Love Yourself Enough to Trust Yourself
I consider my ability to follow my intuition a personal superpower. What’s yours? It is what you would consider to be the equivalent of a sixth sense. The thing that is your most natural ability and something you don’t think about often because it comes relatively easy. You probably take it for granted. My friends think my intuitiveness is a little bit creepy, and I appreciate that feedback because that’s how I know I’ve still got it.
There is a myth behind thinking logically versus listening to intuition. Most of us are taught to trust our minds for guidance but not our intuition or inner voice, we have to figure everything out logically. It’s when something isn’t feeling right, but you can’t put your finger on how to interpret it and your thoughts are being pulled in different directions. Or you may notice the same opportunities (or challenges) knocking on your door. When we lack clarity, we can find ourselves asking the universe for “a sign” and we will wait impatiently for a spontaneous ‘aha’ moment.
Photographer, Wendy Alana
“Get into the habit of asking yourself: Does this support the life I am trying to create”
I’ve been following my instincts since before I even knew what intuition was, and there is no specific reason why. It wasn’t something that I was taught to do. Of course, there were occasions in my early adult life where I chose not to trust my intuition due a combination of peer pressure, what society teaches us is acceptable and lack of self-awareness. But outside of these moments of cloudy judgement (a.k.a. fear), my gut has never steered me in the wrong direction and I can see through behaviour and understand whether someone is being genuine, or not. Some people are born with a strong intuition and know how to tune into it, and others have a really hard time. I often observe people in both my work and home life struggling to make decisions, while I can intuitively navigate things for myself. But it’s not an easy practice to teach because the only person who can really understand your personal truth and what intuition is trying to tell you, is you. Let me try to explain…
Here’s comes the tough love. Just because you know you have an intuition does not mean you know how to listen to it. Intuition can be confused with fear and ego and that is something you need to be aware of. If a decision is being made out of fear, that is probably ego. If you are a logical thinker, you may find yourself calling to others for their opinion. You subconsciously seek that validation in order for something to feel right, because the majority rules, right? Unfortunately, it does not work that way. The real truth and the answers you’re looking for live deep within you and only you. For example, some people don’t always understand the choices I make initially, they sometimes seem far-fetched or maybe the less popular choice, but I can feel confident and happy even when the decision doesn’t seem rational. I fully trust myself regardless of the potential outcome(s).
“Trust your intuition. You don’t need to justify or explain your feelings to anyone, just trust your own inner guidance, it knows best”