Is it Fear or Intuition?

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“How can I tell if this thought is just fear speaking... or if it’s my intuition trying to tell me something??”

This is a common question you encounter on the path of living an intuitive life. A life led by your own inner compass; a life where you are more interested in being authentic and connected to yourself... than living up to other people’s expectations of you.

Your intuition is simply your connection to your internal world. Your awareness of what is going on inside of you and in the world of the non-physical.

But especially if you are highly sensitive and can pick up on all kinds of subtleties in your environment... your insides can be kinda muddled or confusing. How do you know what thoughts, feelings, insights to trust?

I am not the first person to teach on this dilemma. The internet is full of people answering this question- is it your intuition or is it fear?

Most people out there answer this question with a somewhat vague answer of “well, fear will be loud, and your intuition will be quieter” or “fear will have more of a harsh quality to it and your intuition will be softer”.

These are true (somewhat- sometimes your intuitive clarity can have a firmness to it...)

But to me, as a young intuitive seeker... these answers didn’t really give me much. They hint at some certainty... but they don’t provide a clear pathway to fully accessing it.

As a spiritual teacher and trained clairvoyant psychic... I want to actually offer a question in response to this fear/intuition question.

If you seek the answer to the question... “is this fear talking or my intuition?”...

You need to ask: “Is this thought, feeling, image mine or not mine?”

To determine if it’s fear or an intuitive hunch... you need to figure out if its your energy you are picking up on... or if it is NOT your energy.

Let me give an example.

Say you are wanting to book a trip to somewhere new.

You get all excited about going on an adventure to this new place you’ve never been before. You book airplane tickets and accommodations.

And then a few days before... you start to get a weird feeling. You start to doubt if going on this trip is safe... there have been so many airplane crashes lately.

Is this your intuition trying to speak to you and warn you about a potentially dangerous event... or is it some fear coming up because you are about to go somewhere you’ve never been before?

The way to tell with absolute 100% clarity if it’s your intuition or fear is to develop the skill to be able to discern whether this feeling is your energy or someone else’s energy.

If it is your energy... that is your truth. Your energy connects you to your clarity. You can trust your energy because it is you. Your energy leads you to your answers and your next steps. Your life works best when you are operating on your unique energy.

If it is not your energy… that is great information to know! You can then become a little psychic detective and ask: “Well, whose energy is it?”

Maybe it’s your mom’s energy in your space. She’s afraid of you going to this new destination… she loves you, and how she expressed that love is through throwing some fear into your space. You haven’t ever been taught to establish energetic boundaries with her… so you misinterpret her fear as your own. Problem solved! It’s just your mom’s fear, not your intuition speaking, and so you can move ahead with clarity and trust that nothing bad is going to happen.

Maybe it’s information coming from a spiritual guide. Using your clairvoyant awareness, you can see who this guide actually is… and determine if this is a guide you want to listen to or not. Not every being without a body who wants to help is qualified to help. When you use your intuition to be curious and actually perceive where this energy is coming from… you arrive at your answer of whether the original feeling, thought, or image is trustworthy or not.

The modern world will teach you to walk around with your spiritual eyes closed. With your awareness of the energetic world turned off.

When I teach intuitive development, I am teaching you to turn your awareness back on. I teach you to open your spiritual eyes, so you can perceive with clarity while navigating the non-physical world of energy.

It’s like if you received a text from a number you don’t recognize… you want to know who is this texting me?! The same applies to the world of energy. We are just usually taught to be curious and ask those kinds of investigative questions!

So, in summary…

If you want to know the difference between fear and intuition…

Ask the question: “Is this my energy or someone else’s?”

If you want to know how to determine your energy from someone else’s energy… develop your clairvoyance. This is an intuitive ability that absolutely anyone can develop!

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Do you struggle to sometimes tell the difference between fear and intuition? Did you find this reframe helpful?

Let me know by commenting below!