3 Steps for Re-aligning with your Intuition

I had a friend say to me “I’m good at figuring out what I don’t want but I can’t seem to figure out what it is that I want”.

This got me thinking about the nudges of our intuition. The silent ways in which we move towards our wants, needs and desires. It makes sense to only know what you don’t want when you recognize that life is full of limitless possibilities. Ones you can’t even imagine. Ones that catch us by surprise in beautiful and unexpected ways. Those experiences end up being the most memorable, yet many of us walk around as if we’re meant to have it all figured out. That we’re all psychics of our own life and if we can’t access this ability, there must be something wrong with us. This thought can leave us susceptible to rigid and inflexible ways of relating with life. It can keep us stuck in the limited beliefs of our conditioned minds.

That’s not to say that we shouldn’t work towards our aspirations and dreams. Finding your path means learning the language of sensation and how we interact with the world around us. This means developing an ESP far more helpful, intuition. Intuition helps us navigate our fears of the unknown, while sustaining the beauty of it. It works through the process of elimination. We redirect away from all the things we don’t want, in order to be able to move towards what we do want.

Letting go of what does not serve us is how we make room for what does. This is the first step to moving towards a path alligned with our values. These nudges come in the form of negative experiences that challenge us and move us towards change. Many of us go to the depths of the earth to avoid, suppress and deny uncomfortable emotional experiences, losing sight of their value. This is understandable given how these experiences feel like we’re navigating a dark abyss, with no end in sight. Only when we refocus can we zoom in on the spark of light illuminating from its’ centre and allow it to grow larger.

The judgements we place on our emotional experiences as good or bad is often what keeps us stuck in these patterns of avoidance. What if we simply saw them as guides to understanding the deepest parts of ourselves? This takes us to the second step of trusting these experiences and the vision that we can’t see yet. It means letting go of uncertainty and trusting that every experience holds greater value, despite the challenges that come with it. Life is never short of challenges and when we use them to define and judge our experiences, our intuition gets hijacked by secondary suffering that our mind creates. Challenges create storms to drive us towards action and change. They give us an opportunity to redirect ourselves back to a state of balance, of alignment.

The process of redirection isn’t always pleasing or gratifying. It often means navigating tough decisions. Which takes us to our third step of learning to make tough decisions and trusting that we have all the power to do so. It involves building acceptance for the inevitability of struggle in all it’s many forms. Failure, self-doubt, rejection, regret and dissapointment show up as lessons in disguise. When we see them as more than simply that, we’re digging ourselves deeper into a spiral of self-defeating thoughts. In turn, we start to believe that they are more powerful than we are. Keeping us powerless to the limitations of our conditioned mind.