Intuition

. Trust Your Intuition .

Something we hear all the time right? But we’ve had a few questions lately from some of you who are struggling with how to connect to such. I know I always start off with the same thing but it’s important to know, when it comes to your own natural talents it’s always best to go with what feels right for you. Just because a certain way resonates with one, does not mean it will resonate with you.

The best way to learn how to trust your intuition is to use it! You know that gut feeling, that’s your intuition talking to you. Listen to it and go with your instincts. Here are a few easy tips or exercises I like to suggest to help you with such:

. Play the card game. This can also work with anything like colours, pictures etc but, for the sake of this let’s use oracle or tarot cards. Sit down and draw a card. Take a moment to ground yourself, open yourself up to spirit, to source and ask your higher (inner self) or guides to help you to receive the messages clearly. Then take some time to look at the card. Connect with its energy, what images are you seeing, do you hear words? Are you getting an emotion, a sense or a vibe? Do this on a regular basis to strengthen both your connection and your listening abilities.

. Fake it until you make it. Ever been around someone who seems perfectly lovely but you get an off feeling about them. That’s your intuition talking. Energetically you are reading their energy. You might not understand it at first, but put your faith in your gut feeling and follow it blindly anyway. I promise you it won’t steer you wrong. The more you do this, the stronger it will become and the more faith you’ll have in your intuition. Sometimes it can be hard to “fake” trust in the early days but, try and take that leap of faith. It’s the first step. How can you learn to trust it, if you don’t ever allow it to make your decisions for you?

. Discernment. You will need to learn what is truly a gut feeling and what is a projected fear or belief. You can do this by listening to your body, where does the energy sit, where is it coming from when you feel it? Are there emotions or fears attached or is it just a pure feeling? Usually gut feelings, intuitive feelings will not have an emotion and especially a fear attached. That’s usually a projection that your ego is putting out there to try and hold you back from a situation. Remember ego does not like to be challenged, it wants to protect itself because challenging the ego results in an ego death.

. Make sure you are coming from your heart centre and not your head. When we think too much we are on our heads and we need to bring our energy and our awareness back in to our hearts. Here, in the heart space is where we truly connect. It is through pure feeling (not to be confused with emotion but sensing) that we receive our intuitive messages. If you catch yourself in your head space, pause and take a few deep breaths. Imagine roots coming from your feet, grounding you back in to the earth. Then start to drop your awareness from you thoughts and your minds, to your heart space - connecting to what you are feeling, the energy you feel, where’s it sitting, what smells or noises can you hear. Quiet the minds chatter and just allow yourself to feel a situation out. I know it sounds so easy and yet quite hard but honestly, once we quiet the mind and become present again, taking ourselves away from the many distractions this busy world likes to throw at us, we come back to our natural state and you will begin to feel and sense again. That is our natural state of being. Tune out to tune in.

. Leave the judgement at home. Another important thing to remember is to treat yourselves and your intuition with love and gratitude. Believe me, there is a reason it’s speaking to you and even if you never find out why, always know it is right and working for your best interests. That person who just felt so off to you, may of ended up hurting you had you let them in. That person cosying up to you that you felt the need to reject, may not have had your best interests at heart. The whole smile to your face and laugh behind your back sound familiar to you? That job you just felt like you needed to decline even though you couldn’t find a logical reason why, could have lead to a very unhappy work life. Sometimes, it’s ok to never know why you felt something. We don’t need to know why, in order to act on something. That’s what instinct is all about.

. Get to know yourself. I know it may sound silly but, how many of you have sat and held space for yourselves? I’m talking about listening to your feelings, listening to what your body, your heart and your mind wants to say to you because believe me, they are talking to you all the time. Do you know your patterns of thought, your prospectives, your wounds or triggers? Do you truly know what you believe in life and what your true belief is about yourself. Once we know how we work, we can observe our energy easier. It becomes easier to discern between the mind and the heart, an emotion, fear or self limiting belief and a pure natural instinct. No two people will ever be the same and the best person to get to know and understand you is yourself.

Why not try these suggestions out and let us know how they work for you and if this doesn’t resonate with you, amazing! Keep following your gut.

Meditation

Meditation is not just an amazing spiritual tool, it benefits mind, body and soul! Did you know meditation:

. Calms the nervous system. When we relax our nervous system switches from an autonomic - fight or flight mode to a parasympathetic nervous system - which is when our bodies can begin to heal.

. Is an excellent tool to combat stress. Again, when we are stressed our autonomic nervous system is triggered. Taking us in to a state of fight of flight. Our bodies are running then on the adrenal that is produced as a result, which can damage our organs over time. Relaxation helps to combat stress and bring our bodies back in to a parasympathetic nervous system which is our natural mode for healing. Our body can start to repair.

. Improves sleep. Meditation encourages you to slow your breathing down. This helps to put the body in to a state of relaxation. When we slow our breathing down we in turn lower our heart rate. Both of these help us to drift off to sleep.

. Improves mood which helps our overall well being and enjoyment in life. Meditation helps us to quiet the mind, allows us to go with the flow and allow thoughts and stresses to come and go without attachment or judgement. This helps us to feel less burdened and boosts our overall mood.

. Improves fitness. Sitting during meditation helps us to strengthen our cores and develop muscle memory. This is also true for the rhythmic breathing associated with meditation - slow breaths in through the nose, making sure to extend the belly and breathe through that area, rather than breathing through the chest so that the ribcage rises and falls. It can also help improve focus and clarity.

. Improves our physical and mental health. Meditating can boost your immune system. This is due to the relaxed state you enter and as explained above, when our parasympathetic nervous system is running the show, our bodies can begin to physically heal and repair. Stress is also linked to an inflammatory response in the body. Inflammation is at the route of every disease, creating an unhealthy environment from within. When we meditate and relax, we activate our vagus nerve. Increased vagal tone (which is activity of the vagus nerve) can modulate cytokine release. Cytokines are signalling proteins that help control inflammation in the body. Therefore, meditation has been linked with reduction of inflammation. Meditation also lowers blood pressure which leads to improved heart health.

Dark Night Of The Soul

. Dark Night Of The Soul .

Have any of you lovely lot ever heard of this phrase before? Have you gone through it? Are you currently going through it? We’d love to know. So for those of you who aren’t aware of this phrase, what is the Dark Night Of The Soul?

As we walk the path of light, back to our true and authentic selves and reconnect with the truth that we are the light beings and not the body, we in turn raise our vibrations and begin to ascend. There are two sides to such, one side that speaks of the light - all the good and amazing high vibrational things that we align with when doing such, and the other speaks of the dark - the lower emotions and the struggles of ascending. This is what the dark night of the soul is. Please do not be afraid. It can be a difficult journey but it’s only a temporary stage in our enlightenment which once we come through, leads to the most beautiful life filled with authenticity and perfect alignment.

As we raise our vibrations, as we begin to ascend we in turn leave behind all that no longer serves us. This can be the start of a period of time where we see those things no longer in alignment with ourselves, fall away. Though it is for our best interests and will undoubtedly lead to new things coming in to our lives that are in perfect alignment with our higher energies, it can be a hard time of adjustment and an emotionally charged time as we say goodbye. It is not uncommon during this time to see the breakdown of friendships and relationships as sometimes, not everyone can grow with us.

We can also see changes in our career, interests and desires. We can see small changes and sometimes we can see big changes, depending on where we are at in our ascension journey and how much things are currently aligned or not aligned with such. I like to refer to this period of time as growing pains, as we challenge ourselves to face and work through the shadow work that presents itself to us. As we grow in light, we open up space and room for healing, transcending all that is of the dark (which is merely just empty space for the light to inhabit) and bringing new light to those areas - mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. It’s a time of dedication, perseverance, growing, learning and unlearning. It can still be a beautiful time as healing work is magical, it is alchemy after all. It can be fun to learn, grow and widen your horizons and push the boundaries of your beliefs. I promise you though you may see many people exit your life during this time you will eventually find new wonderful people who share that same energy with you. When that happens, it is truly magical. As painful as goodbyes can be, the welcoming into a new family, often a soul family, can be absolutely life changing and bring about an even deeper period of healing, surrounded by unconditional love and unwavering support.