Follow your Intuition
Follow Your Intuition
You’ve experienced it – you think something that on its face does not make sense. Thoughts like “bring your umbrella”, “take a different road”, or “check your phone”. Hearing these messages from your voice within doesn’t make sense to your logical mind, and later you find it was your intuition communicating. Discovering that there was unexpectant rain, or a back-up on your normal route, or you just received an important text from a loved one makes you aware of the voice in your head as a guide.
Since it is a guiding force, why are not you listening to it? Intuition is one of our mental faculties that helps to point the way. We have learned to trust our five senses, and part of aligning with Spirit is trusting Intuition.
Learning to trust it
Developing it
Listen to your body
Part of becoming more intuitive calls for shifting your relationship with your body, see it as your transactional vehicle with intelligence that provides feedback as you walk with life. It has the intelligence to tense up your muscles when it foresees danger or the unknown. To give you shivers or goosebumps when it hears something inspirational. And make you feel a nagging feeling in your stomach in response to what you are supposed to do. Also reacts when you tell a lie, such as telling someone you are “great” when it is simply not true. It is a perfect system connected to your subconscious mind that stores all the information about you. It is so fine-tuned to the energy that it encounters, that staying awake to the signals provides more information to make better choices, better decisions.
Recognizing its awareness
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Here are a few suggestions that can help you get in touch with your intuition.
Observe the silence – get quiet, breathe as suggested to calm your nervous system and think of something that you are grateful for, and observe the silence. What are you hearing? When you ask a question, what are the answers that come?
Practice meditation – there is a great app called Insight Timer that at no cost provides mindful practices like meditation. This is a great way to start quieting the mind.
Listen for the nudges that you are being given and experiment. Follow the nudges and see your life unfold, leaving control behind by letting God, and letting go.
Spend time in nature and ponder on the decisions you are considering. Allow that energy flow nature brings to breathe inspiration into you with thoughts and ideas. A journal is handy for this exercise so you can jot down what comes up, then you can evaluate.
Engage in more right-brain activities like movement, art, music, drawing, having fun.
Commence the practice of making decisions on feelings; start small so you can build your trust muscle with your intuition.
Stay open to the opportunities that come up, resist the knee-jerk reaction of “no, I won’t try that something new.” By staying open and allowing those opportunities to come into your life, you are saying “yes” to life’s flow and Spirit is part of your intuition and flow.
Word of encouragement – it may not seem natural for you to move in this direction, there will be voices of opposition in your head. Those voices are based on fear, the fact that it’s something new. Fear is closed-in, dense energy that must be banished to live a more expansive, fulfilled life. So, take baby steps to building a relationship with your inner wisdom and use it as a guiding force.
Watch my Facebook live on this subject — https://fb.watch/b3WME5TK7R/