When has your ISH helped you?

[SilentMute]

I've been depressed lately. The New Year didn't start off good for me. I got a really bad flu, and as a result I couldn't do the orientation I had been planning to do. People who didn't work as hard as me in my class and weren't as good of students--people who supposedly had bad qualities that employers didn't want--were getting jobs instead of me. I was seriously bummed out.:frown5:

Last night, though, I had a dream. I don't really remember it, but the dream's message was that everything was going to be okay and work out. When I woke up this morning, I felt like I had been given a happy booster shot. My brain was all tingly.:willy_nilly:

I remember years ago, I had read a book that mentioned something called an Inner Self Helper (ISH). Essentially, this is a part of ourselves that seems wiser and more enlightened. Religious people would believe that this voice that gives advice or encouragement is an angel speaking in your ear--and I'm not going to argue that point. Whatever your take is on it, this is the voice that gives sound advice, that clarifies a problem that has been plaguing you, or just gives you hope when a situation looks bleak--and sometimes you believe it really can't be a part of you because the advice seems too...good and intelligent.

I can relate many incidences where I've had these moments, particularly when I was a child. While I had no actual evidence to support it, a voice would tell me that someone was a bad person and to get out of a situation, and I would listen. Later, it would turn out to be true.

Some people believe it is angels, some people believe it is extra-sensory powers, and others believe it is a part of our brain...an instinct. However, whatever you believe it is, I thought it would be interesting to hear other people's accounts of when an ISH helped them.

[Maximilianus]

I often call it intuition. As for voices, the only voice I used to hear in my ears when I was a kid was that of my mother's, yelling at me when I was doing something else at homework time :p

However, I recall a few occasions when I was about to cross the street without paying proper attention to traffic, in a somewhat absent-minded state, then "something" would hold me back and, just at the moment when my brain turned itself back on, I was realizing a vehicle almost scratching me by a very few millimeters http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif

[papayahed]

Ohh. I usually always leave the weekend coverage book in my car. Friday, something told me to bring it in the house and I thought of me having to retrieve it in the middle of the night. Sure enough work started calling at 4:30 am.

[hoope]

Trust me .. its never gonna be the same..
Its go like a wheel.. and it keeps turning.. I mean life..
Good moments and bad moments.. nothing is gonna be fixed for ever..
so whateva ur going through .. it wont last.. Soon it will change and ur days will shine again..

My new year ended up with my sisters having a car accident and was in ICU.. It was hell.. but on the 1 Jan.. 2011 she was discharged of the hospital.. :)

Yes ! Ur inner self is ur helper... you can change ur mood.. and can be happy only if u start ur day with a smile..
There are days i wake up.. and i say nothing is going to make my mood bad.. and i keep smiling and helping this and that.. and i become happy.. i do feel happy.. I keep saying no matter what happen nothing is going to ruin my day.. ( i try to say let face whateva happens today and i might fear to face things that may make me upset.but eventually no ) Everything goes so smoothly at work.. old frnds call me up and they make me more happier.. and then work pass by easily.. Many good incdents happen just like that :)

So , You don't how it goes.. but you can make it happen by how u accept them..

Good luck

[Scheherazade]

Who am I?
My name is Ish.
On my hand I have a dish.

I have this dish
to help me wish.

When I wish to make a wish
I wave my hand with a big swish swish.
Then I say, "I wish for fish!"
And I get fish right on my dish.

So...
If you wish to wish a wish,
you may swish for fish
with my Ish wish dish.

from One Fish, Two Fish by Dr Seuss

Wanted to post this since I first saw this thread.

[hoope]

Who am I?
My name is Ish.
On my hand I have a dish.

I have this dish
to help me wish.

When I wish to make a wish
I wave my hand with a big swish swish.
Then I say, "I wish for fish!"
And I get fish right on my dish.

So...
If you wish to wish a wish,
you may swish for fish
with my Ish wish dish.

from One Fish, Two Fish by Dr Seuss

Wanted to post this since I first saw this thread.

that was so lovely :D

[SilentMute]

@hoope--thanks! I'm sorry about your sisters--I hope they are doing well now?

Sorry I didn't notice anyone had replied to this thread in so long. I thought I had been too abstract and forgot about it.

As for me--I've continued to have setbacks. It was very depressing. I have an allergy to a common healthcare screen that is keeping me from working in any medical facility. If I can't document it, my medical coding training will be pretty much useless--which took a year of very hard work. I tried to go back to college, but I can't give them all the documentation they want to prove my residency to pay in-state fees. I decided to look for a job--well, that is depressing normally, but it seems most jobs are in the medical field or too far away.

But then, I was grading the submission of an online student of mine who lives in another country. He always sounded like he had a happy family life. He was in the middle of reading a submission when I heard a bomb go off outside his house. I could tell by his and his family's reactions, plus the sound of the vibration, that this was genuine--it didn't come from a TV or video game. That is when I realized things could definitely be worse. Since then, I have felt that my life is going towards its purpose. I don't have any solid proof, but I've been happier...though I'm hoping my destiny isn't to be a homeless lady.

I got into a fight with my mom, which was traumatic since we haven't fought in years. We made up and understand each other better, and another benefit was that suddenly my fear of driving was gone. I started driving lessons today, and didn't do badly for someone who stopped them five years ago--on an old stick shift no less. I am learning new job skills. I am applying for a card to get reduced medical coverage. I've started going to church, hoping this will provide me a consistent network of people.

My ISH has been supportive, and I am trying to find ways around my obstacles. If I don't, let no one say I haven't put effort in trying.