Trust your Inner Self

TRUST

I had the beautiful opportunity this morning to bring my daughter Chloe (my first and only) to school. I videoed her in the house getting ready, in the car, and as we walked into her classroom on her real 1st day of school. I sat with her a few minutes and kissed her goodbye and left. As I walked out into the parking lot and left I just realized I put my angel in the hands of people I don’t know very well. I gave them my daughter trusting they would take good care of her. While driving to the office I contemplated the fact that I had to trust thousands of people every day as I got into my vehicle; the engineers who designed it, the people who made the parts for it, the people who put it together, the people who service it and the people who refine the fuel for it, and all the people I was sharing the road with at 7:30 am.  Think about the level of trust you need when you get on an airplane from how the plane is put together, the people maintain the plane, trusting the pilots who trust air traffic control and then air traffic control who trust their radar and instruments are working properly. It is amazing to stop and think the about the level we must trust just to function on a day-to-day basis.

Then I recalled a really wonderful experience I had in Costa Rica about 5 years ago. I visited a small town in the South Western part of the country that I hadn’t been too in a few years. There was an awesome point break there that produced a really sweet wave that some say you can ride a wave a mile long when it’s really working. When I pulled up I was amazed to see a resort in the same place I pitched a tent for a whole week 5 years earlier. Getting out of the water at dusk one night a large turtle came out of the water to lay her eggs in the dunes. A few years earlier I saw another turtle do the exact same thing. The turtle on this trip had a few more obstacles; a lounge chair, a small slab of concrete and some newly planted trees. She did not care! This turtle like its ancestors have been migrating the oceans for thousands if not millions of years full of eggs to complete the breeding process. They travel the same route their ancestors have been using since time began. If someone happens to build a hotel in their path they don’t care. It is just a “knowing” they have to do it. They have an inner guidance system, and Innate Intelligence and they just follow it-they know no other way. Because they trust this inner intelligence they ensure the propagation of their species. The turtle just knows to trust inwardly.

As human beings we have been conditioned to trust outwardly-to exercise trust in people we do not even know.

Just as the turtle has an Innate, so does every human being, but do we trust it? It knows what you should eat and what you shouldn’t, what type of exercise is best for you, who your soul mate is, what your purpose is, when you need rest etc. It would never let you put anything harmful into your body; it only works for the highest good for you and for all. It can guide you through all your challenges. “Just listen to your Innate” is a phrase that often plays in my head. Is it time for you to listen to the inner knower? Is it time for you to trust and follow its guidance in a specific area of your life? BJ Palmer said you can fool a lot of people a lot of the time, yourself sometimes but your Innate, never.

For one day try to live a life of “no resistance”. What do I mean; whatever event happens in your life today don’t resist. If you are in a traffic jam and upset say to yourself I’m supposed to be here right know. If it rains and you had plans for a beach day entertain the idea that there is a higher power at work and you and your kids are not supposed to be at the beach that day.  Life is not going to go as smooth as we would like all the time but, if you can master “no resistance” a little, I promise that a lot of stress you have from day to day will melt away.

Try to always have faith every day that when one door closes another one always opens. Some of us are without a doubt in some challenging times right now. I would like to share one quick story that proves the paradigm of “no resistance” and trust.

One of my practice members has entrusted me to care for her for more than 10 years. She is a public school teacher and was recently “laid off”. She was not happy and very upset to say the least. The week this happened we talked one day about God having a larger plan for her, not to resist (which remember always creates stress) and to trust and have faith in the process we call life. She walked into the office last week after being unemployed for three months with a large grin on her face. When I asked her what happened, she told me she was just hired by another school in the same neighborhood she raised her kids. The new school just happened to be in a nicer part of town and a shorter drive than her old school.

Just so you know there are stories like this happening all over our country every day.

I hope you enjoyed. Remember to listen to your “Innate”.

Sincerely,

Dr. Craig Kaler