The Insight Space

A few Reflections on Wisdom

When you discover something new that turns out to be enormously helpful to you at a particular stage in your life, it’s so tempting to assume that you’ve found THE ANSWER, not only for yourself but for everyone else too.

And when you’re looking for an answer outside yourself, it’s equally tempting to assume that what worked for someone else must be what YOU need at this particular time. Especially if it worked so well for them that they went off and trained and became a practitioner of whatever it was that helped them!

In the early years of my explorations into various natural healing methods, the main challenge was in discovering what was actually out there. I was studying homeopathy on my own for several years (pre internet or email) before a serendipitous encounter alerted me to the fact that there was actually a College of Homeopathy where I could go and train to be a homeopath. Who knew?!

Nowadays, we have the opposite problem. We are overwhelmed on a daily basis with so many different methods and modalities it is increasingly difficult to know which way to turn. I see people post a simple request for help with a health issue or a personal challenge and they literally get bombarded with a hundred and one versions of ‘YOU SHOULD TRY THIS, IT WORKED FOR ME!’.

It’s a beautiful thing to want to share with others what has been so helpful to you. But if there’s one thing I know for sure, it is this: I don’t really know what anyone else needs. Of course I will have some ideas and opinions, based on my own personal experience - but that is all they are, my own ideas and opinions. As best I can, I’m not going to assume that I actually KNOW what might be needed by anyone else, and I'll try not to impose my own ideas on them.

You might have heard it said that ‘everyone has access to inner wisdom, and can find their own answers’. You might have even heard me say that, or something similar, as I believe it to be true. There’s a caveat, however, which is important to acknowledge: We don’t always know what our own inner wisdom looks and feels like. Let alone anybody else’s.

Wisdom is surprising, and can be sneaky and somewhat troublesome at times. The more I continue to explore it, the more I realise how limited my previous assumptions have been about the many and varied forms it can take.

Most of us would happily include familiar forms such as ‘gut feeling’, intuition or instinct. But what about dreams, aches and pains or disease symptoms, relationship dynamics, habits and addictions, or accidents and injuries? What if there was wisdom to be found in literally EVERYTHING that shows up in our experience, if we had the awareness to recognise it as such and the willingness to respond appropriately?

When you look at it in this way, you realise that the primary obstacle we are up against is simply our own judgement about and resistance to what is already happening in our direct experience, coupled with our own ideas about what we think SHOULD be happening instead of this.

It’s very difficult to receive the message when you’re busy doing battle with the messenger! Perhaps there’s a very good reason why ‘what we resist, persists’...... and wisdom does seem to be persistent, despite our very best efforts to ignore it.

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If any of this resonates for you and you'd like to explore these possibilities with me in more depth - come and hang out with me at one of my upcoming workshops, my retreat in sunny Spain in September or my deep-dive 3 Principles Practitioner Programme that starts in October in London.

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When the framework you are working within is flawed, it will always be reflected in the results. No matter how dedicated the people are, or how hard they work, or how much money you spend..... the problem you are trying to solve will keep getting worse rather than better.

This is where we are in the arena of mental health. Every year we dedicate more resources and yet 'the problem' keeps getting bigger across an ever-widening age group.

As long as we keep doing what Einstein said never works - trying to solve a problem at the same level of consciousness that created it - we will only continue to make things worse.

The good news is, we already have a framework - a new understanding - that can transform this entire landscape in a way that is rapid, gentle and cost-effective. It's surprisingly simple, and anyone can learn it who is open to learning.

I wrote about this in my recent newsletter article 'A New Framework for Helping Professionals' - see the link in the comments below if you'd like to read further 👇

Reflections on maintaining perspective in the midst of worldly chaos - see comments below for my recent news update 👇👇

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