Why it’s important to listen to your inner voice? Maybe your inner voice is just a whisper or it’s loud and clear. Listening to your inner voice will guide you when you need it the most.
What is Your Inner Voice?
Your inner voice can be perceived as a higher self. The author of the book Self-Care for Empaths, Tanya Carroll explains:
“It’s that wise part of you that can float high above the details of the moment, your own emotions, and the emotions of others to get an eagle-eye, more objective perspective on a situation.”
Your inner voice can respond to a current situation or reflect on past experiences. In any case, it can help you guide your future and current choices. Many observe inner voice as the voice of the truth or the voice of true inner intelligence. When we listen to it, we hear what our soul and body have to say before we turn to the outside world for directions on what we should do.
Is the Inner Voice our Own Intuition?
You might be wondering what is the difference between inner voice and intuition? Both concepts are very similar. However, the inner voice may be truer compared to intuition. The inner voice is our unique voice that is available at any time while intuition can take practice. Reaching your inner voice is not easy either but once found, the inner voice is more reliable.
Your inner voice can be received through a gentle voice in your mind, seeing intuitive images in your mind, or feeling intuitive guidance as emotional, energetic, or even physical sensations. No matter how we hear the inner voice, it can help us perceive, communicate better and make better choices in life. When you listen to your inner voice you can truly become the best version of yourself. It will help you build confidence and wisdom.
The inner voice can be perceived as a sixth sense that can give you out of the box information that you might not see otherwise. To ignore your inner voice means you are ignoring a wise, practical, and helpful tool.
Get in Touch with Your Inner Voice
How to Get in Touch with Your Inner Voice?
If the whole process is new to you, you can tap into it especially if there are a lot of demands for your attention and your time. Here is how to get in touch with your inner voice?
Slow Down
If you are rushing through a day, your mind might race too. If you want to hear your inner voice, you need to slow down.
Listen to Others
If you are about to hear your inner voice, you have to learn how to listen. Start with others. Active listening means releasing judgment when someone is speaking.
Don’t Neglect Yourself
Self-care matters if you want to tap into your inner voice. If you are not taking care of yourself physically and mentally, you will not be able to remove all the clutter to hear your inner voice.
Journal
The practice called morning pages can help you with your stream of consciousness. Write about anything that consumes your mind.
Develop Boundaries
Having strong boundaries in every area of your life is important especially if you are trying to get in touch with your inner voice. Nothing will override your own inner voice as other people’s thoughts, expectations, demands, needs, and desires. Learn how to say No and check-in with yourself before you say Yes to anything.
Once you Find Your Inner Voice Keep it
Get curious once you hear a voice instead of dismissing the whole experience. The inner voice is so easy to ignore. Once you hear those subtle and quiet thoughts, keep going and get curious about them.
Take Care of Your Physical and Mental Health
If you want to tap into your inner voice you have to make sure that your baseline is taken care of. Get the emotional support that you need. Take care of your physical body through exercise and a healthy diet. When you are balanced, you can easily get in touch with your inner voice and your emotional reactions.
Whatever helps you to get in touch with your inner voice, do it and do it often. It might seem so easy to look for answers outside yourself but finding them inside will do you good in the future.
