TRUTHFUL TRANSFORMATION
Honing Intuition
No matter how earnest our intention is, life can pull us in so many directions that we might not take the time to apply what we learn.
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Why is honing your intuition such a powerful and life-changing activity?
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INNATE INSTINCT
All humans and animals are gifted with inherent instincts. Intuition works in tandem with these primal survival mechanisms. Instincts help us sense and respond to danger, while intuition leads us toward deeper self-awareness, greater discernment, aligned opportunities, and our relationship with the ineffable.
Our intuition helps us accurately see what's happening around us beyond our five senses. Intuition is contextual, somatic, and relational, helping us take our awareness beyond just rational thought.
When we don't have grounded practices that help us connect within, we can lose touch with this valuable innate instinct.
It's essential we make time to slow down, be present, and quiet the noise around us so we can tune inward to listen and absorb what is needed to guide us on our most purposeful and peaceful path. Often, the most genuinely successful people admit to honoring their innate sixth sense, which they acknowledge as setting them apart from the herd. Logic, analysis, talent, and dedication are essential. Still, intuition, the unexplainable but undeniable force inside that, when honed and allowed, helps us honor our soul's path.
SOMATIC MARKERS
Instinct is rooted in science; our bodies are designed to provide cues to best navigate the world for survival.
Our innate instincts and intuition guide us to make quick decisions to beat the odds of survival. Heart rate, gut feelings, breath, muscle tone, and endocrine activity are all somatic markers that connect us to our intuition through our physiology.
Your intuition is an extension of your nervous system. So, nourishing your nervous system helps you to increase intuition. Unfortunately, most of us are surrounded by stressors daily. Our modern society has many benefits, but one of the drawbacks is the amount of stress we put on our bodies from internal and external forces.
Whether those stressors are life-threatening or not, our adrenals react with the same hormonal response, so we are often on permanent or at least consistent alert. Therefore, managing stress and calming our nervous system is crucial to our quality of life and honing our intuition.
FILTER FIRST
If it's challenging for you to trust or hear your inner voice, it could stem from experiences around people that drowned out your voice, asked you to limit self-expression, or required you to please for survival.
When this happens consistently, aspects of our truth are denied and possibly even looked down upon, and over time, this can impact your courage, self-trust, and ability to cultivate balanced energies. However, it is never too late to begin, and you have the power inside you to do anything you dedicate yourself to.
Learning new things, listening to other viewpoints, having mentors and guides you respect, and staying open to new ideas are all positive attributes. Still, you must ultimately consider yourself and your connection to the Divine as your most trusted advisor. Therefore, you must cultivate the ability to filter out the noise and listen in, allowing your internal compass to guide you.
GUIDANCE
The more you listen in, the stronger your intuition gets, and the more your true path is revealed. Making peace a priority opens up gateways to guidance.
The more conscious we become, the more naturally our intuition will guide us in our lives. Being more mindful and aware can help us to be thoughtful and present and tune into how we feel about any situation, decision, or experience.
CONNECTION
A honed intuition can also help us connect to others – helping us become a more tuned-in partner, friend, or colleague and a calmer and more loving parent and spouse.
Additionally, a strong sense of intuition can help us become a better judge of character and tune us into danger when needed.
Developing an internal awareness of how you think and feel in the moment enables you to empathize and be more aware of how others might feel without losing yourself in the process.
The more we learn to connect with our inherent wisdom, the better we become at living in alignment with our personal integrity.
SELF-TRUST
We create emotional safety for ourselves through integrity. Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to our values.
Every time we honor our integrity, we create a sense of safety and trust for ourselves. This process activates our intuition and creates internal safety to open ourselves up to our life force energy, creativity, and unique zone of genius.
This internal trust and safety empower our ability to advocate for ourselves, also allowing us to advocate for loved ones.
HONORING YOUR GIFTS
Connecting with and developing our intuition can make us better leaders, colleagues, and business owners. An individual with a developed intuition can see subtle connections, find solutions more effectively, excel in imagination and creativity, communicate and collaborate more effectively, notice slight shifts in the marketplace, predict or create trends, and foresee challenges.
Our intuition helps us accurately see what's happening around us beyond our five senses. Cultivating our intuition requires we be incredibly present rather than lost in the chatter of our minds, media, or numbed out. Total presence helps us see what's actually in front of us rather than what we think, assume, or project outwardly. Additionally, this place of presence and connection to our intuition can invite clarity that helps us discover new opportunities, synchronicities, and relationships.
Your intuition is your inner compass that can connect you to your sense of self and purpose in the world, supporting your efforts to be provided for and acquire abundance.
The more deeply and truthfully you are connected to yourself, the more you connect with your heart, allowing you to share that aspect with the world. When you feel authentically connected to what brings you joy and share it with the world, you will open up the ability to receive and be supported.
Honing Intution
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