Recognizing Your Intuition
On the Earth plane, one of the strong forces you have to deal with is Fear. When you have decisions to make, you fear making the wrong decision. There are two forces: Love and Fear. On Earth people very often spend a great deal of energy thinking on the fears and worrying over the fears and imagining the fears, and they often end up making a decision that will bring them the least amount of fear or repercussions. What you want to do is to look at your choices and instead of just citing the disadvantages, list the advantages.
Next you begin a process of communication with yourself. You are not looking asking your Guides what decision to make, because they are not going to make it, you are. What your Guides are going to do is to help you think and to help you feel the energy of all of your options. They will help you get in touch with your Higher Self. You need to know the voice of your Higher Self, because that is where you will receive your guidance. You need a few minutes each day in which to be silent. The reason for the silence is to quiet your personality and allow yourself the opportunity to hear your inner, Higher, Self. The important thing is to quiet your mind from its day-to-day activity.
It is during your silent moments that you will begin to bring forth better awareness of your intuition. You must practice in order to easily recognize your intuition. You will know when you succeed. It is a different feeling. Your thoughts may say, “I think this is right.” Your intuition will produce a feeling that it is right. But, of course, the feeling is not forcing you. You always have the right to reject those feelings.
The physical plane is a very difficult plane. Souls choose to incarnate there in order to learn big lessons, but it is hard. Developing a strong awareness of your intuition’s guidance will help you through these lessons. Let me tell you another secret: When you hear yourself being warned with lots of negative concerns – with many fears – it is always your personality. That does not necessarily mean you shouldn’t listen to those thoughts. But optimally, what you are looking for is when your gut intuition tells you something and your own logic does not rise up in rebellion. If you think you are being told to do something, and after your meditations you feel this even more than you think it, listen to that.
You need to practice these techniques frequently in order to learn to recognize the voice of your intuition. It becomes a “knowing.” Many times you will say, “I don’t know how I know, but I know.” When you know how you know, that is your logic. Again, that is not necessarily to be disregarded. I am just talking about how to know the difference between the two bases for making sound decisions. For example, if your logic tells you not to risk something new to you, but your gut intuition disagrees, you may be receiving spiritual urging to walk farther into or through that Fear and take a chance. You may at least want to meditate more before you make your decision.
You will know you have gone against your intuition when you make a choice that turns out with different results than you had hoped for and in hindsight you find yourself saying things such as, “I knew it! Something was telling me not to do this. It just felt wrong for me.” (Or “something was urging me on, to take the chance. It felt so right!”) But then I thought what if….” Or, “But then I was afraid if I followed my hunch…”
Patricia A. Walton
