INTUITION AND GUT INSTINCTS
Intuition is the feeling of knowing that the phone is going to ring – and it does. Or you just know that someone will phone you…. and they do.
Using your gut instinct is a method of knowing which path is right for you. Let’s say that you have a big decision to make and you are totally confused and don’t know which way to go.
First, find a quiet place – be it a quiet room, a park or a seat in the library and visualize the two different directions. Whichever pathway feels exciting or comfortable is your gut telling you which way to go. It is never swayed by outside influences, it just knows which way is right for you.
Intuition – meaning ‘in – tuition’ - a learning from within. It comes from the right-hand side of the brain, but is usually overridden by the reasoning mind (left-hand side) of the brain. This happens only because we are taught for many years during our school years to use the reasoning/logical side of the brain.
In the past no-one really talked about intuition or gut instincts but cultures such as native American Indians and Australian Aboriginals lived their lives trusting them.
If you look back on your past and note that every time you have gone against that feeling of ‘knowing’ the result was not to your advantage. It is also how your Guides talk to you, guiding you to take the pathway which is right for you.
Or what about when your gut instinct tells you to follow a path, you ignore it, then find out later that it would have been the best thing you could have ever done.
Most of my life – I didn’t listen to my intuition or gut instincts. At the times I did, the outcome was always good.
I remember back in 1976, I woke up knowing that my Father was going to die. My reasoning mind said ‘don’t be silly – he’s perfectly healthy’. But this time trusting my intuition, I went to visit him. I was very pregnant with my youngest son, Jy, at the time. I told my Dad to look after himself as I was worried about him. He bent down, put his arm around me and kissed me. What a moment to have in your memories – he had never kissed me in my life before. That was the last time I saw him alive – he died in a house fire two weeks later.
If I hadn’t acted on my instincts, I wouldn’t have had that lovely memory.
Another time, I was breastfeeding my eldest son, Shane, who was three weeks old at the time. It was 10.00 in the morning and I was in my lounge room. I knew that someone was on the other side of the door. My reasoning mind said ‘don’t be stupid – that only happens in the movies’. The door handle turned, as I knew it would, I was watching it! The intruder had a knife and held it at my throat. Had I trusted my intuition, I would have locked the door and phoned the Police.
These days, I pay close attention to my intuition and gut instincts.