Living my life while embracing guidance as my staple diet has moved me from a dull gray to living in rooms with sunshine yellow walls. I use intuition everyday in all aspects of my life. It affects whether I satiate myself with fresh eggs or pear juice, how I focus my attention, improving my health and relationships, and manifesting my dream life. Intuition is our internal knowing that we all have, and it avails itself in multiple forms: through feelings and signs, through dreams and unexpected “aha” insights. It is available to serve us in our life challenges and living out our creative dreams. Because we are worth it. We deserve to choose intuitive living as a way of trusting our choices and experience and finding more ease in living. Bottom line, intuition is great for self-esteem, health, wealth, happiness and adventurous beautiful living.
Because embracing guidance as a staple diet allows the universe to co-conspire for our success.
My personal story of intuition wake-up is relatively ordinary. I attended UNM for a graduate degree in visual art and spent three plus years in a personal healing crisis. The time was contemplative, reflecting most of my past choices, including going to grad school, were motivated by pain. For the first time in ten years, my puritan work ethic took a hiatus; I felt numb as I molded clay sculptures and created installations. My energy was low, I was depressed and felt this nagging ache of knowing there was something more but not knowing what it was. While, I was able to eek my way through to graduate, post-thesis show, I declared I was no longer an artist. The whole academic process made me question my natural intuitive working style and I left doubting myself, my hunches in a way that made it clear I needed to shift gears.
The dry spell was an incredible gift as it was the impetus to find my path back to intuition. I did my first reiki attunement and started attending classes on channeling, intuitive development and less than two years later became a reiki master. I started doing hands-on reiki sessions and guidance came quickly and easily for clients on the table. The path continued to bring my personal life into a new level of healing, which cleared ingrained patterns that stood in my way of making empowered choices. By no means has this intuitive path been painless, as growth often means shifting and healing in order to get where you want to go. But it has moved my life from the ordinary to the extraordinary. And I am full of awe when I consider how the path has turbo-charged my ability to manifest and create the life of my dreams. It allowed me to quit doing on-call temporary work, start my own business, where I assist people to connect to their innate guidance, enhance relationships, buy my dream house with my partner, spend time indulging in hiking and gardening and living fluidly.
Most importantly is everyday intuition is a creative lifestyle choice that allows me to play moment to moment. I don’t arrive at a final destination where the inner work stops, but each day I engage in growing and embracing the adventure in an empowered way.
So how can you incorporate guidance as your staple diet? Everyday choices allow us to assimilate facts, information, and peruse consumer reports on the Internet to make sure we are making the “right” choice. But when you open to trusting your hunches, your feelings, your direct messages, watch out, the whole equation changes. An example of being in the intuitive flow is when I bought a VW that would have been way out of my financial league. Not only was the price right but I also acquired the perfect mechanic who charges me less than my old beater cars ever cost to fix. If I followed what I learned from consumer reports and not the luxurious comfort I felt when driving it, I would have missed an amazing time when the universe and my intuition were co-conspiring for me. Intuition can be your number one ally, to live in an easy joyful flow. It also helps increase your energy and find solutions to things that feel unsolvable. It has the ability to open you to more compassion and less judgment about yourself and the world. And most importantly, it allows you to open up to your adventure as an empowered creator who trusts that what is needed will arrive.