COMMUNICATION

There are so many ways of communication (linking with others) - whether between ourselves and humans, animals, birds, etc.
These are communications with those outside of our selves.
But also, and just as importantly, we need communication with that which is inside our self - with our thought streams, in a way of listening and sensing, having an inner dialogue if you like with our Inner Guidance System.
I wonder how often we consider how well we communicate and how that communication affects those around us? Do we give it a second’s consideration?

If we had a stammer or speech impediment we would be very much aware of how we are unable to communicate in a smooth way. But most times we just jabber away in an uncontrolled manner. We just do it. We talk, we gesticulate, we wave our arms around and contort our facial expressions in a way we think will best help us express ourselves, in a way of hoping others will grasp how we are thinking inwardly about the situation we are currently in.
“Expression” is what we do. We all express our selves in one way or another - to express an opinion, to make others aware of our presence, to communicate a need, to enquire of another’s needs, etc., etc.
Much of the time we are so busy communicating outwardly - reacting to external circumstances (people, environment, occurrences) - that we can be ignoring many internal feelings and senses which are there for us to feel, to help us in living the life that aligns with our inner values: we simply don’t notice a lot of the time. The busyness of the outside world (external to our body) is so pre-occupying that we are hardly aware of our inner attentions.

It has become my view that we are here on earth to do two basic things : -
-To listen to what our Inner Voice is saying to us (the ideas, the feelings, thoughts, senses and directions) and consider which, from what we are shown, we would prefer to act out - dependent upon our choice; and….
-To observe what is going on around us (the Outer Scene) and to apply our choices to the Overall Pattern of what we see, in which ever way we decide this can be done, either fitting in or being different.

It is a constant to-ing and fro-ing between our Inner and Outer Views, interpreting the inner, interpreting the outer, and applying ourselves in a way that feels ‘right’ for us.

The Human Challenge of Harmony, within ourselves, with others, for the greater good of all, is, it seems to me, the aim of our soul for bringing this earth-life into existence: so that we can all have a chance to learn how to handle what we are presented with in life, in the most caring way, so the pieces of the jigsaw fit together to form one harmonious whole that works for the benefit of all the soul-parts here at any one time, and also for the good of the Earth-Being - the planet, the Soul, the Living Universe.
The listening that we need to do to achieve this kind of harmony is the listening within - to the Universal Intelligence that permeates every cell, every atom of all the substance in the Universe’s sum total, and all our thoughts. It is the Intelligence, provided on our thought track, individually, for each of us to ‘communicate’ with, and ‘apply’ to, our individual lives in a gentle way. It’s the Intelligence that links us all together with the Intent of producing either harmony or discord, dependent upon which way we each choose, in our interaction and communication with others.

When we look at the ways of the world today, I wonder how much harmony we see and how much discord is apparent!

Usually, however, this intelligence is drowned out by the conditioning we receive throughout our lives, so indoctrinated are we with the ways of our ancestors - those who have gone before us, and those in our early lives who also thought we had to comply with the rules of society and religion. In this situation Our Own Unique Thoughts - provided for us to listen to and communicate with - are drowned out by those strong external pressures and obligations to others’ requirements of us.
A new way of communication within us needs to be affirmed - first of all, we actually have to acknowledge that we have an Inner Intelligence which is there to guide us and we need to start listening to it and consider what it is trying to tell us by the messages apparent in the outer world (in our bodily ailments, things going wrong, world events and disasters, upsets between ourselves and others, and also the things that work well for us, ways that do work, etc.).
Listening to what everyone, externally, tells us what is ‘right’ for us is what we were taught to do. The new way is to listen to our own Guiding Inner Intelligence which is always available to us to help us along the way. We do not need middlemen! Our own intelligence will communicate when something is okay for us to do (flow) and it will also tell us when something is not okay for us (block). If we experiment with going one way and something is getting in the way, it is our intelligence, which always knows best, it is our best friend at all times, giving us an indication. It communicates back to us in the ‘outside’ world by the situation we are seeing, that is right in front of us. The trouble is that our reactions to what we hear from others often holds us back from following our own path so it is our strength of personal purpose that we need to keep reinforcing within us and saying to ourselves that it’s okay to do what we feel is right for us. There are lots of people who are quite ready to bully us into doing what they wish (often by laughing at our choices, making critical remarks about us or just facial expressions that show how they feel about us………..all in an attempt to keep them feeling ‘on top’, that they are ‘right’ and you are wrong.) The worst thing is that we hate feeling wrong, out of place, so it is very tempting to drift along with the crowd. It is then that we lose out. We lose!

Ways of communication externally are many and varied and seem to increase as each decade passes with the many inventions mankind is lead to develop - email, telephone, text, mail, television, radio, etc. Yes, we need to communicate with each other so that we can interact in ways which keep us all in ‘situations’ that help us live and also help us see how we are with each other (in harmony or not!). By our inner feelings do we know ‘how we are’ in this respect.
Maybe we could have inner ways of communication with each other that are untapped in this age, perhaps because we have become so de-sensitised to our fine-ness within. It is our Inner Communication that is calling out for our attention when our Outer Communication is failing in some way - and those ways that are externally failing are being constantly shown to us in our ways of life. If what is happening to us, as individuals, and collectively as the human race, is failing us (dis-harmonious) in any way at all, this is a communication to us to go within and be guided by what we really feel and know deeply, rather than going-along-with what is The Norm.
A Big C-Change of Ways of Communication is what we are being called to Implement by our Soul.