Common Sense: How Common is it?

By Sara Jane

What is common sense?

Can we learn it?

Or as some think, you either have it or you don’t?

Recently, while working on creating a “Gathering” of the authors of our recent book “I Didn’t Become Selfish, I Became Harder to Manipulate”, one of them, Dirk Albrodt, suggested an additional topic of “It takes a bit of guts to resist common sense”.

Initially that threw me, until I really thought about it.

Could there be 2 forms of common sense?

The common sense I believe most of us think about, which for me is heart and soul led
Or common sense led by fear, the ego and monkey mind

I have always thought of myself as being blessed with common sense but this has given me food for thought.

In all my years of being a people pleaser, during which I now understand I was operating from fear of rejection etc, was I operating from number 2?

The truth is, I probably was because fear can so distort our thinking and reasoning.

Having woken up to the way I had lived my life and come to understand why, I have been able to heal many aspects of my past, supporting me to feel more comfortable and confident in myself.

Thus, I believe helping me to act more fully from my heart and soul, listening and supporting from a place of love and caring rather than fear.

I have shared this as food for thought, what are your thoughts?

Is there an aspect here that speaks to you, nudges you, opens your thinking and understanding of yourself or others?

When we come to have a better understanding of ourselves, it supports us to be more understanding of others.

After all we have all had experiences that have shaped us, when we start to understand the how, what and why we have been as we have been, it can support us to make our own choices to learn and grow from them or remain the same.