The most valuable tool I have in my metaphorical toolkit is my intuition.

I was born with a naturally strong intuitive sense, I’ve spent decades actively developing it further and I’ve created plenty of course curriculum to teach others how to use it…and I hate to admit that sometimes I still find myself struggling with it.

Intuition – that little inner voice nudging us in a certain direction, that “gut feeling” that we’ve all experienced and often ignore.  Have you ever been guilty of saying something like “I knew I should have listened to my intuition!” after ignoring and resisting it, sometimes for days on end? I have.

And yet, the longer I intentionally practice listening to my intuition, the easier and easier it gets.

It seems that logic is often at odds with intuition. Intuition suggests something and then Logic weighs in with every conceivable reason why it isn’t a good idea.

Intuition nudges and nags, while logic tends to argue.

I recognized this dichotomy this week…and I thought maybe telling you this story would help you recognize it in your own experience.

I had been having an intuitive nudge to work with a specific mentor. She had created a project and my intuition kept pointing me in the direction of creating something similar. You need to work with her, my intuition kept whispering. Reach out to her. Check out her website. See what support she can offer. Send her an email.

On and on and on…and I kept resisting, so the gentle whispering became more of a nagging…nag nag nag.

I say that smiling, with great respect and love for my intuiton, my higher self, and The Universe, of course.  Because I recognize that no one wants to be called a nag.  But here is the deal…it only felt like a nag because I was trying to ignore it and shut it out.

Seriously, my intuition was doing the dripping faucet thing. Drip Drip Drip. OMG. And you know what? Just like the dripping faucet – I realized it wasn’t going to fix itself. It is requiring something of me, for me to take some kind of action.

My logic on the other hand was drumming up every possible excuse to not listen to my intuition.

She might not have space in her group, maybe she doesn’t teach what you need, maybe her class is already full, you probably can just do this without help, you have a lot on your plate already, it might not be a good time to launch a new project or join a new group or hire another mentor or blah blah blah.

Here’s the thing – “logically speaking” all of those arguments are valid ideas if I choose to see them that way and take appropriate action by researching to find out the truth about them. IS her class full? DOES she teach what I need to learn?

But if I let those ideas become arguments that talk me out of following my intuition then those same ideas become a big stumbling block to my forward motion regardless of how “logical” they are.

Most of the time my intuition is very gently guiding me to discover something, to explore something, to do something very “doable”, (or at times maybe even to do “less”, to take it easier, to spend more time getting quiet, to stop drinking so much coffee <grin>).

But always it is guiding me with LOVE. In fact I often refer to my intuition as The Voice of Love.

Intuition is not an enemy of logic. In fact, they can become good friends if we allow them to work together.  Intuition is basically a ‘right brain’ function, and logic a ‘left brain’ function. And we certainly need all of our brain to have an optimum experience here on Earth as a human.

Our intuition works in the service of our soul, in the service of Love, in the service of our Life Purpose. Logic can be a wonderful tool in the process when we allow it to support our intuitiveness.

But logic can also be used in the service of our inner critic, in the service of Fear (all in the name of safety, of course). We always want to be safe, and sometimes it seems that our intuition is asking us, nudging us, nagging us, to do something that feels uncomfortable, or new, to us. Something that we are uncertain about, and being uncertain often causes us to feel less than safe, less than secure.

When we don’t want to take the leap of faith that intuition seems to be requiring, we begin to use logic to argue for our limitations.

The next time you “hear” your intuition nagging you…acknowledge that inner voice, and acknowledge your logical thoughts, and ask them how they can support you to move in the direction your intuition is leading.

Get quiet and ask yourself which thoughts and ideas are the result of Love, and which thoughts and ideas are the result of Fear.

This week when I took the time to really find out about working with this new coach, I found that the synchronicities were almost overwhelming. Sign after lovely sign confirming my intuition. And I recognized once again that my intuition is always in service of my soul’s purpose, always in the service of Love, always gentle, always for my highest good.

How is your intuition speaking to you this week?  I’d love to know.  Leave me a comment below and let’s talk about it. 🙂

Love & Magic,