There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. - Shakti Gawain

INTUITION & DOUBT - Winning the Internal Battle!

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I have always been a firm believer in trusting your gut instinct and a huge advocate for believing in the little voice of intuition. This is essentially how I have always steered my ship – it really has played a huge role in basically every facet of my life – from when I was a little girl, right through to this very moment as I sit here writing.

Intuition has guided me through everything in my life.

In my career as a graphic designer, it played a huge role and was (in my opinion) one of the primary reasons that I earned the reputation and received the countless testimonials that I did, because I learnt to trust my gut feeling and creative instinct so emphatically with all my jobs that I would instinctively “know” the sort of end result the client was looking for, sometimes never having even spoken to or met them directly.

Energy is something that is present whether in person, from a far or even via email and I learnt to read and intepret that energy. It gave me insight into the individual and I learnt to trust that instinctual direction. Eventually, there was no more doubt and to be quite frank (and possibly at the risk of sounding a little arrogant)… I seldom got that preconceived perception wrong.

Well, not as a graphic designer anyway…

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I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong. - Michael Palin

My instincts in “everyday life” are relatively in tune too – but not quite as acutely as they were in my career… and I suppose the reason for this is that niggling little word - DOUBT… Well, actually… I suppose in essence, it isn’t that my intuition is not as finely tuned in my personal sphere, but rather that I don’t have quite the same levels of unwavering trust in it - and that is probably because work is something you do – not who you are and therefore has a lot less emotional repercussion should you in fact be wrong in your perceptions – whereas on the personal front, there is a higher “risk factor” for pending outcomes and their relative variants - and with high risk always comes a little more doubt than the former.

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“Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.” ― C. JoyBell C.

I could literally KICK myself for the amount of times in my life that I have allowed my doubts to override my intuition when it comes to my perceptions of an individual, personal circumstance and/or event or just basic decision making for myself moving forward...I am fortunate enough to be one of those people that actually has a RATHER LOUD inner voice – so I really should afford it a little more respect! Haha!

I will sit and think about someone or something…. And then think some more and then perhaps a little more (haha) and ALL that thinking, literally DROWNS out the ALWAYS accurate little voice from within! And if it isn’t just overthinking about the situation “in general”, then it is often a form of list building leading me in the wrong direction… ”you can’t do this” or ”you will fail and everyone will judge you or laugh at you”… oh and the list goes on. This is something I am certain MANY people can relate to or identify with on some level or another.

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As an example, the podcast which I launched the other day… As I have already outlined, in another post… the fear and doubt of my ability to simply sit and answer a few bloody questions in an interview by @aaronmcheong damn near stopped me from actually doing the interview in the first place. But, I DID do it and once I had finished it (and had about 24hrs to actually calm my nerves haha) - I realised that I REALLY enjoyed it and thought I might like to explore something similar for myself… which is something I have LONG since wanted to do and I expressed that in my intro podcast ...and NOW... I have done it!!! YAY!!!!

Ok, I have only done two podcasts lol and I probably rambled most of the time, and yes I have internally ”beat myself up” about it – once again overthinking the potential mockery and judgement… but to my surprise, it was REALLY well received and I have been getting some AMAZING feedback… even from @branlee87 on his podcast earlier today… which was just FANTASTIC!

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And it is amazing, because although those thoughts of doubt still linger, they sure as hell are a lot quieter now! haha and I am FINALLY listening to my intuition – doing something that I can HONESTLY say… I NEVER thought I would find the confidence to do EVER again…. And I am REALLY enjoying it!

I find it truly beautiful how when we DO actually listen to our inner voice and follow the path which ”IT” and **”we” KNOWS is the right one for us – not only does everything else simply fall into place, but it just FEELS so right!! Like the moment you slot the correct puzzle piece in, after having searched for it for hours on end!

And that is how things SHOULD BE!

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. - Alan Alda

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