Intuition

Introduction
Ever since I was a little girl I have been fascinated by intuition. Some call it intuition or a gut feeling. When I started college, I bought any intuition book I could get my hands on. In the 90's there weren't that many titles available on the subject. When my spiritual journey really got kicked off in 2017, my perspective on intuition changed. I am being guided to share this perspective with you.

What is intuition?
I firmly believe that your intuition is your soul. Your intuition is your soul's way of communicating with you. You must understand that your soul's purpose is to support you and what you chose to do here in this life before you incarnated here on earth. Yes you do have free will. However, you have a main mission you need to complete that your soul chose to experience. It is in your best interest to trust your soul. Who would know better on how to guide you than your soul? Your soul is YOU. Me? I am still learning to trust my soul as I have a hard time trusting myself. You may think, "You say to always trust your intuition, so doesn't that mean that you trust your soul?" You would be correct. However I still hesitate at times. I am always torn between my mind and my soul as most people are.

Some may say that intuition is your guides nudging you in the right direction. I suspect that could be true as well. I talk with my guides on a regular basis using my clairaudient ability and can honestly say that I feel like intuition mainly your soul and not your guides. It is important to differentiate between your soul and your guides as they are two completely different sources of information.

Some may say that intuition are angels communicating with you. I do not believe this is true. Angels have many ways to communicate to humans, but I don't see intuition as one of the methods.

Decisions
I am a Libra at heart, therefore making decisions is very hard for me. Personal decisions were always hard, but professional decisions came very easy to me. I always wondered why that was. I had data to lean on when it came to professional decisions, but with personal decisions data was sometimes hard to come by.

I suggest using your intuition when it comes to making any decision. Maybe you don't need to use it for a question like, "Where should I go for dinner tonight?" But listen to it for major questions like, "Should I move to a certain area?" or "Should I take this job?" Also use it for not so major questions like, "Should I take this vacation?" or "Should I go to this musical?"

What happens if you don't listen to your intuition?
I have seen time and time again where I have gotten myself in trouble because I did not listen to my intuition. One example was that I flew to another state to go to a job interview. I fully prepared for it and did all the right things to put my best foot forward. My mind kept going to the fact that I needed to do this for my family. Moving to a new state was what we planned for (for 9 years) and it was all we thought about. My baby was 3 months old at the time and this just seemed like the right thing to do.

I got through the interview and got on a plan to fly back home. My intuition was screaming at me that moving to this new state was not the right decision and I felt it to my core. On the plane ride home I was torn. My mind and my intuition were at odds with one another. I knew in my heart that I got the job and they were going to offer it to me. I found myself crying the whole plane ride home. Somehow I knew this choice was not right, however I felt like I had to say "Yes" and go.

Looking back it is hard to say that it was the wrong move. It was horrible the first few years there and I hated it. I learned a lot and met some wonderful people in the new place, so it wasn't all bad. However, sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had listened to my intuition. What would have life looked like if my family had stayed? Or perhaps we would have moved to a different state than where we landed. Regardless, I felt like I made a huge mistake that I didn't listen to my intuition. It has never steered me wrong, so why did I just ignore it? My mind won that battle.

Will my intuition cause me grief?
I believe the answer is, “Yes”. If your intuition is your soul giving you advice, then it also wants you to learn certain lessons from this life. Your soul chose to live a certain life and that doesn't mean it will always be easy or fun. It can be challenging as well. Please know that your soul knows best because after all, your soul is YOU. You need to trust your soul. If you need to go through something that it is unpleasant, then perhaps your soul wants you to experience in this life. There is a chance that if you don't experience it in this go around, you will most likely experience in the next life. Sometimes it is free will and sometimes you don't have a choice. Your soul determined what some of your non-negotiable experiences were going to be before you incarnated in this life.

Looking back on my interview, maybe my intuition played a part there. Maybe my intuition was calling the shots. Maybe I just knew deep down that it would be hard and painful. I didn't want to experience the pain, but looking back it was necessary. My experiences in the new state were important. Maybe my intuition won that battle after all.

Conclusion
My advice is to always listen to your intuition, which is your soul. Your soul knows yourself better than your guides and your angels. A year ago, I wouldn't have agreed with that statement. But yes! It is true! I remind myself all the time that I need to trust my soul as I have struggled with that in the past. If you also struggle with this, then I completely understand. I'm going to give you advice that I am also giving myself as I write these words to you.

Trust your intuition. By doing so, you are trusting your soul.

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