Intuition

 

 

During an interview with Abby Gooch for the ‘Intuitive U’ Global Summit that is releasing on the 7 October, I was asked what intuition feels like and thought I would share.

Intuition is something which we are all born with. It is not only gifted to a select few. Every one of us has our own innate knowing, our inner guide or barometer so to speak. We all just have a different experience of it. Some of us experience it physically whilst others may be alerted via the emotions or the mind. Creative people may experience visual pictures or auditory signals. Whichever way the Holy Spirit speaks is unimportant. The only thing of significance is that you persevere with it until you become fully conversant and have a direct line with Spirit/God.

Intuition is God’s messaging centre for lack of a better description.

For me personally, I experience this fluttery, uneasy, anxious feeling in my gut. Initially it feels like I am nervous or fearful and as I cross examine and question myself I uncover that it is not fear but something else. I sense this foreboding or warning from the unseen world.

In the early days when I wasn’t skilled at identifying this special frequency I would brush off the feeling as fear and suppress it. The result was that on two separate occasions I was burgled. Both times thereafter I reprimanded myself for ignoring what I intuitively knew and promised myself to pay closer attention to this voice in the future. I have since become quite skilled at listening to this direct line from God. I have caught my purse mid-air as pick pocketers tried to remove it from my jacket pocket. On one occasion I left a scene moments before a car was stolen outside my friend’s house. There have been numerous times that I have, by following my impulses, averted situations that would have negatively affected me.

What you need to know is that your intuition is still intact, albeit forgotten. Sadly, for most of us who grew up with mainstream parenting, our intuition was conditioned out of us. I believe it began when we started identifying with all kinds of objects like the house is big, the mouse is small, the grass is green, the apple is red. Look Mommy. Look at the fat man. Oh no Johnny! Don’t say that. You are embarrassing me. That was hurtful telling the truth in public. You must hide the truth. Tell white lies. They are not lies at all. It is what civilised people do. This is the correct way humanity communicates….. Hummm….

Can you relate? Oh dear! This is how our intuition has been buried alive under a pile of conditioned lies. And our education systems, our religion and society has continued to reinforce and support this suppression, encouraging us to ignore our truth which lies within. Think about it. “We are so deceived by our conditioning that we murder the innocent because we condemn honesty.”   – FORGIVENESS your gift of love to yourself   

Listen to your intuition. If you do you, will always be guided to make the right decisions.

Take this opportunity to learn how to develop your intuition and join the free ‘Intuitive U’ online summit by signing up here.

You will be gifted with interviews from speakers from all over the world. The summit starts streaming to your inbox from 7 until 20 October. You can check out the speakers’ profiles by clicking on the link above.

I look forward to sharing with you on 10 October when my interview goes live. Be sure not to miss out.

All my love

Nicolette

LIFE AS IT IS

One of my all-time favourite Buddhist quotes is: “Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water. After enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.”

Why I love this so much is because I seem to have a habit of fantasizing life and having super perfect expectations. I always set my goals high and envision the success or ease which I am going to accomplish one of these fine days. I have a tendency to visualise for myself a time of coasting or catching the thermals. I sort of justify to myself that if I do a lot of uphill pedalling that I am going to enjoy a rather lengthy respite as I free wheel downhill. The hard truth about that is that the uphill takes a lot longer than the rather disappointingly short freedom ride down the other side.

I reckon life’s a lot like that. It is a fact that hardships, hard work and bad things happen to good and bad people indiscriminately. And just because we plug away and work very conscientiously doesn’t guarantee that life is going to let up.

It seems synonymous with our human condition and our common pursuit of happiness that we mistakenly assume that when we have done enough lessons, gained enough experience and evolved as spiritual beings, that life will become easy. Can you relate?

One of Buddha’s four noble truths is that all life is ‘dukkha’. And roughly translated this means all life is impermanent.

Life has its ups and its downs, but neither will last forever. The recipe for navigating through life without creating suffering or unnecessary misery for yourself is to accept both the good with the bad, knowing that it is as it is. It is as it is meant to be. Life is not a flat line.

But here’s the thing, if you build inner resistance towards the climbs or have craving for the downhills you create an inner stress for yourself that is unhealthy. You find that you are always yearning or fighting, craving or hating, always fixated on the future or angry with the past, and in both these scenarios you are not able to find happiness in the present moment.

This discontent creates dis-ease not only in the mind, but also the emotions and the physical body. And stress turns our physiology acid, an environment in which disease thrives.

No wonder we have such an epidemic of cancer today.

So my note to myself for this week is….

Breathe Nicolette.

Take a respite from the rat race.

Spend time alone, in silence.

Count your blessings.

And be kind to yourself as you move gently on your path in grace and ease.

Wherever you are, dear soul, I wish you mercy and acceptance as you carry your burdens and face your hardships. Just remember they will only endure for a season.

Have a beautiful week.

Love
Nicolette

TRUTH

Speak your truth! There is only one way to live your life and that is honestly. And by this I don’t just mean stop with the lying and withholding of truth from others, but more importantly be true to yourself. Walk your path you were destined to walk. Be the authentic person you are without withholding parts of yourself. Be courageous and set aside fear.

Fear is just the plaque that restricts the flow of life force energy into your etheric heart. When we are fearful we diminish ourselves and our power. We suppress our ability to hear Spirit and to live as an open channel of love.

Life never ceases to amaze me with all of its lessons.

I, like so many others, have been fearful of being wholeheartedly open and communicative of my thoughts and desires. So afraid have I been, all these long years, of the consequences of expressing my needs, that I have held them under tight wraps. The result undoubtedly has been great internal angst. And let’s not for a minute forget the ripples that my withholding has caused around me.

All my stored inner desires have just propagated suspicion, fear and uncertainty in others, the ones I have dutifully been trying to protect from my perceived ‘selfishness’. How absurd that I would have chosen to deny myself my inner calling.

I suppressed my truth for so long that I became complacent in my self-denial. The longer you live with anything or anyone the more reluctant you become to stir things up by looking within. Complacency breeds a certain familiarity which feels safe. We become so used to lying to ourselves that we don’t even know we are doing it. Well, I didn’t know it was my pattern until a couple of years ago. I didn’t know that I had feelings, because I had become so skilled at sneakily stowing them away. I was so very good at wearing the big, brave girl mask, the courageous woman who was above feelings of anger, resentment and fear. I lived in denial of the fact that I could or would express or even admit feeling any of those emotions that I labelled bad or dark.

What I now know is that my darkness is equally part of who I am and it is that which makes me a person of substance and depth.

When we lie to ourselves we constantly have to bargain and reassure ourselves of our self-worth. We doubt our magnificence and deem ourselves unworthy. By hiding our truth we allow our egos to play manipulative games with us. We feel less than adequate and wrestle with feelings of selfishness, neediness and so on.

When you step out of the shadows and face your magnificence you realise that there is no wrong in being unashamedly who you are. There is no cruelty towards others in communicating your desires and needs. Yes, the initial pain it causes is short lived, but the pain of lies endures forever. You and I are entitled to our happiness. We are entitled to our freedom and we are entitled to the peace that pervades us when we speak our truth.

It is so liberating letting go of the mask, the pretences and the masquerade that needs constant feeding, consoling and assuring.

There is no greater freedom than honesty.

Take a moment today to honour yourself. Ask yourself what your inner calling is. Ask yourself if you are living your truth. And if you are not, be courageous and speak up. Confess it to yourself first and then communicate it to others.

Have an awesome week!

I love you
Nicolette

LOVE IS BRAVE

Today I am pondering this elusive thing called ‘love’.

I struggle to find words to define it. It is as difficult to quantify as it is to grasp and hold onto. I am so often inspired by love. But, the pursuit of it is addictive and wears me down as my ego becomes defined by it. When I am not fully aware and conscious, my ego causes me to have all forms of expectations and hidden agendas which will most assuredly lead to disappointment and cause the deepest level of suffering.  And yet I am left wanting.

I want more than anything to open my heart in absolute trust, to make myself wholly vulnerable, completely at the mercy of another. I desire to dispense with fear and to love openly and honesty. I want to throw off the armouring over my heart that has been worn like a protective shield, so afraid of being hurt, so guarded, that I have to confess, I have blocked myself from the full experience I took birth for.

To surrender to the unknowing and uncertainty of whatever the experience will present me with, is to place myself at the mercy of another. It takes great courage, vulnerability and humility to bravely open to receive, trusting that my Spirit cannot be hurt. It takes a huge step of faith to allow myself to feel worthy and deserving. I have always been more comfortable and in my power as the one doing the giving. I have always felt safe as the giver, but too fearful and guarded to receive. Ouch! This is a huge realisation and self-confession.

I admonish myself my humanness and my sensitivity. I forgive myself my wavering uncertainty. It is one thing to talk the talk. It is an entirely different thing to dive into unchartered waters, where no man has gone. I know the teaching. I am a believer that true unselfish, unconditional love cannot hurt me. The only thing that risks being hurt is my self-seeking ego because of its unreal fantasies and ideals.

 

I want to love wholeheartedly and fearlessly without holding back. I wish to unfetter myself of the shackles and shuttering which have held my heart in tight bondage all these fifty three years. I want to let go of my conditioned patterns and the beliefs of others that shroud my natural, inquisitive authenticity.

Today I am putting my ego to the side and placing all my trust in Spirit/ God.

I cannot hold back another millisecond. I don’t want to waste another minute. I don’t want to risk wasting a lifetime.

Today I divest myself of doubt and mistrust, like unwanted garments because I am taking a chance on real LOVE.

Have the most beautiful week, dear soul.

Love from the open heart

Nicolette