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that thought? Who would I be without that thought?
These questions allow you to go deeply within and get to what’s
really true, because the nature of who we are is the expression of opposites.
Investigate the thoughts that keep you separate because when you
investigate these thoughts you’ll discover that the opposite of what you
believe is as true, or possibly truer, than what you believed.
When you discover that the opposite of what you were telling
yourself could also be true, then it opens you up, it creates a bridge of
compassion between both those pairs of opposites. When the thoughts
that have been causing suffering are in the emotional field, investigation
creates a true bridge of compassion that connects us with everything and
everyone around us.
The fourth thing is what Janet and I call ‘Nature’s Guidance
System.’ Nature’s Guidance System is simply that we have created within
ourselves the ability to know what the correct direction to take with our
life is at every moment. The way we know it is by how we feel.
All of us know what it feels like to feel expanded. At those points
we feel full, we feel happy, we feel turned-on, we’re loving, kind,
compassionate, and generous. Those things are a signal we’ve created
for ourselves to show us that we’re on the path of purpose, on the path of
discovering our own nature, on the path of discovering the reason that
we live in this world and this life to begin with.
We also know what it’s like when we feel contracted, when we
feel shut down, when we feel the opposite of loving. We feel separated
and disconnected and anxious and worried and frustrated and angry and
all those things that we generally label as bad feelings, or uncomfortable
feelings. Yet those things are no more bad or good than the experience of
day and night. When it’s daytime outside do we say, “Oh, this is a bad
thing, it needs to become night”? Or when it’s night out do we say, “Oh,
that’s a bad thing, it needs to become day”?
No, of course we don’t, because we understand that those are
just different phases of life. These feelings (what I call expansion and
contraction) are neither good nor bad, they’re simply messages or signals
to us. They’re signals of what we are to do in that moment. So, ‘Nature’s
Guidance System’ is the realization that sometimes you feel expanded
and sometimes you feel contracted and neither is good nor bad. They’re
simply messages allowing you to know that when you feel it’s time to
take a break, it’s time to rest, or it’s time to go ahead, take action and
enjoy the fruits of that.