Trust Your Intuition

Intuition is the inner voice, and wisdom that exists within all of us. Intuition is our soul reminding and sending signals to our body, mind, and heart to communicate and collaborate with one another. That each is not separate, but one part of our whole being. Intuition reminds us to come back to ourselves for guidance, to come home within. If we are willing to surrender, trust and believe, we can awaken our consciousness, connect to our higher self, own our infinite personal power and find peace with where we’re at in our journey. In the world we live in today, we are bombarded with messages from work, social media, family, friends, and everyone has an opinion. This creates alot of noise and can make it challenging to tap into our intuition. But here’s the catch, when we seek out others for their opinion on something, we already know how we feel about the issue. We’re fearful of making the wrong decision. Our need to know with certainty and need for control is what drives us to want to know what everyone else would do in similar situations. When we seek acceptance and love from others over ourselves, we lose touch with our intuition.

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you’re feeling disconnected from your intuition, and wanting to know how to reconnect, you’ll need to learn how to soften external noise. Take ownership of who you are. Stand in your power by showing yourself love, acceptance, patience and grace as you navigate through. The more you know and trust yourself, the less you’re influenced by your external world. Surrender the need to know the answers to all your questions and wanting to have control. Loosen your grip of needing things to work out exactly as you have envisioned and believe you are exactly where you need to be. By doing this, we free up room for the universe to bring us exactly what we need in the moment we are in.

You’ll want to create space to welcome in solitude to begin being in practice with listening to and connecting to yourself. Meditate. Take a bath or a walk. Eat lunch by yourself. Journal. However you feel most connected with yourself, let that be your ritual. If you’ve been out of practice, have patience with yourself as it will take some time to cultivate and master. Still your mind. Ask a question and see how your body responds. Leave think behind, so you can feel. Less do-ing, more be-ing. Our body will respond by sending intuitive signals. Notice the sensations, and take note regardless if they feel significant or barely noticable. Bring your awareness and attention to these nuances. Do your cheeks become flush? Do you notice a tug in your gut? Do your eyes water? Do your ears ring? Do you feel tingling on your arms and legs? What are these sensations trying to communicate to you? Tap into your Clairsenses and notice which ones are more prominent for you.

Pay attention to synchronicities, and meaningful coincidences. Don’t dismiss the messages you’re receiving even if you think they are small or a coincidence. Are you seeing red flags lately? Or listening to fears? Are you being selective with what you’re feeling? Quite often I see people fall out of trust with their intuition because they will say my intuition was wrong about x, y and z. What we are sometimes challenged with is that we fail to recognize that we are a society that wants an immediate answer with either a yes or no. We don’t like the gray area of maybe. Quite often our intuition tells us that we need more information and to take pause until we know more. Yet, we still proceed with a yes or no because we don’t want to surrender, trust and believe.

Trusting our intuition can’t exist without having faith in ourselves. To believe without seeing. When I skated on the Haydenettes, we would gather in a circle in the locker room before we took the ice. We would recite the Serenity Prayer; “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” When we have unwavering faith in ourselves, and trust our intuition, it gives us strength to overcome our fear of uncertainty.

In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay The Over-Soul, this passage speaks to me and wanted to leave it with you.

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.”

Everything you’ll ever need to know aready lies within your soul. Listen to and trust your intuition.

Say this intuition mantra with me.

I surrender. I trust. I believe.

You’ve always had the power.

Sending love and healing,

Carissa