This post encourages you to follow your intuition.
Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone is acting as if they’re in agreement, but you know they’re not? Have you inquired into the health of a good friend and when they told you they were fine, you knew they were not? Have you known the phone was about to ring and then it does? Intuition is knowing what you know without knowing how you know it. It comes as gut feeling, as words, as images in a dream, as pictures in your mind. You feel certainty in a way that doesn’t lend itself to logical, rational explanation.
Intuition speaks from silence. You’ll find that when you’re deeply in the flow of things, intuition and synchronicity engage in dance together: intuition is often confirmed by synchronicity, and synchronicity can lead
you to further intuitive insights. Some people consider intuition to be the unconscious knowing surfacing into consciousness; some say it is information picked up through the five senses below the level of conscious awareness.
Here are three examples of the experience of intuition:
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The quiet yes (or no)
You’re in the middle of a rational conversation, weighing pros and cons, and suddenly there’s a calm, bodily certainty. No drama. No argument. Just a clear internal yes or no that feels settled before your mind catches up. -
Knowing without a storyline
An insight arrives fully formed—no steps, no logic trail. You can’t explain how you know, only that you do. The explanation comes later (if at all), but the knowing itself is immediate and surprisingly precise. -
The nudge that interrupts momentum
You’re moving confidently in one direction when something subtle pulls you to pause, turn, or ask one more question. It’s not fear. It’s more like being gently tapped on the shoulder by something wiser than your plan.
Almost immediately after having had one of these intuitive experiences, my mind wants to define or analyze what has happened. This often distills the actual intuitive experience and I lose the impact of the initial experience. I’ve had to discipline myself to say, “This may not mean anything; just leave it alone. It’s o.k. that how it works is a mystery.” The actual experience of intuition is quite clear in the moment and my thoughts often muddy it up after the fact. Leaving it just as it is – is enough.
Whatever intuition is, it is a wonderful tool that helps us know the truth about a situation. Learn to trust it. It gives new levels of perception into the world we think we live in.
Kathleen