Follow your Intuition

What does this mean exactly?

When I talk about following your intuition, here’s what I mean.

When you are faced with a decision, any decision, say YES to the one that inspires a good warm feeling. Sometimes it can be so clear that this feeling can spread from your heart and radiate throughout your body like a strong wave of rightness. Or maybe it is goosebumps that sparkle across your skin showing you that what you are experiencing is important, powerful, aligned. Or it could be a clear sense of knowing deep in your core.

Sometimes people default to thinking about following intuition for things that feel like danger, “my intuition told me something wasn’t right.” And that can be important, relevant and true. But what I find in my experience is that if I am more focused on following the other side of that coin, attuning my awareness to follow what feels good, then what feels good is more of what I see and more of what I experience.

For example, while on a walk, rather than noticing that someone feels suspicious across the street, I am instead drawn to things that are resonating at a higher frequency or that feel good. The flowers in the person’s garden I am walking by, the invitation I’ve just received to attend something I’ve been craving, the exciting inspiration that is brewing in my heart. The energy of the suspicious person has a lower frequency and doesn’t have much to stick to in me because I am not focusing my attention at that frequency or looking to engage in an exchange that feels like that, so it just slides on by. The person doesn’t notice me, and I don’t notice them. We are each going to be drawn to different things and therefore will be engaging with a frequency of energy that matches what we are each focused on respectively.

This doesn’t mean difficult things don’t happen if we are focused on positive experiences. Difficult things are part of life, they will happen and we will navigate through them. However, what we focus on and expect to experience, in other words, the frequency of energy that we engage in, is what we will find reflected in our general experience. So if we are more focused on following what feels good, rather than focusing on what feels bad or getting away from what has the potential to feel bad, we will likely be more attracted to and noticing a warm feeling of alignment that will multiply rather than a cold or scary feeling of difficulty which conversely multiplies when we focus on it.

Our brains are tricky and can omit information that doesn’t support something we are focused on believing or feeling. They also have what psychologists call a “negativity bias” that is hard wired in us for survival from way back. This makes us hyper aware and seeking out threats at a far grater degree than things that feel good. So it takes awareness and practice to focus on what feels good and in alignment.

When I’m in a session and I’m tapping into this feeling of alignment, I can often sense an echo of energy that spans outward- like a pulse of loving momentum I am connecting with through my sensory system. I find that by engaging at a conscious level with this energy, it brings that potential of alignment more into being. With this I can feel a kind of loving ripple of affirming energy, a surge of light pulsing out into the future and the past.

Following your intuition is attuning yourself to the energy frequency of love manifested in your being as you connect and engage with the world and allowing that frequency to guide you. We have learned so many ways to keep ourselves from feeling safe in its embrace, for example being hyper focused on what could go wrong. But this higher energetic frequency is powerful and strong and will carry us though if we allow it in. We all have access to it and with intentional opening and trust, we can continue to find our way back home with its guidance.

Try this: Take at least three slow deep breaths, unclenching the jaw, softening the shoulders, belly, hands and feet. Close your eyes and keep breathing deep loving breaths into your heart as if it is a third lung, expanding with your inhales and contracting with your exhales. Smile. Send love to your heart, to your whole being. Do that until you feel complete.

From this place, consider a decision that might be in front of you. See yourself looking in observing the version of your life with one choice and then with the other/s. Notice how your body feels and responds when you feel yourself in these different scenarios. Perhaps one will rise above because it feels most aligned, there is more brightness, color or there are warm feelings connected with it. Note if you are drawn to paying attention to what feels most aligned or what feels most misaligned. No judgement, just notice. See if you can start paying attention more in your moments, reflections, days, to what is going well, what you are loving, what feels good, and follow that.