A Personality Profile

            Intuition is your soul voice speaking.

A Personality Profile 

Let’s imagine that intuition is a person. Here are some of her characteristics.

Intuition loves intimacy. She relishes making connections and building relationship bridges. She withholds, retreats, and withdraws her participation when faced with judgmental, isolating, harsh, or aggressively demanding people and situations.

She flourishes in environments where acceptance, curiosity, wondering, imagining, and musing are encouraged. Kindness and enthusiasm please her and she returns the gift in kind.

She loves to delve. Secrets intrigue her. She has eyes that see through pretense and she can be quite fierce and confrontational when lied to.

Intuition pries things open and pins things down, so she is not to be taken lightly. She has ears that hear beyond the mundane into the very heart and soul of issues.

She is self-preserving and if you invite her into your life, she will sense directions that will yield the most benefit for your soul growth. She can tell you where betrayals are brewing. When you are confused, she can penetrate past surface bad behaviors and actions to uncover the scared child within.

She can shift your path from a habitual attitude of “who cares?” to one of “let me sense, see, hear and know all that is available to me.”

Intuition is your soul voice speaking and all you have to do is listen.

Actually, listening will come to you fairly easily, right after you’ve made the decision to really hear. It is the hearing part that takes some effort and commitment.

Let me say this another way. Intuition detests apathy. She requires attention. Even before attention, she must have a clear intent from you to court her. Yes, court her. I can almost hear your response. “Oh no, this is starting to sound like work. A new relationship that is not one I can take for granted!”

Look on the bright side. When you intentionally set out to establish a relationship with your intuition, she will assist you in being more at ease in all your relationships. You may be thinking: “I don’t have the energy for this. I am exhausted as it is, trying to keep up with the relationships I already have, given my overloaded and demanding schedule.”

Let’s take another look at how we are currently using our energy. Most of us have been taught to approach our lives with determination. We set our goals. We strive to accomplish them. We use persistent, focused determination to achieve predetermined results.

There is another kind of energy available to us. I will call it the energy of enthusiasm. It is unbridled. Exuberant. Responsive. It lives in the moment. Intuition thrives in this environment.

The mistake we can easily make is to live our lives solely driven by determination, while secretly hoping that enthusiasm will miraculously show up. It doesn’t work that way.

When you find yourself losing vitality and therefore enthusiasm for your pursuits, stop for a moment and turn your attention inward. Put aside your long list of what you believe you have to do and what you should be doing, for just a moment. Ask yourself a different question. “If I had no restrictions, what would I love to do right now?” Close your eyes and allow your imaginative mind to whisk you away for a few moments. You may find yourself on a quiet beach, snuggled under your covers and primed for a leisurely nap, or you may simply be gifted with a moment of undisturbed quiet, alone time.

Your intuition can serve you by feeding up mental pictures that have the ability to soothe your soul.

Make a commitment to yourself to find your enthusiasm. What sparks your creativity? What ignites your enthusiasm? What feeds your soul? How do your regenerate your energy? Where is your zest for life? What touches your heart? What do you long for? Are you allowing yourself enough self-nurturance and self-care to keep your vitality high? These are the type of questions that open a genuine conversation with your inner wisdom.

Remember, intuition is your soul voice speaking. Turn your attention inward and take a few moments to really listen.