Hello and Happy Saturday!
[intuition – noun: the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning]
When it comes to decisions, do you listen to your head or do you “trust your gut”? Can you feel it when your stomach tries to tell you something? I believe that it is very important to listen to this important sign of your body. It is somewhat a spiritual connection we have with our inner self. Is a women’s intuition different from a men’s? There is just so much to say and discuss about this. Whenever I trust my gut or my instincts I am usually right and everything goes well. Sometimes this is rather difficult for me because I am a thinker. I think every damn thing through one hundred times and then my head wins. It is just this mechanical thing – my Ego. I then also try to rationally analyze everything, which makes it even worse. Do you know this feeling when you mind goes crazy Pro and Con? I am working on getting better with all this for some time now but it is difficult. Here are some of the things that work for me to tap into my intuition a bit.
Yoga and walking/spending time in nature. Practicing Yoga and really trying to coming to focus and stay on this mat is a great tool for me to truly feel my body. To feel how far I can go with my practice as long as it feels good. Breathing deeper and stretching a bit lower is awesome. With Yoga or while walking in nature I am able to be physically present and tap into my intuition. In the beginning of a yoga session I make sure that I practice for myself and be fully present because my body tells me 100% what he likes and what not. All I need to do is listen.
Mediation. I have practiced mediation for a bit over one year now and I have to say that it is easier to hear little whispers from my soul when my mind is totally quiet. Whenever I need some time for myself I meditate. Whenever there are some decisions to be made, I meditate. It makes me see things more clearly afterwards.
Eating healthier. I started to listen more closely to my body when I felt so bad a couple of days ago. [There is only so much the body can take!] I ate meat – and actually a bunch of it. I usually don’t. I felt really bad overall and I had great conversations with my Reiki mentor at Sehes about what food is good for my body and what I should avoid. What he recommended made an amazing difference to my digestion, mood and weight. He gave me tips on how I can clean up a lot and allow calmness in my whole body. I love how I can come more in tune with my body by simply eating better. This excess meat for two or three days was really bad and unnecessary.
Dreams. Yesterday I wrote that everything might just be a dream and I got a plethora of emails and people asking me to clarify. Well, dreams are our brain’s way of processing all this information we deal with on a daily basis and whatever is just left over from the day. I love my dreams. They are sometimes very weird. Last night I dreamed that I wanted to go swimming in the neighbors tiny pond. It is really very tiny. But the neighbor told me to just go for a swim. So I dove right in. And it was so so deep. I dove deeper and deeper and could not see the bottom or the sky anymore after a while. It felt so amazing. I was able to breathe the entire time while just floating around. Dreams are just rich with valuable data I believe. All these experiences and memories we deal with on a daily basis – just think about it. And the brain then creates a dreamworld full of awesomeness when we sleep. So I just thought that maybe our life is just a dream in itself. Maybe we are just all actors and have a role to play? I am not a psychologist but I know that when we sleep our consciousness is at some sort of rest. I just guess now that this is the opportunity for my soul to bring information to me through my dreams. What do you think?
Love and Positive Thinking.When I look at my husband or son I feel love. I feel this unconditional, heartwarming feeling when I think about them. It is just pure and beautiful. Listening to my intuition I know that likes attract likes. This law of attraction applies to everything. I know that I just have to align myself with abundance, joy and love in a way or another and then it is pretty difficult for the world to not give me just that. When I am going through tough times I trust this feeling that I am right where I am supposed to be. Then I switch and focus on all the positive in my life. There is just so much. Soon, the “problems” dissolve. It is just an energy shift of some sort. Things will fall into place eventually. And aren’t all these self-doubting thoughts just fears? My husband is really good at positive thinking but I sometimes tend to focus on the space in-between – this space where I am now and where I want to be. This is when I am now focusing on the happiness an beauty I already have. This is when I think that I want to be just HERE, NOW. If something did not work out the way I wanted it to work out is for my best and I learn something from it and just move forward. “Everything will work out in the end. And if it does not work out it is not the end.” I am the only one who can pull myself out of whatever I am stuck in.
