Intuition: trusting yourself without knowing why

Intuition is something we all have. But often the volume is turned down so low, we can barely hear it.   Intuition is not about being able to reading tomorrow’s headings today – it’s about reading the energy and where the energy is heading  or moving towards;  it’s about sensing what feels strong and bright vs. what feels diminished somehow.   It’s about using that data to guide you.

The thing which usually confuses people regarding intuition is that often our intuition prompts us to take a certain action or decision, and our head goes ballistic because our head wants to know “who, what, where, why” – it wants the facts – it needs facts to justify its choices, yet our intuition can’t always provide all that detail.  It’s at this junction many of us walk away from our intuition because we have no ‘evidence’ to back it up.   Later on when all goes pear shaped we beat ourselves up for not listening to our intuition – I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard various renditions of “I knew – just knew” – it’s come out of my mouth many times, and out of the mouths of countless people I’ve met.

In the course of our lives we’ve built a solid relationship with our head and all its posturing, planning, rationalizing, justifying. 

The only way we can build a solid relationship with our intuition is to use it – use it despite not knowing ‘why’ you need to take that particular course of action.  The more we use it, the more opportunities we have to see it’s ‘on the money’.  The more wins we get, the more we learn to trust what we are getting.

One way we sabotage our intuition is we expect a perfect score – why we want perfection from intuition, when we know it’s really not achievable in any other sphere is a mystery.    Think about how many times you’ve made head based decisions about something, based on the best research, data etc. etc. you have and it goes wrong – does one failure mean you won’t trust your mind anymore? 

Another way we sabotage ourselves is by wanting to hear what we want to hear.  If the all the vibes in the world say “get away from that guy”, but we want HIM TO BE THE ONE, we will work overtime to ensure the message is drowned out by all that fantasy, drama or wishful dreaming.  Of course in the after-guy post mortem with your friends you’ll probably say “I knew – just knew”. 

 An exercise I do every so often is make up a list of all the things which intuition has helped me with in my life – for example its stopped me from getting mugged, having a head-on car accident along a winding mountain road and so on.  That’s a great way to build your confidence.   Give it a go, and you’ll see what I mean. 

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Is there a food you like too much?

We all have our favourite foods.

Foods we like a lot.   These tend to be foods we may leave room in our stomachs for, or when we are in a social situation we may fill up on these foods. These foods may be our ‘comfort foods’.

If these foods are in our home, we tend to finish them off very quickly, or they are always on our shopping list.   Examples can include chocolate, cheese, lollies, salty or savoury things, cakes, fizzy drinks, juices, chips, breads etc.  Maybe you:

• Love desserts and sweet things so much, that at a buffet or smorgasbord, you would fill your plate with desserts before you even consider eating anything else,
• Love fizzy drinks so much you will drink many cans or bottles every day, and even though you’ve tried alternatives, nothing else fills that space in the same way,
• Adore cheese, and will eat cheese with almost anything or everything, or
• Can see elements of yourself in the above examples, but for a different food.

Often this desire to eat a specific food may initially seem quite amusing - to yourself, as well as to family and friends. It may just be considered your “quirk”. It may remain benign and harmless for evermore.

But for some of us, our passion or desire for our favourite or loved food shifts to another level, and now you want to stop eating or drinking that food but in spite of your best efforts, you can’t.

Why your Favorite Food may now be a problem

Your favourite food is a problem when you know, or come to believe that your continued consumption of it is starting to impact your health, your sense of well being and your life.

Your favourite food is a problem when in spite of that knowledge you can’t seem to stop eating that food, or be satisfied to just eat modest amounts of it.

You may be:

• Diabetic, or pre-diabetic and know you shouldn’t eat sweet things, but you can’t help yourself when it’s in front of you. Some diabetics even mess around with their insulin just to be able to eat some of their favourite foods.
• Overweight and know its time for you to stop drinking those fizzy drinks, or hankering for chocolate, and just knowing that makes you want to have more of it.
• Suffering from high cholesterol and know its time for you to stop eating cheese and other savoury foods, and it makes you miserable to say no, and deny yourself that way.
• Concern that if you continue to eat certain foods the way you presently are, you will develop a health problem in the future.
• Trying to lose weight and know that you keep sabotaging yourself by your passion for one specific type of food. 
• Have developed a food allergy - to wheat for example, but find it hard not to eat bread. 

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