Advising Others!

 

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Advising Others!

With the passage of time, as we go through life, we feel we have become wise and are prone to giving advice. Taking someone else’s advice can prove to be dangerous. Many will give advice even though they aren’t truly in a position to be giving it. Others will give advice that is very one-sided and that cannot be catered to by every person in every situation - in fact, it’s rare to find any sort of advice that holds true for any given situation.

Every situation that a person finds him or herself in is entirely unique. The outside factors and our own state of internal affairs can’t be replicated or fully understood by ourselves, far be it for anyone standing on the side-lines to give conclusive advice to anyone in the midst of action or turmoil.

For every problem there is always a solution. When we are unable to arrive at an answer by ourselves, we seek the help of others. We either ask our family or friends, read books on the subject or surf the net looking for answers. If you - the person who is living the problem - can’t fully grasp the issue, then what makes you think anyone else could? Sure, there are many of those who lived through very similar situations, but there is no one that has ever been in the same exact situation as you - nor will there ever be.

Life questions are the most difficult to answer because they revolve around the way we feel at the moment, the experiences that we had in the past and the way that we react to certain things — the way that we are likely to react to events in the future. Because we have each lived different lives and experienced different experiences, no person other than yourself will be able to find the perfect answer to any crisis you may come up against.

The truth is that hearing advice and listening to it are two different things. While it’s always good to hear advice, it’s not always good to listen to it and take it. You can ask others for their opinions and hear their stories of how they made it out of the dark tunnel, but understand that their situation is not exactly the same as your own.

You are the one that has the most access to the reality that you are living in and are the only person truly fit to direct your life. Hear others out and then listen to yourself. There’s no truer advice than the advice we give ourselves, but fail to follow.

This inner advice comes from our inner voice – we just have to make ourselves pure enough to listen to it. Meditation helps in clearing the muck around our soul – once that is cleared our soul becomes our guide, our inner voice, sending us always in the right direction. No further need for external advice!