For the year ahead I have two concepts, I would like to follow:
1. Follow Your Intuition
2. Believe In Yourself
And what better way to go by these concepts than to learn and write about them?
Each month I would like to dedicate one article to a subtopic of each concept, which would help me write more articles.
As a start, I would like to dive into the “follow your intuition” concept and this is a general introduction to how I understand it.
Intuition can be described as the sixth sense we have. It is that feeling of looking up just before you bump into something, an inner knowing and guidance. Others might call it a hunch or your gut feeling.
Intuition helps us make sound decisions in line with our truest selves. It makes us and our decisions more authentic. At the moment of the decision, it might seem unreasonable, but as our path unfolds it makes sense.
Often enough we are unable to listen to this inner voice. We have learned to give other external voices (parents, friends, colleagues) more importance. Normally, these voices become more important in our lives because they are louder. Our intuition speaks with us in whispers. We need silence to understand what it is saying to us.
Also, often enough, the inner knowing gives us hints of its presence and calls us to listen to it. We know that we have an inner intelligence which is far greater, loving, and compassionate than those external voices misleading us.
“When I ignore my intuition I end up doing things that just don’t work well, or even things that aren’t good for me. The more I follow my inner wisdom the better I am able to care for myself, and more things just fall into place” — Shakti Gawain’s Developing Intuition
We need to understand that the inner voice is good. It can’t harm you, it empowers you.
“In general, when we follow a true intuitive feeling, things tend to work out well (although sometimes in unexpected and surprising ways), we feel energized and enlivened, and there’s a sense of being “in the flow” “ of life . When we don’t follow our intuition, we often feel somewhat depleted, depressed, or numb, and ther may be a sense of being blocked, having to push to make things happen, or being “ out of the flow”. — Shakti Gawain’s Developing Intuition