Your Internal GPS Knows Best

I always teach my clients that no matter what I or anyone else says, they know best. Learning to listen to your own intuition and guidance is paramount to figuring out what your body needs and ultimately being able to live up to your true potential. This past weekend on a trip to Michigan to visit my brother and his family for my nephew, Jackson’s, baptism, I was yet again proven right with my theory.

Having been on the road a lot working catastrophe claims when I was in the insurance biz, I came to rely heavily on my GPS. I never left home without it. It was the first thing I packed before I left for a trip, and the last thing I’d pack on my way home. I only needed it when I was out and about working claims, especially in the smaller Podunk towns that always seemed to be right in the eye of the hurricane and the worst hit. But once my work was done, I no longer needed it so I’d pack it away and fly home.

Now don’t get me wrong – technology is great. I couldn’t get by without my Blackberry, HP, and the internet. I do have to say though, none of it is foolproof and darn if that doesn’t prove true for my GPS too. I don’t know how many times it’s steered me right into a dead end and I end up having to figure out how to get where I’m going anyways! Grr…

I’ve been to my brother’s house enough times to know the area pretty well, but on my way home from visiting with a fellow health coach, Cheryl Heppard, during my visit, I needed a little help figuring it out because I was well across town and unsure of where to go. So I popped his address in and off I went.

The ride was fine for the first 15 minutes or so, but as I got closer to his house, it started to point me in a direction that I knew wasn’t the way to go. I ignored its insistence that I make a U-turn at the next street and thought if I kept moving forward, it would force it to realize I was right and correct itself. Well it didn’t.

I found that so odd! How could it not see the path straight in front of it? I knew without question that I was going the right way. I’d been down those roads many times before although I started to question myself! Confirmation came though when I began seeing landmarks and parks that were familiar and the stoplight where I turn left to get to his street. By this point, I had turned my GPS off, shocked at its lack of ability to perform the very function it’s intended to do.

Too often in life we find ourselves in these situations, and it seems that most people neglect to listen to their own inner knowing, which will in fact never steer them wrong. We tend to think everyone else is right over what we think and know to be true for ourselves, and will succumb to beliefs and practices that don’t really resonate with us yet we follow anyways.

I’m continually perplexed by this phenomenon. People know what to do but don’t do it. As a race, humans are incredibly intelligent, however I’ve noticed that intelligence does not necessarily equate to being sensible, especially when we’re trying to please others instead of ourselves.

Whether it’s your doctor, your spouse, your kids, or your boss, if something doesn’t feel right to you, then it’s not. That little voice inside your head, a.k.a gut instinct, is the only real GPS you have. You can try to let go of the reigns and let someone else take control, but I guarantee you’re setting yourself up for failure. No one knows what you need better than you do.

So the next time you’re trying to find your way, my best advice is not to look very far, because you’ve got everything you need right inside of you.

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