Simple Intuitive Exercise

Yes! You are intuitive!

Simple Intuitive Exercise

How’s your intuitive flow?

I have been working in the self-healing field as an intuitive mentor for over 30 years. Surprisingly, the most common issue that my clients have is their inability to realize how intuitive they are. Sometimes, a simple intuitive exercise changes this.

Specifically, people expect their intuitive nudges to arrive with a flourish or to really stand out. The reality however, is much more subtle. It is important to realize that we are continuously being given intuitive nudges or insights. Typically, we receive messages from our higher self all day long.

What’s wrong?

You might wonder, “If that’s true, why don’t I feel intuitive?”

The simple answer is that you keep getting in your own way.

How often does an idea pop into your head that you immediately criticize, analyze, second guess and then discount? Admittedly, this occurs to most of us from time to time. What if there was a simple intuitive exercise to help with this?

For example, I have clients who come in and ask me things like, “Should I give up coffee? I keep wondering if I should give up coffee.“ In those two sentences they have revealed to me, that their intuition has been suggesting to them, repeatedly, to give up coffee. For whatever reason they need to give up coffee, their intuition is working with them and trying to get a message across.

When did anyone teach you how to follow your intuition?

Unfortunately, no one offers a class in kindergarten or in any other grade for that matter, on how to follow your intuition, gut instinct, or gut knowing. I’m not sure if my children would agree, but they were lucky that their mother encouraged them to use their intuition. You might say, I provided simple intuitive exercises for them to do.

Whether it was the right way to do this or not, I encouraged my young teenagers to explore their gut knowing whenever they got into trouble. Therefore, I would have them walk me through all the poor decisions they had made which created their current misadventure. It never failed to be revealed, how their gut instinct had tried to guide them away from situations that they jumped into anyway.

We are all swimming upstream, until we learn to go with the flow

Since there was no Intuitive Education class offered in life, we are all playing catch up. We are all in the same boat, trying to learn how to navigate in the intuitive world. You might wonder, initially, how does one define the intuitive world?

Our intuitive messages come from our higher self which is our divine nature. Our divine nature is our connection to spirit; however you choose to define that.

Inviting messages from Spirit is a simple intuitive exercise

My higher self is that part of me that is immersed in the spirit world, connected to the angels, the archangels, the ascended masters, the animal spirit guides, nature, and the planets.

I have learned to intentionally open up to receive messages through my higher self, from these higher realms. Basically, I have set the intention that I am open, 24/7, to receive intuitive guidance from my angelic helpers, spirit guides, and from any source of pure love and light. I also set the intention that I’m open to receiving intuitive messages that are for my highest and best good.

Reiki strengthens your intuitive flow

As a Reiki practitioner, I am involved with bringing pure love and light into the lives of my clients. Gradually, each client gets more skilled at self-healing using the Reiki energy. Many clients also experience a stronger connection to their intuition as an unexpected benefit.

Exercise your intuition

Personally, my life got so much easier when I started listening to my intuition instead of discounting it. Once I started following my intuition and acting on the suggestions that I received, then I began to feel continuously in that flow of divine guidance.

How to strengthen your intuitive flow

I compare our receptivity to intuitive nudges to what happens when we use our muscles. The more you use your muscles the stronger they get. Similarly, the more you interact with your intuitive nudges, the stronger they will get. Each time you act on an intuitive nudge, it draws more intuitive insights to you.

Each time you discount or ignore an intuitive nudge will increase the possibility of that happening again. Therefore, it’s not unlike the term, ‘use it or lose it’ which describes how our muscles lose tone and strength when we stop using them.

However, if we develop an appreciation of our intuitive insights, it literally keeps us in the flow of receiving and benefiting from more intuitive insights.

Simple Intuitive exercise–

I invite you to participate in this simple intuitive exercise. You’re welcome to begin it straight away or you could take a couple slow deep breaths first.

OPTION ONE–

Think to yourself, what is the most positive, light filled word that I can think of right now?
Trust whatever word pops into your head in the next few seconds.
Try not to get caught up in overthinking it.
Accept whatever word pops into your head and write it down.
Write the word down in a horizontal line, using capital letters with a space or two between each letter of the word.
Then looking at the first letter of the word, ask for an inspiring word that starts with that letter.
Again, accept whatever word comes into your mind and write it down vertically underneath that letter.
Continue with this exercise, with each letter in the horizontal word.
Once you have completed the exercise, look at each word and think about how it relates to your life.

OPTION TWO–

Think to yourself, give me a word that brings me a message right now.
Trust whatever word pops into your head in the next few seconds.
Try not to get caught up in overthinking it.
Accept whatever word pops into your head and write it down.
Write the word down in a horizontal line, using capital letters with a space or two between each letter of the word.
Then looking at the first letter of the word, ask for another word that connects to this message for you, which begins with that letter.
Again, accept whatever word comes into your mind and write it down vertically underneath that letter.
Continue with this exercise, with each letter in the horizontal word.
Once you have completed the exercise, look at each word and think about how all the words in the message relates to your life.

Check in with your response to the exercise

Notice your response to what you have written down.

Are you able to fully accept the results of this exercise?
Are you willing to consider that there is a real message here for you?
Do you find yourself discounting your process, and the words that came to you, etc.?

Your answers to the above questions reveal how well you work with your intuition

They also reveal if you were willing to work with your intuition.

They may even show how you get in your own way –
explaining how your head wasn’t in the right space
or this doesn’t really apply to you
or none of these answers are right

I invite you to…

pretend to believe in this process and set your skeptic aside.

I challenge you to…

look at the words that came to you and find a way that they relate to you by looking at it from a different perspective.

When we did this exercise with my zoom distance reiki share members, it was interesting to hear the different responses to their answers. We also saw where people drew the line with what they believed and with what they discounted. In a group setting, it’s nice to have different perspectives to shine onto people’s answers to help them see how their answers were right on.