Outer Voice (vs) Inner Voice

There is so much of chaos all around us and when I say chaos it isn't just that unpleasant argument and common misunderstandings, it is beyond that. Opinions are being delivered in every form and state so that you have no choice but to absorb everything and become that someone the world wants you to become. You have people telling you how you should drive, what you should eat, how you should sit and why you should sleep. You are first created by parents, labelled by family, tested by educational institutions, judged by the community and then delivered in entirety as 'ready-for-the-society'.

You lose your identity, serenity and are tranquilized by doses of silent messages injected directly to your brain. Mom tells you how to eat, dad tells you how to drive, siblings tell you when to play, teachers tell you when to come, friends tell you who to be, partners tell you where to go - you are so accustomed to taking instructions that you forget what you want or what you deserve. Intention is not being questioned, instructions and rules are set to serve as frameworks and not meant to create duplicates. 

You don't want to be someone else's version of you, do you? 

People confuse their inner commander to their inner voice. Everyone of us is born with an inner voice that is calm and soft-spoken, barely audible. It grows in strength the more it is valued and the more it is listened to. Fortunately or unfortunately our parents voice becomes our first inner commander and that is the first time we begin this journey of mistaking inner voice to the inner commander. Most of us are 'told' what to do. We begin and travel this journey just as we are asked to do. 

Now why do you need to listen to your inner voice? It is very straightforward and simple - to live a happy life. What you might be currently listening to do might be your inner commander set by the society and all inclusive. Then, which is the inner voice you ask me? It is the sudden excitement you experience when you decide something unexpectedly, it is that loud heart beat only you get to hear as the date closes in, it is that little scream you give out when you do it or it could also be the churn you feel when you are doing something you've been asked to do, it is that sweaty palms that you are trying to wipe off, it is that shaking legs that are striving to strike a balance, it is that trembling hands that are trying to stabilize. 

Inner voice manifests itself as feelings and body language. 

When you experience a different feeling that is uncomfortable, you need to stop. Stop and listen to that little feeble voice that is trying to get your attention. Listening to others instead of yourself impairs your ability to believe in yourself and you become too tenuous to notice. Cut down the chaos that surrounds you in the form of beliefs, instructions, opinions, judgments, suggestions and requirements. Do not let someone else's opinion define you nor create you. You need to step away and give yourself some calm.

                           

If you let all the outside voices enter your being, I don't know what would be seared more indelibly into your brain - the discovery of how insignificant you have let yourself become or the convincing explanation the world gives you.