Sitting in the lush grounds surrounding Bibra Lake, my friend and I chatted about our lives. She was in the throws of renovating their home in preparation for sale. The prospect of ‘home opens’ loomed and she commented that she didn’t want to go through them. And in the next breath, she dismissed this personal truth  with, “But that’s just my thinking I suppose, so I guess I will need to do them.” So often I have heard people exposed to the three principles understanding of our spiritual nature write off the truth of words they utter with the comment, “but it’s just a thought”. This is crazymaking. Thought is streaming through us all the time. Anything we think can be written off as ‘just a thought’. But that doesn’t help us navigate life. I commented that not wanting to do home opens is her truth and I wondered why we negate the truth of what comes out of our mouths.

When I first had my insight it was about the logic/common sense/wisdom that had surfaced in my consciousness during years of living in an unhealthy relationship. The insight was simple. The thought that I should leave the relationship was accurate, yet I overrode it with all sorts of twisted thinking. When I had the insight I was relieved that I was not insane and that my thinking was valid. What I didn’t see in that moment was that that stream of spiritual intelligence was speaking to me all the time – I just didn’t know how to recognise it. Could this lack of awareness be the one thing in the way of life with more peace and love?

What if we assume that our beings have everything inbuilt to maintain equilibrium and health? What if we have a innate operating system of spiritual intelligence running through us that is is speaking to us constantly about how we need to interact with the world so that our unique makeup is maintained and we are fulfilled? What if, the key to life is to heed that intelligence, listen and respond?

My colleague recounted a story of a woman who had been looking after another friend’s cat whilst its owner was seriously ill in hospital. The cat was rather demanding and the woman commented that she couldn’t meet the cat’s needs. The person seriously ill passed away and the cat remained. The woman who had been looking after it heeded her truth and arranged for the cat to reside in a cattery. The choice of cattery was an interesting one in that the woman chose it on the basis of its ‘feeling’. Each week the woman would visit the cattery and spend time with the cat in question. The story unfolded further with the cat finally finding a loving home in which its needs could be met.

When I listen to people (and myself) talk about the problems in their lives I am always struck by how often the solutions come out of their mouths but are then dismissed. Where did we learn to dismiss truth from our true nature? All of us have spiritual intelligence (formless) talking to us and it seemed to my friend and I that it is often coming up against formed unconscious thoughts about the nonexistence of innate spiritual intelligence streaming through us. It exists, it is alive, personal, responsive and wise. When words come out of our mouths that bring tears of spiritual recognition, we are experiencing a moment when our mindset has loosened and we have heard something from beyond. When we have an insight, a moment of recognition, it is another moment when spiritual intelligence has broken through our unconscious armour and we have heard from beyond. When we have a gut feeling about something, that is our spiritual intelligence communicating, and we need to listen. Perhaps most of all, we need to listen to the words that come out of our mouths. Innate spiritual intelligence is much more abundantly present than we think. What if much that we dismiss is wisdom we need to heed?