Igniting your intuition
By Stacie Ivey
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Igniting your intuition
How to Strengthen and Trust Your Inner Guidance
By Stacie Ivey
Ego or Intuition?
What is Intuition?
Intuition is the ability to know something instantly
without conscious reasoning. It is the still, quiet
voice that speaks when you are quiet enough to listen.
Intuitive “hits” can include signs, thoughts, feelings,
visualizations, and even smells.
Why would you want to strengthen your intuition?
When you strengthen your intuition, you live with
greater wisdom, a deeper connection to life and a
blissful feeling of oneness with all things. You receive
guidance and answers that help you along your
journey and reduce the amount of suffering you
endure…SIGNIFICANTLY. Intuition enables
expanded imagination and visualization and helps keep
you on track with greater ease, joy, grace and love.
What is the difference
between ego and intuition?
Ego is the mind-based false
identification with things like
your personality,
name, roles and
possessions. It is
conceptual, focused on
survival, acts from fear,
and holds the belief that
you are separate from
others and God.
Intuition is a deep internal
knowing beyond logic and
your physical senses which
often involves being given
a message about someone
or something you wouldn’t
otherwise know. It is your
natural state and connects
you to presence, love and
higher awareness.
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Where does your body “house”
Intution?
Your intuition is housed energetically
through many layers of awareness but is
primarily associated with the 6th chakra,
known as Anja. Physically, the pineal
gland, which is part of the endocrine
system is the body’s link to your inner
vision and insight. The pineal gland or
“third eye” is a small pinecone shaped
gland tucked within a small groove
between the two halves of the thalamus
and secretes the hormones melatonin for
sleep and serotonin for emotional wellbeing.
Intuitive messages are subtle,
symbolic, quieter, and come in
many forms, such as an images
on a billboard, a song on the
radio, or an instantaneous
thought. Intuitive messages
don’t make sense to the logical
mind because they aren’t
rational and therefore the
logical mind will want to
override them.
Intuition falls into four primary
categories and you may be stronger in
some more than others.
v
Claircognizance: Having an
inner knowing that can’t
otherwise be explained.
v
Clairsentience: Feeling or sense
of something that isn’t seen.
v
Clairvoyance: Seeing beyond
the eyes, such as seeing auras
or spirit guides.
v
Clairaudience: Hearing beyond
the ears.
Why will the logical mind try to
override intuitive thoughts?
Because we have been trained to trust our logical mind and ignore our intuition. As infants
we were born with natural intuitive gifts, but as we grew and became conditioned by family
and culture, we learned to ignore the signs and signals our intuition has always been sending.
Since childhood, we developed the habit to not trust our intuition because:
1. Intuition is rarely talked about. Most families don’t teach their children about
intuition, so unless you grew up with conscious and intentional parents, you likely
didn’t hear about the word intuition until later in life. Rarely is intuition discussed in
Western culture, media or everyday interactions, but this is beginning to change.
2. Once we entered school, almost everything we were taught, especially after
Kindergarten, was primarily focused on left brain thinking, which includes logic,
reasoning, analysis, verbal language, past, future, and what is linear and measurable.
We were taught if it can’t be seen, heard, tasted, smelled or touched, it doesn’t exist.
3. We are too busy. Our fast-paced and frantic lives have placed us on a symbolic
“hamster wheel of life” just enough to keep everything going to keep us from asking
questions like, “Is this all there is?” or “Isn’t there a better way?” or “What am I really
here for?”
4. We have lost the connection our ancestors once held to the natural world. We no
longer eat mostly directly from nature and instead we now eat many unnatural and
harmful substances, including those in processed and genetically modified foods.
Most of our time is spent indoors, in vehicles, and we no longer walk directly on the
Earth and instead walk on paved sidewalks and streets. We stay inside at night, no
longer gazing at the stars and in order to cope we numb ourselves with alcohol, antidepressants, food, or any other “drug of choice” in order to keep it all at bay.
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Intution is a gift?
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the
rational mind is a faithful servant. We have
created a society that honors the servant and
has forgotten the gift.”
-Albert Einstein
We live in a society dominantly focused
on the physical external world and mental
concepts. Our culture has forgotten our
sense of wonder and the sacred.
Old beliefs can cause suffering
When you believe you aren’t naturally intuitive, you
stay disconnected from your natural state and in
turn, suffer.
Family traits can carry over
If you were raised in a family who believed intuition
wasn’t real, was only for psychics, or that people saw
or heard things others didn’t were crazy, you would
fear rejection and have a tendency to hide or shut off
your natural gifts. Now, however, you can rediscover
and trust what is true for you.
Here is a true story about when I
personally decided to trust my intuituon
I’m glad I listened and took action.
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So how do you learn to listen to and trust your intuition?
First, it’s necessary to remove the blocks:
1. Your thoughts: Recognize your thoughts are often not your thoughts.
You may identify with your thoughts because you are the one thinking
them, but the majority of the thoughts you have are simply a result of the
conditioning you have received mostly from family and culture.
2. Your beliefs: It is likely you don’t fully believe you are intuitive because
you were never taught that you are intuitive.
3. Your habits: The daily choices you consistently make have an effect
on your intuition. These include caffeine intake, alcohol consumption,
television, electronics, and so on.
4. Your people: It has been said that you are most influenced by the five
people you spend the most time with. Are you choosing to surround
yourself with positive and supportive people or negative and unsupportive
or even harmful people?
5. Your environment: Some environments are supportive of intuition and
others are not. Pay attention to where you spend your time. Are you inside
too much? Do you spend a lot of time under artificial lights, around loud
noises or big crowds? These environments could have an effect on your
ability to tune in.
6. Your food: Are you relying on processed foods that contain harsh
chemicals, hormones, additives, and other ingredients you don’t know?
7. Your water: Research has discovered the consumption of sodium fluoride
found in tap water, toothpaste, mouthwash, food, and soda to have a
detrimental effect on the pineal gland by creating calcification of the gland
and rendering it ineffective in opening intuitive channels and in balancing
the entire hormonal processes throughout the body.
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learning to listen to and trust your intuition . . .
1. Second, it’s necessary to begin to harness intuitive strengths and amp up
your antenna:
1. Engage in radical self-care. Prioritizing the care and balance of your body,
mind and spirit is essential for strengthening your intuition. This includes
enjoying time alone, spending time in nature (i.e. walking barefoot on the
grass), getting plenty of rest and sleep, and taking time for joy and pleasure
(i.e. bubble baths, regular massage, and fun).
2. Meditate. The practice of regular meditation is essential to strengthen
intuition. This can include many forms such as a sitting practice, mantra
(word or phrase), mudra (energy lock with the hands or body), sound
(gong, singing bowl, or voice), guided, walking, and other embodied
meditative or mindful practices.
3. Practice yoga. Yoga brings into union mind, body and spirit. It is
meditation in motion and helps you quiet the thinking mind, heal the body,
and connect to the spirit. Poses that are effective in strengthening intuition
are: standing forward fold, pigeon pose, child’s pose, and savasana.
4. Breathe. Breath practice or pranayama is your connection to your life force,
spirit and the present moment. Pranayama has profound effects on both
consciousness and intuition, can elicit either a relaxed (parasympathetic
nervous system) or activated (sympathetic nervous system) state, is highly
effective, and free. Practice “humming bee” breath and the sound “OM.”
5. Heal your subconscious mind. Utilize tools to access the subconscious
mind and the ways it controls deeply held beliefs about money,
abundance, relationships, purpose, family, et cetera. Practices to access
the subconscious mind include meditation, creativity, Emotional Freedom
Technique (EFT), hypnosis, drumming, chanting, and other therapeutic
practices from both Eastern and Western medicine.
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learning to listen to and trust your intuition . . .
6. Activate your right brain. This includes being creative, paying attention to
synchronicities (signs), keeping a dream journal, seeing the big picture, and
being willing to open to new possibilities like opening to what you don’t
know you don’t know.
7. Eat whole and organic foods. Think in terms of foods close to nature,
which are high in life force energy (prana). These can include almonds,
berries, broccoli, and pineapples.
8. Spend time in nature. Walk barefoot on the Earth, learn to listen to the
wisdom of the trees, plants and rocks.
9. Harness the power of water. Water is a healing force that cleanses away
impurities. Drink distilled or purified water, spend time around bodies of
water, and use water to cleanse your body externally. Adding 1-2 teaspoons
of apple cider vinegar to your glass of water can also help.
10. Ask for guidance and practice receiving messages in ways you enjoy.
These can include free writing (journaling without editing), oracle card
readings, tarot, astrology, and numerology. A good question to ask is,
“Dear angels and guides, what do you want me to know right now?”
11. Find a mentor, teacher, or a group focused on providing support and
encouragement as you practice harnessing your skillset.
12. Add additional tools you may like to enhance your experience, such as
candles, essential oils, or crystals.
13. Trust the answers and messages you receive.
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Join me on the journey
Personally, as I have grown to learn to trust my
intuition more, life has begun to present itself
in ways that unfold like magic. Synchronicities
appear as people and things that are just what
I need at just the right time. Instead of always
trying to swim upstream, I have learned an
inner flow and connection to life that cannot be
explained.
We are all intuitive; we just
may need a little reminder.
Never forget: No matter what your past has been,
everything can change for the better. You are
deserving, amazing, a unique expression of the Divine,
beautiful and connected to all. You always have been
and always will be.
Now is your time to remember.
With so much love,
Stacieivey.com
Copyright 2016, Stacie Ivey
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