Reaching out/Reaching in

When we reach out for help, we are seeking someone who can listen, show compassion and ultimately help us. 

But what if I were to say to you, that this someone has been you all along.

How would that make you feel?

The reason why I share this with you is because in the world of healing there are so many options to choose from.

If I asked you to enter a room and sit by the person with the loudest voice, would you do that or would you follow your own intuition?

Some of you may be drawn to the one with the loudest voice as you may perceive that the loudest voice offers more support, more knowledge and ultimately more wisdom.

For others you may follow the one with the more gentle, softest voice, even silent. For me, this is certainly the voice I would follow..

The reasons I am sharing this with you, is often when we reach out to someone to help us, we do this because we have ignored the voice inside of us. It is not until we experience challenges that we reach out for help. 

This inner voice is there for a reason as it is ours and over time this inner voice can become louder and louder if ignored, but not with sound, with symptoms. These symptoms could be experienced in the body or heard in the mind as thoughts. And these thoughts can often be so loud, that they will overpower our entire being, influencing our behaviours and even our beliefs. 

So, why do we often ignore this inner voice, which is such an intuitive guide to us?

What is happening inside of us that causes us to disconnect from this intuition and our own connection with ourselves?

It is often a belief that what exists inside of us, is too much to feel. I personally have experienced this and so I would push away a painful feeling, until its presence is shouting so loud because it wants to be heard.  

When this happens, it brings me to a complete stop and I am reminded how important it is to connect to myself. I may reach out to others and seek help and this reaching out brings me back into alignment with myself. 

So, yes. Even I reach out rather than reaching in. 

But the more I reach into myself, the more I am reminded of my true self. And this reaching in brings me closer and closer to reconnect to my authentic self, my intuition and my being. 

So, please always remember that we may need to reach out to others to seek help, but this help should always guide us towards reaching inside to ourselves. 

Reaching in, is where we find our true power of presence. And within this presence is our essence, our authenticity, our release to let go of what is blocking our own inner connection to our sacred selves. 

We may always need to reach out to reach in and this is totally fine. But all of us have to be mindful of where we are reaching out to and who we are reaching out to and why.

Please reach out to those who guide you to reach in to yourselves. Because deep inside, you will find exactly what you have been looking for. 

And it will be your true self. 

© Pete Bengry 2026

Credit to Frankie Mish for image