Using Your Homing Instinct

Steve Goodier

Did you know that the Arctic Tern, that lives about seven degrees south of the North Pole, leaves its home every year and flies all the way to Antarctica and back—some 23,000 miles in all?

I wonder WHY the bird does that...Is it looking for a better place to live? Surely it must pass a LOT of good real estate between its home seven degrees south of the North Pole and Antarctica! Can't it find something suitable? Is Antarctica really that much better? Or, if it's getting a little warm, why doesn't the bird just fly up to the North Pole?

But that's not the point. The point is that the bird returns home—home to its special place near the North Pole. It flies all that distance and returns to just the same spot it once left. I can hardly drive across town without getting lost—how does it do it? Twenty three thousand miles! But somehow, the Arctic Tern possesses the ability to fly halfway around the globe and return home every year.

You know that the salmon leaves her little mountain stream as a fingerling and swims, perhaps hundreds of miles, to the ocean where she lives. Then, when it's time to lay eggs, she swims back to her place of birth. She somehow finds just the right river, and all of the correct tributaries and streams and creeks until she arrives home. It's the trip of a lifetime—one she may not survive. But she presses on, somehow knowing just the right paths to take along the way.

Like the arctic tern, the salmon possesses a built-in ability to find her way home.

So it is with humans. Not in a physical sense, for many of us can't get anywhere without a map. But we have a built-in ability to successfully navigate the twists and turns of life.

We may pay a lot of money for counseling, but, as a good counselor knows, it's not advice most of us need. So a skilled therapist will help us to find the way ourselves.

When you feel lost and confused about a path you should take or a decision to be made, those answers you need you usually possess—deep inside. Learn to be still and listen, trust your natural guidance system, and you can most often find your way home again.

Are you using your homing instinct?

What vs Who

Author Unknown

Your body is what you are...your soul is who you are.

A Healing Prescription

Henry Matthew Ward

I gathered a thousand kisses and into this bottle they flew.
Then I wrapped it in some loving hugs—prescribed especially for you.

No moving parts, no batteries; no monthly payments and no fees.
Inflation proof, non-taxable, in fact, it's quite relaxable.

It can't be stolen, won't pollute, one size fits all, do not dilute.
It uses little energy, but yields results enormously.

Relieves your tension and your stress; invigorates your happiness.
Combats depression, makes you beam and elevates your self esteem!

Your circulation it corrects without unpleasant side effects.
It is, I think, the perfect drug—may I prescribe, my friend...the hug!

(And, of course it is fully returnable.)

The Whole World Came Together

Author Unknown

A young mother was ready for a few minutes of relaxation after a long and demanding day. However, her young daughter had other plans for her mother's time.

"Read me a story, Mom," the little girl requested.

"Give Mommy a few minutes to relax and unwind. Then I'll be happy to read you a story," pleaded the mother.

The little girl was insistent that Mommy read to her now. With a stroke of genius, the mother tore off the back page of the magazine she was reading. It contained a full-page picture of the world.

As she tore it into several pieces, Mom asked her daughter to put the picture together and then she would read her a story. Surely this would buy her some relaxing moments. A short time later, the little girl announced the completion of her puzzle project. To her mother's astonishment, the world picture was completely assembled.

When she asked her daughter how she managed to do it so quickly, the little girl explained that on the reverse side of the page was the picture of a little girl.

"You see, Mommy!" she said, "When I got the little girl together, the whole world came together!"

The Magic Of Love

Helen Steiner Rice

Love is like magic and it always will be.
For love still remains life's sweet mystery!

Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange,
and there's nothing in life that love cannot change!

Love can transform the most commonplace,
into beauty and splendour and sweetness and grace.

Love is unselfish, understanding and kind,
for it sees with its heart and not with its mind!

Love is the answer that everyone seeks...
Love is the language, that every heart speaks.

Love can't be bought, it is priceless and free,
love, like pure magic, is life's sweet mystery!

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