Denial

What does your inner self tell you?

Do you take the time to hear? Do you listen?

I was speaking with someone I work with about this last week and much to my great surprise, he indicated that he tries not to spend much time at all looking inwardly and listening to his inner self; his reason is that he finds it too confronting and difficult to deal with. I found this to be very curious and somewhat alarming considering his position in the company, the fact he is perceived to be professionally successful and has a personal life some may seem as desirable. Ho deceiving outward impressions can be.

I have often delved into my thoughts and feelings and not liked the reality of what I found there. Confronting, frightening, awkward and many other words could be used to describe the feelings, but I looked regardless and have been able to deal with many moments and aspects of life that, had I ignored, would have gone badly.

Denial of our thoughts, emotions and feelings is something we've all done however I wonder if it's healthy.

Denial is a well-used human trait and can be very productive; a person denying a food they are allergic to perhaps, or a person denying their feeling of laziness to get up and exercise when they do not fee like doing it; but denying that one's innermost thoughts, emotions and feelings exist can, in my opinion, only lead to trouble.