When your mind asks questions, allow it to ask, but listen with your heart.
Question: Dear Alana, I am feeling a bit depressed.
Sometimes I feel so lost like I don’t belong anywhere. I feel as though I’ve lost all my dreams and I don’t know what to hope for.
How can I learn to listen to myself? How can I trust my feelings, when I feel so uninspired?
Answer: Hello, dear one. Thank you for your question. You know, I get a feeling, dear one, that within your life many of the things that you are doing, you are doing them because of habit.
It could also be because they have been presented to you, or you were told that you would be good at them, or because you have determined they are a necessity.
Why We Do What We Do
So, dear one, begin a journey today looking at your daily activities and notice what you are doing each day that feels good inside. Next reflect on activities and tasks that you are doing in your day that are repetitious, or perhaps the things that you could consider as distractions.
Next, practice every day making better choices. One choice could be to eliminate a distraction and say, “No. I really do not want to do this today.” Then, bring something forward within that you can act upon that feels like an action of love.
In other words, do something like taking a bubble bath, or going for a walk in nature, or even some window shopping. Just do something that feels pleasurable.
Learning How to Discover
Now, what you are actually learning is how to listen to your inner nature. When we feel that we are not connecting or hearing our innate nature its so often because our senses have become dull or numb.
We have dulled them or numbed them because we are not excited to feel the surroundings in our life. As you introduce situations and build on occurrences that bring about a sense of delight, your senses will begin to open.
Really, this is how to begin developing one’s intuition. As you open the senses to feel more deeply this allowing expands to more levels of awareness. As your intuition opens more, you will find that you hear and sense greater feedback from your higher nature and the individual parts that are excited to express.
So, this is something that you can do in a conscious way, dear one. You can consciously begin to eliminate some of your life’s distractions and bring choices into your life that add greater pleasure. Bit by bit, your senses will heighten and you will find more passion arising within. Then you will find you are really listening to your heart. You will feel what your heart wants to communicate to your conscious awareness.
When your mind asks questions, allow it to ask, but listen with your heart.
Thank you dear one. This is a great question and Alana is very happy that you brought it forth. It is also a wise one when experiencing a depressed state for a period of time because it also instills opportunities to gain additional support. Best wishes, dear one.
— Alana
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