Your
intuition is that part of you that knows where to go and what to do. I believe your intuition is connected to your true source, God, the divine intelligence of the universe. I believe the still small voice inside your head telling you to go this way or that way is your intuition. Unfortunately for many of us, our true voices are drowned out by negative voices such as the inner critic.
Still, you've got to find your inner light. You've got to learn to be true to your intuitive self. That is what is meant by being true to oneself. Being true to your intuitive truth.
Intuition is a catalyst to action. It goes with you everywhere you go, but sometimes many of us are not open to it. We don't trust it. We were taught to despise it, or to be skeptical of our own so-called "evil" impulses.
Your intuition is your inner guide. It's the knowing that you know that you know underneath your thoughts, feelings, actions. It's a gut feeling, a hunch, a premonition a prophecy. It tells you who is good for you, who is bad for you and it tells you who is toxic.
Your intuition tells you who to trust and who will betray you. Plain, clear, exacting. Your intuition is always ahead of the game giving you direction. ALWAYS. But, we don't always listen to what our guidance system is telling us. We want what we want so we ignore our inner voice until it's so faint, it's like it's smothered by a pillow.
Inside your heart, soul, body and mind exists your core true self connected to the wisdom, knowledge and creative power of God--the creator of all things. Infinite intelligence flows through your being night and day. You have a choice, a decision to make in each moment--and that is to stay true or to deny that which is true for me.
Following your
intuition takes practice. If you've experienced any abuse or maladaption in childhood, you may need to connect to your intuition, your truth and become acquainted, perhaps for the first time.
The Messengers of Intuition Here is a list from the book, "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin De Beckel
Humor
Wonder
Anxiety
Curiosity
Hunches
Gut Feelings
Doubt
Hesitation
Suspicion
Apprehension
Fear
Barriers to Hearing Your Inuition
Childhood abuse or trauma can cause you to lose touch with the voice in your heart, it can also cause you to mistrust your own inclinations.
Desire for approval, recognition, attention, appreciation (narcissistic needs) is stronger than your connection to your core truth.
You don't know the difference between intuition and other voices in your head (as from the Inner Critic).
Lack of confidence or faith in your own truth.
Inability to recognize and take action on intuitive leanings.
Building a relationship of trust between yourself and yourself. Value the impulses of your intuition. Guard your intuitive thoughts and take action to pursue the requests of your deepest heart of hearts.
The key is taking action. You strengthen your connection to your intuition by heeding its yearnings. You can heed the yearnings of your heart in the following ways to get used to the idea:
- Go for a walk without an agenda. Let your intuition lead the way for once. Go where it guides you to go.
- Label your intuition. When you have an intuitive moment, try to catch yourself and label it as such.
- Stand firm in your intuition. Back yourself up. If you feel the strong desire to eat oranges, then do whatever it takes to get that orange in your mouth right away. If you can't stop thinking about a friend, stop what you're doing and call that person.
- Take action. Take action to back up your intuition.
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Intuition is a guidance mechanism of our psyche. It is connected to the very heart of God. It is the god-part of you which is connected to the collective consciousness. Inside of you is a well spring of wisdom, truth, love, well being and abundance.
This is the place of higher perspective from which your intuition dwells. It will always have the right answer for you. It will always steer you in the right direction. It has as its goal your eternal expansion. It is the voice of truth inside of you.
Your intuition is like an old fashioned gentleman. It will always let your wild side go first. It isn't boastful, grandiose or exploitative. It doesn't throw tantrums or express rage. Intuition is simply your wise, insightful sage that sits at the core of who you are. It cares deeply for your well being and it knows the truth that you may not be able to see.
Intuition incorporates unconscious clues into its leanings.
Deciphering the Intuitive You from other Parts of You
Each of us have various parts within our psyche including such figments as the wounded child, the adult or wise one, the critical one, the happy one, the sick one, the victim, the list is endless. The secret to determining which is your intuitive truth without becoming confused by this crowd in your mind is to
1. Listen to your heart.
2. Seek to know your intuition.
3. Invite your intuition to live with you in life and to help you.
4. Get to a clear, quite place. Change locations. Go outside. Go for a run or a walk.
5. Fight the tendency to use your cognitive defenses or cognitive biases.
6. Examine your justifications for not following your intuition in real time.
7. Live on a higher level of observation through mindfulness techniques.
8. Develop a meditation practice that will help you to be still and tuned into your inner truth.
9. Set a strong intention to know your intuition.
10. Take baby steps today following the leanings of your heart without asking why, JUST DO IT.
There is a difference between your intuition and a made-up idea. True intuition is subtle as hell. It doesn't knock you over, unless you're very accustomed to following it. It stands firm, resolute, strong, capable, available and ready to lead and guide you, if you will let it.
How to Trust your Intuition
Start practicing now. It will come in handy once a real need to heed your own still voice comes up.
Pitfalls to Following Your Intuition
Your intuition is leading you to your highest good, which may be vastly different than making you feel good this red hot minute. You will need to gain
self discipline to override your impulses and instead follow your own inner guidance. You must
rise to take action on your own behalf, even when a larger part of you wants to ignore your truth for some other pursuit. The key is to bring your whole self--your ENTIRE SELF into submission of your own inner guidance of intuition and truth. Anything less is Self Betrayal.
Allow your intuition to override your impulses.
Your intuition is tapped into infinite intelligence.
Intuition is clarity. Take bold action to the tune of the clarity inside your heart.
Following your intuition is like playing a musical instrument--except, you're the violin!
It's like a dance where you let your true self take the lead.
Like a therapist in your mind.
Your intuition is that part of you that is beneath the hurt, the pain, the wounds... It's the part of you that exists always, beyond time and space. Even beyond thought and feeling. Your intuition is the core of who you are, linked up with the source of all creation.
Those of us raised to abandon and reject ourselves may not have a clue about following our intuition. Others may follow their intuition every day and not even realize what they're doing. Suffice it to say, the latter experience much happier, fulfilled and satisfying lives. Those who are disconnected from their own true source within will experience pain, neurosis and any manner of mental illness, depression or other negative malady. I repeat. Those who are out-of-touch or out-of-sync with their intuition (like I was) will experience pain insomuch as they do.
Heeding your intuition fully is the result of truly finding yourself. It is the only way to love yourself effectively.
Your intuition is your inner parent. Your inner wisdom. Inner guide. Can you imagine being out-of-touch? Can you imagine turning to addictions instead of heeding the still voice who is the proponent of your highest good?
Your intuition is always with you. It will always comfort, always support. It may correct, but will do so gently, lovingly and without judgment. This inner leaning is the you that loves you, protects you, warns you, fights for you, talks to you, guides you, reminds you,
Intuition consists of pure unconditional acceptance and love. It guides you for your good, not for promise of gain or fear of loss. It doesn't need to get anything. It doesn't need to impress anyone. It doesn't need to prove itself or win anyone over. Intuition doesn't stoop to the level of persecution games, but instead serves as your higher self with a universal perspective beyond all space, time, thoughts and emotion.
Following your intuition won't always bring the great emotional rush that lower level impulsive actions may bring... That's because intuition is centered and clear. It just is, it doesn't need the
It's not the part of you that needs a jolt of intensity just to feel. Your intuition is the part of you that knows what to do. The answers to everything you need are within your heart, though you distract yourself from these answers under the guise of looking for answers.
A big problem is questioning your intuition. This may occur if you were raised to abandon yourself. You may question if your perceptions are correct, or if you're off base. The key to knowing is in going higher to the level of your motive. Letting that high place penetrate the low, needy, desperate
wounded child that wants what it wants and doesn't care if what it wants is nothing like it really wants.
Your wounded child is the biggest blocker of your intuition.
- That's not a good idea.
- This person is exploitative.
- Stay away from her.
- Stop this relationship.
- This friend is good.
- He can't be what I need.
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People who were abused as children have difficulty in their own hearts because they're disconnected from their core truth. They're disconnected from the heart of who they are. They're disconnected from their true self, their intuition, and tragically, from their true source.
There may be another drive or impulse for them to override their better judgment and take a huge risk with an abusive person... whereas the intuitive true self says, "He's not good for you."
But if you are not accustomed to heeding your true self, you may barely be able to discern it from all the other noise. If you haven't been taught the value of that true self, then you may just steam roll over it with your wounded child's impulsive pursuits.
If you're plugged into your intuitive center, your life will be so much better. This is the essence of inner bonding and intimacy with others.
Intuition will never lead you astray. If you're off-track, it's likely because you failed to listen and act according to your own inner wisdom.
Intuition doesn't need to pick up the phone and get someone's advice, but your false self might. Your false self might be looking for outside validation for bullying the true self and ruling your life as you go from one mistake to the other.
So long as you ignore your intuition, you will continue to lose pieces of yourself that you need to reach your destination: Your highest good.
You believe it? It must be true.
You want that? I will get it for you.
You don't like that? I will make it stop.
You think that? What I think means everything to me.
You feel how? My feelings are my emotional guidance system.
Intuition is not the negative voice inside your head, or the inner critic telling you that you're no good, incompetent and decrepit... That would be the antithesis of intuition. Intuition is always true, always pure, always clear, always correct. It is not confusing, frustrating, badgering and nagging. It's still. It's quiet. It's soft and it whispers. It is trying to lead and guide you beneath the surface. It's your turn now to let it rule.
Weigh intuition against rational mind. Judith Orliff.
The key for those who are learning to love themselves is that you give space to the intuition, perhaps even for the first time. Space for your truth to be heard and respected--by you, your very own self.
Intuition is a feeling in the body, in the gut especially, about another person.
Sometimes the wrong decision is disguised as the easiest.
http://www.rebellesociety.com/2014/03/21/listen-to-your-heart-7-ways-to-trust-your-intuition/
Our minds seek comfort. Our hearts seek truth.
http://www.rebellesociety.com/2014/03/21/listen-to-your-heart-7-ways-to-trust-your-intuition/
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations… I sometimes ‘feel’ that I am right. I do not ‘know’ that I am.” ~ Albert Einstein
“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and
celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there
are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally
vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.” ~ Oliver Sacks
http://www.rebellesociety.com/2014/03/21/listen-to-your-heart-7-ways-to-trust-your-intuition/
3. Look for the signs. Often we overlook subtle
synchronicities which are there to guide us down the best path. I
believe that such signs are actually our subconscious trying to
communicate with our conscious self. We should pay attention to
coincidences and make note of subtle symbols which might lead us to
discover a more authentic life choice which is truly best for us.
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” ~William S. Burroughs
“Intuition is seeing with the soul.” ~ Dean Koontz
http://www.wikihow.com/Follow-Your-Intuition
Intuition is "knowing" something without being able to explain how you came to that conclusion rationally.
[1] It's that mysterious "gut feeling" or "instinct" that often turns out to be right, in retrospect. When you've
whittled down your options
and are stuck at a crossroads, getting in touch with your intuition can
help. Learning how to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak,
is difficult but intuition can be developed, especially when following
some of these ideas.
Intuition is basically how you quickly tap into your subconscious mind,
which is where you "archive" all kinds of information that you don't
remember on a conscious level.
[2]
Sometimes you pick up on things subconsciously without realizing it,
such as body language. It'll register as a certain "feeling" that you
can't articulate at that moment, but it could very well be valid.
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Ask yourself questions and listen to the first answer that pops into your mind.
That isn't easy, because several thoughts will flood your mind at once.
For instance, let's say you're looking at a menu. In figuring out what
you want, pick out the first thing that stands out to you. Ignore the
remainder of your thoughts, like for example: "But I didn't even look at
the specials" or "But my friend is on a diet and I'll feel bad eating
this in front of him" or "But my uncle said the mashed potatoes he had
here were too mushy" etc. Don't dwell on it. Just pick something. It
might be scary, because what if you make the wrong choice? Do not worry,
you will be fine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpte6gGyVcc
Voice of intuition is quiet, quick, transcendental, peace, void of these emotional ties, attachment and fears. Not intense resistance to
Patient, not urgent. Perspective of this most expansive, eternal view of yourself does not align with fear.
Ego will keep you separate to avoid annhiliation. You better do this now or something bad will happen. Judgment, bad, cynisism.
True self does not question worth. Sees world more horizontally. Other same as self.
Ego feeds off of both extremes. Better than/Less Than, self defeating shame or self defeating pride. Never in present moment.
Strengthen connection with the True Self.
Seek and ye shall find.
Only through stillness that it can come through.
You have to be soft to be able to receive.
Let go of the need for the illusion of separateness between you and others.
right, superior, function of ego
Ego feeds off of need.
True self focuses on desire
