If you feel you’re not naturally intuitive, or if you’ve lost touch with your inner voice, learning to listen will be a great aid in helping you achieve inner simplicity.
It will require time. It will require patience. It will require discipline. There will be times when you simply have to force yourself to sit still and listen.
Don’t forget the listening part. When I first started to work on developing my intuition, I’d ask the questions, but incredibly, I didn’t take the time to wait for the answers. Intuitive responses are often quite subtle, especially when we’re first learning to tap into them. So unless we’re paying close attention, we can easily miss them.
Also, the intuitive insight telling you to do something that’s easy and that you want to do can be much different from an intuitive warning that is urging you to avoid something that might be harmful. Become familiar with how both your body and your mind respond to various situations, and learn to accurately interpret those responses.
Start with the smaller things. Should I turn right at the corner or left? Should I run that errand this afternoon or tomorrow? Should I take the umbrella today or not? Should I make this phone call now or later? There are dozens of times throughout the day when we can ask ourselves these small, seemingly insignificant questions. Every time you find yourself in one of these minor quandaries, ask. Then listen.
Use your journal to keep track of the results. If you took your umbrella, did it rain? If you made the call, did it turn out the way you wanted it to? Soon you’ll begin to get a sense of what the right answer feels like beforehand.
When you’ve reached a level of certainty about that feeling with the little questions, start asking yourself the bigger ones.
Our explorations of the inner worlds often bring us into exciting and unfamiliar experiences and expose us to new ideas and ways of thinking. There may be times when our habitual methods of responding are no longer appropriate. Learning to interpret your intuitive signals will give you an effective means of examining the old and interpreting the new.
Elsewhere in the book, I’ve suggested things you might consider doing when your own messages aren’t coming through, such as using the runes (#86), or contacting a psychic (#85), or writing like mad (#89). There are many other options as well, such as Tarot cards, the I Ching, using a pendulum, or working with a Ouija board.
If you consult other such oracles, make it a practice to check with yourself first. Then, as you get answers from other sources, check back to see how those answers feel compared to your own. Again, use your journal to help you keep track of these feelings.
The goal is to eventually become familiar with your own responses and begin to rely on them exclusively.