What is INTUITION? How to learn to LISTEN to your INTUITION! (3 simple ways)

Everybody has intuition, but unfortunately not everybody knows how to listen to it! To help you out, today I will tell you what intuition is and how you can learn to listen to it in 3 simple ways!

Your intuition is the strongest guidance system you have in life because it is the way your soul communicates with you!

If you would ask me to choose between working with my spirit guides or my intuition, even though I love my spirit guides, I would definitely choose my intuition. You might ask me “why?”, and the answer is quite simple, the spirit guides can give you directions, but they are not meant to give you all the answers because they are not supposed to live your life for you. They are like teachers and if they would help you with everything, it would be like cheating the lessons you came here to learn.

Many times I had to take smaller decisions in my life and I would ask my guides “What should I do?”, and they would stay quiet. After I took the decision, I would ask them again “Did I chose right?”, and they would say something like “What do you think? Did you learn your lesson this time?”.

Now, your intuition comes from your soul, your higher consciousness! The same consciousness that has chosen to go through the lessons here and has planned the major things that should happen in your life, so it has all the answers because it holds the blueprint for your life! It is the most reliable source for guidance that you have, and it works better than any other type of guidance in the universe.

If you would like to know about other types of spiritual guidance that can help you, I have a made a post about 9 types of spirit guides and how they can help you, click here to read.

We all have intuition, but as it’s not something we learn how to listen to when we were growing up, it might become difficult to identify it and work with it after we are an adult. Especially during those moments in life when our minds and emotions get confused, it becomes even harder because everything gets so cloudy and seeking for your intuition might feel like searching for sunlight in the middle of a storm!

As I’ve mentioned earlier, your intuition comes from your soul, which is pure energy, and the language of energy is frequency and vibration. As your soul inhabits the center of your being, this vibration happens there, where your essence is. The physical location is in your core, in your heart center, and sometimes between your heart and your guts, that’s why intuition is also known as gut feelings.

When you learn where to locate your intuition and what language it speaks (vibration), it becomes much easier to listen to it! Now that you know what you should be paying attention to, let me tell you how you can use it.

Choosing Directions

If you have different paths to choose from in your life and you are not sure which one is the best for you, you can do a very simple exercise to figure it out. Just close your eyes and imagine one choice at a time and pay attention to how your heart reacts to it. If it contracts, it’s not a good choice, if it expands or vibrates higher, it’s definitely a more aligned path for you!

You need to pay attention where the energy is. When your mind is busy reasoning your choices, the energy is around the head, and it’s noisy because of the logical thinking. You intuition doesn’t speak English, it doesn’t reason and, usually, it’s not even logic! So if you really want to listen to it, you have to quiet your mind, see the path ahead and pay attention to how your heart reacts to it.

Since I’ve started YouTube, I thought about giving up many times because my logical mind keeps giving me very valid reasons to do so, and if I still didn’t quit is because every time I think about it, my heart squeezes. It’s clear that my intuition doesn’t like the idea! I tried to figure it out a different path than the one I’m now and my heart doesn’t like it either, and even though this journey has not been easy at all, my intuition tells me that I’m on the right path!

External Clues

Now, if you are completely lost and you cannot figure out any kind of path that you could follow, pay attention how you react to external guidance! It happens when someone says something or you read something and it triggers a reaction, it’s like a light bulb being lit inside you! Usually when this happens, it’s so deep that you will never be able to forget!

Just look back in your life, how many times did you meet someone that said something that changed the direction of your life? That’s what I’m talking about! So if you are feeling lost, pay attention to any kind of information that you come across that causes this different reaction inside you.

You have no idea how many times I was lost in my life and by paying attention to these external clues, and following them, my life took amazing directions! Just to give you an example, I was very lost in my career, I studied fashion designer and theatre, and I was not happy to work in any of these fields… following these external clues, I ended up in Dubai twice!

The first time as a waitress, the second as a flight attendant. The first was because of a friend’s suggestion that made me curious, the second was because I saw that Air France was hiring Brazilians and my internal reaction was “That’s it! That’s the perfect job for me!”. I wasn’t hired by Air France because I don’t speak French, but I worked for Emirates and travelled the world for over 13 years!

Can you see how intuition works differently from the logical mind? It’s not linear and probably that’s why it becomes so hard to listen to it. If I would have followed my logical mind, I would have worked on the fields I had a diploma, and probably I would be very unhappy. Pay attention to these external clues! Sometimes you need only one, other times you need to collect a few of them to make sense of a new direction.

Repetitive Thoughts

The last simple way you can listen to your intuition that I will talk about today, is by paying attention to repetitive thoughts. The intuition’s language is vibration, but sometimes it gets translated into your conscious mind through short sentences and commands that repeat many times inside your head.

You know when you have that inner voice saying things like “I should call that person!” or “If I don’t change my lifestyle, I will get sick!”, and that keeps repeating itself many times? That’s your intuition talking to you! It’s not hard to listen to it, it’s very clear and sometimes even annoying, the problem is to follow it and take action!

How many times we chose to ignore these commands and when we see, we spend a whole year saying something like “I should start to exercise!” but we actually never do? So next time you have a thought coming out of nowhere and repeating for few times, pay attention to it and do what is asking you to do.

It’s not difficult to listen to our intuition, the hardest part is to trust and follow it because as I said earlier, most of the time it’s neither logical or linear!