Wow – another super hot week and another opportunity for me to post a lovely summery image.
I hope, despite the temperatures, you’re making the most of your summer.
It’ll be gone again soon and we’ll all be left pining for some heat and sunshine.
I’ve been working with one of my Lonelies this week – let’s call him Keith.
Keith has reached a point in his life where he needs to make a big decision.
We’ve weighed up all the pros and cons, he’s done his due diligence, we’ve discussed everything at length and now it’s crunch time.
Unfortunately…Keith can’t make his mind up.
He’s stood at the crossroads, but just can’t decide which way to go.
I ask him “What’s your intuition telling you to do?”
He looks at me a bit baffled and says “I don’t know about that stuff. I don’t think I have any intuition.”
I reply to him “You do have intuition, everyone does.”
“Nope”, he says, “not me”.
And he’s adamant he doesn’t have an ounce of intuition.
He only ever bases his decisions on logic and facts.
Although logic and facts have served him well in his very successful career, they’re not helping him in this case.
Each side of his decision is so equally balanced, there’s not enough between them to tip it either way.
It’s going to have to be decided on the toss of a coin or by using his intuition.
Keith is not keen on making a huge life-changing decision on the toss of a coin…the only option he has left is to go within.
So I give him a quick lesson on intuition…
Intuition can be called your inner voice, inner guidance, inner knowledge or your instinct, gut feeling, sixth sense, or a hunch.
It’s a feeling rather than a thought.
You think thoughts with your head…you feel feelings with your body.
Often your head can play tricks on you, it can lie, convince you of something that isn’t true, but your body can’t.
So if you want to learn to use your intuition more, you have to get out of your head and into your body.
Intuitive knowledge is knowledge that lives outside of our everyday awareness.
It lives in our subconscious mind.
Everything we’ve ever seen, touched, tasted, smelled, heard or experienced is stored in our subconscious.
It’s all neatly filed away.
When you access your intuition, you are accessing all of this knowledge.
This might seem nebulous or weak, but it can actually be more accurate than anything you think with your head.
The subconscious mind holds 90-95% of your total brain power.
Albert Einstein, the greatest physicist of all time was known for using his intuition, for this reason.
He said “I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. It’s all about learning to use unconscious information in your brain.”
Your subconscious mind speaks to you through feelings and emotions.
Unfortunately, it only whispers.
But those whispers will always be for your best and highest good, so it’s well worth listening for them.
Ego is the opposite of intuition.
And it shouts.
It’s always trying to keep you safe.
It detests change and will do everything in its power to keep you stuck in the status quo.
We have to be able to distinguish between our intuition and our ego.
We have to learn to be quiet and go inwards – to ignore the shouts and hear the whispers.
Intuition is generally felt in the gut or chest, but can be felt anywhere in the body.
Inhale deeply and exhale to breathe into your body. This centres you.
Do a body scan and feel your entire body.
Ask yourself how you are feeling about something and note the sensations that come up.
If your body responds well – by feeling expanded or uplifted, then you know you have the right answer.
If your body responds badly – by feeling constricted or tense then you know you have the wrong answer.
This takes practice.
So you must take time for some introspection.
Get used to checking in with yourself – being self aware and scanning your body.
Ask yourself, what am I feeling and where am I feeling it in my body?
If your heart could speak, what would it say to you?
Start to express yourself and your feelings more.
Highly intuitive people talk about their feelings. They don’t feel ashamed of them.
They feel their full spectrum of emotions and welcome them as part of the human experience.
It’s only when you learn to feel your feelings that you can learn to TRUST your feelings.
Get used to unplugging and recharging.
Look for silence and stillness.
Take breaks and have long walks in nature.
Shut out the world and seek solitude so that you can separate yourself from what others think you should do.
Imagine you have a very wise person who lives inside you and knows everything about you – learn to listen to them.
Learn to focus on the present moment and tune out everything else.
Your intuition is like a muscle, the more you use it the stronger it gets.
So practice, practice, practice.
This will also help you to learn to live more as your authentic self.
The more you go inside, the better you get to know the real you.
Becoming more intuitive helps you to find yourself, to make the right choices, to take chances, and to take action where others wouldn’t.
Plus intuition is one of the four principles of luck, so it’s well worth investing time and effort into developing it.
Keith had completely neglected his intuition muscle, but with some support and guidance he successfully used it to make his final choice.
Only time will tell whether it was the right choice.
But it was the best choice he could make at that time, with the total knowledge he had.
If you want my support and guidance, then get in touch.
Much Love
Christina xx