When you are faced with daily challenges such as: dealing with a coworker who acts selfishly; a server who leaves you waiting for lengthy periods of time and then appears indignant when asked to take your order; or a family member who seems to stir vulnerable emotions by making unnecessary negative comments, you can remember to strive to live your universal purpose. To love unconditionally - particularly in these moments - means to rise above your behaviours of the past (of returning malice with malice) and instead acting with love and kindness. Such behaviours suggest a huge accomplishment of self-growth and evolution.

Instinct: Your Inner Wisdom
As humans, our intellectual development has hindered our ability to listen to our inner voice. Over many lifetimes, we have lost our ability to connect with this intuitive quality and instead, we have become socialized to rely on our rational or thinking brain. Our decision-making process is based on tangible outcomes, such as what we can see with our own eyes or what we think we should do, (largely based on either the expectations we place on ourselves, or the expectations others have of us).

Using your rational left brain at the exclusion of your intuition will not help you make the best possible decisions. Reconnecting with your inner self means developing the habit of spending quiet time alone (away from all of the external noise that exists when you are caught up in your regular life of being busy and doing). As you make it a daily practice of having quiet time to be with your inner thoughts, you develop the capacity to listen to your inner voice. From this, you are more likely to make the best possible decisions for yourself - the ones based in truth.

A gnawing feeling in the pit of your stomach is a good indicator that the decision you might be about to make is not based in your truth. If you listen to your physiological sensations, it simply doesn't feel right. In fact, you will continue to experience the same gnawing feeling (the sense of anxiety, nervousness, or worry; in addition to muscle tightness or