INTUITION
First of all I want to say that “emotional intuition” is a
dichotomy – the two words contradict each other (like trying to say someone is
a violet pacifist) and illustrate the individual’s
complete lack of awareness and understanding of what intuition is. Fact is if you are emotional chances are you
are not going to “hear” your intuition. Emotion
drown out intuition. As long as we are
feeling emotional about something intuition cannot be heard. And second, if we follow our “intuition” and
it backfires on us, it WASN’T your intuition you were listening to plan and
simple! Intuition will NEVER lead you
wrong. I can vouch for that by personal
experience.
So what exactly IS intuition? Good question and not one I can really
answer. I can tell you that most, if not
ALL of us, have experienced it at some point in our lives and most likely more
than once. It is those moments when out
of the blue we think about someone we haven’t thought about in ages and later
that day they call us. Or more
importantly, those times when you say “I KNEW I shouldn’t have done that! I just had that feeling!” THAT is intuition. It’s that moment when we know something but
have no idea why or how we know. And
logic has nothing at all to do with it!
I have worked on connecting with my intuition for many many years and I
can tell you that even now, with my intuition proving itself to me time and
time again ...... I still often “argue” with it lol. Reason being, for the most part, intuition is
SO far from logical that you just have a hard time accepting it. In fact, logic plays very little role in it
if at all. That’s the whole point of
using your intuition. It can tell you
things that you have no possible or logical way of knowing. Not to say that
every time you get an illogical urge to do something you should follow it. You have to learn first the difference
between your logic at work and your emotions and desires at work verses real
intuition.
I’ll start by giving some examples of intuition at work in
my life. One simple example is times
when I have planned on going to a particular bank machine and suddenly got the
“feeling” (and let’s get one thing straight here. When using the word “feeling” here, don’t
mistake it with emotion. I’m talking
along the lines of a “gut sense” that has nothing to do with emotions). So I’d get this “feeling” that I shouldn’t go but I have ignored it. Why?
Because my logic kicked in – I needed to go, now was the convenient time
and that particular machine was the closest and the one I always go too. No logical reason AT ALL as to why I
shouldn’t go. And without fail, every
time I haven’t listened, I’d get there to find the machine out of order. Another bigger example: my husband has a motorcycle. I used to go out with him all the time but a
few summers ago I completely lost interest.
I had no desire to go for rides and wouldn’t. One night I kept getting a push to on the
bike. Not only did this not make any
“logical” sense to me because I really didn’t want too, but my husband wasn’t
in the mood either so I tried to ignore it.
But it persisted and finally I insisted and out we went. We drove around for about an hour and as we
were drawing close to home, the clutch broke!
Now this may seem like a bad thing but you have to know the rest of the
story. My husband had planned to go for
a ride with the guys the next day.
Obviously there had been a problem with the clutch that my husband had
been completely unaware of. If we hadn’t
have gone for the ride (at my “illogical” insistence) the clutch would have
broke when he was far from home.
Needless to say he was very grateful I had pushed (and he has learnt,
like me, that it’s not smart to ignore my “intuitions”). As it turned out, he didn’t have time to make
the repairs so had to bow out of going on the ride the next day. Later in the day of the ride, one of his
buddies that had gone called him. Turns
out that he had been riding up front of the group (the position my husband
usually takes) and had been run off the road by a car! Lucky for him he rides a trike so didn’t tip
over and wasn’t hurt when he ended up in the ditch but if it had been my
husband ..... would have been a different story! If he hadn’t been grateful before, he sure
was now!
So intuition can not only make your life easier in smaller
ways, it can help you stay out of bigger scrapes as well. It can also help lead you to great
experiences you would have otherwise missed out on. An example on that side – I was on a trip
with a good friend. We had been up late
in our motel room the first night yakking away like we do. Around 2am we were tired, had an early day
and figured we should get to sleep. As I
climbed in bed, a got the urge to go sit outside one last time. I didn’t WANT too. It didn’t make sense but I decided to follow
it. My friend ended up coming out with
me. Now every time we had gone outside
to sit, we had been so VERY careful to not lock ourselves out. But low and behold ...... we found ourselves
locked outside at 2am AND in our pajamas to boot! Believe it or not, that experience was the
highlight of our trip!!! We have never
laughed SO hard and I can guarantee when we are old and grey we will continue
to bring it up and laugh about it J Okay.
So not a big life changing experience but even still ..... that’s a
priceless memory that if I hadn’t followed that illogical urge would never have
come about.
Here’s another of my favorite examples: my job is pretty easy going. If I get up in the morning and don’t feel
like going ..... I don’t. But I always
check in with my intuition first before making up my mind. I never get a "no" .... except for
this one time (and no. Not at band camp
lol!) Background story: I had a leased car at the time and really
wanted to get rid of it but was stuck.
So this one morning I feel like staying home, check in with my intuition
and get a resounding “NO! Go to
work!!” Ok. I was rather shocks and somewhat disappointed
but off I went to work...... with a bit of a pout I might add. I work at auto wreckers. The few days previous we had the crusher come
into our yard to .... well, crush cars.
The crusher is a huge piece of equipment that weighs about 20 ton. This particular day, the crushing was all
finished and the crusher was being removed.
When I got to work, they were in the process of pulling the crusher out
of the yard. I bet I hadn’t been there
20 minutes when one of the guys I work with came into my office with a really
weird look on his face. Turns out the
chain being used to pull the crusher had broken causing the piece of machinery
to smash into my car and total it! So
thanks to my listening to my intuition and going to work when I didn’t want to
I not only got out of my lease but ended up with not only a brand new car (NOT
leased) but enough cash as well to pay for an expensive trip I had taken the
year before and was in major debit over, among other things J Oh I could give you a lot more examples but
you get the idea ;-)
Those examples I think, clearly show how there is NO logic
in intuition. There was no way of
knowing ahead of time what would happen and if I had have listened to my head
(or emotions) about the situations ..... well.......
For me, intuition is a prime part of my life. I couldn’t imagine life without it now I know
how to hear it. And that is just
it. We ALL have it. It “speaks” to us all the time. We just don’t know how to hear it! And like anything else, it takes practise –
and ya, I know that sucks but there is no way to just “get it”. We have to learn its language. There is no point in my telling you how mine
speaks to me. I’m sure it is different
for everyone to some degree. But I CAN
help you to figure it out. One way is to
look at those times when you go “Damn! I
KNEW I shouldn’t have done that!” and see if you can remember how it felt when
you got the sense that you shouldn’t do that thing. The best way though is to ask questions and
see what you get. Start out small. Don’t practise with big things just yet
especially things that could impact yours or someone else life. Take it slow.
Work your way up. Ask simple
little questions that in the end, what you do doesn’t really matter. Like when you are driving to work and come to
that point where you have a choice of going two different ways – ask your
intuition which way to go and see what happens.
Or maybe you have finish one chore and have a choice of several others
to do next. Ask your intuition which one
you should do now. Just play with
it. And an important thing to try once
in awhile is to ask and then do the opposite
of what you were “told”. Sometimes that
can affirm it even more until you get the hang of it. Start out small until you get a feel for how
it speak to you and slowly up the ante.
Just remember two key points 1. Stay out of your head. Your intuition does not speak through your
mind! And 2. If you are feeling emotional, unless you can separate yourself
from it, it will block your intuition.
So have FUN with it and let me know your experiences.
Cheers!
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