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Nurture Your Intuition: Learn How To Trust Your Inner Voice

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By Soul Essence New Eltham

In a world often driven by logic and reason, the subtle power of intuition tends to take a back seat. Yet, this inner wisdom, often referred to as the “gut feeling” or the “inner voice,” plays a significant role in guiding our lives. Nurturing your intuition can lead to more profound insights, better decision-making, and a heightened sense of self-awareness. In this blog post, we will explore the importance of intuition and how to trust and nurture your inner voice.

Understanding Intuition

Intuition is the ability to understand or know something without the need for conscious reasoning. It’s that inexplicable feeling that nudges you in a particular direction, even when it seems irrational. While intuition is often associated with spirituality and mysticism, it’s a natural part of being human. It’s not limited to a select few; everyone possesses the capacity for intuition.

The Importance of Intuition

Intuition serves as a compass for navigating life’s complexities. Here’s why nurturing your intuition is essential:

  1. Enhanced Decision-Making: Intuitive insights can provide a deeper understanding of situations, helping you make better decisions.
  2. Increased Self-Awareness: Trusting your intuition can lead to a more profound connection with your inner self, revealing your desires, fears, and motivations.
  3. Warning Signs: Intuition often acts as an early warning system, alerting you to potential dangers or unfavourable outcomes.
  4. Creativity and Innovation: Many creative breakthroughs are a result of intuitive leaps.

Cultivating Your Intuition

  1. Silence Your Mind: Take time for quiet reflection or meditation. Stillness allows your intuition to surface amidst the noise of daily life.
  2. Pay Attention to Your Body: Your body often signals your intuition through physical sensations like a “gut feeling” or “butterflies in the stomach.”
  3. Record Your Dreams: Keep a dream journal to decipher any intuitive messages that may appear during sleep.
  4. Trust Your First Impressions: Your initial reaction to a situation or person is often guided by intuition. Learn to trust it.
  5. Practice Mindfulness: Being fully present in the moment can help you connect with your intuitive senses.
  6. Seek Solitude in Nature: Spending time in nature can sharpen your intuition and provide clarity.
  7. Consult Your Inner Oracle: Tarot cards, runes, or other divination tools can help you tap into your intuition.

Overcoming Doubt

One of the main challenges in nurturing intuition is overcoming doubt. Society often values rationality over intuition, leading us to question our inner voice. To build trust in your intuition, start with small decisions. Pay attention to your intuitive guidance and note how often it proves accurate. With time and practice, your confidence in your inner voice will grow.

Conclusion

Nurturing your intuition is a lifelong journey of self-discovery and growth. Embrace the wisdom that resides within you, and let it be your guide in the intricate dance of life. Trust your inner voice, for it has the power to illuminate your path and lead you toward a more fulfilling and harmonious existence. In the words of Albert Einstein, “The only real valuable thing is intuition.” It’s time to nurture and trust this valuable gift within you.

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How to Love Yourself and Bring Happiness in Your Life

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When we are born, we feel loveable, providing we receive love from our parents and environment during our informative years and beyond, we will grow up feeling loved and not judging ourselves. When this does not happen, often because our parents did not love themselves, we are more likely to struggle with self-judgement as adults.

We all have an inner critic, that inner voice that is constantly telling us we cannot do things, or we are not good enough, we are not loveable and many more. This is our ego speaking; our ego comes from fear. Our truth, the unconditioned self, comes from love and lets us know we are loveable. Love is much more than a feeling; it is our true nature, the consciousness, our essence, our soul, and our spiritual DNA.

If your inner critic is regularly berating you, you may wish to look into ways to learn how to love yourself. Louise Hay recommends using mirror work to help people to do this. She suggests you look in the mirror every morning and repeat the affirmation “Life loves me” ten times. Notice your responses; sensations may be tension in your body, feelings may be sadness or happiness, and thoughts maybe I cannot do this. Do not judge your responses; there are no right or wrong answers. Just be honest with yourself. Life loves you is about unconditional love.

Once you have completed the above, repeat with the affirmation, “I am willing to let life love me today”, repeat until you feel comfortable sensations in your body. Be willing to work with these affirmations, and all things are possible.

Doing mirror work can be confronting at first, revealing your fears and self-judgements, be kind to yourself. By continuing to do the mirror work, you will start to move through your fears and self-judgements.  If you have had serious trauma in your life, I recommend doing this with a therapist or trusted friend. Remember, life mirrors how you feel. Your relationship with yourself influences your relationship with everyone and everything.

Therefore, once we can love ourselves, and are able receive love, our life will become so much happier.

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Effortless Ways to Improve Your Self-Esteem Fast

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Self Esteem – what is it?

Self-esteem is the opinion we have of ourselves.

When your self-esteem is healthy, you tend to feel positive about yourself and about life in general. It makes you more resilient to life.

When your self-esteem is low, we tend to see ourselves and our life more negatively and critically. We also feel less able to take on the challenges in life and are less resilient.

Causes of Low Self Esteem

In childhood, we absorbed the positive or negative messages around us, from our teachers, siblings, parents, teachers, and possibly the media.

The most common message we take on is “We are not good enough”. You could never please your parents, teachers or other adults, therefore, creating thoughts about how we are expected to be or not be.

Life events, losing loved ones, serious illness will also impact our self-esteem.

How Low Self-Esteem Affects us?

Low self esteem or a lack of confidence encourages us to: –

  • Hideaway from groups or social situations.
  • Avoid trying new things.
  • Prevents you from challenging yourself.

These will temporarily make you feel safe, but hiding and avoiding situations, reinforces your doubts and fears, teaching you the only way to cope is to avoid people and situations. This will possibly lead to depression anxiety and habits like drinking and smoking.

Improving Your Self Esteem

Ideas to boost self-esteem and confidence.

  • Identify and list the negative beliefs that you have about yourself.
  • Think about when you first had these beliefs and why.
  • Now list positive evidence to counteract the negative beliefs.
  • List all the positive things about you, example “I am kind”, “I am good at ….”
  • Keep this list somewhere you see it regularly.
  • Add to this list each day and pick 5 to focus your attention on. Reminding yourself, you are GOOD ENOUGH.
  • Try to avoid spending time with people who bring your mood down. Let them know how you feel about the way they talk to you.
  • When you listen to that inner voice that is being very self-critical, think of how you would talk to a friend, and talk kindly to ourselves.
  • Stop saying yes to please others, when you don’t want to do something, let people know honestly how you feel. Learn to say no, so you do not become overburdened and stressed.
  • Remember, no one likes to be outside their comfort zone, by giving yourself a challenge and achieving your goal will increase your self-esteem. Start with small challenges and build to more complex ones.