Is it Intuition or Not?

The still, small voice of our intuition is a wonderful guide whenever we are faced with making decisions. But most of us hear conflicting advice in our minds: sometimes we may hear an angry voice that urges us to do one thing, while other mental comments make us feel guilty or ashamed. How can we figure out which is the voice of our wise intuition?

This helpful teacher has discovered one foolproof way to tell if the advice and opinions you hear in your mind are coming from your intuition, or from internalized voices from our past, or something else. Find out the simple test here:

Here’s a simple test for distinguishing if an internal message is coming from your intuition or from one of the other voices: Ask yourself if there’s an emotion attached to it. When the inner voice speaks, no matter what it has to tell us, it’s always calm and without emotion. Even when a message appears to be negative, if you can calm yourself down and really listen, you’ll sense the calmness in the voice and know that your intuition is speaking.

Sometimes when there are too many voices and too much pressure, you just have to take a walk and ask God to clear you of all the chattering voices and help you to see what’s best in this situation. Just focus on your gut and ask your question. You’ll get a feeling, an inner knowing, when you ask and pay attention to the answer and it will always feel like the right thing to do.

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Adapted from A Still, Small Voice, by Echo Bodine (New World Library, 2001). Copyright (c) 2001 by Echo Bodine. Reprinted by permission of New World Library.
Adapted from A Still, Small Voice, by Echo Bodine (New World Library, 2001).

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Mac C.

4:45PM PST on Nov 13, 2011

sounds right. Thanks.

send a green star

Past Member .

3:01AM PDT on Sep 6, 2011

The "Christ within" "Intuition" "God", whatever you feel comfortable with, wants to have a relationship with you.

I do find that sometimes HP withdraws. Men are also like that.
I'm not giving the "God within" a gender.

Men need to go into their cave sometimes and just be let alone. I find the same with HP. In fact, He told me early that there are times when he just withdraws for a while, And it is ok.

I think that may be aligned with "The Dark Night of the Soul.," Just be patient and wait it out. HP is still with you and if he's needed, he'll help.

2:56AM PDT on Sep 6, 2011

One time, as HP was coaching me on how to tell the difference between his voice and the voice of emotions, ego, whatever, He gave me a valuable tip.

"Remember, I am never in a hurry."

Mimi F.

11:15AM PDT on Jul 20, 2011

I go by the very first thing I hear and the voice associated with it, it's been working for me for 28 years since I've been doing this. I also add the "feeling" that I get with what I hear, if it doesn't feel right, I don't go with it. It's always worked for me.

Andrew W.

3:37AM PDT on Jul 3, 2011

useful

Robert O.

2:08PM PST on Mar 12, 2011

Thanks.

David M.

2:47PM PST on Nov 28, 2010

Thanks

KS G.

3:47AM PST on Nov 9, 2010

Thanks for the article.