Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) June/July 2018 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 25

Our superego messages are often so
ingrained in us that we have difficulty
distinguishing them. One way to begin to
identify them is to remember that superego
messages are always negative, and are
often shaming and judgmental. Often, they
are accompanied by a sense of heaviness,
inertia, or internal shrinking. This makes
sense when you consider that the superego
is the part of us that holds us back from
taking risks, going after our dreams, and
believing in ourselves. It keeps us small.
On the other hand, our intuition is a guiding
force, directing us along our path of truth and
wholeness. Your intuition is always positive,
and will never shame you. Often, when you
tune into your intuition, you will feel an inner
lightness or brightening. Listening to and
trusting this inner guidance is one of the
greatest steps you can take toward freedom
and wholeness.
© 2018. Dr. Catherine Hayes, CPCC. An excerpt from
Everything Is Going to Be Okay! From the Projects to
Harvard to Freedom. www.GoingtoBeOkayBook.com
Inspired Living Publishing.
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loud. The important
thing isn’t how it shows
up, but rather noticing
how it takes over. For
some people, there
is a feeling of shame
or inadequacy; others
feel it as heaviness
or contraction in their
bodies. When we know
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the difference between
our inner wisdom and our superego’s
negative messages, we can then make
a choice about what is true and what is
false. Instead of focusing on how we are
“deficient” (because when we are living from
the superego, we will always feel deficient in
some way), we can turn our attention to our
essential qualities of love, value, strength,
etc., and ground ourselves in our bodies to
come more fully into the present moment.