Using Your IGS to Identify Your Desires

Your Internal Guidance System (IGS) is like a sensor that everyone has built into them. It helps you to recognize when you’re heading down the right path and when you need to course correct. Your IGS can help you recognize what makes everyone so uniquely wonderful, what your best qualities and skills are, and how you can use them.

By using your IGS, you can even identify what it is that you want out of life and how to manifest those desires.

There are people who don’t know about their IGS and they tend to fall subject to the energy and whims of the world around them.

For this reason, it’s important to teach your kids how to use their IGS in a way that helps them stay true to their course, sailing above the rough waters that would toss them about.

Listening to your inner voice, and learning to recognize it is an essential skill.

When you tap into your IGS on a regular basis, it’s like using a compass to verify that you’re still heading in your intended direction.

You’ll hear that voice above the other voices that might be pulling you in one direction or several.

You don’t consciously gather nearly as much information as your subconscious mind does. You receive visual and auditory messages all the time that your conscious mind chooses to overlook.

This is mostly done because you’ve trained it to ignore messages that aren’t important. This is actually a good thing. Without this filtering, you would be bombarded with so much stimulation, it’d be overwhelming.

Just because you aren’t conscious of all this information, it doesn’t mean that you haven’t received it. By tapping into your IGS, you can sort through and find the subconscious information easily.

You can be alerted to a shift in energy that you didn’t physically see and your IGS may be trying to tell you that the way you’re headed in looks like rough seas or that the dark patch you’re currently experiencing is about to clear.

Not only will your IGS help you through dark patches, but you can use it to reach a specific goal if you listen.

If you’re unsure of what you want, you can turn to your Internal Guidance System for help. By playing a variety of scenarios through your mind, your IGS will help you feel out which choice is best. Teaching this to your kids however, can be difficult, so you should start simple.

When your kids are facing a tough decision, you could have them write up a “Pros & Cons” list. Draw a line lengthwise down the middle of a piece of paper. On the left side write down all the positive aspects of the choice and on the right, note all the negative parts. Continue writing until you’ve exhausted everything that comes to mind.

This can be an intellectual exercise and it often works, especially for people who are predominantly thinkers rather than people who are used to accessing their feelings for direction.

This can also be a way to tap into your inner wisdom. The more you write down, the more pros and cons you tend to find; sometimes things you hadn’t even thought of before.

Sometimes both sides of the paper are very evenly balanced and no clear resolution is at hand. Other times, the list is heavy on one side or the other.

This may be an indication of a clear winner, but it isn’t always. It isn’t merely a matter of counting up the number of items on each side to determine the right answer.

There may be lots of little things on one side of the line weighed against a single major advantage or disadvantage on the other that overrules them all.
Or it can happen that something inside you is telling you to choose the other option.

Watching your kids go through this exercise and choosing the wrong side may feel frustrating. You may wonder if the both lists were truly complete.

You may decide your children have already made up their minds and it didn’t matter what came out of the exercise. Or you may be concerned that your children have been unduly influenced by someone else.

Consider the fact that it may just be your children’s IGS whispering in their ears, leading them to the best decisions even though the evidence points in another direction.

The best way to teach your kids to use their IGS in identifying their desires is to start early and small. Teach them to tap into their IGS to make small, easy choices. That may seem silly at first, but it’s a great way to learn to hear that voice.

The more kids practice, the better they’ll get at recognizing their IGS and their internal wisdom. Then when it comes to bigger decisions, they’ll have the confidence to be able to rely on that voice.

As a result, you’ll likely grow more comfortable trusting that they’re listening to their IGS and not being swayed by an external influence or passing fancy.