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.