- The takeaway from this episode is … gut feelings are your warning system; intuition is your ability to remain aware and present.
- Here’s what this will do for you … realizing that there’s a razor’s edge difference between gut feelings (fear) and intuition (truth).
- Here’s what I want you to do with it … so, in the heat of the moment how do you know if you can trust your gut feelings and intuition? You won’t unless you write it down.
Do you tend to overreact when confronted with a situation, by turning it into a problem?
Do you jump to conclusions? Or do you listen to your intuition, write it down, and examine it before you make a decision? This is the difference between gut feelings and intuition. Some people say they are the same, but they are not.
A gut feeling triggers the fight or flight response. It’s immediate. It demands immediate action, “don’t go down that dark alley,” “be careful when you are around that negative person.”
Your intuition is something that triggers long-term examination and analysis before you act. Your intuition is not immediate, it desires and requires that you ask yourself questions about the intuitive message. What does it really mean? When and how did you receive it? How did it make you feel? What did you realize from the intuitive message? All this goes on before you decide the action you will take from intuition. However, if after you perform on answering these questions you procrastinate or fail to take action the guidance that came from your intuition will lose its effectiveness.
Some people only react to their gut feelings like an animal. This is a primal response. Self-thinkers who listen to their intuitive guidance will always be more reflective and introspective. However, this can easily turn into an unwillingness to take action. This is a common hangup that people go through as they run it through their long-term examination process.
It’s unfortunate for those who do not listen to the intuitive transmissions, because they will never get to see the intended result had they followed it.
That’s cutting off your destiny. A destiny that was planned before you came here, so you could accomplish what you intended. This is how you become a much more complete person than you were when you first arrived. Intuition always points you in the direction of your highest calling, but you must be willing to follow it. The goal is to leave this world without regrets.
CALL TO ACTION:
- Gut feelings are short-term planning, an instant survival mechanism.
- Intuition is long-term planning, not that it takes a long time to implement.
- When you confuse the two it affects your destiny. To stay on the path, spend 15 minutes daily writing in your journal.
HOW IT WORKS: Intuition is where your creativity and genius reside. You brought this gift with you from the before life, your internal GPS. Your connection to a higher intelligence source is what gives you the capacity to solve problems intuitively. From this connection, you will discover that problems do not exist, only solutions. With all the scams, schemes, lies, and manipulations bombarding you, using your intuition has never been more important than right now. I wrote a Guided Journal Writing System specifically for this use, to harness what your intuition is always sending you, how to examine it, and apply it. ~ Linda Deir
Hi Linda! This is an interesting topic in that I oftentimes consider my “gut” feeling to be closely linked to my intuition. I find myself “in my head” a lot (although less and less as I get older), analyzing this or that to the nth degree. If I pause, breathe, get in touch with my body and the visceral feeling vs. the intellectual feeling, I will often have a “gut” feeling about something, which is more accurate. The key for me, though, which you mention in your post, is not to immediately react upon that feeling but, rather, to take the time to respond.
The gut is primal and the intuition is your connection to a higher intelligence source. The gut feeling is like an alarm telling you that there is a real and present danger. Intuition gives you the capacity to know things and solve problems intuitively. They are both important, just different. You don’t need to hone your gut feeling but you do with intuition. That’s why the Guides mentioned the writing and review process before you act on the intuition. But once you have performed on this do not hesitate to take the action, as intuition has a shelf-life.
For about 2 years, my daily journaling has been sporadic even though for more than 4 decades, I read my cards daily and took notes. Via my journal, I came to understand that I am a unique processer and must allow information to pass through this processor without judgment, that I must take it all in and allow my uniqueness to produce output from the highest levels. The “Guides” trained me to do this and tested me by letting me discern between what were my own thoughts and what was swirling about me blurring my ability to “see” and Inner-stand. They taught me to penetrate this “swirl” through meditation and to keep pen in hand as I did. Gradually writing in my journal seems to actually become my meditations. During these daily sessions, I would sit before my window watching birds visit my feeder and observing nature. Sentences would form in my head quietly coming through as I wrote each word and not forming the next word until a bit of time had passed to allow the swirl to dissipate. My past experiences with “automatic writing’ have been that the ideas pass through so quickly that I had been unable to keep up with the speed and would lose the thoughts before I could transcribe them. (I wish I knew shorthand, lol)
I studied Jane Roberts’ books about channeling Seth and watched her videos in which she actually morphed into Seth during those sessions, removing her glasses just like Superman would do as he emerged from Clark Kent. But she remembered NOTHING from those sessions and would have to ask the people in the room what happened as she returned to her own consciousness. (She held twice-weekly classes in her Elmira NY apartment for those interested in learning about ESP and Spirituality and Seth would regularly “join” them.)
I am also plagued with endless interruptions and obstacles to just sitting with my Board and practicing. In fact, it is now 3:20 p.m. EST and I began working on this email at 7:30 a.m. this morning! I’ve had to compose an email for my husband to request assistance from our state senator’s office because he’s been unable to get into the new website for Pennsylvania’s Unemployment Compensation to file a claim since January 8. That took hours. I got back 2 mailer daemons because I had the email address wrong. Figuring out my mistake was a spiritual exercise in patience.
I’m still taking down my Christmas Tree (It was just such a warmer light during the cold winter months) so I can move my little writing desk to that spot where I will be able to set up Ask the Universal Channel. Isn’t it wild that Universal Channel and Unemployment Compensation have the same abbreviation? I’ve had to be careful which notebook I’m writing my notes as to phone numbers and email addresses for these two correspondences I’m working on today, so I don’t confuse them. The reason I’m sending this email is to let you know that I’ve worked years learning to discern intuition from gut insight and the reason I can’t “trust my intuition” is because of the number of times I’ve gone with my gut, and it ended up being wrong, wrong, wrong.
In response to your issue about losing the guidance before you can write it down – use a recorder instead. After your Guides finish their communication/telepathic downloads, play back the recorder, and write it all down. Only then will you be able to discern between what came through you and what came from you.
Jane Roberts was a trance channel, so that’s why she did not remember what came through. She used a recorder to capture the channeled information that was later transcribed.
Distractions will indeed take the ease out of your channeling sessions with your Ask The Universal Channel® talking board, or any time guidance is coming through. From your past experiences it would be advisable to use a recorder in your practice sessions. You may experience communication in two ways, on your talking board and telepathically. Using a recorder will also help you with discernment, so you are able to identify you from them.
Having a dedicated place in your home, as your go to place, for your channeling sessions is excellent! If possible, make it a point to sit with your Ask The Universal® at “a special time each day or night” to have your conversations with your Guides. They will be waiting for you! Keep your recorder on the table at all times so you never forget to turn it on beforehand.