Spiritual Growth
The Language Of The Soul
By Deanne Urquhart
Apr 17, 2008

Are you aware of how your soul communicates with you? It is sending you guidance on a continual basis. Moment by moment we receive insight from a higher perspective toward what we truly want for ourselves. From where we have chosen our desires to lie, comes unfailing guidance pointing us on the path toward them.

The common thread I have found is that we do not know how to receive and therefore interpret the messages we are constantly being given. We will take ourselves off to psychics for them to decipher our future for us when we have the capability of doing exactly that. Receiving advice from outside of ourselves may give us short term relief in determining where we are headed, however it will only last until the next time we need clarity and in the process, takes away our inner power. We literally give our power away to someone else to show us what we already know at a higher level. Next time we need to make a decision, we feel needy of someone else’s inside information because we can’t see a clear path and so we take ourselves off to another psychic rendering us powerless to listen and learn from our own guidance.

I too was guilty of this before I learnt to use my own intuition and once I become proficient at it, I then started, what I thought was assisting others on their path by doing psychic readings for them. However what I discovered in the process was that people became to rely upon and believe in what I was saying, rather than listening to their own intuition which is readily available to each of us.

There are many fantastic psychics we have access to and my intention is not to discredit them in any way or deter you from them, but merely to empower you to be able to follow your own inner wisdom from a daily perspective. Following your intuition enables you to listen to your heart and achieve your dreams and desires much more readily.

You are Divine energy within your physical body and the Divine Love that you are is always communicating with you. Your Divinity is not only always present within you as your soul, it is what your soul is – Divine Love. This is the source energy part of you; it is the eternal being aspect of you. Source energy is Divine Love and so you are Divine Love. It is how we are all connected, through the Divine aspect of ourselves, which is Love.

Your amazing emotions are your souls way of showing you all you ever need to know regarding any subject or situation in your life. Your soul, inner-being, source aspect of yourself, higher self, Divine Love or whichever terminology resonates for you, sends you inspiration by way of your emotions. When you feel bad about a subject, your soul is telling you that what you are thinking is taking you further away from your desire. And so when you are feeling good, your thoughts are headed in the right direction for what you want and moving toward the outcome of your goal.

By living our existence here on earth, we experience many subjects and situations and it is the contrast of these events that determine what we desire and that which we do not. So for example you know what kind of car you want to drive and what you want in a partner and what to look for in a career. And the reason you know what you do want is because of how you felt when you experienced what you don’t want. So when you drove the car you know you don’t want, your soul was sending you inspiration about how you felt to be in that car. When you were in that relationship and experiencing unhappiness, it was your soul sending you the messages of discomfort. And now you know what you want in a career because of the way you felt while performing other jobs you’ve tried and felt unfulfilled. So what determines what you aspire toward for your desires is how you feel about any subject or situation. We feel a huge array of emotions, but essentially they feel good or they feel bad and this is the guidance from our inner being; this is our Divine Love talking through us and to us.

So determining our emotions is the guidance we have been looking for, but for the most part, ignoring. In my practice I have found that we have been choosing to shut ourselves down from our emotions and totally disconnect from our inner wisdom. It may feel like unconscious choice, but because of feeling pain in the past, it is easier not to feel anything at all rather than experience pain again. Although it is actually impossible to shut down our emotions because we cannot be separate from our source energy, as it is a part of us, we find many ways to not to take heed of our guidance.

Some of the ways we affect this is to keep busy, become a workaholic, drug addict, alcoholic, sex addict, over exercise, over indulge in food by comfort eating, surfing the net too often, watching too much television. Every time we feel the slightest discomfort in an emotion, we ignore it or even worse, suppress it by making another phone call to keep busy, stay longer at work, smoke a joint when we get home, have one more drink before we leave, shove a piece of junk food in our mouth, spend another half hour at the gym, enter another chat room online or tune into the idiot box until we are so tired we have only enough energy to fall into bed and go straight to sleep so we don’t have to think about anything or feel anything.

So my intention with this article is to reawaken you to your emotional guidance so you can lead the best life you can. We have all experienced pain at some stage and this pain has lead us to determine that happiness is what we desire throughout our life, so it has played it’s role in our journey perfectly for us. To experience a painful ordeal, allows you to have a desire for the opposite, which equates to happiness and joy.

When you can let go of the fear of re-experiencing pain and can trust in your higher self to lead you away from any potential pain and toward feeling good all the time, your journey will be much more fulfilling. You are the only one who knows what is best for you and knowing that gives you such inner conviction to listen to your heart. Your heart determines what feels good for you and what doesn’t so it won’t steer you in the wrong direction. The only way you end up on the wrong path is by not listening to the emotional direction from your soul.

There can always be a positive aspect to everything, but only if we choose to see it. We can consciously change how we feel about everything. This does not apply to only certain aspects in life; it applies to everything we face. We are so busy getting caught up in the drama and negative aspects in situations, we don’t allow the room to see how good can become of it. When we give ourselves the advantage of being able to see the good in a so-called negative situation, the Universe picks up on our improved perspective and brings us an improved situation to match and we have now had that so-called negative situation removed from our existence.

How many times have you looked back upon an aspect of your life that was very painful and because of the time distance between now and then, you are able to see how it moved you toward an amazing new direction and a new opportunity presented itself to you? This is the old adage ‘one door closes and another opens.’ Many times we are so entwined in the pain and drama of it all, we are unable to see the newness of what is taking place right before us. This can happen when one has been retrenched from a position at work or a relationship has falls apart. It is so easy to stay stuck in the feeling of disappointment, overwhelm and despair, rather than looking forward to the newness of what is possible and the excitement of where a new venture may take you.

There are many situations we face that will cause us to feel negative emotions, but whether we feel good or bad about them, they still happen. I had an incident this morning where I had a set of twenty-four photos of a new house that we are looking at purchasing sitting on the bench. Because we have two young children and my photos were in the kitchen around foods and liquids, I put these precious items on the bench far out of reach of little fingers. No more than ten minutes later I walked in to face the scene where a stool was conspicuously left next to the bench where I left my photos and empty cup rolling around the floor with my pictures sprawled out all over the floor covered in a discernable liquid.

So as you can imagine, the very human emotion of anger came to the surface very quickly and I started to rant and rave placing blame on my five-year-old child who had dropped a huge glass of water while perusing them. With the guilt, sadness and sorrow written all over my sons face, I realised that I was not only feeling bad, so was he. And regardless of whether I was feeling bad or good about the situation it still happened. So in that moment I chose to feel better about what had just taken place. I made a mental switch and chose a thought that enabled us both to feel better. I told him that it was ok and that it was only a set of photos that could be replaced and how I understood it was an accident. I chose to see his perspective and understand how he wanted to see where his bedroom would be in our potential new home. So then we were all feeling better about it all and the photos dried with minimal damage, so what was all the negative emotion about anyway?!? This was a small incident I agree, but the process is the same no matter what the ordeal you may be addressing.

Another way to look at occurrences in life that may seem to happen unexpectedly is from the perspective that you may have asked for more than what you currently have. If you have put out a desire to be more happy in a career, then this may be the Universes way of rearranging itself to comply to your wishes, by enabling to have a much more fulfilling job for you. So you have actually asked for this retrenchment to happen! Just because you didn’t expect it to happen in this way, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be for your highest good. It is a gift being sent to you because your higher self knows where you will be happier and is taking you away so you can be lead to the perfect position. (What the Universe delivers to us is always in perfect order, it is we who consider it not to be.) It is then a matter of following your guidance toward your new life purpose that you feel passionate about.

When you get a feeling in your gut that just doesn’t feel right, but you don’t know why, it is your higher self informing you that what you are focussing on right now is not right for you. Because the feeling it is not rational and doesn’t make sense to us, we choose not to listen and disregard it with our logical over ride. We try to make it right in our mind. Even when we do this, it will still feel wrong. How many times has this happened to you and after the event you had wished you had taken notice? You just knew it didn’t feel right. Usually when it doesn’t make sense, it is your intuition talking to you. So don’t try to make sense of it, trust that you are getting the perfect information and guidance for you.

Your inner guidance is unfailing. Your higher self always, without question, knows what is best for you, so it would never lead you down the wrong path. Trust yourself and have faith in the feelings you are getting. Once you start taking notice of your amazing emotions and seeing what feels good and what feels bad, you are well on your way to discovering a new way of living. You will always know when you have strayed from the path toward all of your dreams and your desires. When you are off your path, it will not feel good, so listen and learn from the unfailing wisdom you have within yourself at every moment. Many things in life will catch your eye; few will catch your heart. Pursue those because it is your soul talking to you.