Understanding Your Own Truth
There comes a time in everyone’s spiritual development where you must ask: “Are you thinking for yourself?” During the course of your lifetime it is easy to be bombarded with the thoughts and opinions of others. You have to look inside yourself and know that anything that comes from outside of you must be examined.
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
Tips For Recognizing Intuition
Knowing what your intuition is telling you is a valuable tool on the path of spiritual growth. In recognizing and following your intuition, you can be guided from your Spirit, your Higher Self rather than just your mind.
Your Higher Self sees the big picture of your life and can help you take the shortcuts and choose the best path for you which is a wonderful gift!
Here are 5 tips on recognizing your intuition:
1. On this Path, Fear is Not Always Intuition
On the path of manifesting your dream, when you are experiencing fear, it typically means that in that moment you can not see clearly. You are seeing through filters of the past that want to keep you safe, protected from any pain you had experienced in the past.
Fear is most often an illusion that holds you back, rather than an intuitive message telling you not to do something.
In my experience, fear is only showing you that you have reached the boundaries of your comfort zone. This is something to be celebrated as your dreams are always beyond your comfort zone!
Fear does not always have to be walked through, especially if it is a deep or intense fear. It is most often better to heal it at it’s source. And in releasing the fear, you can more easily hear your true inner guidance.
2. Your Intuition is Positive and Encouraging
Your intuition is a positive, encouraging voice and would never motivate you out of fear. I guess in some cases a sinking negative feeling could be your intuition telling you something is wrong or that you need to take physical precaution for your own safety, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
We’re talking about wanting to create a life that reflects who you really are, that is a joyful experience for you to live and allows you to express who you really are and live abundantly.
And on this path, your intuition will speak in a quiet, positive, encouraging voice or nudge. It speaks softly, so you may have to listen closely to hear it!
3. Your Intuition Resonates Deep Within You
When you get an intuitive insight or message, you will feel it resonate within you. You are in intuitive person, which means you have the added gift of KNOWING what feels right, rather than needing it to be proved to you through logic.
If you see a book and suddenly feel an energy or a resonance within you, know that this is you feeling your intuition.
When this happens, see if you can find out what your intuition is guiding you to do. Perhaps it’s to open the book and get a message, perhaps it’s to buy the book as it has exactly what you need in it for your next step.
4. Your Intuition Is Easier to Recognize the More You Use It!
Everyone is different and their intuition speaks to them in different ways. So the best way to find out how your intuition works for you is to use it! Test it out on smaller things like “Where should we go for dinner?” or “Which shirt will make me feel more energized today?”
By using it, you will begin to see the results of following your intuition and that is how it will strengthen. When you see where you are led when you follow your intuition and find it is to good results, you will begin to trust yourself and your intuition much more. This will allow it to develop even more!
5. Intuition is Not Always Black and White
Your intuition operates beyond the logical mind that always thinks in terms of either/or, yes/no. Your intuition recognizes the gray area. It knows that there are infinite choices and paths for you and that there is really no such thing as a wrong choice.
Your intuition is messages from your soul, which may see “both” instead of “A or B”. In this case, asking A or B is irrelevant. So rather than thinking of your intuition as something that will give you a concrete “Yes” or “No”, see it as more of a playful thing that can guide you in a more elusive way.
Release the need for the concrete and give yourself permission to be more playful with it!
Fia Crandall is a Spiritual Coach & Healer
