Learning To Trust Our Intuition

This session begins with a guided body relaxation then moves into an expansion of the mind, all in service of asking our higher selves the question 'Do I trust my intuition?' - By allowing the answers to arise, we start to uncover any blocks that are present and begin to discover the wisdom lying within. This track is taken from my course, 'Discover Your Divine Purpose', available now via my profile.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to the session. I invite you to take a seat or lay down and if you like to gently close down the eyes and then take three deep slow breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth and this time as a way to connect to our body we're going to do some light tensing and releasing. We're going to go through each muscle in turn just gently squeezing and releasing and with each cycle we'll notice that that part of our body and our whole body in general will begin to relax, To let go, To release and to settle. So starting with your head just gently squeeze and release the muscles moving down to your jaw and into your neck just a gentle squeezing and releasing just feeling our body as we progress downwards into our shoulders and our arms we're gently tensing and squeezing and then releasing and letting go all the while breathing in deeply and slowly in through the nose and out through the mouth just moving down our bodies into our backs first our upper back and then our lower backs just gently squeezing and then letting go and into our chests and then our bellies and our groin and our buttocks just squeezing and releasing and letting our body settle into a place of deeper relaxation moving down into our legs our calves and our feet just tensing squeezing gently releasing. Now I invite you to take another deep slow breath in through the nose and out through your mouth and I would like you to squeeze and release all the muscles in your body squeeze, Hold and gently release. Let's take another breath go through another cycle squeezing every muscle of our body gently then letting ourselves relax into our bodies letting go bringing our attention to the intent to welcoming the wisdom of the next question opening ourselves up the flexible pliable welcoming mind one that invites the wisdom of our pasts of our intuition of God the universe our ancestors the Muse whatever it is we draw strength from we're welcoming that into our minds and approaching the question from a place of possibility of optimism of openness in a moment I'm going to ask you a question twice then we're going to sit in contemplation of that question for one minute do I trust my intuition do I trust my intuition so my immediate response to this question is not entirely not entirely I don't entirely trust my intuitive sense of a way to navigate the world I see myself and I see other people having an idea of how to proceed but then second-guessing themselves falling into analytics or anxiety and making decisions to do certain things despite their better judgment and yet we all observe the world from our own perspectives and whilst it's important to learn more to listen to scientific findings and to experts to those of us who know us and our situation for advice ultimately this is our life it's your life it's my life and to proceed through that life without fully trusting my intuition seems fundamentally wrong but of course I'm not yet doing that so the question is why why don't I fully trust my intuition two immediate answers come up number one I don't yet know how to listen fully to embrace it to accept it to hear it number two that intuitive voice is clouded by past issues and traumas and fears and anxieties doubt because really what is our intuition if we take this from a secular perspective how intuition could be perceived as accumulated wisdom gained through an entire life it's the feeling that we can't quite put a place on that tells us to do one thing or another that allows us to make judgments and decisions despite not knowing why consciously conceptually there are countless stories of people having a bad feeling about something and making a choice to change paths or do something different and that decision saving their life and only after deep introspection and contemplation could they place the reasons why conceptually but a deeper part of themselves their intuition their subconscious new before them and guarded them and if we go deeper into this we look at and we consider that our subconscious is a pattern recognizing machine in order to survive our brains have to make quick snap judgments and get us to do something quicker than we can know why but of course that process can be corrupted by pains by trauma by modern society twisting and manipulating us you know is it my intuition or have I just been advertised to very well that's a tough question and I think only deep levels of introspection into yourself into your soul deep can really answer that question because the voice of anxiety the voice of impregnated thoughts from advertisements and other external influences that may or may not have our best interests at heart sounds very similar to that intuitive voice at least at the start but I know that if I dig deep enough if I listen I start to learn and I start to see that that intuitive voice is distinct and is unique and is different and it always has my best interests at heart the problem of course comes when you discover your intuition telling you to do something screaming at you to do something that you don't know why it goes against what you think conceptually you should do and nonetheless it's saying hey consider this do this then you're faced with a quandary you trust your intuition and act on it despite your you know quote-unquote better judgment or do you approach life from a rational logical perspective maybe this is a value judgment maybe it's a personality choice maybe it's something that's undefinably unique to each and every person for me at least I'm learning to trust that intuitive voice to listen to it to embrace it to accept it because it's right every single time I go against my intuition and trust cold logic I'm let down because here's the thing I can logic out a solution to a problem but that logic presumes that I understand every variable understand the actors involved in their minds understands random chance understands a whole variety of things that when I look at it objectively I simply don't know I'm just guessing so it feels like a logical decision when really it's just guesswork and that intuitive voice probably has access to deeper resources than mere cognition now there are some decisions that are and should be taken based on pure logic don't get me wrong you know cold mathematics physics engineering these equations these things these jobs need to be done rationally but the decision to enter those fields the decision to take your life in certain directions the decision of which way to drive to work should probably be taken intuitively should you ask that person out should you accept that opportunity should you back yourself fully these things seem to be intuitive decisions which doctor should you go to should you get a second opinion should you pursue your art these things need to be intuitive so do I trust my intuition do you trust your intuition well done this brings us to the end of the session at the bottom of your screen you'll see an option to view the classroom or to ask a question before moving on I invite you to take a moment to click through and share your insights to read the answers from other students and to hear my replies remember to start your responses with session 6 or to restate the question so we know which one you're referring to this is an opportunity for deep learning further introspection and insight so please don't miss out I look forward to seeing you in the next session this track was taken from the course discover your divine purpose it's out now on insight timer and available via my profile I invite you to join in