this place.

The gifts of all six "senses"

Other internal resources, in addition to our feelings and values, include our intuition. This gift is something that the majority of people in our culture don't even believe exists. Yet each time I have spoken with someone who is a professional psychic they have told me that we each have this ability, not just a few of us. Yet when I've worked at Health Fairs where psychics were present, people are very willing to pay money to hear what they have to say. There are even people who follow the guidance of a psychic on a daily basis, as though they are blind and the psychic can see what is ahead for them more clearly than they can see their own future.

We each have our intellect and all of our five (some say six) senses as well. These are resources that we can call on to navigate our way to the most satisfying and fulfilling path for our individual Soul's. Yet how many choose careers based upon what their parents value, rather than checking their inner resources? How many choose a career based upon the job market, instead of what would make their heart sing?

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Using inner resources leads us in a different direction

Career is not the only area where inner resources come in handy when making a decision. Have you ever said you wished you had followed your intuition and had regrets when you didn't? Have you ever met someone and known on the first date that they were (fill in the blank) and things would not work between you yet continued to date them, only to break up years later for the reason you filled in the blank? Have you ever had an urge to bring something with you as you left the house and not done so, only to regret it when you arrived at your destination? These are a few examples of ways our inner resources support us in our lives, and the consequences when we don't acknowledge and/or utilize them.


What internal resource do you value most in your own life?   I'd enjoy hearing your comments below.