Trusting Your Intuition, Part 1

Since 2000, I've been on a quest to really trust my intuition. Why 2000? On July 27, 2000, my life, as I knew it, changed. I learned that the life I had so carefully built was nothing more than a house of cards, and it all came crashing down around me.

So, what does this have to do with intuition?

In my attempts to cope and process the experience, I went to a therapist. And she said something that really stuck. She said, "It's a good thing you listened to your intuition, or else this would have been much worse."

At the time, I thought, "Worse? This was awful! I don't know that it could have gotten much worse." But, of course, she was right. It could have been much, much worse. Still, it was bad enough, frankly.

And I digress.

I heard her. I really heard her. She shared with me that I had felt something was wrong, very wrong, and by my insisting that our family get into counseling at the time I did, we had prevented something far worse from happening.

Let me tell you, this was all news to me. I was not familiar with the conversation of trusting my intution; heck, I didn't even really know what that was or how it felt. And yet, that conversation was the beginning of my learning to trust myself, and it was the beginning of my learning what intuition was, how it felt, and, even more important, why it is so important to be aware of intuitive hits.

She showed me how I had listened to my intution. She connected the dot between saying that I had listened to the dot of my experience. And that was huge.

Then, in 2001, I read a book that changed my life: "The Lightworker's Way," by Doreen Virtue. When I finished her book, I knew - KNEW - that I had to learn more. I knew that I had to take her Angel Therapy Practitioner class.

The only problem was, I had no money. And it was in Miami, Fl (I lived in Virginia), and I would have to get there, stay a week at a hotel (and of course pay for it and food and travel), and also pay for the class ($1500). It didn't matter. I was determined to do it.

To be continued...