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Hear your Inner
Guidance Regar dless
of t he Obst acles
Befor e You.
By Michael LeBlanc, MSW, LCSW
My instructor points towards the forest. "Go into the
woods and walk for about 5 minutes. Once you are
completely in the forest, put this blindfold on, spin
around a few times and then stand still,? he tells me.
I give him an 'are you sure' sort of look. He smiles.
"After a moment you will begin to hear a drum.
Keeping your blind fold on, use the meditative walk
we taught you earlier and then feel your way
through the woods back to this spot? just keep
following the sound of the drum,? he says.
I head into the woods, put my blind fold on, spin
around a few times and wait. The drum
starts? steady? rhythmic. I begin walking but using
the meditative walk they taught me. I breath deep
and get centered and focused within. I place my
right foot on its outer edge then gently roll it inward
till it is flat on the ground. I truly feel my footing and
surroundings before I shift my weight onto my foot. I
repeat this process with each step and begin feeling
my way and walking toward the sound of the drum.
As I move slowly in this deliberate manner, I am
amazed that I can literally feel and sense trees and
shrubs around me. I can sense them, reach out and
touch them and easily move around them. I keep
feeling my way towards sound of the drum.
After a bit of time walking, I get anxious, distracted,
get 'in my head' and become not present and
centered. I walk to fast, stumble and hit the ground. I
stay on the ground a moment. I notice how in the
moment I became anxious and got in my head, I was
no longer present. I was no longer able to sense my
surroundings. I had trouble keeping my balance and
tripped. I stop. I breath. I get centered, begin feeling
calm, begin to sense my surroundings again and
resume walking towards the drum.
I finally reach the drum. I have no real sense of
time. "Take off your blind fold, turn around and look
at the path you walked,? my instructor tells me. I
turn around. I'm amazed. There is no way I would
have walked that exact path with my eyes opened. I
wouldn?t have thought I could walk through that
amount of thickness of trees, shrubs and obstacles. I
also wouldn?t have thought that if I walked slow
enough to stay centered, focused and present, I
would be able to sense and know so much and be
literally guided in the right direction! I was amazed.
This is a true story of my experience during a Native
American Spirituality retreat I attended years ago.
There is an intelligence, a consciousness, a divine
guidance within us at all times, but we lose our
ability to sense it and learn from it when we live life
too fast, stay distracted and disconnect from our
present moment.
Attempt to live at a pace that allows you to
enjoy and appreciate what 'is? in your life now
and go slow enough to hear your inner guidance
regardless of the obstacles before you.
Ultimately, live at a pace that lets you enjoy your
journey no matter where the sound of your drum
is taking you.
Michael LeBlanc, MSW, LCSW
Author/ Speaker/ Life Coach/ Energy Practitioner
http:/ / CreatewithConsciousness.com.
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