Emotional GPS

Most of us are familiar with a GPS (Global Positioning System) that is used in a car to give directions to a destination. The emotional GPS (God Presence Signal) works much the same way to help us get to our destination of higher awareness and enlightenment. This emotional steering system lets us know when we are moving in the right direction and when we are going off track.

Rather than listening to a woman’s synthesized voice saying, “Continue straight ahead for 20 miles,” or “Recalculating – make a U-turn as soon as possible,” we need to instead notice what emotion is arising within us. Comfortable emotions such as peacefulness, joy, love, and happiness tell us we are on the right road and to keep going. Uncomfortable emotions are saying that we are headed in the wrong direction for arriving at the destination of higher awareness.

The trick is to deciphering what to do when you are headed where you don’t want to go. For example, when you find yourself out of sorts, irritable, angry, or sad (definitely uncomfortable), it would be good to have a checklist that might go something like this:
• What story is going through my mind – is it one I want?
• Is there a judgment present?
• Am I in the past or future, and how can I get back to the present?
• Am I fighting with what is or can I be in acceptance?
• Am I seeing myself in the mirror of another person and not liking it?
• Am I being hard on myself instead of loving myself?
• Have I made an intention that I am not in alignment with?
• Is there something else that I need to be doing at the present time?
• Am I caught in the illusion of the outer world rather than looking inward for truth?

There are probably more things you could add to the checklist depending on what the most usual ways are that you go off course. The main thing is to stop dead in your tracks when these uncomfortable signals from your spirit begin to arise as they are letting you know that it will not be pretty if you continue to take that path. When your emotional GPS says to make a U turn, take the time to come back into alignment with your God-self and the destination you are seeking. It prevents a lot of suffering!