Imagine connecting with your intuition, trusting it completely, and allowing it to guide you to the people and and places that’ll bring you the most joy and success.
Maybe you’re like me, you’ve always felt intuitive but maybe not. Either way, it’s totally okay!
You can cultivate or strengthen your intuition no matter where you fall on this spectrum. The more you tap into it, the easier it will be to allow this inner compass to direct your every move. The more you trust, the more positive feedback you’ll get. Your intuition even has the ability to act as an alarm system, notifying you of danger. 🙏
Intuition Speaks Through Emotions
You may be wondering how to maximize this super sense of yours? I’ve got you covered! Intuition Speaks With Emotions
The first step is understanding HOW the intuition communicates to you. It’s been here all along and it’s literally sending signals to you 24/7!
I know many of my readers are self-improvement junkies, which is admirable on some level. However, there is no self-help book that can help unless you first listen to what your intuition needs!
Your intuition communicates through emotions, constantly sending messages and sensations that the logical side of your mind might attempt to rationalize away. The brilliance of intuition lies in its dual nature, blending logic and feeling to deliver a “one-two punch” to your psyche.
Your conscious, logical mind focuses on avoiding danger, but your intuition taps into higher levels of consciousness and sees the bigger picture. It has a watchful eye, understanding all the wisdom you’ve gained over many many lifetimes, as well as your current position or situation. It processes all this info at light speed and attunes itself to the fastest route to your most cherished desires.
Quite literally, it is the YOU that resides in the spiritual realm where all your desires, visions, and highest life plans already exist.
Misconceptions about Intuition
Many people have it backwards, thinking that they decided on their desires. When in fact, it’s the intuition itself that illuminates these visions and longings. The intuition is revealing what is destined for us.
And honestly, it’s such a stinkin’ relief to let go of the pressure of figuring out how to make it all happen.All you have to do is accept that your desires are simply a preview of what already exists for you and trust that the more you let it unfold, the more joyful the process will be.
It’s in the forcing that you actually sabotage yourself and get led down paths that slow the whole process down. I for one don’t have time, nor the energy for that!
So what do you think, is right now the best time to align with and integrate more fully into this spiritual superpower? uhh, YESSS!
Understanding the Inner Workings of Intuition
The more we cultivate our intuition, the stronger our ability to notice it.
I learned about my intuition roughly a decade ago. Someone brought up the concept of “intuitive eating” when I was struggling with emotional eating behaviors. I desperately sought relief from the habit I formed after my mother’s death.
The idea of trusting my intuition in making food choices was entirely new to me. I thought, “I can trust my intuition to choose the best foods for me?” … that’s weird. But hey, I was open to it.
The more I learned about it, the more it helped me tune into my body. I started to sense my bodily sensations, my emotions, and ultimately decipher what they were communicating to me. With inuitive awareness, I ultimately broke the cycle. That’s just one example of how my intuition supported me and led me to greater freedom.
Our intuition conveys emotional messages, accompanied by noticeable physical sensations.
Physical Sensations:
- Strong intuitive urges can manifest as jitters under the skin
- Tightening in the abdomen (some call this a “gut feeling”)
The conscious and subconscious minds collaborate, creating energy that materializes as emotion, urging you to move toward or away from something. Trust this energy, as going against your intuition is a decision many regret.
Your emotions exist for a reason, they are not here to complicate your life, quite the opposite!
Side Effects of Not Trusting Your Intuition
I can already hear the objections...”I’ve listened to my feelings before and they led me to heartbreak, a bad decision” or something similar.
I’m not discounting your experience, and I’d like to challenge your perception here. Usually, we judge our soul path and our unique soul lessons by labeling them good or bad. When in reality, they are neutral.
The intuitions sole purpose is to elevate your soul to greater levels of expansion, consciousness, and joy. Sometimes that process feels uncomfortable and involves less than ideal experiences.
This is because our soul blueprint holds within it many enlightened and many karmic imprints. Meaning that in order to transmute and ascend our karmic imprints into ones of enlightenment, we need to face painful truths along the way.
Pain, my love, is ultimately the greatest catalyst for self-realization and a willingness to change. Trust me, I didn’t arrive here without some serious bumps and breakdowns that had me side-eyeing my own intuition.
Doubting Your Intuition
Maybe you doubt your intuition because it lead you to an experience that hurt…maybe you lost trust in yourself and abandoned its instruction.
I’ve had a few moments in my life where trusting my intuition initially seemed to result in “bad” outcomes. I felt embarrassed, angry, and distrustful of myself afterwards. Only to realize after time a good amount of time had elapsed that the lessons I learned were very helpful for me in the long-run!
Where are you holding onto unforgiveness towards yourself? What lessons did you learn from those painful experiences?
Check out my forgiveness letter template to release any inner judgement you have towards yourself.
Let Your Feelings Guide You
In every moment, your intuition communicates through emotions. Loneliness, or a longing for connection, for instance, serves as a signal to start creating meaningful connection with others. Your intuition persistently sends these signals because it wants you to experience the heights of love. With greater love comes greater connection, creativity, and support. It wants to give you everything you desire and more!
Every emotion, no matter how painful, carries a sacred message packed with insight, direction, and inner guidance. Get still, tune in, and ask yourself “what is this emotion trying to communicate to me?”
Trust the Guidance Your Intuition Receives
To harness the power of intuition, have the courage to trust it at all times.
Feel this is too difficult to do alone? You may benefit from hiring a spiritual guide or healer. Get help and book a coaching session from a spiritual life coach like myself.
Increasing your ability to understand your intuition is an investment that will save you years, if not an entire lifetime, of frustration and possible regret.
Your intuition might lead you to places that scare you, but within that fear lies excitement and growth. Remember, there’s no need to get stuck in the pursuit of the “perfect” choice. Your intuition is continually course-correcting, guiding you onward and upward no matter what mistakes you think you’ve made.
The funniest thing I’ve discovered about intuition is that it rarely leads me where I think it will. It’s like my logical mind gets hooked on one outcome, but my intuition is just using that as bait to guide me toward something way bigger and better than I imagined.
But when the rubber hits the road and I’m in transition, unable to see how any of this is working out for me… I have a few trusted mantras that pull me through this free fall.
Mantras to Strengthen Your Intuition
When I get fixated on a possible mistake I’ve made, I repeat..
- “this was meant to happen for my next highest outcome”. It instantly shifts me into my highest intuitive alignment again.”
When I get fixated on nothing looking the way I want it to be, I repeat…
- “I trust this is all happening to evolve my soul.”
And when I start to doubt that my intuition can be trusted, I repeat…
- “going against my intuition is the ultimate self-betrayal.”
All of these remind me that I’m not in control. It’s in letting go of control where true freedom lies.
Ultimately, your intuition is in control, why even fight it?
Intuition is a Practice
The more we practice aligning with and following our intuition, the more we come to trust its all-loving guidance. It’s job is to make sure you are progressing and moving in a direction that brings you greater joy. Yeah, sometimes that involves strange and confusing lessons, but in time, it will all make sense.
Allow, allow, ALLOW the radiance of this special gift to manifest your dreams into reality!
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Until next time, shine on beautiful soul! XO, – Laura
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