My dad was in hospital! His diabetic was erratic. This happened a few years back. After visiting him at the hospital, I was unable to sleep and so I settled down with a book. After an hour or so, I heard a tiny voice telling me to call up the night duty doctor at the hospital to checkout if my dad was ok. I shushed my inner voice and continued reading and nodded off. A little later, I suddenly woke up with a start! What was that? My inner voice was getting too loud and bothersome. So, I picked up the phone, called the hospital and asked the duty doctor to see if my dad was fine .Of course, I was sternly admonished that they do take proper care of the patients. Anyway, at least I managed to still my inner voice. I went back to sleep. The next morning I rang up the hospital to find out if my dad was doing well .Imagine my surprise when the duty doctor informed me, that because of my insistence they had checked him and because of an infection his sugar level had shot up and he had to be administered insulin injection right away or he might have slipped into diabetic coma! Till today I wonder about that persistent inner voice that night. That was probably the only time I had heard that type of an inner voice!

Before that, I had experienced a different sort of inner voice .During a distress period in my life, I was totally let down and shattered. I had my family members to ease the burden. Still, I had to go through the usual emotional anxiety and mental restlessness, but one fine morning ,a month later, I suddenly woke up feeling rejuvenated and a sort of inner voice prodded me to move on and leave the past behind on the memory book of my brain. I did just that and was suddenly fine! These are the two inner voice experiences I have ever experienced in my life!

However, I have read stories about inner voices coaxing people to converse with total strangers only to find out later that those very conversations had directly or indirectly saved the stranger from doing something drastic! The bookstores are jammed with books on Inner Voice! What do they tell you? They coax you to listen and follow your inner voice or intuition. They say that the inner voice works as the guardian of a person's welfare. They tell you to trust your inner voice and rely on your inner voice. They advice you to strain and listen to your innervoice, amidst the noise of modern living and so on and so forth. Well, whatever! Personally, for me, many a times, my intuitions have let me down in dealing with teenaged children, as they have backfired! I know that just because my intuitions had certain adverse consequences doesn’t mean that my intuition isn’t worth following.

This set me thinking about the other side of the coin as well.

For instance, ex President Bush did smack the inner voice theory, if only for political reasons! He said that he really felt and believed in his heart that it was the right thing to go after Saddam Hussein and his inner voice told him so, in spite of the fact that his decision to invade was unjustifiable.

Surely all the terrorists are following their inner voice for revenge! We hear many criminals say that they heard a voice telling them to commit a crime! Psychiatrists say that such criminals suffer from schizophrenia.

Therefore, could it be that a positive person’s inner voice is constructive? Would a negative person’s inner voice be a dangerous thing? Would you assume that your inner voice is wrong? Maybe that voice and feelings are there for a reason!

As I was pondering about this, I came across this hypothesis. Within each one of us,there are various voices, telling us different contradictory, differing and even alluring messages. However amongst all this, there is one voice, your true inner voice. Learn to identify and tune in to this true inner voice - your positive inner voice, which very often gets drowned by all other negative voices!

The great Mahatma Gandhi said, 'For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth, or the Inner Voice or 'the still small Voice' mean one and the same thing.'

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