This is great and so needed Pema. The tricky thing sometimes is to recognize your intuition. Different people connect to it in different ways. For some it is a physical sensation, for others it is a verbal message. I am still working at recognizing what is (and isn't) my intuition.
Pema
· 11 months ago
Hi Pearl! For me the feeling is a knowing. Somehow, when the feeling sneaks in, I know what to do next if I listen. If I try to go against that "direction," the feeling gets so strong, it is almost as if I am being scolded. You wouldn't use salt if a recipe called for sugar instead. The knowing seems that obvious. I have talked myself out of intuition enough times to realize it knows better than I after all. Wherever it comes from, it is always right! So I don't argue anymore. :-)
Alison
· 11 months ago
Trusting your intuition, like all powerful things, is incredibly difficult. Difficult, mostly because its simply a gut feeling, and not a guarantee. Most people would like intuition to be (in the words of Caroline Meiss) "Knowing that if you go ahead and take this step, you won't lose any money and there'll be romance waiting for you on the other side."
If we all had that guarantee, there would be no faith involved, no risk, and probably no strength. That's why people who take these leaps of faith generally deserve to succeed. They're doing what a lot of people choose against in loyalty to their dreams.
Roy
· 11 months ago
Pema, your intuition never ceases to amaze me. It is prescient that you should identify the gut as a source of intuition. Recently, the medical community discovered that each of us has a second brain, and it is the gut (The Second Brain by Michael Gerson, MD). So, trust that gut feeling!
rob
· 11 months ago
Great article, calling it your internal GPS is really a good analogy. Just today I was driving and all of a sudden my gut said 'turn right go south on andrews ave' now i NEVER take andrews...so I ignored it and went my normal route..turns out once i got to my normal route street there was a huuge accident and it was gridlock traffic..I was stuck and had to take another alternate route...which took another 20min...how did my intution know that it was better to take andrews.... I would venture to say our intuition is always speaking to us....every single moment....and my goal is to listen to mine every step of the way..and basically it all comes down one thing.. . . .trust.
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If we all had that guarantee, there would be no faith involved, no risk, and probably no strength. That's why people who take these leaps of faith generally deserve to succeed. They're doing what a lot of people choose against in loyalty to their dreams.
Just today I was driving and all of a sudden my gut said 'turn right go south on andrews ave' now i NEVER take andrews...so I ignored it and went my normal route..turns out once i got to my normal route street there was a huuge accident and it was gridlock traffic..I was stuck and had to take another alternate route...which took another 20min...how did my intution know that it was better to take andrews....
I would venture to say our intuition is always speaking to us....every single moment....and my goal is to listen to mine every step of the way..and basically it all comes down one thing.. . . .trust.