Below enjoy the recording of this week's Your Soul-Care Sunday video on the topic of intuition.
Welcome to the second edition of Your Soul-Care Sunday! Again I am so humbled and grateful to have you join me in this sacred space as we prepare for the busy week ahead. Taking time for peace and reflection is so important to helping us in handling the business of our day to day responsibilities and schedules.
I hope you will join me each week as we discuss topics that will help us in our search for peace and meaning through more than self-care but rather Soul-Care.
Today we are speaking about INTUITION.
What is intuition? Why do we need intuition? And how do we tune in to our intuition?
I’d like to begin with a quote by New Age and personal development author Shakti Gawain. She writes,
There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.
According to Shakti there is a universal, intelligent life force. Many of us call this life force God, some call it Spirit, Universe, and even nature. This intelligent life force within us all provides us each access to a deep wisdom and an inner knowing. We all have this knowing within us. Plants know how to grow. Our heart cells know how to be heart cells, or lung cells know how to be lungs and I believe we can take it further in how we address our life and situations we come into contact with in our everyday circumstances.
Shakti says we access this inner knowing through “our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right or true.” And the most amazing part is that our intuition is unique to us. What feels right or true to me is not what is right or true for you.
Simply put by the late Wayne Dyer,
If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.
So, why do we need intuition?
Artist and author, Doe Zantana says,
Intuition is the intelligence of the heart and the knowledge of the soul. It knows instantly and constantly what can take decades of experience for the mind to logically sort out and understand. Trust it, and the reason will follow in time.
Many times when faced with difficult decisions or problem solving our brain collects the facts, processes the information and then collects more information if needed. The thinking brain has to sift through all of this date for what is pertinent or not pertinent, what is important and not important. This “thinking can only go so far, because the thinking mind, cannot differentiate between what is important to you versus the outside world. The world is sending us millions of messages to process and we are receiving to many details to possibly take into account on a conscious level. Therefore our brain goes into overwhelm.
Our bodies, or rather beings, are built with this inner knowing that helps cut through the data analysis and goes straight to the knowing. When you know something intuitively you feel it in your gut. When you follow your intuition you feel peace and often are led to more clues and answers, but when you contradict your intuition you feel it as discomfort or fear. It takes practice to take the time tune in to those feelings and make better decisions based on the additional information our intuition is giving us.
Now that we know what intuition is and why we need it, let's go through a few ways you can access your intuition.
The most important thing you must do to access this knowing is to quiet the thinking mind. Some people do this through mindfulness, meditation, and yoga, but simply spending quiet time alone in nature or even a hot shower or bath can offer enough quiet to be able to feel your answers from within. It is important in these quiet times alone, that you shut down and separate from electronics, put aside your to-do list and worries. When they pop into your mind, acknowledge them and focus on your breathing or quiet background music.
Another way you can access your intuition is by feeling things in your gut or other signals in your body. When we know something to be true, there is a visceral feeling that is very different that arises in our gut. In contrast if we ignore our intuition, we may develop symptoms of illness, pain, dis-ease, and even lack of energy in the body. The longer you ignore your intuition, the more serious the consequences.
Dreams can also offer help when seeking support from your intuition. Ask for solutions before you go to sleep. Your subconscious is built to problem solve while you are sleeping and REM sleep is when this happens.
The lesson is to pay attention to things that you begin to notice around you. Once you begin to turn down the noise and distractions and release control, your intuition is free to guide you to the information and answers that you need.
I hope you can see now, how exhausting and overwhelming life can be when you try to live it through your head and forget your inner guidance system. If you are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or troubled by a decision, you owe it to yourself to find a way to create the quiet space you need to get back in touch with your intuition, because as Sonia Choquette says,
Intuition doesn't tell you what you want to hear; it tells you what you need to hear.
And none of us can afford not to listen.
Now continue to the video below as we set our intentions for best use of our intuition.
This weeks musical selection below.
ONG NAMO, GURU DEV NAMO is the Adi Mantra that precedes Kundalini Yoga practice, tuning one in to the higher self. Ong is "Infinite Creative energy in manifestation and activity". ("Om" or Aum is God absolute and unmanifested), Namo is "reverent greetings' implying humility, Guru means "teacher or wisdom", Dev means "Divine or of God" and Namo reaffirms humility and reverence.
