The Wise Woman Way By Susun S. Weed
Embracing the Wisdom Wi
Are you wise? Of course you are. Even if you make mistakes. Wis- dom and ignorance co-exist in all of us. It cannot be other than true that you are wise, for each you are composed and created from infinite wisdom. Your very physical body is made of the atoms spewed forth from the original cataclysmic birth orgasm, the original wisdom of our Universe. We are part of all and we know all, even if we don’t know that we know it. Inner wisdom thrums and sings in every cell of every person.
Do you listen to your own inner wisdom? Do you follow your own wise counsel? Most people answer: “No.” Having inner wisdom and using that inner wisdom are not the same. We may recognize our own skills, or our own acquired knowl- edge on a great many subjects, but when it comes to one’s own life, one’s own body, and one’s own health, most of us defer to the experts. And that often includes those who take care of others.
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We think we can’t be wise enough to take care of ourselves. We look to someone else to help us decide our course of action. We allow ourselves to lapse into ignorance; a state where we ignore our in- ner wisdom. We turn away from inner wisdom out of lack of trust in ourselves, out of lack of faith in our ability to know ourselves, out of lack of a regular practice that keeps us in touch with inner wisdom.
An expert is wise, of course. But to be an expert, one needs to have broad wisdom. Inner wisdom is not broad; it is personal. Inner wisdom focuses on what is important to you, not what is going on with everyone else. Inner wisdom is a newscast designed just for you, a blog written about you alone, a commentary designed for your ears alone. Inner wisdom concerns just one person, you, not all people, and just one life, not all possibilities (or
“Inner wisdom i humming along insid communicates best a to us when we are in Self. Self with a cap broader, deeper, sensitive than self w
all the lives you may have lived). Inner wisdom is acute and current, up to date and in the moment.
The wisdom within is about what is happening within. Inner wisdom won’t tell you about the stock market, but it will tell you when your structure is threatened. Inner wisdom stands ready to alert us to our own mental, emotional, and physical states. Inner wisdom will
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