How to Use Your Intuition to Guide and Manifest Your Dream Life

An introduction to intuitive tools and practices

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Intuition is an intrinsic inner-knowing that each and every one of us possesses and are born with. Dictionary.com defines intuition as “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.”

While excitement as a result of an intuitive feeling can be confused with feelings of anxiety, generally speaking, intuition comes with a sense of calmness and neutrality that differentiates it from conscious reasoning, which can involve playing scenarios out in the mind, weighing the pros and cons, deliberating, weighing heavily the opinions of others, and allowing feelings such as worry, fear, and doubt to affect the inner response and outcome.

Children are naturally quite in sync with their intuition until parents begin to step in and override their child’s decision-making abilities, out of fear that what they’re doing may be wrong, unhealthy, or unsafe. The most common first example of this is around a child’s hunger and fullness cues. It’s every parent’s fear that their child isn’t eating enough, so at times, despite a child communicating “no” to food, whether it be through verbal or non-verbal means, a parent may try to force more food.