what does it mean to live intuitively?
how do we live intuitively
hello my loves
welcome back to lavendaire
it's aileen
today let's talk about
living in alignment with your intuition
i am a firm believer that we all
have a sense of intuition
we all have this inner knowing
this inner wisdom and this inner voice
that is constantly guiding us
the question is
are you listening to it or not?
do you have a relationship
with that intuition or not?
a lot of people live their
entire lives disconnected with their intuition
they are listening to external forces
they are following what others
are telling them to do
they are following what they
think they should do
they're being too logical
too much in the head
not enough in the heart
living that way can guide you down
a dark path of feeling unhappy,
unfulfilled, confused, lost
it can feel like a struggle
like you're detached from
your sense of purpose
and meaning in life
you're essentially just going ways
that you're not supposed to go
because where you're supposed to go
is led by this internal compass
you are constantly guided by your intuition
you deep down know what's best for you
let's talk about how to connect with this intuition
and this inner compass
and how to strengthen it
first let's talk about
how to hone and strengthen this inner voice
that we all have inside
first, you want to make time
to spend time alone away from external forces
some of us live with families
some of us live with other people
but we all need to carve out some space
where you spend time alone
because when you're constantly with other people
their energies
their thoughts
and their opinions
naturally bleed into your own
some people who are empaths
they can't even tell which emotions are theirs
because they can feel other people's emotions
everybody needs to have some space
where you can be by yourself
take a walk by yourself
maybe go on a weekend trip by yourself
spend time alone
so you can truly clear your mind
feel your own emotions
and listen to your own thoughts
if you don't feel like you have the capability
to truly spend time alone
maybe it's a good time to start thinking
about boundaries
setting boundaries
with the people in your life
telling them
hey okay i'm away
don't call me
don't text me
i am unavailable this day or for this amount of time
maybe all you can take is a shower
like a 30 minute shower by yourself
along with your own thoughts
everybody has different circumstances
but find time to truly be alone
the longer, the better
if you're an introvert
you need more time
if you're an extrovert
you can probably get away with less time alone
we're all different
but it's so crucial to be alone with your own self
and your own thoughts
the second thing to hone
and strengthen this inner voice is to journal
i love journaling
i can journal for hours
and it's my way to talk to myself for some people
it might be harder to journal
there are tons of journaling prompts
that you can find online
on lavendaire, we have a lot of journaling prompts
and resources for you
but it is crucial to develop a
consistent journaling practice
because that is your way to talk to yourself
that is your way to show up and ask yourself
hey how are you doing?
how are you feeling?
what are you thinking about?
because if you don't really take that time
to have that conversation and build that relationship
then it's hard to feel connected to yourself
even if you're listening to your thoughts
constantly throughout the day
sometimes we're not aware of
what they truly mean
you know our brain just thinks thoughts
thousands of thoughts during a day
but we're not really processing
what do these thoughts mean
journaling is a way to uncover
unravel all those layers of your thoughts
and your emotions to truly start
to make sense of them
through journaling you'll be able to access flow
and i'm talking about that inner voice
that just naturally flows so easily
when you're journaling to the point
where you're like
is this really me talking or is this someone else?
you know
usually journaling starts out really difficult
where you're saying whatever comes to mind
but once you start
you know stream of conscious journaling
and you continue on
you eventually get to a level
where everything just flows out
you're not even trying and that is
what i believe is your true inner voice
underneath all the layers of the judgment
and the you know the surface level
everyday stresses
blow all of that is your inner voice
that truly knows what you want
how you feel and that is the voice
that you want to develop
this deep relationship with the third practice
to hone and strengthen your intuition
is to start to listen to your initial gut reaction
your initial feeling about something
start to live your life
becoming more aware of this quiet inner voice
this inner intuition
because you'll recognize that it's always there
and you'll recognize it in
your little preferences, right?
kind of like a song comes on
you know when your playlist is on shuffle
you never really find the song you
you know what song you're looking for
and you know when it feels good, right?
that's your Intuition or maybe another example is
you're taking a walk and you have this little voice
that tells you hmm let's turn left
instead of right today
and then you follow it
we all have something in us
that's constantly guiding us
and if you can listen to it
in these little very insignificant ways
then you start to honor it
and you start to strengthen that connection
that voice becomes louder
start trusting listening to and following
that intuitive voice
that you have within
instead of listening to your head or telling yourself
oh that's a stupid idea
just follow it
even if it doesn't make sense
if you feel a certain way
just just follow that feeling
follow that intuition
alright, real quick
let's talk about energy care
you want to become aware of your energy
and know how to cleanse it
because we all have like energy bubbles
and when we are with other people
their energy becomes our energy
and everything gets intermixed
when we're on social media
we take on energy and stress from the world
and news and whatever
you want to really become aware of your energy
and know how to cleanse it
one way is to physically cleanse your body
taking a shower
you're physically cleansing your body
but you're also cleansing your energy
because the water,
think of like it brushing off the old energy
to make room for new energy
imagine when you're showering
it's creating some movement around you
another way is meditation
meditation is a really great way to
re-center and cleanse your energy
kind of like create boundaries from
anything external and focus more on the internal
so that you are more in tune with yourself
another way is to go into nature
nature is naturally just very healing, grounding
and it can help you reset your energy
that you be become more in tune and aligned
with your inner voice
your intuition and your voice
just becomes clearer
after you reset and you cleanse yourself
we take on so much throughout
our days and in our lives
you want to make sure
that it is the pure voice
not influenced by anything outside
just be aware of your energy
be aware of how you're feeling
and do these things to help yourself
cleanse and reset
so that you know that what you're paying attention to
that voice is pure
alright now i'm going to go over
some of my favorite intuitive tools
that i use to guide my intuition
and help me learn more about myself
and discover what i'm meant to be doing in life
because i'm always asking these questions
i'm always trying to understand myself
deeper and deeper
one of that i want to say about these tools is
you can easily give too much power to these tools
the same way you give power
to external opinions and external forces
you have to remember that everything is a tool
that's meant to support you and guide you
but ultimately your intuition is what
you should prioritize essentially
don't take any of these tools
as absolute truth and you have to listen
to whatever they're telling you
basing your life decisions on a tarot card
that comes up or like astrology
these tools are meant to guide you
they are tools to build your intuition
rather than depend on
and rely on as absolute fact
you always have to stay connected
to what feels true to you because ultimately
it goes back to your intuition
that is the most important thing
alright the first tool is astrology
you guys know i love astrology
and i have gone really deep into it
where i've understood my birth chart
i look at transits almost every day
at least once a week i listen to astrology podcasts
and it is an amazing tool
to go really deep to understand
who you are
what your main challenges in this lifetime are
where you're meant to go in this lifetime
your purpose
all of these can be told by astrology
since i dove into the world of astrology
everything in the world makes
a little bit more sense
because you understand
that we are all here to evolve upwards
in our own spiral and the collective is also
meant to evolve in a certain direction
all the problems of the world
and the challenges that we're going through
it kind of makes a little bit more sense
once you see it from an astrology perspective
and it's helped me feel
a lot more calm in the chaos
if that makes sense
i mean sometimes the chaos is still not fun
in your own life but you know
it helps make everything make
a little bit more sense
if you're looking for something like that
then definitely check out astrology
i would recommend
if you're interested in learning
about your career and life purpose
we have an astrology workshop
that we recently did in our Dream Life Club
i'll link that down below
and some of my favorite astrology books
i'll link down below as well
the next intuitive tool that can help you
hone your intuition is tarot
and i've made a video on that
i've had a few podcast episodes on that
which i'll link below
but tarot is a way to kind of ask questions
cards don't have the answers
the cards only reveal your intuition
they're kind of like a mirror
it will reflect how you're feeling about
a situation that you're in
practicing tarot has really helped me
strengthen my intuition
because number one
it helps helps you recognize
what your intuition is saying
and number two
trust your intuition
and that one is a big one
because oftentimes we hear the voice
but we don't trust it
tarot is something that you can do daily or weekly
to just keep that relationship going
with being in tune with your intuition
number three is
human design
and if you've never heard of human design
definitely look into it because
it's an amazing self-discovery tool
it takes inspiration from astrology
and a few other things but it is very specific
at the strategy to which you should go about life
it teaches you how to make decisions
everyone is different
there's different
i guess strategies and ways to make decisions
you learn about your type and how you can
approach challenges and decisions
and it was really helpful for me
in figuring out how i should go about life
and it also helped me realize how
people are different from myself
i should understand other people
have their own ways that they should do
things and you can't apply
what i've learned to every
single person in the world
because we all are different
we are built differently
we're designed differently
human design is something i've also done
a couple podcasts on
i'll link down below if you want to go deeper
Aaron Claire Jones is my favorite person
expert in human design
i'll link those resources down below
but yes definitely check out human design
because it will help you understand
how to work with your intuition
it gives you a different angle tool
number four is
numerology
understanding the meaning of numbers
all the different numbers in our lives
and how to use them to gain
clarity and understanding of ourselves
our purpose and our path
there are a lot of different things in numerology
it's kind of like astrology
where you have a chart
you have a life path number
you have all these different numbers
and i'll link down below again podcasts,
resources and videos
that i've made about numerology
you can learn more essentially
it really helped me to understand numbers
and the energy and meaning
that each number carries
because for each of us
each month has a specific number tied to it
each day has a specific number tied into it
i get to understand the theme of my days
the theme of my months
and the theme of my years
and it helps me live more in tune
with just the energy of the time
the last intuitive tool that
you want to pay attention to
are synchronicities
synchronicities are coincidences or things
that happen or things that you see
that are just too perfect or too coincidental
to to be normal
it's when things happen
and you're like wow the probability of
that happening is so small
that i can't believe it happened, right?
something like traveling to another country
in a different part of the world
and then going to the same cafe
and buffing into a high school friend
these things have happened to me in my life
or it could be something like
seeing repeating numbers
people talk about angel numbers all the time
repeating numbers have certain meanings
but just things that start to become
aware of synchronicities
when they happen
i like to keep like a running list of synchronicities
on my phone notes
because it is a reminder to me
that there is magic in the universe
there are things that happen
that really should not be happening
but they do happen
and it means something and to me
my personal interpretation of synchronicities
are the more you see them
the more they are reminders
that you are on the right path
it's kind of like the universe speaking to you
hey you're doing great
you see a synchronicity
and you just feel like
wow i am guided
you know
i am on the right path
i'm where i'm meant to be
it's also one of those things
that the more you pay attention to it
the more that you find they occur
because as you pay attention to it, right?
it's kind of like
if you think about buying a red car
and you start seeing red cars everywhere
it's a psychological thing
but i feel that it's a good thing
to pay attention to synchronicities
because it's that it's a positive reminder
and it's really nice to have
continuous magical moments in your life
that remind you that you're on the right path
alright my loves
hope you enjoyed these tips on living intuitively
let me know down below
what is your favorite tool
that helps you connect with your intuition
is it journaling
is it tarot
what do you do
what is in your intuitive care kit
does that make sense?
intuitive care kit
yeah yes
you have to care for your intuition
you have to develop this relationship
with your intuition and this inner voice
because we are all so wise
this inner voice is very wise
and knows exactly where you need to go
what the next steps are
you just have to listen
alright sending you so much love
i'll see you in the next one
bye~