Finding a true dialectic with one’s self can be cathartic. It can be maddening. It can be confusing. It can also garner clarity in times where the answer wasn’t clear.
How one comes to see their life with more grace and patients is predicated on how smooth they handled the challenges. Having a healthy dialectic with ones self can become the key.
“The dialectic is when two people have a conversation and a third thing gets known.”-Jordan Peterson. I came across this term while listening to a podcast.
Jordan states, “If I had a dialectic with myself I could sit and get quiet and ask myself a question and come up with an answer.” Jordan Continues… “I think of it as my greater sense of intelligence.”
This understanding that talking to yourself is a cheat code within life that can allow you do have a dialectic with yourself which can result in a greater understanding of the world around you. Thereby a greater sense of intelligence.
Though using internal dialog as your only source can become damaging as well especially if you never speak to anyone else about these topics. Your ideas may be great, but allowing yourself to learn from others gives you plenty more as well.
The dialog we have with ourselves can be happening with many parts of ourselves… Ego Knowledge Intuition
Ego is the one that tells us what we want to here. It can be our protector or aggressor like a dog behind a fence barking whatever is on the other side. The ego can’t often see through the fence of perception and will often lash out in fear. The lashing out done by ones ego is different for everyone. Fight, flight or freeze are often the options the ego wants to take for self preservation purposes. Much like the dog barking it is you the guardian that needs to remind the dog there is nothing to worry about. Sometimes the ego can be tricky like a dog can encourage laziness to avoid even trying at all. Leaving you to feel that the important can wait to be done tomorrow. The self preservation game is tricky to play, but once you have decided on a path worth the time; focus on the practice of mastery. When focused the ego can become the loyal companion to success. You must always hold the leash instead of being leashed.
Knowledge which when we age becomes wisdom is a powerful tool. We take facts and experiences in life that inform us on how things around us function. With this accumulated knowledge we can asses a situation with pre-learned experience. Wisdom being Knowledge learned over Time. Wisdom is the aged wine of knowledge grapes. The trick with wisdom is that its main ingredient is time. Patience is the skill to master here. It is only when we have learned to enjoy the process, being eager to find more is when we truly learn truths in life. The accumulation over time like a well tended garden will give a plenty of nutritional wealth. This wealth of knowledge isn’t often visible through sight though is often clear when listened to intently and without predicated on appearance. Everyone holds a lesson you may not know yet.
Intuition is often very interesting as it is the most elusive and yet most powerful. Intuition, Gut Feeling, Spirit, And Faith.
These are all branches of the same tree. What becomes fascinating is that everyone sees the same experience in different ways based on pure feeling.
For me my intuition often comes to me as if my spirit or soul picks up on something my other human senses can not. One’s spirit can also be seen as an extension of a higher power or supreme being. Belief in a higher power gives solid ground to start building upon. Everyone’s version will be different of what God may be and yet the pure faith that comes from having your values defined and clear makes life more effortful. We all have something that energizes us. Some will call this their purpose, calling or gift. Accessing your gift is the truest representation of an actualized life.
Our gifts can express in different ways. For me its a calculated method with raw unrefined power. My gift is perspective and my way to express it fully is with writing as when I speak sometimes the intention or message isn’t often received. When I focus on it and write it out my thoughts come across more concise.
Often those with a gut feelings come from a more simple and powerful instinct. This can be found in officers, firefighters, soldiers and warriors. The sharp instinct that a decision needs to be made and to make an accurate successful choice in the heat of moment is the guts true power. If you have ever seen any martial art where two opponents square off and try to dismantle each other. There are amazing moments where one calculated movement and punch or kick secured instant victory. OR! One of my favorite moments is a fathers reflex of catching their falling child. Go down that rabbit whole on youtube later.
Intuition has a final form it can take…. Psychic Abilities!
I personally don’t know if being psychic is actually real. I also know my human brain can’t perceive everything in the world. Just like a dog can’t see certain colors a human brain can only access so much awareness. Though I may not believe psychic abilities exist and yet their are plenty in my family that think they are. Growing up around these people has given me a perspective more akin to fascination like we react to magic.
Suspended belief…
That doesn’t mean I disregard a message psychically, but I do measure my life with more calculation over whimsy. Tips of the future or unseen perspectives are always nice to hear.
For me I feel that for a psychic ability to make sense is that this person’s brain chemistry is balanced different than others possibly allowing them to access abilities the rest of us are just a few chemical drops away from. After all the body does produce similar psychedelic chemicals to the drugs out in the market. Or another simpler answer to feeling psychic is just that a feeling.
I choose calculation, yet someone with a strong creativity within them may lend itself to altering someones perception of life into psychic ability.
Any way it comes to you intuition is a potent source.
Go on a walk and dive into a healthy dialectic with yourself.
Ask questions of yourself.
If you ask an honest question you will always come up with an answer. Where that answer came from will allow you to notice the nuances of your understanding.
What if? Is always a good start.
Mr. Sods 