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Thanks, Claudette Rowley ==============

Five Pathways to Listening to Your Inner Voice

By Claudette Rowley Copyright 2003

Is your life out of sync with your priorities? Do you feel like you're a hamster running on a wheel? Have you forgotten who you are?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, read on. Learn to listen to your inner voice - essence of who you are - by following these five steps:

1. Check in with your heart.

Social conditioning teaches us to be logical and "use our heads". When you only use your head, your experience of yourself and world is limited. You miss out on vital information rest of your body, heart and soul is giving you.

Benefits: The same neurological tissue found in brain is found in heart. The heart is a second "brain" and our emotional center. Listening to your head and your heart is crucial to good decision-making about your life, your business and your relationships.

New Focus: Put your hand over your heart and focus there - what is it telling you?

2. Connect with your body.

Your body gives you a tremendous amount of useful information that you may not be conscious of. For example, when your mother-in-law visits, does your stomach tie up in knots? When your boss yells at you, do your shoulders turn into stone? When you feel passionate and alive, does your chest feel warm and open? When we ignore body's message, we lose out on valuable information designed to let us what works for us and what doesn't.

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 feels 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 key to listening to your inner wisdom.

3. Listen to your intuition.

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

Benefits: Gut feelings are 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 your intuition effectively.

You probably go to supermarket and buy your household cleaning products without giving much thought to it, apart from maybe price or if you prefer lemon fresh to pine fresh!

However have you ever considered some of toxic and potentially carcinogenic chemicals that go into many of these products?

Many people could suffer ill health due to toxic chemicals present in many products used in home. These could range from cleaning products to toiletries.

Fewer than a quarter of 70,000 chemicals used in toiletries and cleaning products have been fully tested for safety, and some classed as hazardous waste are often found in baby lotions, eye drops and cleaning fluids. Many of these chemicals accumulate in human body causing cancer and other diseases.

Aerosol products such as spray paint and stripper may contain methylene chloride,a carcinogenic chemical. They also contain butane which is a propellant. This could cause asphyxiation if used in an enclosed area in large amounts