Are you aware of your intuition communicating with you?

How to Cultivate Your Intuition

Have you been aware of your intuition guiding you? Maybe you have experienced a time when you had been thinking of someone and almost out of the blue, they phoned you, texted you, sent an email or you met them whilst you were out shopping.  

Or maybe you intuitively knew how your pet was feeling but you find it difficult to explain how you know and how intuition works or how you can cultivate your intuitive power. 

Meeting someone for the first time and instantly knowing how you feel about them? Or you walk into a room and you realize you feel a certain energy vibration that makes you feel happy and safe or maybe a feeling of wanting to get out of there as soon as you can. 

Our intuition is your guidance system for your wellbeing, a way to energetically empower yourself and guide you along your spiritual path providing you make the right choices and follow the guidance of our intuition. 

Learning to cultivate your intuition can be very empowering. 

Intuition is a part of our energy system; you receive information in many ways through this system including the luminous energy field (Aura) and the energy centres (Chakras). The solar plexus Chakra plays a large role in our intuition

“gut intuition.” 

Your intuition can communicate with you in different ways for example physically such as chills, goosebumps, a change of sensation in your stomach like a flutter, you may feel a change of temperature or tingling. Emotional shifts can happen in response to a situation you find yourself in or a thought you have or you may be listening to music or reading a book at these times you may experience a feeling of excitement, unease or a feeling of peace, mood swings or emotions that appear as if out of nowhere. All of this can be intuitive guidance. 

You can receive guidance spiritually through visions or dreams.

Some ways in which we can develop our intuition: 

The sway test: 

Stand tall with your legs shoulder width apart. Close your eyes and ask a simple question that can give you a yes or no answer. 

Close your eyes and ask the question for example my name is__________. Be aware of which way your body naturally wants to move, forward for yes or backwards for no. 

Give yourself some time to become aware of the subtleness of the body swing. Try asking if your name is and say the wrong name and repeat with your correct name so that you can feel the difference of the energy and how it makes your body move and feel. 

You can then move on to ask if certain things are good for you, some examples may be food types like chocolate or organic versus none organic apples or your mobile phone when switched on and off and so on. Have some fun with this and with practice you can become confident in using this tool to access your intuition. 

Is your body telling you something? 

Are you aware of the times when you have experienced physical/energy sensations such as goose bumps, your hairs standing on end on your arms or at the back of your neck, maybe you have experienced a tingling sensation or an uplifting feeling or maybe a temperature change to cold or warm. All these signs have an energy vibration/language that you can learn, or I like to call it remember. Becoming aware of what these subtle signs mean and how they may be guiding you. 

Mindfulness Training

Mindfulness training is an excellent way of learning to understand how the mind works and its effect on your well-being and energy spiritual awareness. 

The quieter the mind is the easier it is to be aware of what is happening within, around you and spiritually/energetically. As you become quieter, you can hear, see, feel more clearly the energy world. Mindfulness and meditating work are a strong foundation for the courses I offer, allowing you to explore the energy world in a more profound way and understanding the difference between what you are imagining and what is real.  Have a look at the courses that are on offer. 

Using the power of the mind to focus and hold an intent also plays a strong role in spiritual work, along with the understanding that energy always follows focus, so whatever you are focusing on energy moves toward. 

So, be aware of what the mind is focusing on and what the mind is telling you as this is how in time you create your reality. Begin by being aware of when the mind is distracting you and in time you can learn to use the mind to your best advantage. 

Having a regular mindfulness practice is hugely beneficial for well-being, mental health, and spiritual awareness. 

Remember you are so much more than your mind. 

Are you blocking your intuition?

It is easy to block intuition simply by being too busy or too loud in our minds. Overthinking, doubt, and fear can block or confuse our intuition signals. The mind can distract us, building trust and confidence takes time. Try keeping a journal to record your experiences and understanding of your experiences. 

Once you start to quieten the mind and observe the thoughts one can start to get out of the way and let go of unnecessary thinking and one can transcend the ego state, in this space we are able to tap into wisdom and guidance from our higher self, our soul, and the universal flow of all things. 

Do you notice signs that appear regularly around you? 

As you start to shift your perception you may experience signs to guide you, this is like synchronicities that appear around you. This can happen in so many forms but as an example you may see the same numbers within a short period of time for example the number 11.11 on the clock, on a car number plate, the date, or a number that you see whilst driving the car on an advert. These signs can appear in multiples of three or more within a short period of time. 

Following the shamanic path, we become aware of experiences with animal allies/power animals. What animals are around you? 

Animal Encounters

Ordinary experience may be seeing a bird in the morning driving to work. Extra-ordinary experience may be a bird flying in front of you, alongside you, or landing on the car, alerting you to a personal message. You may experience dreaming about animals, or you turn on the TV, open a paper etc., and you see the same type of animal.  Pay attention! If it's a message bringer, you will encounter it again.

Power animals may come to us to support any of the following:

Bringing a Message: Depending on the animal you have expired you can learn about the characteristics and behaviours for clues to the messages they bring.  Message bringers have meaning when they appear in 3s.  Shamans spend time in nature studying animals to understand their messages.  From them we learn to listen.  

Personal power Animals: These are power animals that stay with us as message bringers, protectors, teachers, and healers.

Protector Animals: They warn us of trouble; they can appear in dreams.  Become aware of the animals’ qualities and how these qualities can handle conflict in our life etc.

Teachers: Those who appear often have something to teach us.  What animals appear around you?

Healing Animals:  Connect to their energy to help. They provide energy we can tap into. 

Animals that appear during illness give us clues best to focus on healing energies.

When you encounter a power animal:

Become aware of what is happening in your life at this time. What issues or challenges have you encountered? Study the characteristics of that animal and what is happening in your life for guidance on what qualities you can use to what is happening in your life. 

Practice Practice Practice.

Practice helps you understand your intuition, how it works and the subtle cues that we experience. In time you will become more confident and you become more confident you will become aligned to this method of communication. 

In Empowered Healing & Spirituality courses and in our monthly development groups we continue to develop your intuition and energy awareness in a way that is safe and fun with room for understanding the language of energy. 

Keep an eye open for future Blogs that you may also find interesting

With love & Blessings

Caroline