Ask The Conscience if you dare.
Learning to listen to your conscience takes time, patience, obedience and heart. Your heart is actually the physical mechanism that does the listening. There are various steps in the process. One vital step is your willingness to listen and follow the conscience. Listening to the conscience is more than just hearing words and direction. The conscience speaks on a deeper more viral level. When I hear the conscience speak to me several things can happen. I can get goose bumps and then overwhelmed, or I can get scared and run, or I can pretend to not hear or deny that it was really conscience speaking to me. The funny thing about Conscience is that it has a huge sense of humor.
In the movie “Field of Dreams”, Kevin Costner’s character, Ray Kinsella, hears this voice that says. “If you build it he will come”. What would you do if you heard a voice like that? Actually, what have you done when you’ve heard that voice? Don’t lie. We’ve all heard the voice at sometime or another. Some of us are not immune to the voice due to our refusal to really follow it. The problem I have with that damn conscience is that it’s always calling for me at the most inconvenient times-anytime. An example of this is tonight. Here I am getting ready to do something, go to bed, play Madden or who the hell knows, and then conscience speaks. It says, “write”. I say, “okay, good idea I’ll put that on my to do list and get to it in the next few days”. Conscience then says, “you’ll do what”. I said, “you heard me, I’ll get to it later”. That went on for a few minutes and I finally surrendered to the NOW. I closed my eyes and tried to envision what I would write about? I thought maybe basketball, I write about that a lot for my 411hoops website. Answer was no. Again, conscience and I played this game. It goes like this. I act dumb and Conscience laughs at me. It’s not really that funny.
After taking a 60 second nap, that felt like 60 minutes. My heart starting listening and I actually heard very clearly without any static or drop calls-Write abut me dummy. You think you give me justice by writing one article and leaving it like that. So here I am writing about asking the Conscience again. It’s real clear to me why I don’t ask the Conscience too many questions. It leads to me having to get off my butt and do something. The conscience is not some medieval character. The Conscience is the voice of fun and learning. It has this deep desire for me to have fun learning about writing, learning about life and laughing.
Simple example of listening to conscience.
Last Friday I heard to go to a T-shirt company and research the cost of getting some T-shirts made for my online store I want to start. On one hand I said to myself, ah, do it next week. It’s Friday, another few days won’t make a difference. Than I heard this stronger more discerning vice say go today, right now. So I did. What happened next was magical. I was in the shop, and another customer, who I didn’t know, was in the shop and we were talking. While we were talking he got a text message from a friend. The friend had floor seats to the Clipper game. He then turned and said. “ I am not that into basketball, but if you want to go I’ll go with you”. I first hesitated, than conscience spoke to me, dummy, why do you think I told you to come today at this time. I said yes and went to game. I didn’t even know who the Clippers were playing until I got the ticket. They were playing Denver which has one of my all-time favorite players, Allen Iverson, on the team. I had a great time/
When’s the last time you’ve Asked The Conscience?
your words really come to life here. Discovery is a weird process.
The conscience is such a now part of me. I am also good at avoiding listening, as a habit. The connection to conscience is so powerful and immediate. It does kick my butt. Let’s face it, it’s time for change. I have a lot to do today.
Your blog is inspiring and I feel the spirit.