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Sage Mind: this is the internal knowledge and wisdom that manifests as our Inner Voice. It’s the part of us that has intuitive answers that our Saboteurs can often cover with their frantic energy and loud voices. But like the sun behind the clouds, even when we might not be aware of it, our Sage is always there.
I’ve been finding that short breaks – even 30 seconds – to slow down and concentrate on the experience of a particular sense: sight, hearing, or touch, can really help calm the mind and allow access to Sage wisdom.
What practices have you found helpful to access your Sage?
A really powerful concept I’ve been working with is the teaching that our Saboteurs and Internal Critics are most often born as tools we develop in childhood and adolescence to cope with external stressors or to help create connection.
With this knowledge, we can approach these parts with kindness, recognizing they were initially formed to help, and are simply no longer serving us in a way that’s beneficial. From this place, there’s no need to judge and no need to attack them.
With grace, we can acknowledge and thank our protectors for the ways they’ve served us, and then with gratitude, we can start to let them go.
I’ve been participating in a coaching program called Positive Intelligence, identifying internal saboteurs that are blocking our inner wisdom.
Here are the top ones:
• Restless: searches for excitement through next activity
• Stickler: needs perfection, order, and organization
• Hyper-Rational: focuses solely on rational processing
• Controller: needs to take charge and control situations
• Pleaser: focuses on gaining approval by pleasing others
• Hyper-Vigilant: hyper-focused on what could go wrong
• Victim: focuses on internal feelings gain attention
• Avoider: avoids difficult and unpleasant tasks
• Hyper-Achiever: relies on achievement for validation
• The Judge: we ALL have this one! Internally/externally criticizes others and ourselves
I’m spending a lot of time looking at Pleaser, Avoider, and Restless.
What resonates for you?
I've been working with internal saboteurs in a really interesting coaching program, and love how this quote speaks to how our need to please can block our inner knowing. Thanks to @rozwithazed for loaning me this book.
I've been working a lot lately with lovingly pushing the edges of comfort in service of following my heart. What are some ways you'd like to step out and grow?
4 questions to examine thoughts that aren't serving us from Byron Katie's The Work: Is it true? Can you absolutely know that it's true? What happens, how do you react when you believe the thought? Who would you be without the thought?
