Trust Your Gut: Why Honouring Your Intuition Matters

This blog is about the importance of listening and honouring our gut feeling. This is also often refer to as our intuition.

You can also watch the video version of this. Or listen to the podcast version of this blog on all major podcast platforms.

And I have also attached the episode below.

Story time/ Intuitive Guidance

I recorded this episode on the last day of a yoga retreat I was attending.

It was a weekend yoga retreat and I was in a rush about to check out of the hotel room.

The retreat was absolutely beautiful. Besides doing yoga, we had so many workshops and there were so many topics. And it was so interesting.

I was a total mess towards the end but I felt compelled to record this.

The message really wanted to come out.

So, this retreat was very intense.

Funny thing is that I almost didn’t make it to the retreat. But you know, when you feel like you have, when there’s a gut feeling inside of you, telling you that you have to go.

So I ended up dragging myself here. And next to you know, we have this episode on Intuition and gut feeling.

Staying True to yourself

And it’s just like, I see I needed to be here.

I’ve also been thinking a lot about the whole idea of staying true to ourself and listening to our gut feeling.

I’m in my thirties now, and that’s not something that was always natural for me to do. But I just want to tell you that it does get better.

Tuning inward/ You have all the answers you’re seeking

This is something that I started doing very, very recently.

And I’m still kind of learning to dive deeper with this.

When we were growing up, most of us were told that we can accomplished whatever we wanted. So we start dreaming, we have wild, the wildest.

They make you believe you can do whatever you wanted.

And that was really a cool part of being a child.

Societal conditioning

But at some point between, teenage years and early adulthood, they tell you to snap out of it.

It’s time to bring you back to reality. And they tell you that now this is real life.

So a lot of time, now this is the stage that most of us, we enter that time of our lives where they tell us we need to grow up.

They also start telling you that you’re crazy otherwise.

What are you doing?

That’s not how things are supposed to be done.

I think most of us have been conditioned like this.

In our early childhood, early adulthood, where we quickly realize that society is kind of like a game or something. And we need to follow the rules.

You know?

So I think that’s probably around that time that a lot of us, we start losing touch with our true selves.

We’re all Born with it / innate gift

Because when you think about it, when you’re a child, it’s a magical world. I’m getting goosebumps, just saying and talking about these topics.

If you’re observing a child, they’re just being.

They’re just existing. They’re going on about their days.

In a way, they’re kind of staying true to themselves without even realizing what they’re doing and how powerful it is.

But we lose that when we grow up.

And then, when we become adults, and some of us get married, some of us have kids, and then responsibilities, bills, and all that stuff, you know?

But I think it’s really important to get back in touch with our intuition.

Collective awakening

Lately, I feel we’re becoming more aware as a collective. I feel people are waking up.

People are getting really curious. They want to dive deeper within and understanding themselves better.

And I think our intuition is a major component that really helps us shift our lives in the direction we need to go.

Most importantly, it allows us to be at peace and more in tune with ourselves.

Once we start paying attention to our gut feelings. At first, you know, you don’t really understand but then it gets louder.

What is this Intuition they keep talking about ?

Many of us aren’t really sure we have this guiding compass within.

And for example, in my 20s, I used to hear people talk about this concept of follow your intuition and things like that.

And I was always confused, thinking “what are these people talking about?”

“Like what intuition are they talking about? I don’t hear anything. I don’t feel anything”

But now that I’m looking back and I see that it was there all along.

That intuition never really left. It was always there.

How to Cultivate Intuition

Like I said earlier, the main problem is that we were all conditioned in a way to stop believing in ourselves, to start doubting ourselves. To stop having that deep connection.

But it’s always been there.

So this past year has been so intense in my life. I feel like the trigger was my surgery that I had. I had a hysterectomy last November.”

And this is funny because this retreat is also happening in November. And I didn’t even realize this until I’m saying this right now.

This is very important because my recovery was so intense that I couldn’t imagine better days.

So if you are also going through a rough time, please know that there is light at the end of the tunnel. And your inner compass is always there with you, even when it feels so lonely. 🫶🏾

Our inner voice guiding us

So my entire life changed, and it’s just everything started coming together.

And that’s when I started realizing that gut feeling has always been there. It’s just that I was never able to listen to it.

I was going out of my way to just shut it down as much as possible. And that is something that we need to stop doing. It’s time we let it guide us.

Your inner compass

You know that feeling when you meet someone, you don’t understand why, but your entire body goes on high alert?

As if there’s something inside of you telling you, no, this person is not really good for you, you should stay away from this person.

You feel it but you can’t even explain it.

The universe talking to you and through you

No it’s not you being a drama queen either.

For example, back in my 20’s there was an instance where I had let these two people into my life.

My entire body was alerting me that these people weren’t necessarily that good for me.

But obviously, I didn’t listen and my ” logical brain” just decided I was overreacting.

And guess what?

I’m guessing the universe went “okay, girl, you know what? We’re taking things into our own hands because you’re not listening to your intuition.”

In both cases, I ended up finding out that, yep, these people were not good for me at all.

And it’s almost like they removed themselves from my life.

It’s almost like the universe kind of pushed them away because I wasn’t really staying true to myself.

Honouring Ourselves

I wasn’t really honouring that deeper feeling inside that was warning me from the beginning that there was danger.

It was like that alarm that went off.

This is is not good for you.

And this is just one example, but there’s so many examples.

If that’s a concept that you’ve never heard before, or that’s not a concept that’s familiar to you, just start paying a little bit of attention.

I wasn’t aware of that, but that feeling inside of us, telling us, oh, wait a minute, no, this is not good for you.

You know, I really believe that it’s your intuition inside of you trying to communicate with you. Some people and wisdom also call it a third eye.

Internal Peace

There’s so many different ways to call it, but it all comes down to the same thing.

And I think the more we are connected with ourselves, the more at peace we feel. Thanks to tuning into my intuition, the last year of my life has been absolutely transformative.

It’s for the first time of my life that I feel like once you start getting in tune with your inner intuition and all of this energy that’s trying to guide you, things in your life start moving so much smoothly.

Once you stop fighting, and it’s almost like a riverbed.

It just flows.

We all have our own challenges in life

We all have challenges in our lives.

None of us have a perfect life.

But when you synchronize, you’re in tune. It just, it flows effortlessly.

Like when you’re looking at the river, it isn’t confused, there’s no second guessing, the water just flows effortlessly

So that’s what I feel. I feel like I’m just slowly getting at peace.

Why?

Stop fighting Yourself

Because I stop fighting with myself so much.

I started believing in myself. I started listening to that inner voice, that intuition, that third eye, that’s just pretty much just there to protect me in a way.

And I can’t even believe I’m saying all these things, because a few years ago, someone would tell me that, and I’d be like, okay, what are you talking about?

This is some crazy hippie talk right now

But it’s just at some point, I feel like you just can’t ignore these things.

And that’s why I’m so excited that so many of us are waking up and it’s just absolutely amazing.

So that’s the message. That’s what I wanted to talk about today. My dream is to build a community of women online, because I really think we need that within the women’s sphere, all helping each other out.

Your inner voice is always trying to talk to you

So if any one of you girls remember an instance where your inner intuition was trying to tell you something, your gut feeling, but then you kept going against it.

And eventually one day you woke up and you started seeing that it was your internal compass that was trying to guide you all along. I want to hear about those experiences. I want to hear about them.

You can leave me a comment on the podcast so we can all connect.

Search for authenticity and deeper connection

We can all start a conversation. And I feel like this is why people resonate with those type of content so much, because we are starved for deeper interactions.

We are starved for deeper connection, deeper meaning. And I think this is when I think the internet and technology is absolutely amazing.

I’m so excited about all this awareness that’s going on in the online space.

But that’s the message I had today, and because I’m really passionate about these type of self-awareness and deeper conversation that help us all live a better life.

So this was my message for today.

You’re one of one

But before I go, remember my love, that you are a beautiful, unique creation, a masterpiece, one of a kind, and can never be duplicated.”

“I wish you a nice day, and I will see you in the next one.”

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