Uncertain

“In my research, I have found that what silences our intuitive voice is our need for certainty.” Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

Most of us are not at all comfortable living with the unknown. We would like to have things figured out, ducks in a row, humming on all cylinders. No thank you to anything that will upset our apple cart…we want a sure-fire guarantee. Enough aphorisms?

What is the unknown? Well, it is different things at different times for each of us. We experience the unknown when we lose a job, are diagnosed with cancer, care for ailing parents, love a drug addict, lose lots of money, are convicted of a crime, grow old alone, are unsure about a choice, finalize a divorce, start a new business, get married, have a child, open our heart, fear being hurt, move to a new town, worry about what others will think, fear making the wrong decision. If only we could know for sure, if we could see into the future…then we would know what to do, we would know the next step to take.

We don’t have to stress about the unknown. We can learn to be okay in uncertainty because we can rely on our inner knowing, on our intuition. It takes courage to trust our intuition. Everything on the outside may be telling us one thing…but if we can stand in our strength, and we are willing to allow a little room for it to work, our intuition will come through for us. It doesn’t have to make sense to anybody but you.  You will know it because you will feel it…you will feel peace in it, you will feel satisfaction in it, you will feel a sense of rightness about it.

There is no certainty to be had in this life. We need to stop pretending that certainty is possible. The yearning for it blocks the voice of intuition. At any moment our apple cart could be upset, it could crash and burn or the apples could slowly rot. If we trust enough to stand where we are, take a deep breath and know that the next step will be revealed, we will release the burden of having to be certain and unleash the next greatest possibility in the next moment of our life.

Much love

Paula