When You Know That You Know

Our intuition nudges us constantly, whispers to us, shows us clues, and even gives us a gut reaction, yet so many people are seemingly unaware of this guidance or they choose to ignore it.

Perhaps part of the reason is they are so focused on their external world that they have tuned out their internal world.  We have so much to distract us in our daily lives that we are seldom alone with our thoughts.  In fact, there are those who go to great lengths to ensure they are never alone with their thoughts.  Instead, they fill every waking moment with distraction: cell phones, the internet, TV, iPods, radio.  There is always something

creating noise and distraction.  How on earth is one to hear the inner urgings of your Spirit or Intuition through all that noise?  More importantly, why don't you want to connect in with your Higher Self and seek out the wisdom there?

The old saying "Ignorance is bliss" comes to mind.  If we don't know or listen to our inner wisdom, our intuition, then we don't see the signs we are given in our daily lives pointing us in new directions.  If we don't see the signs, then we don't have to do anything different from what we are currently doing; we don't have to admit that 'we know that we know' change is needed or that we need to look within ourselves and sort out our internal struggles in order to shift our external lives.

In short, we just do enough to make life bearable, when, with a little insight and faith in our own intuition, our own knowing, we could shift our life from ordinary to extraordinary.  The thing is, once you know that you know something, you can't not know it.  While we may use different avoidance strategies and pretend we don't have intuition and that we don't know that change is needed or that we are deliberately deceiving ourselves, deep down, we really DO know.

How often have you said:
"I had a feeling this would happen"  or
"I saw that coming" or
"I knew it didn't sound right"

or a variation of any of them after something has happened that you had been ignoring?  By uttering any of these, you are admitting that on some level, you knew and you chose to ignore that intuitive side of you and had hoped you were wrong.

Rather than resisting our intuition/higher wisdom/guidance, accept it, work with it, develop it until it becomes second nature to you.  By doing so, you open yourself to a whole new awareness of yourself and those around you.  Seeing a sign, following your gut, listening to the whispers of your spirit will help guide you through life; making it far less stressful and really, couldn't we all do with less stress?