How To Listen To Your Intuition

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The following is a guided meditation by René Sills,

A somatic movement educator,

Energy worker and astrologer.

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Hello and welcome.

This is René and I want to offer a guided meditation today on listening to your intuition.

This is something that a lot of us are here learning right now,

How to listen to our intuition.

If you've spent any time as a student of mindfulness or yoga or any kind of aspirant path,

Wisdom path,

Then you've learned about the difference between the cognitive mind and the high mind or the kind of lower capacity mental identity and this bigger expansive knowing.

So both voices are needed,

Right?

Like we need our ego minds to tell us,

You know,

To pick up the groceries and to make sure to pay the bills on time.

This is the part of your mind that lives in your subjective experience in the here and now in your body,

In your life with the things that you have to do.

And then there's the part of your identity that's bigger,

That understands that you are part of a much larger experience on earth and this is evolution.

This is a current of time.

You are part of whatever circles that you're a part of your social circles,

The friends that you have,

The things that you're involved with that are important for you to be involved with through your job,

Through your hobbies,

Through what you enjoy doing.

There are ways that you involve yourself and combine forces with other people to be more impacting on the planet.

How we use our energy for our one and precious life is very important.

And we can remember the words of Dogen here,

The Zen teacher,

That life and death are of supreme importance.

Life passes swiftly.

Opportunity is lost.

Therefore,

Do your best to awaken.

Awaken.

In this message,

We understand that time stops for nobody.

Culture is this huge thing that we live in,

That we're influenced by,

That we really don't have any choice but to participate with.

We find ourselves born in the times and the places and the families that we're born in and we don't really remember choosing them in any kind of conscious way.

And with 8 billion people on the planet and huge,

Huge,

Huge things that are happening that have roots in thousands of years of history,

It is not up to any individual to change the course of history,

Right?

To be so impactful that you save the world.

This is nobody's individual job.

However,

If we each understand that we can be responsive to our lives as they present to us in this moment and that our responsiveness can be something that is creative,

That's efficient,

And that's brilliant in the moment,

Then it's better.

We have to do our best to not make things worse.

And how we make things worse is by perpetuating sleepiness,

By perpetuating unrealized habits.

So we do our best to awaken in the moment to see that we have some small amount of control over the choices that we each make as individuals.

And often that choice is not so much a tangible choice as it is a general vibe.

I choose to meet this person right now with an attitude of acceptance and openness rather than distraction or crankiness.

That's a choice that can actually have a significant effect as it ripples out into the world.

How we make choices that are more tangible about what to involve ourselves with,

This is where intuition becomes very important.

Because you can spend your life attending to things that really aren't that important,

Trittering your energy away on stuff that you could be much more impacting in other ways.

So we have to listen deeply to our intuition to know where we are called,

To know where the best place for us to bring our unique skill set into is.

Okay,

So we're going to work with this energy through a somatic exploration,

That's through a body-based exploration.

I'm going to invite you to find a way of being that's comfortable for now and you can move as much as you want to move throughout the course of our exploration.

I'm going to actually just take a minute to move my leg right now because it's bothering me.

So take a minute to adjust yourself to find a way to be that's very comfortable and you can lie down if you want to lie down.

You can stand,

You can sit.

It really doesn't matter where you are.

But be comfortable and be in a receptive space so you're not distracted or needing to pay attention to other things.

So we're going to start as we always start,

Just with some centering breaths.

And you're going to inhale through your nose,

Feel the passage of breath and turn to your throat and into your lungs,

Feel the expansion of the inhale.

And then as you exhale,

Open your mouth and sigh out,

Relax your jaw.

With your inhale,

Allow the breath to be delivered into your body.

Think of how water moves through sand,

That there's a seeping quality.

You don't need to force your breath,

But you can invite it in.

And with your exhale,

You want to consciously relax or release any places of habitual tension,

The ways that you hold yourself up and hold yourself in attentiveness.

So relaxing around the forehead,

Feeling that your eyes are soft,

Whether the eyelids are open or closed,

There's a feeling of receding and receptivity through all of your sense organs,

Your eyes,

Your ears,

Your nose,

Your mouth.

As the sense organs become more relaxed,

Then we open into just kind of a wide open field of perceptive capacity.

So anything that you notice,

Sounds,

Including my voice,

Smells,

Sensations,

Light or image that passes your eyes,

It's just information that comes in and nothing that you need to become attached to or that your mind needs to grasp onto and follow.

I'm going to send breath up into your head and imagine that you can breathe into your brain,

Into your skull cavity.

And then as you exhale,

Relax your brain and feel that all of the things that you need to do and all the thinking you need to think,

It will still be there later.

You don't need to do it right now.

So just relaxing your brain.

In learning to trust our intuition,

First we need to get quiet and we need to listen deeper than all of the immediate sensory information that comes in.

And sensation includes thoughts.

So you're thinking that kind of like running ticker tape of your ego talking to you.

We have to get underneath that.

So right now you can,

For the next couple of minutes,

I'm going to invite you to listen to the background music and to simply feel your breath.

And you want to feel the way that your inhale comes in.

And as you exhale,

I want you to release everything that you're carrying.

All of your responsibilities,

Let them go for now and feel that you can drop into this kind of formless time and space.

You can get beyond time by arriving just in the present moment.

Feel yourself fully held by your breath,

By the vibration of sound,

Any sensation in your body,

It's just coming in as something to notice,

But not get attached to.

If thoughts or images float in,

You can notice them,

Say hello,

And then let them drift by,

Trust that you will remember and return to what's important.

As you feel yourself breathing,

You can imagine that the movement of your breath is like current moving through the ocean.

Just follow that movement,

Allow it to travel wherever it needs to travel.

There's nothing you need to do to control it.

Follow the sensation of your exhalation as it moves through your body as well.

And let the exhale deliver more release into all of your joints,

Into your brain,

Into your organs,

Into your responsibilities.

So now I want you to feel wherever you have contact with gravity.

So wherever your body meets any kind of structure of support,

The ground,

Your chair,

Your bed,

Through your feet,

Through your back,

However you're meeting anything that's holding you.

And the invitation right now is to really let yourself be supported,

To totally soften.

And the word here is yield.

And in yielding,

This is different than merging.

So you're not becoming the thing that supports you.

You understand that at any moment you could move away from it.

You could use your agency and push into the thing and change your situation.

But right now you're going to fully relax and rest into whatever you feel is supporting you and feel that that support with gravity is rising up to meet your body.

So there's,

You don't need to worry,

You're safe,

You're held,

Even if it's just that you're standing and you feel something beneath your feet.

And as you realize that relationship,

You can yield and then you can receive support.

You feel that there's vitality that travels through your entire body.

How much can you give yourself to what is supporting you?

In this moment,

This is not an abstract idea or a metaphor.

It's literally this moment,

Where do you meet support through gravity?

Accept it,

Feel it,

Acknowledge it and receive it.

And then relax towards it.

Let it in.

There is nothing to do right now that would make your receiving of this support better.

There's not a correct posture.

There's not like a perfect way of being.

So whatever feels natural to you,

Allow for that and really just go with it.

You know,

Like if you're feeling support and you're like,

Oh my God,

I just need to lie down,

Lie down.

You're going to be held.

If you're sitting and the support is coming up and inspiring,

Lengthening in your spine,

Then enjoy it.

So allow your body to be held in the support in whatever way feels natural and give yourself fully.

And I want you to attune your entire body to that support.

So allow your cells,

Your conscious awareness to migrate into the parts of your skin and your fat and muscles,

Like all of your tissues.

Your attention is going into the places of contact.

This could have a very relaxing,

Very kind of like almost an inertia quality to it where you just want to like lie down and that's totally fine.

If that's what's happening,

You just want you to allow for whatever happens to happen.

You're yielding fully and we're just going to give that another couple of minutes.

So you're breathing into support,

You're allowing it in.

There's no question.

You can continue to sigh out your mouth and relax.

You want to let go of all the places that are habituated to working.

Your forehead,

Your thinking mind,

The areas around the joints,

Your jaw and your tongue.

Used to talking,

Having to make sense.

There's nothing to say right now.

So you're continuing to let your breath come in.

You're receiving the support and you're relaxing and yielding into that support.

I just want you to give yourself a lot of permission here.

Permissiveness is key.

This is a beautiful exploration to do.

You can't rush up and change anything,

But at any point in your life you can do this.

So if you're having a conversation with somebody and it's starting to feel tense,

You just sink into your seat or sink into your feet.

Click into the ways that you are supported to relax.

This is a really nice way to connect with another person.

You can yield to each other's bodies.

So if you have a friend or partner or lover or child,

You know,

A family member,

This is super platonic and basic human connection.

That you can relax and just feel support,

Feel contact.

And this isn't about anything other than that.

It's just receiving connection.

And you want to feel that your body is supported right now with whatever is around you.

So we're going to shift our focus a little bit.

Same theme,

But now I want you to yield into space.

So as you feel your inhaling breath and you become attentive to the space that's around you,

To the air that's around you,

Just breathe into that.

Can you be open and receptive to space?

And again,

There's nothing to do,

But if this quality invites any kind of movement,

Allow for that movement.

You can feel the space between you and the ground,

Like in the arches of your back or your neck or your wrists or your feet.

You can feel space above.

You can feel space around.

And let your awareness now drift into that space and spread into it and yield into it,

Accept it.

And I want you just to notice this quietude,

The quietness that happens when you're relaxing,

When you're receiving support.

This is the quietness that intuition arises from and in.

You don't have to do anything.

You don't have to go after anything.

Your intuitive voice is here,

But you have to get quiet in order to hear it.

We're just going to continue yielding into space.

Now I want you just to feel space,

Allowing the sound,

This background sound of the music for this meditation to move through your cells and very gently kind of the resonance of the sound can release any adhesions to obligation,

To stress,

To worry,

To falseness.

You want to let it drift away.

So you just come into a quality state,

An essence of pure being,

Nothing to do,

Nowhere to go,

Nothing to prove.

You just feel your own essence right now that's continuous with all the space around you and all the support underneath you.

Notice what happens to your breath here.

There's a non-doing with the breath that it just arises.

I said something about your breath and then you noticed it and so maybe you started to do something with it.

But in this space of quietness,

We just want to let the body be as relaxed and as natural as possible.

And I'm going to tell you that in this space,

Your intuition is clear and you can listen.

You can plant a question for yourself.

So if there is something that you've been wondering,

Like,

Should I do this?

Is that person the right person?

Whatever,

You know,

Whatever your question is right now,

I just want you to recall it to plant it in your consciousness and don't try and answer it.

But can you hold the question and then can you sense this yielding relaxed space underneath you,

Around you?

So as you hold the question,

You're going to notice that around the question,

If the question were an object,

That around the question,

There are attachments.

So you have attachments to outcome.

You have attachments to the past.

You have attachments to obligation.

This is a big one,

Like what you think you should.

So if there are shoulds,

Then they have strong attachments.

So now I just I want you to try and keep the sense of spaciousness and yield around you underneath you and also sense these attachments.

And what I am going to invite you to do now is to dissolve the attachments.

So if there are attachments to outcome,

I want you to know in yourself that the future is unknown.

It's impossible for you to predict what's going to happen and it's impossible for you to direct the future.

All kinds of things could happen between now and then.

External events are happening all the time that really change what needs to arise in the moment and changes your choices.

So can you please release your attachment to the future,

Any future outcome and know that you don't know what will happen in the future.

There's no way of knowing and whatever happens in the future is going to be correct for that circumstance.

So you're releasing attachments to things that haven't happened yet,

Things that may or may not happen.

And in that release,

Just kind of notice what happens in your body.

Like,

Oh,

I don't get to decide what the future is.

I don't know.

I will know in the moment what to do.

And I will be ready to make that choice then.

But right now I don't know.

And that's totally fine.

That's as it should be.

Relaxing around the future.

And if things come up,

Like ego stuff comes up that argues with that,

Like I want you to acknowledge that there's the ego that's arguing,

Oh,

You should know maybe if you do this,

Then you can influence that blah,

Blah,

Blah.

But don't go for it.

So just come back if that's happening for you.

Just come back into this like open field of awareness.

Feel the way that you're yielding.

Feel the way that you can support.

Excuse me,

That you feel supported.

That you let in support,

That you connect with your breath with space.

And then we'll come back to the object that you're thinking about this choice.

And now notice if there are attachments to the past.

So if you're trying to work anything out that's attached to things that have already happened.

Or if there is like a lingering,

You know,

You're trying to resolve something.

So now the message for you is what is done is done.

The past is in the past and it can't be relived.

It can't be redone.

And you are not a slave to the past.

So you don't owe the past anything.

And you will honor what has happened in the past by making the best choices you can in the present.

That you're going to let go of the past,

Of it being any different,

Of needing to fix anything.

Just this is the moment that you find yourself in.

And things that have happened before were not only your responsibility.

You may have played a part in them.

You did play a part in them.

But there's no unraveling why you made the choices you did or why anybody else did.

And there's no need to hold on to that now.

So you're just going to try and let go of the past.

You want to dissolve that attachment so that you're just present.

And again,

If the ego comes up and it's trying to tell you like,

Oh,

You can't,

This is bad,

Just never forget,

Blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Like all these things.

Like you just take a deep breath in,

You notice the sensation of that voice,

Anxiety voice or the sadness voice or whatever,

The guilt voice,

And you're just dissolving it.

The past is done.

You cannot go back in time letting go.

And if this is hard,

That might be hard,

Then you just return to the somatic exploration of you feel support where there's support underneath you and give yourself fully to that support you yield into it.

You feel the support of space around you.

And you yield to that space,

You feel yourself as held in matter and fluidness and change.

You're just one person living your life in the sea of time in the flow of evolution.

And the past has been created by everything that has come before.

It's not yours to manage.

And the future is unknown.

So then if you feel like around this object of your choice,

There's a lot of shoulds.

This is a big place where we get hung up and where we are unable to listen to intuition because of obligatory voices.

And sometimes these voices are contracts that we've made with potentially other people or with ideas,

Like ideas of who we should be or what we should do.

Sometimes those ideas are imperceptible,

Belief systems that are very,

Very deep.

It doesn't matter.

This isn't the time to psychoanalyze,

But it's just feeling around this object of your decision and noticing where there are attachments for your prescribed behavior,

What you should do,

What you should think or what you should feel.

These are sticky,

These attachments of shoulds.

So here to dissolve these attachments,

What I want is for you to be very compassionate with yourself.

And how these attachments dissolve is through compassion,

Through an understanding that you will be your best self.

You'll make your best choices when you're free.

When you feel free.

And that any obligation that distorts the alignment between your head,

Heart,

And physical being is a harmful obligation.

It's a harmful attachment.

So if you emotionally feel one way and mentally you're telling yourself,

Oh,

You should feel another way.

This is harmful.

If you're physically putting yourself into situations and emotionally and mentally you hate it,

This is harmful.

So right now,

Can you surround this object of your indecision or your unknowing and surround it with a lot of compassion?

And what you want right now is a true desire for freedom.

You can make choices that are free.

And if,

So one of the things that gets us hung up is obligations to how we are impacting others.

So if you're getting hung up on like,

Oh,

If I make a choice that's really for my own freedom,

It's going to hurt somebody else,

You want to pay attention to that.

So when we make choices for other people based on our assumptions of what they need or what they want,

Even if that's what they've told us,

If it is not in alignment for you and if it's going to cause resentment or frustration,

This is very sticky terrain.

And we often get caught in binary polarized thinking.

If I don't do the thing that so and so wants me to do,

Then,

You know,

Our relationship will be over.

Or if I don't keep this job,

Then I'll be jobless or something like this.

Like it's very black or white,

Very extreme,

Because what your mind does is it compares things and your mind is actually not very intelligent.

The high wisdom is very intelligent,

But the cognitive mind is not very intelligent.

It works through comparison.

And so it says,

Well,

If it's not this,

Then it's that.

This is what your mind does.

It's X or Z.

It's black or white.

And this is very uncreative and it can often be very fear based.

So if you're working with shoulds and obligations and the stickiness around relationship,

Then right now I'm going to ask you to not try and figure it out at all,

Because this isn't about coming to an answer right now.

It's about dissolving obligation,

Inviting in compassion.

So you want to be free.

And one of the things that freedom requires is transparency.

So if you're working with obligations,

Then you're going to have to present your obligation with transparency and ask for resolution.

This is the way that I don't feel free in this moment.

I want to be an accountable,

Responsible person who takes care of the things that I've begun or takes care of the people that are important to me.

But in this way,

I don't feel free.

Can we be creative together?

Can we find an alternative?

And you're dissolving assumptions of what anybody else wants or what they expect.

And you're also dissolving that for yourself.

Now sometimes when you work with your intuition in this way,

Because it's very non-dramatic,

Right?

It's not like all of a sudden the voice of God just comes in and tells you what to do.

It's more that you get quiet and you relax all the other voices.

You might realize that there's actually nothing to do right now,

But just be present with the situation as it unfolds.

Or you might have a very clear message around a direction to go.

Sometimes when you let go of these attachments,

Sometimes clarity then can arise.

So if you have clarity,

I'm going to invite you to write it down.

You can pause this recording if you need to go get a pen and paper.

So if you have clarity,

I want you to write it down and continue to meditate on it.

If you're doing this meditation at any time,

Give yourself about a week and do this meditation every day and continue to bring your ease and relaxation into a quiet space.

You want to facilitate quietness,

Quietude,

And skillfully you want to dissolve attachments around your questions.

So we get in our own way by being attached to future outcomes that we can't control,

By being attached to the past that's already happened,

And by having contracts and obligations to other people or to different aspects of ourselves that are not in alignment,

That are based on some kind of dysregulation between the different aspects of our being,

Mental,

Emotional,

Physical,

And intuitive.

So this is a way that you can work with your intuition.

And I really appreciate you practicing and continuing to practice this and sharing this meditation with everybody in your life,

Because at this time on earth,

We need everybody to become more intuitive.

The past age of our human evolution has dealt a lot with intellect,

With developing our capacity to problem solve and to be in our minds and to innovate and create.

But we're at a moment right now where there's a lot of question and a lot of unknown and big,

Big things that need us to be a lot more creative than we can be from an intellectual space and so we need to become more intuitive.

And this means that we need to let go of attachments to the past,

Let go of attachments to the future,

Let go of our obligations and clinginess,

Insecurities,

And neediness,

And just get real quiet so that we can feel intuitively what is correct.

And this is the way that we each will participate skillfully in our collective evolution is by doing the work that is joyful for each of us to do.

So thank you so much for doing this work and for honing your capacity to listen.

This is an offering that you make to everybody when you do this.

So thank you.

All right.

Thank you very much and bye for now.