You go out on a limb and dare to contact and estranged friend and receive no response. You send your mentor your prized novel and haven’t heard back. Your best friend doesn’t show up to meet you for coffee.
Have you ever found your self in a similar situation, where you find yourself in a whirlwind of speculating, because you don’t have any concrete information and are left with your lovely little mind concocting various narratives? It is uncomfortable to not know what is happening and in that space we often find our worried mind running laps trying to figure it out. And how often does our troubled mind really find the truth?
Do you ever find yourself in a situation when you don’t hear from someone after leaving a few messages and find your mind racing with worry? Because you feel pressure, you try to release it by taking it to the next level by processing with other people about what you “think” is going on. Later you find out the wires were crossed and this person never received the message, or went away on a spur-of-the-moment backpacking trip without cell reception, or was up to their eyeballs in too much work. The guessing just overused your adrenals and wasted precious time.
Speculation coming from the mind is not a form of intuition. It is just mind garble, meant to fill up time with worry and takes you away from your natural wisdom and power. What I find curious is the need to create something in our minds, to know what is happening so we feel comfortable. What would happen if we just stayed in the place of unknowing and made a decision to just wait and see. This is a perfect time to check in with intuition. ‘Is this person okay? Do I need to take action?’ And just practice not jumping to conclusions, but observe what is arising, and what this unknowing tells you about yourself. Being in the dark has the potential to light up inner resources you haven’t accessed before. It is also an opportunity to tune into how your body responds, tightening of stomach and heart beating faster, and get to know these spaces of anxiousness.