We all find ourselves at times walking the edge between this and that, yes and no. What to do? Which way to go…. When you make a decision and you have a sense of “relief” you know it’s a right choice.
It’s about going downstream, letting go of the paddles and letting the current take you. It’s about riding the waves, not going against the tide. Use your senses to detect signs: Intuitive “hits” come in many forms- from sensory images, physical feelings and auditory and olfactory clues.
When you are open to receiving and noticing “signs”, it becomes progressively easier to trust your intuition. The optimal receptive “state” has being “grounded” for a prerequisite.
For instant grounding, connect with nature: take a walk, sit at the ocean meditate, listen to the birds, gaze at a flower. Now is the perfect season to jumpstart your intuition.
Or listen to a guided meditation, which you may listen to on the Moving Meditation Fitness audio program: www.balanceandpower.com/movingmeditation.php. The following tips may assist you in accessing your intuition and are most effective when practiced on a daily basis:
- Be Quiet: Take time out every day to experience some form of stillness and silence. Calm your mind chatter with deep breathing or meditation. Releasing your need to know, analyze and think will allow intuition to work.
- Trust and Look for Signs: Be open to seeing signs and symbols and receiving information from all around you, including songs from the radio and street signs.
- Be Creative, Play!: Creativity and play partner well with intuition, as does getting into the “zone” with cardio exercise. Whenever you “lose track of the time and move into a “flow state” intuitive guidance may be at work.
- Take Risks and notice your intuitive hits happen!
- Be Inquisitive:When you ask yourself questions, you open to clarity and insight. The answers lie within us- get out of your own way so that the answers can surface and trust yourself.
- Write: Writing allows information and insight to come forth from your inner self. Take time to journal-or blog everyday. Connect moments of gratitude, synchronistic events and affirmations through writing.
- Do something different: Take your mind off your “stuff”: read, go to the movies, be with friends.
Intuition, like any recently acquired skill, takes practice. When you are accomplished at it, you will reap wonderful results!
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Eileen Lichtenstein, MS Ed, CEO of Balance & Power, Inc is a certified Anger Management Specialist, Career and Mid-Life Coach, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique ) Practitioner and a former Biofeedback Therapist and faculty at Hofstra University. “SOAR! with Resilience™: The Interactive Book for Overcoming Obstacles & Achieving Success” is the core material for many of her trainings and a motivational read for anyone struggling to take their personal or professional life to a higher level of success and satisfaction. www.balanceandpower.com.
