The Gift of Confusion

The relentless drive towards a scientific understanding of everything from psychology to even, believe it or not, love itself, has led to an underlying belief that certainty is good and confusion is bad. Hence, many people consider confusion to be an affliction; a symptom of something bad, wrong, or unwanted.

However, if you take even a simple glimpse of history, you'll notice that an overwhelming volume of discoveries -- really important and monumentally helpful ones -- grew out of confusion. How can this be!?

Here's why: confusion creates inner space within you; a space between what you thought you knew, and what is really happening. You believed something -- or you expected something -- and something else is happening. As such, there is a separation between your belief and reality. And in that separation is space (after all, space is intrinsic and necessary for separation, right?).

Now, in our culture, we've been conditioned to resist and reject this space -- to fight against it as if it were an enemy. And as such, whenever confusion emerges, we tend to do anything and everything to STOP it as soon as possible.

Yet this is often a huge mistake, because that confusion is really nothing but NEW SPACE within you -- and that is an avenue (or a "portal" if you read lots of Eckhart Tolle stuff) into a intelligence that really runs this inexplicable, mysterious universe.

The next time you are "faced" with confusion, don't run away from it -- don't lunge towards what you think is a safe, reliable answer. Don't destroy your confusion. Instead, accept it. Co-exist with it. Allow that confusion -- that space -- to live, just as you live. It's as if a friend has stopped by your home and wants to come in. Let it. You don't have to really do anything, in fact. Simply allow the confusion to exist; like you allow a friend to exist in your home.

Stay with the confusion, without reacting to it in either a positive or negative way, and soon you'll see something very interesting emerge: your confusion will transform into awareness, and through that awareness a new insight will emerge within you.

This is how intuition works. The most intuitive among as are indeed the most confused, and they would not have it any other way.