Listen while you workout, cook, or commute.
How do you know which inner voice to follow? Which nudges are divine guidance and which are just fear dressed up as intuition?
Trusting your intuition isn’t about following every impulse. It’s about developing a body-based practice for distinguishing two very different kinds of inner movement.
The Somatic Test for Trusting Your Intuition
Your body knows the difference between ego and guidance. It just speaks a different language than your mind.
Before taking action on any inner prompting, pause. Track what’s happening in your body.
Fear-based impulses feel tight. Urgent. Contracted. There’s often a quality of “I have to do this or else.” Your chest might feel compressed. Your shoulders might rise toward your ears.
True guidance feels expansive. Even when it’s scary, there’s an underlying sense of rightness. Something in your body softens. Opens. Says yes.
This is the core practice for trusting your intuition: developing sensitivity to how different kinds of inner movement register in your physical system.
The Procrastination Signal
Here’s something most people miss: procrastination is information.
When you’re fully tapped into genuine guidance, you feel so inspired to take the next step that you can’t not do it. Action becomes effortless. There’s no forcing.
If you’re consistently procrastinating, that’s almost always a sign you’re leaning into fear rather than trusting your intuition. Something in your system is resisting.
The solution isn’t to push harder. It’s to pause. Feel what’s there. Ask what’s really driving the impulse.
Why Discomfort Isn’t a Stop Sign
When you say yes to genuine guidance that’s bigger than your current life, you’re going to feel it. In your nervous system.
Maybe it’s the night after you decide to launch something bold. Suddenly you can’t sleep. You feel like an imposter. You spiral about what people will think.
That’s not a sign to back down. It’s old wounds rising to be integrated.
All that unworthiness, all the fear, all the trapped energy tied to “am I even allowed to want this?” comes to the surface so it can be seen, felt, and released.
Trusting your intuition includes trusting the discomfort that follows. The path isn’t smooth. The guidance includes the healing.
The Difference Between Stillness and Urgency
Genuine guidance tends to emerge from stillness. It arrives in quiet moments. Meditation. Prayer. The shower. Just before sleep.
Ego impulses tend to emerge from reaction. They show up in the heat of comparison. After scrolling social media. When you feel behind.
Pay attention to where your prompts are coming from. If you’re trusting your intuition, you’re learning to value the guidance that arrives in peace over the demands that arrive in panic.
Integration Is the Practice
You don’t develop intuition mentally. You develop it by feeling through what arises.
You sit with fear without fleeing. Breathe into grief without fixing. Welcome joy without clinging.
Let’s say your business partner quits unexpectedly. Instead of spiraling into “I’m going to fail,” you sit with the sensation. The fear in your chest. Maybe you cry. You pray. You let it dissolve.
Then clarity arrives. The next step becomes obvious. Your decision space expands.
Every time you do this, trusting your intuition becomes easier. You’ve cleared more static from the signal.
A Daily Practice
Each morning, take five minutes in silence.
Instead of asking your mind “what should I do today,” ask your body: “What feels alive? What feels true?”
Notice what arises. Not the thoughts. The sensations. Where does your body soften when you consider different options? Where does it contract?
This is how you calibrate. This is how you learn to trust the signal.
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Your Body Is the Compass
Trusting your intuition isn’t mystical guesswork. It’s body-based discernment.
Expansion means yes. Contraction means wait. Discomfort after a genuine yes means integration is happening.
The more you practice, the clearer the signal becomes. The more you feel through what arises, the less static interferes.
Your intuition isn’t something you find. It’s something you uncover by clearing what blocks it.