Developing Intuition

Developing your intuition is something that many people want to do. But it takes something that many people do not pay attention to at all: their sense of self-esteem.

Now, you might wonder what self-esteem could have to do with intuition.

But the answer is really: everything.

Intuition is basically a skill that allows you to tap into a very powerful and information dense source of knowledge or wisdom. There are many “models” and theories about intuition – some say that intuition is a mental capacity inside our brain, some say that it’s more an antenna that can somehow pick up information from some big network… but no matter what theory or model or idea you believe is “right”, the fact remains that a person with a good sense of intuition is able to make excellent decisions and has an almost unfair advantage over other people because of their ability to access information.

But sometimes, intuition might reveal something that shakes us up. Intuition doesn’t have an “on and off switch”. If you have access to it, it is something that is always there. And sometime your intuition will point out to you an inconvenient truth.

It takes a lot of guts to face these revelations. And if you do not have a healthy and strong self-esteem, then your own self will deliberately shut down the gates of your intuitive perception. If your intuition feeds you a piece of insight into your self, but you reject that insight, because it is not “how you want things to be” or how you planned them to be, then you are negating your own intuition. And you are doing so because of fear.

It is a natural and fundamental fear. And the only means that you have to face this fear is your sense of self-esteem. Because your self-esteem is bigger than your wants and needs and ideas and plans and your logical reasoning.

But, if you have a weak self-esteem, it will not be enough, and it will be overshadowed by all these other things, and you will stifle your intuition every time it points out something to you that you are uncomfortable with.

Think of all the mistakes you made in life. There are many mistakes we make in life that are just part of growing up, part of our learning process, and that is okay. Being a human being, part of our mission here is also to learn from mistakes. But do you have some mistakes that you regret more than others? Some particular mistakes that leave you with a feeling of remorse when you think back to them?

Well, those are the mistakes where your intuition basically warned you, and you did not want to listen. Remorse and regret are your intuitions way of saying: “I told you so – and if you want to make better decisions in the future and lead a happier life, then you better allow yourself to listen to your own inner wisdom next time.”

I understand that this might sound quiet “esoteric” to a lot of people. And if that’s you, then fine, go back to doing “creativity exercises” and brain storming sessions and mind mapping with multicolored pencils if you think that this will awaken your intuition.

But if you sense that there is more to intuition than just that, then you might want to take some time to ask yourself whether there might be some truth about all of this.