Intuition and Discipline
When working with our intuition, there are two kinds of discipline that come into play. One is the discipline of taking action on our intuitive nudges. The other is the discipline of allowing guidance to unfold, one step at a time, without allowing our mind to come up with a plan!
Intuitive nudges are so gentle and non-compelling that it’s easy to ignore them. So when a thought whispers through our mind out of nowhere, it’s important to act on that impulse as soon as possible. This is the first kind of discipline – to take action readily, without needing life to kick us into gear through dire circumstances. If we cultivate a willingness to take action, even if it takes us out of comfort zone, then we are truly allowing our intuition to change our experience for the better.
The other kind of discipline is especially important for the highly motivated worker bees among us! Intuition only ever gives us the next step of our journey – because it’s the only step that is available to us. When we take that step, the next will be revealed and so forth.
It’s so easy for the mind to jump in, grab that next step, and spin it into a clever plan! The mind so desperately wants to “know” its path, wants to control its future and be sure of the outcome of our actions. It’s tempting to take an intuitive impulse – a nudge to reconnect with a friend, a business idea, a creative urge – and create an elaborate step-by-step action plan. The mind tends to leap ahead of the next step and create logical, reasonable extensions of the original intuitive impulse.
If we turn an intuitive nudge into a plan, we may be very disappointed with the outcome. We may even begin believing that our intuition isn’t to be trusted. In reality, our mind began running the show while our intuition was left by the side of the road.
It takes discipline to remain in a state of “I don’t know” when we take one single step as guided … and then wait for the next step to be revealed.
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Ohhhh yes! I have such a hard time with discipline #2! My mind always takes the nudges and makes great plans out of them. Then when the next nudge doesn’t follow the plan, it gets all irritated and doesn’t want to take action on this nudge.
It is very confusing when I see absolutely no link between my goal and the nudge. Or when I get the nudge to start something, and then the nudge to suddenly do something else, leaving the first thing unfinished. Then I tend to mistrust my intuition. Like, “Maybe it wasn’t intuition in the first place? This makes no sense.”
Thanks for this post. I really needed to be reminded of this.
Love,
Rose.
Our minds which are mostly dominated by the left hemispheres of our brains are always getting in the way of how something is suppose to happen, just imagine if all the baby embryos were growing outside their mom’s wombs, i doubt there would have been any living things by now, because it would simply not make sense “it doesn’t look like human.” but when you let things “Be” that’s when you eventually start to see that there is another Bigger world that is on action. most of us are less intuitively because our minds have been corrupted from the time we were young children.
But through meditations, and other ways you can reconnect with your intuition.
What about having goals?
I can see the value in listening to your intuition but how will anything get accomplished if we do not have goals that we are working toward and how will we ever grow if we do not learn all the ups and downs when sticking to a committment?
With genuine curiosity!
Catrina, it’s always our job to set our intentions! (I’m not a big fan of “goals” but crystal-clear intentions are important!).
We decide “where” we want to go … it’s up to our intuition to get us there.
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