Alarms – Are You Listening to Yours?

 

Do you remember when car alarms and shoplifting alarms in department stores use to make people stop and take notice? It wasn’t all that long ago when if we heard an alarm sound that we would actually look to see what was going on. Now, when a car alarm goes off, we hardly bat an eye and if we do it’s usually to complain about how annoying the sounds is and we wish that the owner would shut it off. Even in stores we often hear the alarm at the entrance going off, if we notice at all, we often assume that the clerk forgot to remove the anti-theft tag from something. In a very short time, we have become somewhat indifferent to these types of alarms.

Our indifference towards alarms should be of no surprise to us. We are masters at ignoring alarms. Many of us have internal alarms that go off all the time. Our internal alarms may come in the form of pain, high blood pressure, upset stomach, acid reflux, heart palpitations, etc. These alarms may also come in the form of intuitive knowings, such as red flags that come up in a new relationship or a nagging doubt about some decision that we are making or not making. We become so use to these alarms going off that we begin to accept the alarms as normal and we seek out ways to mask the alarms rather then stopping to listen to the alarm and finding out what is making it sound off.

Many of us love to fool ourselves into believing that the alarm is simply a malfunction that needs to be fixed, and that it really doesn’t have any meaning. Of course, we all know that ignoring our internal alarm system can cause grave damage to our life. We may ignore the physical alarms and end up having a stroke or heart attack. We may choose to ignore our intuitive alarms and dive deeper into a relationship headed for trouble or make a decision which we know is not correct for us, a decision which ultimately creates deeper problems.

We are blessed to have a body and spirit which has built in alarm systems and it is our responsibility to listen to these alarms and to take appropriate action to change our behavior or follow our instincts when the alarms go off.

In many ways our culture has enabled us to ignore or suppress our alarms with the false belief that our alarms are normal and the ones that aren’t “normal” can be fixed (masked) with medications, etc.

I think we all have ignored our internal alarm systems from time to time in our life and paid the consequences. I challenge you today to tune in and really listen to your internal alarms and take the actions necessary to correct what is causing the alarms to go off, that means listen to your intuition and listen to the needs of your body.

What are your internal alarms trying to alert you to?

Is it, better eating habits, the need for exercise, the need to follow your intuition, the need to forgive, the need to let go, etc.

Learn to listen to your alarms and make the changes you need to make in your life to silence the alarms. You will be amazed at the difference this will make in your life!