What Part of Me is Speaking and is it Really Truth

What is it we want others to hear when we speak?

How do we know that what we are saying is what we really want others to hear?

What part of our personality/our person is doing the speaking?

For example: We need to have a conversation with our partner about being short of the money needed to meet all our financial obligations this month.  That in itself can be challenging!  Even more a challenge is which part of ‘me’ is going to be the speaker for our conversation?  The 6 year old who was told asking for a bicycle was being selfish because the family needed the money for more important things?  The 12 year old who continually heard her parents arguing about finances? The hopeful young bride who thought her new husband a knight in shining armor?  The exhausted, overworked, self-reliant 33 year old who would just like to be taken care of for a change? Or the woman who acknowledges she has played a part in the debacle and is willing to play her part in correcting the problem?  Each one of these parts of ‘me’ have their story that has ‘truth’. Yet, each voice is different from the voice of my other parts.  Each voice, whether conscious or not, will express a different need in the conversation about money.

We all have different parts of ourselves.  We are complex beings. If we listen to these parts speak, we will see that each has a different quality, tone and pitch. (e.g. whiny, demanding, scared, confident…) Once we come to recognize our different voices, to have some awareness of their history, we will have a more conscious choice about who speaks.  With that consciousness we can be more secure in knowing we are speaking the truth needed for our conversation with another (or with ourselves).

Self Reflection: Today I choose to speak with the voice that would choose Truth over ease. 

Listening for the Truth of Wisdom

In the Waning Moon to Hear Truth, what is it we are listening for?

We are listening for the voice of the Mother, Earth;

the voice of Source, Creator, Divine One.

We are listening for wisdom, guidance, knowing.

We are listening for the way in which our inner knowing (which seems to come from our heart) hears and meets the wisdom and knowing of the universe.

Once you have experienced this coming together of knowing you will recognize this kind of listening when it happens.  You begin to long for it, and the practicing becomes easier.

You feel, finally, as if you are home--because you are.

Self Reflection: How does my inner knowing hear and meet Wisdom?

Coming to Trust One's Soul and Inner Voice

Carolyn shares:  My soul and my inner voice are in conversation.

I listen, as if an outsider, trying to pick up on the gist of the conversation, 

without them knowing I am eavesdropping.

I can tell they are talking about me and I don't want them to stop.

I sense that if I listen carefully there is something I might come to know,

Something vital or critical that would help me on my path.

I do learn something:

Soul doesn't quite trust inner voice--too many years of outside influence make it difficult to know what's truth and what's distortion.

Inner voice thinks soul speaks in code and feels frustrated--she might fail to make the 'right' interpretation.

Soul doesn't feel safe in making her needs known--she speaks in guarded, yet imploring whispers-"let me grow! Let me grow!"

Inner Voice, ever more claiming her own essence can hear soul's call.  

Over time she has sorted out her truth from fears 

and the external directives of what she should think and say. 

She answers as best as she is currently able.

She asks her soul for clarification, more information, deeper connection.

Self Reflection: Over time I will come to know I can trust  my soul and my inner voice.