Inner Knowing

When you know rather than doubt, you will discover the necessary ability to carry out your purpose.

- Wayne Dyer, Staying on the Path

Here's the scene:

Accounting class - second semester, mid-semester test due back today. In walks the student - a musician, late 20's, slight 'attitude'.

Waiting anxiously for the test results, she thinks, "I'm pretty sure I did okay. I was familiar enough with the terms and concepts. Besides, it was multiple choice, how hard can that be!"

Finally, it's her turn. The teacher hands her the graded test, folded over so others can't see. She opens it up and looks....

"F"

She is shocked. Devastated.

Problem?

It's in the "familiar enough with the terms and concepts" part. Being "familiar" with something is not the same as "knowing" something.*

When you really know something, you are able to express it to another person in words - whether on a test or in a conversation. It involves a 3-part integration process: absorb the facts/concepts, digest the information, then speak it out in your own words. This process solidifies the knowing. Up until that point it's just reciting or memorization.

What does all this have to do with today's quote?

• Knowing = certainty
• Doubt = uncertainty

When you get past the "absorb" and "digestion" stages of uncertainty and indecision, and begin to move into the knowing, where you can speak your truth with confidence, then all of heaven will work to synchronistically move you toward your intended destination.

Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know.

- Sir W. Hamlton

Here's to continuing the Journey... learning to let go of doubt and move into the knowing, where miracles happen!

-Becky

(* Why in the world she was taking Accounting II in the first place is another story for another day!)