Deeper Instinct Chooses.

“Instinct is the part of us, as in all animals, that knows without thinking what and when to do something, how to respond, which way to go. Like the salmon that swims its way across hundreds of river miles to its birthplace, we too have inborn impulses that don’t require thinking to get us there. 

Instinct is our “right responsiveness” guiding us towards our yesses, and away from our noes.

For many of us, however, this instinct has been so blunted, domesticated and harnessed for its resources that we barely recognize its call. 

Instead of being taught to protect yourself from things or people who might do you harm, you may have learned to distrust your own feelings, boundaries, and reactions. 

If you grow accustomed to overriding your responses, over time you stop being able to recognize intrusions and violations. 

You may have delayed reactions to poor behaviour. 

You may have even find yourself dwelling on moments in which you wish you’d said or done something differently.

But having a wounded instinct is becoming more common as a direct result of a disconnected culture. 

The more we live in virtual realities, where our connection to others is mediated by technology, and the more we subscribe to a human-centric way of life, the less we are in direct conversation with each other, our own bodies, and the natural world around us.

While an injured instinct can take a serious toll on our personal lives, our disconnection from the other-than-human life around us is devastating to our environment.

I believe we have more than enough creativity to solve the problems of our times, but we have to make a perilous trek into the wilderness within to reclaim it.”

Excerpt from “Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home” 

by Toko-pa Turner 

(belongingbook.com)

Deeper Instinct Chooses To Remember and Belong To The Whole Self

In every choice, we must be mindful of the ebb and flow of energy. 

Our increasingly nuanced choices require more grace, 

more subtle attunement and an unwavering commitment 

to engage with life exactly as it is. 

In every moment there is an invitation to meet ourselves more deeply.

We surrender to our Self, we become more open and vulnerable, 

we discern and trust our deeper instincts every single time. 

How we show up in the moment depends on our ability to deeply listen 

to what is being said that isn’t being said openly but instead energetically. 

To then become a conduit for the energy of the moment 

is asking to flow through us, as us.

We remain grounded and centred as The Presence. 

This requires the skills and tools and inner space to respond rather than react. 

We become available to express our own unique energy 

instead of simply experiencing life as the affect of others energy 

and of the external environment. 

Choosing unconditional responsibility for our own central nervous system 

health and energy is being both aligned and kind.

To The Whole Self. 

When you embrace your gifts

you realize there is a difference between the intuition you access 

when you are embodied/empowered in your sensitive nature 

and the survival strategies you rely on because they are all you have known. 

As a highly sensitive intuitive, with deeper instincts of self realized worth,

the ultimate in minding your business means learning 

to NOT read energy automatically 

and only when you consciously choose to. 

Cultivating energetic boundaries 

and a healthy aura will minimize enmeshment, enabling, people pleasing, 

psychic merging or the habit of taking on others pain.

Sensitive Empaths practice self compassion firstly. 

You can let go of the responsibility 

of feeling others feelings for them, 

of absorbing emotions or transmuting their suffering. 

You learn to create and then hold inner space for your self firstly

with compassion and skillful empathy 

and then you may gently share these sacred lessons 

with receptive equals.

Deeper Instinct Chooses and Realizes This Whole True Self

In each and every moment. 

Listen To It, Embrace It, Love It, 

and Trust It.