Moving from Fear to Intuition Using a Practical Example
Part II on the Journey Exploring Intuition
This week, we continue to peel away at the embodied, lived and practical experience of accessing our intuition, rather than falling into our entrenched fear patterns.
In this video I use a personal example — that of looming lockdowns, since it is relevant to most of us. I share how I navigated sitting with how felt, until my true fears arose (rather than my masked ones), as well a few ideas on how to walk the bridge between fear and intuition.
We explore the qualities and nature of both, fear and intuition, so that we understand where one ends and other begins within us. Once we do, we can meet life where it is at, rather than being in an eternal battle within ourselves.
This line of work has helped me shift from being a person who reacts to life and people from a place of constant inflammation (aggression/ repression/ depression), to someone who can permit the Self to have space and grace to respond.
This is not a neat and clean shift; it is messy, especially because at times it feels contrary. As such, we have to be really mindful to leave our judgements and expectations out of this type of practice. Change that returns us to love, wholeness, compassion and acceptance does take time and it is often messier and more confusing and chaotic than we would like.
This, like any skill in life, takes a little trust, a lot of practice, and well-timed reminders of commitment to ourselves. This may be especially true if we are very used to reacting to the world, to others, to life itself.
I’d love to hear if and how this practice did (or did not) work for you.
I think ‘fear’ is a strong word to connect to intuition. For me being intuitive would be more about an apprehension. For example, if I am going for a social get together, I will have an intuition that some one is going to ask me a tricky question about a personal matter of my life. How should I face that, so I would rather prepare myself for that because I know that will happen and I don’t want to be taken off-guard or find myself fumbling for answers, so I will prepare myself. Sometimes we hve an intuition about an unlikely guest dropping in and in a few hours they are at your door, or even a telephone call which does arrive!
A sense of intuition is pretty strong and it helps you by not shocking you in the face of situations, as your example about possibility of another lock down so instead of taking drastic actions, it’s there in your mind and you’ll make mental notes about what to do in the coming days, so as not to be taken by surprise and you are prepared for it. I think that’s also what people mean when they say they hve a sixth sense about it. I think it’s the same thing.