Benefits: For many people, fear manifests as a tightness in their chest. This is valuable information, especially if you aren't aware that you are afraid. Your body alerts you to what makes you feel passionate and what doesn't. The body is a fount of wisdom designed to tell you when you're on right path and when you aren't.

New Focus: Notice messages your body is giving you right now. Try a self-massage to find areas in your back, neck or shoulders that are tense or knotted. What other areas of your body feel tight? Which ones feel relaxed and loose? Use this information as another pathway to listen to your inner wisdom.

3. Listen to your intuition.

Intuition is simply knowing something - without knowing how you know it. Connect back to a time that you had a "gut feeling" about something. Perhaps you were offered a job you knew you shouldn't take, even though it looked good on surface or you were in a relationship that just felt right for you. That's your intuition talking.

Benefits: Intuition presents you with a wealth of information. Remember, your intuition is never wrong, although your interpretation of it may be incorrect. When your intuition calls to you, trust it. Practice makes perfect when it comes to using this sense of knowing effectively.

New Focus: The next time you need to make a decision, check in with your intuition. Experiment with trusting it. When you follow your intuition, what happens? When you hear it and disregard it, what's outcome?

There is no substitute for listening to your inner voice. Practice these ways of listening to it and you'll be amazed at wealth of information and guidance it provides as you work to make your compelling vision real.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Claudette Rowley, coach and author, helps professionals identify and pursue their true purpose and calling in life. Contact her today for a complimentary consultation at 781-676-5633 or claudette@metavoice.org. Sign up for her free newsletter "Insights for Savvy" at http://www.metavoice.org.

But back to flowers … those words have entered my mind in times of agony and grief, when I needed them. Leaving my Grandmother’s funeral on most spectacular day in May Chicago-area can offer … “How odd, “ I thought, “for sun to be shining this way. And for pansies to be in bloom.” Leaving for my beloved son’s Memorial Service, again, “My goodness. There’s a daffodil. How so?”

Yes, nature goes on naturing, and these things keep happening. Be sure and turn them around and learn from them. No matter what you’re going through, flowers will keep blooming and there will come another spring.

When things seem insurmountable, go and plant a flower. Or take a bouquet over to someone’s house and sit a spell and visit. Or bring some into your own home and place them where you can enjoy them.

Every flower is a promise of spring and a new day and that things will go on. And most of all, that you’ll be there when they do! You are resourceful, you are resourceful, and in midst of war, there will always be flowers blooming.