Fear and conditioning can be mistaken for inner guidance.
The longings in your heart are inner guidance.
Your intuition is inner guidance.
Your inner guidance is subtle at first, except possibly for some decisions.
As you raise your consciousness, it becomes easier.
"...two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
-Carl von Clausewitz
19th century Prussian
The "inner light" is higher consciousness.
Listening to your inner guidance, what von Clausewitz refers to as "the inner light," is indispensable.
When you raise your consciousness, listening to your "inner light", or inner guidance, becomes natural for you.
In the autobiography of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875–1961) "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," the editor wrote in the introduction that Jung "would not undertake anything of the sort unless he felt it was a 'task' imposed on him from within."
This is an example of someone listening to their inner guidance.
The editor, Aniela Jaffé, also noted a remark of Jung's: "It has become a necessity for me to write down my early memories. If I neglect to do so for a single day, unpleasant physical symptoms immediately follow. As soon as I set to work they vanish and my head feels perfectly clear."
This is a form of inner guidance.
Lisa Dieken