How do you know when it’s your intuition?

If you’re anything like me, at any given time, there’s so many things rolling around in your brain that you can’t make head nor tails of any of it. Forget the train of thought getting derailed… I’ve got 15 dogs, and half of them are just running around with the zoomies, one is sniffing and rolling in something unknown, another is barking at something in a tree, two are chasing their own tails, and three others are zonked out taking a nap (and I’m sure I missed some!).

There’s never silence in my brain, even when I’m meditating there’s still things always flowing through. Some days it’s a calm lazy river, and other days it’s class 5 rapids. It never stops.

So how do we know when what we are “hearing” is our own thoughts/ego vs information from our pet or another being?

The trick is learning the difference between the “barking border collie in your brain” (as Laura Michelle likes to say) and the sound of your own intuition. Once you can tell the two apart, then recognizing when you are “hearing” another being becomes easier.

The first practice is to learn what your “normal” brain sounds like.

What do the every-day-stream-of-consciousness-non-stop thoughts “sound” like?

In a conversation with a mentor of mine, she asked me to describe my thoughts. As I was searching for words, I idly made a circular gesture.

She then asked me to describe the way my thoughts felt when I had a moment of knowing, a moment when I knew that the “thought” was a message from my intuition. This time in the process of searching for words, I gestured straight forward, almost as if pointing.

What I discovered was that for me, my run-of-the-mill thoughts have a circular, spinning flow, there’s no end, there’s no beginning, it’s just thoughts one after another (after another….). Sometimes contradictory, sometimes rude or mean, often bouncing around and not staying focused.

But those moments of intuition, of connection with another being, what I “hear” is quiet, and very straight forward, and very direct.

Once I learned the “feel” of my own intuitive thoughts compared to my spinning brain thoughts, then it became easier to discern the energies, feelings, and “voices” of other beings.

Once you get to that point, it’s nothing more than practice. Simple. Not always easy.

The biggest key is dedicating time to observing thoughts (you are not your thoughts after all), so that you can start to sense and feel the difference. It is subtle, and takes practice, but that’s all it takes.

Have you ever had a thought that you knew was your intuition or a connection with another being?