5 Tips to Cultivate Your Intuition
In the quiet moments and when everything is well I hear you loud
and clear... sometimes though in the busy moments, when everything is loud
and I need you, you're gone....
Intuition, a phenomenon of the
mind, describes the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use
of reason. The word "intuition" comes from Latin verb intueri
translated as consider or from late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate".
-- Wikipedia
It's
interesting to me that the word intuition comes from intuit meaning initially
at least to contemplate. It makes sense to me then that when we are quiet and
take time to be with ourselves and contemplate or meditate or just be,
without doing... that the voice inside of our heart or gut can speak to us
with a voice more easily heard.
Every
freelancer, biz owner, solopreneur or entrepreneur I have worked with has at
one time or another felt an intuitive pull towards or away from a client or a
job. All of them at one point has failed to listen and been bitten in the bum
by it later.
So
how do we turn up the volume on our intuition and how do we know when it's
good information, worth trusting and taking a punt on without reason?
These
are my five top tips on strengthening intuition:
1. Spend some daily connecting to yourself and your breath.
Call
it sourcing, meditation, quiet reflection or just being. Call it what you
want, but gift yourself half an hour each day just to be with yourself and
your thoughts and feelings. Listen or watch them without judgement, allow
them to pass through you and allow yourself to recognise the sensations as
they arise. Meditation will clear your mind of distractions, allowing your
internal voice to be heard with more clarity. Your intuition may speak to you
in sensations, words, sounds, or pictures, as you become more attuned you
will be more able to discern.
2. Listen.
Actively
allow yourself to receive your intuitive voice and
give
it space to be heard. Actively tell yourself that you will value it's voice
and that it is a welcome insight.
3. Talk to yourself.
Ask
yourself questions. Sometimes I find writing the question down and then
answering with my other hand allows an internal activation of my intuitive
voice.
Which
leads me to
4. writing -- or journaling.
Intuitive
impressions are often subtle and can evaporate quickly. Our trust in them
isn't strong to start with and so the fleeting message is lost and gone.
Actually writing it down gives you something to come back to and also
activates the RAS (reticular activating system) at the base of your brain
which sets itself the task of finding evidence to support your thoughts.
5. Trust yourself.
How
do we trust? We just do it, and then gradually
increase the levels bit by bit when all is well. So jump in, make the
decision to trust your intuition and allow it to prove to you just how
wonderfully trust worthy it really is!
Ebonie
Allard
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
PERSONAL SPECIAL................... 5 Tips to Cultivate Your Intuition
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