Using your Intuition – Common Misconceptions

It has taken me a lot of years to be comfortable with trusting my intuitive side. I have always had great “gut” feelings but within the last couple years have learned to speak with my guides, (which is still a work in process : ) ) read auras, and i have recently gotten my 1st degree reiki attunemensts.

It’s a lot of practice and a lot of faith in yourself and knowing that everything is a learning experience and knowing how to determine what the signs or guidance mean for you….

Hi Laura,

Thanks for the article. I’m doing a 30-day trial of living on inspiration and intuition. I feel I’m very much the thinking kind and quite out of touch with intuitions. But I’m a little confused about something.

When you say the soft inner voice, do you mean that literally? Like, English words in your head that you hear? Or do you mean ‘voice’ more generally to mean gut feelings?

And do you have any advice on separating actual bonafide intuitions from desires, urgings, cravings, and so on?

Many thanks,
Warren

Yes I think distinguishing between ego and intuition will be the challenge of this. Sometimes I get an… idea to do something. Maybe read a book. But my thinking mind says “No, that’s not as valuable, I don’t think we’ll benefit more from that that we will from x.” It takes a lot of trust to follow the idea and not the reasoned thinking, since as a psychology student for ~5 years I’ve been training the latter faculty regularly.

But I get you about the meditation. I’ve noticed I get flashes of inspiration in the morning. Not sure inspiration is the same as intuition of not, but they seem to come as images, very quickly. At first I thought it might be to do with sleep, but then I realised I meditate first thing, before getting out of bed even. On the other hand, inspirations that seem to have led to some pretty incredible results seem to occur in the evening, and sometimes it takes a chain of them to get there, like one intuition leads to a situation, and an intuition in that situation leads to another situation, which leads to a “good thing”.

I’m not sure this is a regular pattern or not yet but I think I’ll probably know by the end of the month. Anyway, thanks for the reply Laura!

My intuition definitely ebbs and flows. I’ll get a bunch all at once and then nothing for days or weeks. In the book, “Open to Channeling,” by Sanaya Roman (chap 14), there is a fantastic explanation for this. You may need to grow in increments before you can handle more info. In other words, you don’t want an energetic overload. They liken it to a sunburn. Too much light too quickly isn’t good for you. When I get information, I tend to “feel” the voice rather than actually hearing something. It does feel like I’m making it up but I follow it anyway just to see what happens. Some really fantastic things have happen to prove to me that I am receiving information. Just playing with it and practicing was the best way for me to tune in. Also, even if you follow your intuition and nothing seems to happen just then, you may be setting yourself up for something in the future.