Awaken YOUR Intuition Within
What is your Intuition?
Our intuition can be seen as our brain’s way of interpreting signals from our body and subconscious mind. It acts as a bridge between our conscious thoughts and our deeper, often non-verbal, insights.
Our body can pick up on subtle cues and patterns our conscious mind might not immediately recognise. These include physical sensations, emotions, and past experiences stored in our memory. Intuition is our brain’s attempt to synthesise all this information and provide us with a “gut feeling” or instinctive reaction.
In many ways, intuition is our internal compass, guiding us when there isn’t enough time or information for detailed analysis. While it isn’t infallible and should be balanced with rational thinking, intuition can be a valuable tool for making decisions and better understanding ourselves.
Did you know your intuition is NOT:
- Self-talk & inner dialogue.
- Voices from the past.
- Logical.
- Talking in sentences.
- Emotional.
- Judgmental.
- Loud.
- Your beliefs.
- Adamant in its strength.
Your intuition comes from:
- Your heart.
- Within the core of you.
- Your “Gut”
- It comes from your 6th sense, rather than your logical 5 senses.
Born With Intuition
When you were a baby, your intuition was loud and pure. Your existence brought people so much love and joy just by being YOU. Over time, however, your intuition may have become faint as you were required to listen to your caregivers about navigating the world. Regardless of your culture, adults taught you what was important in life according to their standards. Whatever your ancestors had done in the past ensured the lineage’s survival—you are evidence of this! Thus, your family’s values were handed down from one generation to another.
As a child, your biological need was to attach to a caregiver, as you depended on them for everything—food, shelter, clothing, social skills, education, and more. These formative years are when your ego is formed. As your soul experiences the unique journey of being human, you must learn the difference between your ego competing for your attention and your intuition residing in the background, patiently waiting for you to listen.
The ego is part of the self-concerned with self-preservation and personal significance; its instinct is to have the power and strategy to keep you alive. The ego drives up fear and the perceived threat of not belonging. It creates a sense of urgency, an unsettled energy that causes you to drop your self-worth and seek the approval of others. This can manifest in various ways, such as immediate gratification, like being the bully, or in victim mode, where other people tend to one’s needs.
Enhance Your Intuition
The energy of your intuition is like pure love. Connected to your higher self and your soul’s eternal blueprint, it assists you in living your purpose in this human experience. Intuition sees beyond the ego’s conditioning and plays a crucial role in bypassing the limitations of our logical mind. It helps you make decisions swiftly, especially when you don’t have all the information or time to analyse everything logically.
Intuition has the power to sift through information, disregard irrelevant factors, and rapidly recognise patterns and connections long before your conscious mind does. On a primal level, it can alert you to danger and help you respond quickly to threats.
Ancient cultures viewed their connection with intuition as integral to their existence, enhancing their relationship with Mother Nature and the spirit world to live a holistic life. In the modern world, many have lost touch with this potent inner knowing and seek guidance from spiritual leaders to trust their intuition and navigate their path forward.
The next time you want to make a decision, quiet your mind and come to the present moment. With your hand on your heart, ask yourself what’s important to you about this decision. Breathe and listen to that humble inner knowing.
Intuition is the first answer you receive when you ask yourself a question. For example, “What is it like if I go down this path?” A ‘yes’ will feel light, excitable, or like a gentle warm nudge. A ‘no’ will feel heavier or dull.
Remember, if you ask yourself, “What will it be like if I go down this path?” your ego will quickly justify, make excuses, and explain why you should stick with what is familiar.
Following your intuition means being clear about what’s important to you—not what others have told you. People often ignore their intuition because they fear getting the wrong answer and habitually rely on external validation only to follow someone else’s agenda.
Our intuition drives us to grow and reach our potential, which can mean doing something different than what has been done before. This is why people engage with coaching. They seek clarity and the ability to trust their intuition moving forward.
Leading Your Intuition
I used to think my intuition would lead me down the ‘right’ path and steer me away from the ‘wrong’ path. I assumed that the right path was the easy path and the wrong path was the challenging one. It was an aha moment when I realised that your intuition motivates you to live your purpose.
If your purpose is to step onto the stage, stand in the spotlight, and inspire people by speaking your truth, you will need to work through all the ego conditioning from where you currently are to where you want to be. You must confront the fear of being judged, the low self-worth of ‘why would people listen to me,’ and any other limiting emotions that allow the ego to keep you from changing.
Your intuition will require you to be vulnerable and create an entirely new path that necessitates change. This is why following your intuition can be difficult, as we instinctively pull away from the unfamiliar.
If you can get comfortable with being uncomfortable, your intuition will guide you to align with your purpose. So, if your soul’s purpose is to learn about self-empowerment, your intuition will lead you towards achieving this.
Your ego will often oppose your intuition, using whatever it can to prevent change. It may trigger your emotional body to release fear and drive up anxiety, causing your logical mind to race with reasons why you shouldn’t proceed.
Many aspects are at play, including the emotional body, the mental body, your instincts, your ego, your intuition, and your psychic senses.
This is why coaching is so powerful. It helps you resolve old limiting patterns and outgrown habits, enabling your intuition to lead you forward and manifest the best version of yourself.
Intuition In Coaching
When we connect with and strengthen our intuition, we awaken to new possibilities. We make choices based on a higher vibration that creates a ripple effect in our future.
If we make choices based on avoiding pain, we keep ourselves in a limited point of view. However, when we follow our intuition’s guidance, life opens up to new and exciting abundance.
Next time you have a quiet moment, place your hand on your heart and ask yourself questions like:
“What do I need to know to facilitate this upcoming session?”
“What needs to happen to make things easier?”
“Help me find a solution to…”
“What do I need to know to manifest…?”
“What am I resisting that, if I didn’t resist, would open me to more possibilities?”
“What will my life be like if I make this decision?”
“How much money can my energy attract right now?”
Observe how the answers come to you with expansive, flowing qualities. Notice when your ego gets in the way and constricts your energy with overthinking.
It’s worth taking the time to journal about your responses. When you journal intuitively, you allow your thoughts and feelings to flow freely without judgment. This can lead to deeper self-reflection and a clearer understanding of your inner world.
Listen To Your Intuition
We were all born with pure intuition. Many people notice that their awareness of it is dulled during childhood, as they listen to adults directing them on what to do or how to be. It’s important to reconnect with your intuition, as it is one of your natural superpowers that guide you to your soul’s purpose.
Your intuition will guide you forward, calling you to change, grow, and evolve.
Many people feel uncomfortable with change, as it challenges their limiting beliefs, leading them to draw away from their intuition. This discomfort needs to be released from the emotional body.
Your intuition is not about the past. However, we often find ourselves regretting not following its guidance. This regret teaches us to lean in, experiment, and pay attention for next time. Your intuition will be patient with you, but your physical body will show you that you are out of alignment through pain and illness. It’s fascinating how everything is connected.
Are you curious about how to connect with your intuition? The most powerful way to start is to set an intention.
First, quiet your mind, take a few deep breaths, and ask yourself a question. The universe will align you to perfect synchronicity to answer your question within a short amount of time. You just have to be open to listening.
Remember, when you are utilising practices to enhance your intuition, always ask for the TRUTH in the highest and best way. You are a powerful being. When you ask your question, the universe must always provide you with an answer.