Hope comes from listening to my inner self.
The inner self is familiar to those involved with professional coaching or other helping fields . Here is an opportunity to explain the inner self. Wise old owl could be in your inner self waiting to advise you about hard questions in your life In almost every modality in the healing professions there is some description of the aspect of the self that is not usually within the awareness in normal waking hours. It has been called many things, each correlating to a slightly different aspect of the human psyche:
Freud’s Id The inner child of Transactional Analysis The subconscious The unconscious The ku – from native Hawaiian Huna Way – a healing philosophy for daily living (there are excellent books by Serge V. King PhD about the Huna Way).
The deeper self, hidden self, dream state, fantasy world, and colloquial terms like “lost in his own little world”, or where we go when we are daydreaming. Although these are not all the same, a theme running through all is the inner self being levels of our thoughts, ideas, beliefs, feelings, memories, knowledge, intuition, that is not usually noticed by our conscious selves. Hope comes from my inner self because she has so much more than I do…more intelligence, more love, more wisdom, In fact everyone’s inner self includes the best version of the self, along with repressed aspects of ourselves that may be considered bad or socially unacceptable. Some healing approaches break down the destructive and constructive aspects of the inner self. If you are bold or fearless about listening to your inner-self, you will contact both parts.
Luckily, the constructive part can help the destructive part, who is longing for love and perhaps raging about all the injustices that have been thrust upon him/her in your lifetime. If it was possible to have a pipeline to the inner self at all times, people would make better decisions, know how to win the favor of others, to solve complex problems and so on. This ability would vary from person to person. The inner self of a scientist is not the same as the inner self of a teacher or a janitor and so on. Everyone has a unique inner self but in a sense their inner selves overlap. This concept coincides with Carl Jung’s collective unconscious. The collective unconscious gives us access to not only our own learnings, wisdom, love and hope, but that of all the great leaders, thinkers and teachers. Weather you have known them or not, within you are all of their concepts, ideas and so on. This is the human story. It is passed on through our DNA, the molecules we are made of. Just as baby bears will automatically know how to catch other animals for their dinner, with a few nudges from their mother, humans instinctively know how to be the best version of humanity that exists– But the primary knowledge of this instinct for making life a pleasure and being guided by wisdom and love is contained in the inner self. I hope you will explore this further if you suspect that hope and other valuable resources, often referred to as “inner resources” will be invaluable to you in guiding your life.
