Intuition

Today I am thinking about intuition. This has come up for me during therapy and life coaching a few years ago. It also comes up in our Tuesday night discussions about meditation. A couple of days my sponsor said something that reminded me of those lessons about using her intuition.

Somewhere along the way, I stopped trusting my intuition. I could speculate on why it happened but it really doesn’t matter. What is important is regaining my confidence in this area. This is yet another reminder about how essential my meditation practice is to my life and recovery.

My therapist would always say, trust your gut.
My life coach’s question would often be, how did it feel in the body?
At the meditation retreat I learned how to focus on the subtle sensations in the body.

While writing, I am reminded about something that always touches me when read during OA meetings – The Promises.

The Promises

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us — sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.

The line about intuition always speaks to me. This just goes to show that answers are all around if I would just pay attention.