You are Wise and Trustworthy
“How do you know?”
I get this question a lot. From clients, from students, from my own family. They want to know how I know my intuition is steering me in the right direction. Really, they want to know how I have as much faith in the unseen magic of my inner knowing as I do in my direct experience.
How do you know what you know in your heart to be true?
How do you know what your body needs? Or even: how do you know that the thing you want to do next is the best course of action?
How do you know that you’re not just following some illusory woo-woo feeling and calling it intuition?
How do you know that what you feel is really, actually real?
What I really want to tell you is that there have been times when I have felt self-doubt approximately one thousand times a day.
It is vulnerable.
There have been days when I have felt uneasy in my body, my thoughts running away with me. Those are days when it has all felt like trial and error, with no easy answers.
I can’t say that I never feel self-doubt anymore. I do. Of course. I’m human.
But now, those moments of self-doubt are my most potent invitation to practice.
How deeply can I love and accept myself there?
In that space of not-knowing, I get quiet. I breathe into it, willingly feeling my body. The quiet is intimate; and what it reveals is our personal magic: our intuition, a knowing beyond direct experience.
In that quiet, I can see my mind and my emotional body and my energy and my body–all of my parts–laid out before me. Or gathered around a table: a banquet with the dearest of friends.
And these friends have something important to tell me. They whisper it in a small, but serious voice. “This. Trust this.”
Perhaps someone told you when you were small that this small, wise inner voice couldn’t be trusted.
Aside from being a total jerk, that person was wrong.
Each of us has a well of deep inner knowing that we can choose to access at any moment. We simply need to get quiet and to listen. And then, the most magical part of all: we need to trust ourselves.
Our intuition is a real, magical being. We need to learn to let it thrive by listening closely and then trusting the answers that come.
Yes, we will make mistakes. Yes, we will falter or second-guess ourselves sometimes. But that’s okay. It is all a process, as ever.
Really, what I really want you to know is you are worthy of your own trust.
You are wise and powerful. You are an expert in your own experience. And I invite you to believe in yourself, even when it feels terribly vulnerable.
