Intuition: coming home to yourself #33
Solid in its Foundations and Soft in its Delivery.
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Dear Lovely You,
this week I have been thinking a lot about Intuition.
I love how toddlers intuitively know what they need or want and it makes me feel sad that we unknowingly stop children trusting their own intuition. Knowing when they are hungry or thristy. Knowing when they need to rest or play. Knowing when they really need comfort or can cope with something on their own.
What is Intuition? Why don’t we trust it, listen to it and take action on it when necessary?
I invite you as you read the following to ponder what Intuition is to you, how you recognise it and why you ignore, over-ride it or embrace it.
This is my interpretation and it’s beginning to feel a lot clearer.
Intuition
is a natural way of being
Children have it
before well-meaning adults chase it away.
You can't, You shouldn't, be careful, don't because…
it's not right, people won't like it, it’s naughty, it’s good, it’s bad.
Intuition
is that natural you that you want to be.
Be curious, be expressive, in the way that only you can.
Intuition
never goes away.
Left free it is flow,
it is light and grounded,
it sees, it hears, it feels.
It is expressive, it lights us up and plants seeds to our purpose.
But its flow gets blocked and
still it tries to push through,
sends whispers, screams and shouts through the body.
Your Suspicions are your Intuition
If you don't think something's right for you, it's not.
You can begin to reconnect with it by following your impulses.
Your impulses are your Intuition.
Intuition
can get buried and numbed
by adversity and trauma,
a survival mechanism that gets stuck ON.
It's still there but you can't necessarily feel it
and you need to feel it.
Intuition
needs our courage.
Courage to thaw and to feel,
to say no!
Enough!
And to say yes to ourselves
Intuition
is our compass, our guidance.
Emotions and Intuition
are powerful collaborators.
Intuition
never leaves us
and never gives up.
It is our essence,
our direction.
Intuition
reveals itself in different ways.
A knowing,
an inner confidence,
a feeling of enoughness, not lack.
An epiphany.
Slow or fast,
tingles and goosebumps,
a gut feeling.
Solid in its Foundations and Soft in its Delivery.
We can know it and ignore it
but it’s still waiting for us to listen.
Because intuition knows us
It is us.
It is the us that's been squashed and told, You're not enough!
so many times that our mind believes it
Our Intuition
however
does not.
Intuition is persistent and resilient.
Intuition
doesn't mind that we forget it, discredit it
and try to force it out of our lives.
Intuition trusts we’ll come back and honours our free will.
It holds the reigns
until perplexed,
we find we arrive back in that place of trust too,
and hug it to our chests,
relieved to be
Coming home to ourselves.
With Love
From my True Self to Yours
Karen xx
PS. What does Intuition feel like to you? When was the last time you trusted your intuition?
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When I first started talking about intuition on the Hysterectomy Association, I didn't realise that was what I was referring to. I used to explain that we'd stopped listening to our body, and that the best thing anyone recovering from surgery was to learn to pay attention as it would always let us know what was needed.
Over time, I came to call it 'the still small voice within', the one that often can't be heard because of the cacophany of noise produced by ourselves and society. More recently, I think of it as both the still small voice and a way of listening three ways: with our ears to what actually comes out of our mouths, with our bodies because it is still a great barometer of where we are headed, and finally listening to our lives - as it indicates where we've come from and can point towards where we are headed.
Intuition is of course, more than all these as it is also that which 'knows' and will guide us if we let it.
Thanks for the timely reminder Karen. xx