Your Intuition Wants to Help

One of the things I think people struggle with when following their own authentic path, or at least I have, is learning to trust their intuition.

​When you’re ready to begin listening to your authentic self, tuning into the voice that gets louder with each meditation/introspection/moment alone, you’ll notice you begin listening to your intuition more, too.

​Or at least, that’s been my experience.

​You may already be listening to your intuition with no problem. But it’s been a learning experience for me.

There are no coincidences

​In the past, I know I’ve excused certain coincidences, no matter how often they jumped up in front of me. Now I find myself much more aware and open to recurring messages.  

​There are weeks when I’m carrying around a particular thought, and it keeps coming up, and I know that’s what I need to write about in this blog. To anyone not looking for a weekly blog topic like me, more than one occurrence should open your eyes to something you should be paying attention to.

​Then there are other times, like today, when Wednesday rolls around and I still haven’t a clue. But if I spend time listening to what’s going on in my head, I find the topic easily.

​Today, for instance, as always, interesting thoughts come to me when I’m in the shower. It generally happens when I don’t have music playing, I’m just paying attention to my own thoughts, and am away from my screens.

​I stayed up late last night because I really wanted to finish the book I was reading. It was a doozy! The author, A. R. Torre, has become one of my favorites. She writes books that usually have a twist I never expect.

​The one I just read, called The Last Party, made me so angry that I thought about throwing it against the wall and walking away several times. The only thing that kept me reading was the fact that I enjoyed a couple of her other books so much, I didn’t think she was going to lead me astray.

Yep, I’m a nerd

​Sidenote: One thing I always do with the books I finish is read through the acknowledgements. Hers were at the end of the book, and she flat out said, “To my readers, thank you for sticking with this roller coaster of a story. It was dark, one of my darkest yet, and I appreciate you trusting me with your time…” So she apparently knew there might be people who wouldn’t make it that far. That made me chuckle.

​There was a character in this one who was blindsided by another character. For me, the reader, I kept finding myself talking to this idiot - DUDE! What about this, this, and THIS?? Of course, he kept missing clearly obvious red flags, and I would have to walk away for a bit before my blood pressure skyrocketed to the point of no return.

It made me think about how many of us do the same thing with loved ones. How often are we duped because we care so much about that person that we completely overlook the screamingly obvious flaws?

​I ran into a friend today who I hadn’t seen in a long time. The last I knew, she had just gotten married and was living the dream. Talking to her today, it was clear that she was beating herself up for trusting someone she shouldn’t have. Someone had cashed in on the trust she offered them on a silver platter.

​One of the things she said to me was, “I guess I knew enough to not do THAT.” I pointed out that her intuition must have been second-guessing things. She agreed. Now she’s made some changes and will keep herself guarded and protected for a bit.

​When I returned home, my daily calendar also had a message about intuition. Trusting your intuition regardless of what anyone else thinks and doing what it says is about as authentic - and self-loving - as it gets. That’s the shower message, the friend message, and the calendar message. Boom - there’s my blog topic. God, or the Universe, usually has your back if you pay attention.

​Listening to your authentic voice might help you to listen more clearly to your intuition. Those arguments you keep hearing in your mind aren’t just your Negative Nelly trying to mess with you. It’s your intuition second-guessing your choices, and that’s a good thing.