What is the Internal Guidance System?

The Internal Guidance System or "IGS" is a reliable, sensory based "secondary operating system" - an alternative to being controlled by our mind, our ego and thought patterns, a personal life compass and a trusted companion that can help us attune to divine guidance, be in alignment with our higher purpose and act in the world from a place of personal power, courage and integrity.

The IGS’s purpose is to reveal the thinking and behavior that is actually keeping you from what you dream of having, doing or being.

"This work has just been a phenomenal gift in my life... I have been on an accelerated plane ever since I took the course and really understood the Internal Guidance System. It was the missing link for me in really being able to follow the path that was right for me and throw away all the doubt that clouds those choices you make in your day. It just makes everything so clear and concise and since I’ve been using it my life is just flowing along, so great and so many amazing things are happening".

I’d recommend it to everybody because it is just a very simple useful easy to understand tool that we all possess and the beauty of it is it’s simplicity."
-- Susan D. –Sebastopol, CA

 

What is “your IGS”?

Do you have stress, anxiety, a collapsed feeling inside or a sense of powerlessness in your life?

Are you not sure what to think, what decisions are most effective or how to move towards your life’s purpose? These are the sensations of your IGS "closing".

Have you had moments of amazing clarity when everything seemed to go perfectly and do you want more of that? These are sensations of your IGS "opening".

Learning how to locate, recognize its signals and utilize your own IGS can be a profound and empowering aid in navigating through the decisions and challenges in your life.

I invite you to try out your Internal Guidance System right now. Watch this video (below) before reading further. Doing so will give you a personal experience of your Internal Guidance System (IGS) that will enhance your understanding of the rest of our discussion.

View this video (Part-1 of our YouTube video series on the Internal Guidance System - how to find it and use it) to get an experience, right now, of your own IGS and what YOUR IGS feels like when it "opens" and "closes."

What kind of Guidance does the IGS Provide?

“The Internal Guidance System makes me excited. Other spiritual work that I have done when I have gotten depressed I stayed in a funk but with the IGS I feel like I have tools to get out of it really quickly."
-- Gwen W. Novato - Health coordinator

You have your own Internal Guidance System between your throat and stomach area in your own body, and it has all the information you need to guide your thoughts regarding life decisions, large and small, how to create your way out of struggle and stress, AND how to move toward a more fulfilling life both spiritual and material for yourself, those around you and the world.

The sensations we feel in our body, (opening/expansion and closing/contraction a forms of guidance from your IGS), are never in response to what is happening in the world around you, only on what you are thinking about the people and the world, this includes the thoughts you have about yourself.

The purpose of this guidance is to provide you with immediate feedback on whether your thoughts and choices are bringing you toward greater joy, love and compassion or bringing you suffering, illusion, pain and rejection. Why this makes a difference is because where you place your mental focus creates what you get in life.

If you look at all the self help books, sports training books, leadership, business books, it is all about being clear in your goals and focusing your attention toward the achievement of those goals. Focusing your mind does work.

However, many of us have so many thoughts that are closing that we often have a challenging time raising up to move our focus to all the empowering thoughts and instead get trapped in the disempowering thoughts.

Your IGS is a largely untapped resource in helping you to experience your highest purpose and at the same time to ease. It is naturally attempting to lead you toward achieving your most empowered self and the perspective that will bring you the life you desire. We have never been taught to understand this guidance and until now has not been a teachable understanding of this system.

The closing of the IGS is a type of constriction which is what most consider to be stress, frustration, anxiety, and anger however these sensations are connect to our thoughts and thus it is in shifting your thoughts that relief is created. Yes, all of these feelings and sensations are actually the closing of your IGS. What is really going on is that the closed and collapsed feeling in your chest and the knotted ball in your stomach is your IGS letting you know you need to shift your perspective immediately.

“Her [Zen’s] message is very similar to Dr. Wayne Dyer’s but the advantage to Zen’s workshops is she gives us a tool, the IGS, to use in our day-to- day lives in order to get back on track. Other authors in the field are not as clear as to how to self direct to get yourself back on track."
-- Lynn W. Ronhert Park - admin. professional for non profit

When your thoughts and highest purpose are in alignment, you feel an expanding or opening sensation, a lightening and an uprising sensation in the body. An easing in combination with any thoughts no matter how small the expansion or opening of the IGS means you are on the right track, you are empowered in the moment to move forward with confidence. That is literally your IGS confirming that your thoughts are aligned with your highest good.

What is important for you to know now is that this feedback can forever alleviate the suffering, anxiety, fear, pain and insecurity that you may feel at any moment in life by learning to look for the thoughts that bring ease.

“I am very, very, grateful to you and your team! I listen many times a day, journal and by focusing on myself I am so full of love, joy, and hope for each and every person on this planet...I have seen and I am witness to profound changes every minute of the day by following your techniques.”
-- Elizabeth Crews- student (click here for full testimonial)

Many people think that having good or positive thoughts automatically will feel good and thus bring this open feeling however this is not the case. We can have “good” thoughts that close us and we can have “bad” thoughts that are opening. The IGS is not dependant on the quality of the thought only whether or not the thoughts are Truth, in alignment with what will bring us towards our highest good and desires or away.

The IGS gives you insight into what the priorities are and can help provide an understanding of the repeating patterns of thinking and behaving that stand in the way of a greater experience of peace and relaxation. The IGS’s purpose is to reveal the thinking and behavior that is actually keeping you from what you dream of having.

The IGS takes time and practice as simple as it sounds it is honestly more complex than just following the opening and closing. The reason for this is because we are engaging with our minds and our emotions from a completely new frame of reference and it is crucial that you learn the distinctions for this new frame of “mind” to be consistent and successful with your IGS.

"I listen to one of Zen's CD's almost everyday. Any time things aren't going quite right I listen and am able to get back into the positive flow. It has worked miracles in my life."
-- Mackenzie Firgens – Actor

How do I learn more about my IGS?

We offer lots of training, coaching and information. Our offerings include a series of Tele-seminars, hours and hours of downloadable audio lectures, CD’s, Group Coaching, Individual coaching and live courses to bring about your development of this outstanding system.

All is available at affordable pricing for everyone. It is Ahuma Institute's desire to support anyone who is drawn to understanding this work for we believe that we must each “Be the Change we wish to see in the world” and feel we offer a way to do just that. For us this is the best way to consistently be grounded and centered in the ever hectic world we live in.

Our desire is for the work to be affordable, rich and comprehensive.

Intuition vs. Internal Guidance (what’s the difference)

Many people ask if the IGS is one's intuition. I have found that it is not intuition. The definition of intuition is according to Wikkipedia is,

“Intuition is apparent ability to acquire knowledge without a clear inference or reasoning process.”

To further define the word inference is

“The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.”

There are many ways in which people who are intuitive receive information, for example visuals, emotions, energy, perceptions, audible information and the like. Intuition means different things to different people and people have various ways they experience their intuition. None which can be consistently inferred from factual knowledge or evidence.

The IGS is a consistent stable resource that can be considered a clear inference, (information that one already knows) that is easily built upon once the distinctions are understood. The knowing that is derived from the IGS becomes consistent with awareness. The same distinctions apply in a reoccurring pattern with the IGS. The wild card in the equation is our own understanding of how our mind operates and delivers guidance.

The IGS’s guidance often completely opposite to how the mind relates to “gut feelings”. “Gut feelings’ most often attributed to intuitive information being received. “I got a bad feeling about this”, or “I got a bad vibe from that person.” Does not relate in the same way that these same sensations are guidance with the IGS.

If you get a bad feeling or vibe according to the distinctions of your IGS that means that the thoughts your mind is producing are not Truth, not in alignment with what you desire and are not in your highest purpose to be thinking. So the “bad vibe” actually means the opposite that it once did for with the IGS it is to be interpreted that the thought is not Truth, not bringing forward your highest desire from the situation.

With the distinctions of the IGS you would have an opening sensation or vibe when you think of someone or something as being a bad or having bad energy. The thought would open you if it is Truth and in your purpose to be thinking it.

The way the IGS operates, in giving guidance, is for many counter intuitive to how their mind guides them. The sensations we have that feel closing, we often do everything possible to protest, avoid and ignore. This one distinction is very important. When you are closed your thoughts are not Truth.

Part of what we explore in the courses we offer is what Truth is to you and how to unravel the illusion of the stories our mind tells us.

Our IGS is a gift that gives you the opportunity to shift your thought patterns from disempowered to empowered, from reactive to creative. Most of all, it will begin, step by beautiful step, to bring you into the most powerful and incredible life you are intended to be living.

To start on this path it is important that we begin with a level playing field of understanding.

The Misery of our Mind

Many of us are at the mercy of our minds because of lack of knowledge and practices that lead our mind to where we desire it to be, verses, our mind leading us to where it decides to go. Since most of us have not been taught the fundamentals of how to operate within the confines of our own mind, we start there first.

Our 6 series Tele-seminar “IGS-beginning with the basics” is a perfect place to start. Our courses teach you how understand, manage and over time master the energy of the body by understanding your current thoughts and the energy they create. This knowledge empowers you to change your thoughts and your vibration so that you can create the results you desire.


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"After taking the Power Manifestation Basic course I realize that what I really am is an author. Something I have known for a long time and felt deep down in my being but I wouldn’t let it happen because I was so well trained by society...

This work is teaching me how to understand my feelings, when I am open to a path or closed to a path is what is going to change everything for me."
Louise F. Sonoma, CA - realtor/ author

To understand and utilize the guidance being given by your IGS it is necessary to begin to unravel our own minds and how it operates.

Our mind as our current "operating system"

A simple way to understand the mind and how it operates is to think of a computer which has an underlying operating system that runs software programs for different tasks and functions.

(Note: For some people the mere mentioning of anything technological sends them into the belief that they do not understand computers so they will not understand the metaphor. I promise you don’t need to understand computers to understand the forth-coming metaphor.)

Our brain is similar to the hardware a computer, hardware meaning the actual guts of the computer, what one can touch and feel: ie. hard drive, RAM, ROM etc. Our mind is the software loaded onto the hardware. Software is the programs loaded into the computer, Word, excel, email program, the browser for the internet.

Your mind software is literally all the information that has been and is still being collected over one’s life time that makes up who each of us is as a personality. From the day we are born we begin programming the software of our mind. How we think, what we believe, how we are to feel, who we should be, who we should not be is all programmed into our minds. As time goes on we learn to speak, act and become this software. The software program is also another way of looking at our Ego or our personality, if you will.

The entire purpose for the creation of the software, that is our ego, is to guide and protect us. Its intention is to guide us toward love, joy and happiness and to move us away from suffering, pain and unhappiness. It is programmed primarily to act as our main guidance system.

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