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Involve your Intuition

Intuition, just what is it? Is it that sixth sense some people talk about? Or is it some sort of spiritual guidance? Or maybe it’s just a “gut” feeling. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it is: “the ability to understand or know something immediately, without conscious reasoning”

So it is something that we “just know”. Now in our modern logical, conscious, scientific “left brain” world the idea of “just knowing” without the scientific backing can be hard to accept. We are taught from an early age to look at things logically and to seek out the scientific proof of ideas and concepts. It is almost like there is an intellectual superiority in logic. That to consider anything less than logic is nonsense and left to the realms of the uneducated masses who just don’t have that intellectual ability or understanding of the above average, very logical, left-brain thinking people. That in itself rules out half of our brain’s abilities. So in effect we are taught from an early age to ignore half of our mental capacity, in the search for logic.

Intuition, by it’s very nature is a right brain activity. It is something we have at an “unconscious” level. It’s that feeling we get that we often can’t explain. Some people believe that their intuition is what guides their day-to-day lives, directing them along. It is the un-explainable “feeling” that warns them that something, they’re not sure what, is not quite right. It is to some people, what keeps them from danger, or from making a decision that is not right for them. Now we do actually use both sides of our brain while growing up, and if encouraged, we continue to use both sides. But often on the journey to adulthood we are taught to ignore what doesn’t fit into what “society” currently states as useful. In today’s world there is a huge demand for answers to many issues. Often the logical answers just don’t answer the questions being asked, because logic is not what is required, right brain thinking or emotional or intuitive answers are required.

So when you have a lifestyle question that needs answering, do you listen to your intuition, or do you just suppress the answers that keep bubbling to the surface because you don’t like the answers you are faced with. I had this pointed out to me this week. I asked for help from someone who I thought could and would help me. I got an email from them along with some of the information that I was looking for. The email evoked a negative reaction initially, but a feeling inside told me I needed to read the email and re-read it until I could read it without reacting to it. So that’s what I did, and I realised that there are some changes that I want to make to my life that I’d been skirting around for a while and now it the time to implement them. I could just as easily have ignored the email, or ignored my own intuition, but I have found down through the years that when I listen to my intuition, my gut feeling, I call it, I am right. It’s when I ignore it, or only take a logical perspective on things that I find myself in trouble. So how do you know when to trust your own intuition, especially if you think you never have before. Well, you will have! There will be times in your life where you’ve not done what everyone else has done because you’ve not felt it was right for you. Our intuition kicks in very fast when we feel threatened or in danger.

That feeling of the hairs standing up on the back of your neck telling you to DO SOMETHING!, they’re our intuition and it’s time to listen.Do you get uncomfortable when someone asks you about the balance in your life? Do you get

defensive when you know you are about to do something that will hurt someone else and you can see it in their face or hear it in their voice? But you do it anyway, despite that niggly little voice telling you otherwise. Well you’ve just ignored your intuition. So how do we listen? Stop ignoring that inner voice, that gut feeling you get. Stop and ask yourself what listening to your inner voice or feelings will get for you that you don’t have now. It’s speaking to you for a reason, so listen. It might be that you don’t have balance in your life, or that your relationship needs more of your time, or your children need your attention, or maybe you need to take care of your health, or deal with a personal issue you’ve been putting off because it is not a pleasant issue. Until you deal with it, it will keep re-surfacing to be listened to, so rather than running away and it constantly chasing you, why not stop now, listen and deal with it. Like anything once we deal with it the first time, it gets easier.