405 I Follow My Intuition February 2018 Friday Week 2

Fantastic Fridays-#405 February 9th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Follow My Intuition   The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein A few years ago I was working out with a good friend of mine. This friend was so energetic, they were such a happy soul, and they displayed so much kindness in who they were…everyday. It was a joy to be around this person, and I was glad to call them a good friend of mine.   When we would do our workouts together at the gym we’d talk about the happenings of our lives, and we always made time to talk about great new food places that had opened up. And one day, we had our everyday normal conversation, but I didn’t realize the importance of it until years later when she told me how it had changed her life.   This friend and I parted ways for a bit as some changes happened in her life, and recently we have begun working out together again once a week. And she brought up that life changing conversation for her and let me know how powerful it was. All I was really doing was complimenting her life as I said you have such a great life, a great husband, awesome kids, a nice house, and I said jokingly you get to eat at all those nice new food places too. As I said those words to her, she was doing some planks on the ground, and she didn’t say anything right away. But when she got up she said to me, “Things aren’t always as they seem.”   At the time it just seemed like a normal comment that things aren’t as perfect as we’d like them to be. But with her having a few years separation from saying that comment, she had more clarity about it now. At the time she said it, she didn’t know where it came from. It hadn’t really entered her conscious mind that something was wrong. And I think that was from her not being comfortable enough to say outloud what her intuition was telling her.   It was that voice inside her that she had buried deep within. It was the knowing something was wrong but never really wanting to investigate it or think about it…because that might mean pain. For it’s easier to hide the darkness then it is to let it out into the world. It’s easier to live in our so-called perfect world for everyone else to think things are great, as we fool even ourselves, all while pieces of us inside are being silenced so as to not break the perfect dream we are pretending to live in.   It’s been years since we’ve had that conversation, and she’s now divorced and remarried to the person who really knows her. Over the years of us talking I remember talking about relationship issues, and life choices…and how sometimes we have no clue why we married who we did or why we made certain choices at the time that really never meshed with who we were.   But one simple comment of saying how perfect her life was, was the moment she was able to voice something inside that had been scratching at her brain for a long time. It was something that she wanted to voice but either didn’t know how to, or didn’t know who to voice it to, or even if she could voice it…ever. We grow up being told what fairy tales are, that things will last forever, and that there’s a happily ever after in every story. And I’m not saying there aren’t happy endings in our stories. What I am saying, is there’s so much unhappiness in the world because we’re trying to live other people’s fairytales. And we live in a story that doesn’t serve us because we don’t want to hurt anyone else involved.   Our intuition is wise if we can just learn to shut off our consciousness for a little bit. We think too hard, and we try to force things with our wit, and it’s not that intelligence is a bad thing…but it’s that’s our knowledge has limited reach. It’s based within the physical realm; it’s about knowing things rather than truly understanding them on a whole different level.   In my book I’ll be publishing in the next few months, I talk about honing your intuition. There are different ways that we come to our knowing, but how we begin hearing that voice of truth— that voice of all-knowing within us, is by learning to silence our minds a little more often. It’s about leaving room for a calmness instead of trying to always be distracted with constant chatter whether in our mind, on the radio, or the TV. Silence scares us because we’ll have to face some truths we don’t necessarily ever want to face.   And like my friend and her previous marriage, she knew there were things that were crippling her, her partner, and her kids by trying to live in this fairytale that wasn’t hers. Being raised religiously, she had said that divorce wasn’t an option. But when the other person isn’t willing to grow with you, what do you do then? I’m not saying divorce is the answer either, but what I am leaning more towards is hearing our intuition before the problem occurs.   Maybe we wouldn’t get into relationships we weren’t meant to be in just because we were afraid of being alone, or they fit our checkboxes of how tall they need to be, or if they are a good dancer, or if they have a certain hair color or eye color, or such. Maybe we wouldn’t take jobs that are killing us because we thought it would be the most logical choice…all while we are dying more and more inside every day from it. Maybe we wouldn’t have to make compromises to our integrity as we tell ourselves it’s part of the game to get what we want—to get that shiny thing we thought that would make us happy …when all it was, was a distraction keeping us from being who were meant to be.   Now we need to make mistakes to learn, but maybe we could avoid some of the mistakes by taking a higher road of hearing our intuition. I believe our intuition will always let us know a better path, a better way, and a higher form of wisdom as we let go of trying to think out the most perfect scenario with our mind. There’s a wisdom within us that can guide us. There’s a better way being mapped out for us. There’s an answer for that unsolvable problem…if only we become silent long enough to practice honing in on our intuition. And with my friend, all it took was a simple statement, and the comfort of being willing to voice something deeper within herself to come to an awareness she had been avoiding. And in the end her intuition didn’t misguide her; in fact, I think she’s living her happily ever after right now.   Today’s Personal Commitment:What does your intuition sound like? How do you know when it’s speaking?   For everyone, it might be different. For me, I feel it in my solar plexus as my body guides me to let me know something feels off, and when I meditate and get silent long enough, I hear a booming voice that helps answer questions I’ve been seeking. I’m not perfect so a lot of times I forget to come back to that peace, as I get comfortable in my life, and I move more into reaction rather than proactively feeling my way through my intuition. But when I stop and work to center myself again, I find a calm over time, and I hear that booming voice letting me know things I need to hear.   Intellect is a great thing, but there’s a higher wisdom when we learn to not only hear our intuition but to connect with it and take action upon it. It’s one thing to hear our intuition, and it’s another thing to trust it and take action upon it. So I’m challenging you this week to find more time to silence the chatter in your mind and work to hear your intuition. It will be a lifelong journey, but it will be a worthwhile journey.   I Follow My Intuition   Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together, Personal Development Life Coach- Chris O'Hearn Contact info- email: [email protected]  phone:865-219-3247     Music by: - Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. - I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee USA but available worldwide