Trust Your Intuition

My last post I wrote about signs and to be open to what you see and what you hear. Once you are willing and open to doing that, the next step is to believe the signs you see and what you hear and the only way to accomplish that is by trusting your intuition.

Trusting your intuition is the best way to show love and respect to yourself. All relationships start with self and how healthy or unhealthy those relationships are depends on how we are treating ourselves and how we are showing up for ourselves every day. When we go through trauma or a life where we give our needs and power over to other people, trusting our intuition is a very hard thing to do. We worry too much about what other people think or say. We are filled with doubt and find it hard to rely on ourselves, trust ourselves, and to listen and trust that little voice inside that is always trying to guide us. You know that little voice that we ignore and then once we ignore it and don't listen to it, quickly realize that yes, we should have listened because it was right. Well, that is you. Learn to listen to you and not ignore yourself. You know what is right for you, your guides know what is right for you, you just need to listen and trust. We must learn to block out the noise, the opinions of others, and learn to trust that we know what is best for ourselves. Once we do that everything else falls into place.

Sometimes trusting your intuition is hard because when you are trying to heal from your past, your ego is in the way still trying to protect you. We must teach ourselves to come out of survival mode and let our walls down. We are learning to be vulnerable and see a world outside of chaos and not always waiting for the other shoe to drop. This is why trusting our intuition and our guidance becomes very important. A healthy ego knows the difference between what is ok for us and what is a threat. When we live through trauma, our ego views everything as a threat. We spend our life walking around with our guard up and walls so high and so thick nothing can get in or out. We are trying to protect ourselves from being hurt, not realizing that those walls are also keeping us from being loved, giving love to others and experiencing life in a healthy way. We are sabotaging our own happiness. Trusting our intuition and embracing who we really are helps us find that healthy ego once again. We begin to understand the difference between living and being stuck in survival mode. We must remind ourselves that life is different now and that level of protection is no longer needed. Our bodies know the old way, and we have to teach it a new way. We must learn to relax our bodies and our mind and come off of always being on high alert. Listening and trusting our intuition is where we find the strength and the guidance to do that.

When I look back on my life, I can see clearly now when I did not trust myself and trust my intuition and ended up going down a very difficult path. The signs were there, and all the red flags were flying in my face, but I chose to ignore them anyway. Remember we do have free will so everything is a choice and ignoring our needs, handing over our power to others, and ignoring our intuition is also a choice. I really don’t have all the answers as to why I did that, but I can see how experiencing those difficult times made me stronger and wiser and I came out on the other side with very valuable lessons. I can tell you without a doubt that all the lessons revolve around self-love. The lessons were needed because of the self-love I was not giving to myself. Those mistakes I made came from not believing in myself and not trusting myself. I have since learned to forgive myself for what I didn’t know at the time. Now that I know better, I try not to ignore that little voice and the guidance that is given to me. My gut and my intuition are and have always been right and I have learned to respect that.

The best advice I can give on how to learn to trust your intuition and your guidance is to slow down. Learn to embrace the quiet and the stillness because it is in the quiet that we find the answers. Keep journaling because that is also where we find the answers. Listen to yourself. We live in a very fast world, so it must be a conscious effort to find the quiet. The noise drowns out your inner voice so finding peace is important. Remember every day that you deserve to have peace and quiet in your life. Take those moments for yourself every single day and let your intuition guide you to happiness.



In love and light,

Fran