Following your intuition is such a beautiful thing, but it is extremely hard at first.
Intuition requires that you throw logic and reason out the window.
That “gut feeling” expresses itself calmly, telling you what to do—go right, go left, stop, yes, no, say this, shut up, and so on—and laughs at you every time you try to reason out what it is trying to do.
When you follow your intuition, your mind will be like a teenager trying to keep up with what his wise grandfather told him to do without ever understanding why he told him to do it in the first place.
Your intuition will tell you to make a right at the next exit, and your mind might need four years to put the pieces together and understand why you had to make a right at that point four years earlier.
Another thing.
When you start following your intuition and letting your guard down, meaning that after a point, you can unite the dots looking backward and trust that gut feeling more and more, there will come a point where you’ll feel you need to express something or let something be expressed through you.
I don’t like to use the term creative person because I don’t think we, as humans, are creators.
From my perspective, there is only one Creator, God, and we as humans are vessels through which God expresses Himself in whatever way He sees fit. He does it with your consent. You can say no to the call, although I don’t recommend it. However, this is a topic for another time and another post.
Back to the subject at hand.
If you follow and trust your intuition more and more, there will come a time when you feel the need to express something that comes from outside of you.
You may feel an urge to start painting, writing, singing, dancing, or who knows what other artistic outlet you may find yourself being in the hands of intuition.
Humility is critical at this point.
Understand that it is a gift, a blessing, and treat it accordingly.
Like I’ve said, we are only vessels through which something beyond our understanding chooses to express itself in whatever way it chooses to do so.
Humility is key.
A gift, a blessing, comes to you out of nowhere, but if you don’t treat it with the right attitude, it will be taken away from you just as easily.
I did this; look at me and how awesome I am – Puff and inspiration is gone.
Writer’s block follows. You can’t sing anymore, and dancing is out of the question because your feet suddenly feel like stone.
Humility is key.
Another thing to take note of is that intuition does not follow your time frame or any known time frame, for that matter.
Intuition won’t permit you to wake up at eight o’clock in the morning, have some coffee and breakfast, and then start writing.
Whenever and wherever inspiration finds you, you have to find it.
You are merely a vessel, remember?
Humility.
You’ll find yourself waking up at 4:43 on a Sunday morning writing about intuition.
You’ll be at a wedding with your family, having a good time, socializing, and laughing, and out of nowhere, an urge to write something down will come, feeling like a wave that needs to express itself then and there.
You’d better have a pen and paper in your pocket or pull out your phone and write as fast as you can in your notes.
No, it will not come all organized. It will consist of random words from random phrases, but as soon as you start writing them down, they will organize and reorganize themselves until they make sense to you.
Yeah, my friend, that is, on a broad scale, what it feels like to follow your intuition.
If you stay with it for long enough, you’ll get used to it and even become addicted to it after a while. You will start searching for that “flow state” more and more and feel empty when you can’t find it.
Or, on the other hand, you can ignore it altogether and live a rational and intellectual life.
The choice is all yours.
If you choose to follow that calm voice inside of yourself, after a while, people will start to call you lucky because amazing results will manifest themselves in your life.
You are so lucky. Look at all the blessings that fall right out of the sky, precisely in your lap, without you doing anything.
No, Ramon, I did not get lucky.
I followed my intuition for four years, through thick and thin, while my mind was screaming at me every second and every portion of the way—what are you doing, no, STOP, this is wrong, and so on.
After a while, you won’t even want to explain yourself anymore because it will get boring.
Nod and smile.
That is how it feels – says the guy who woke up at 4:43 on a Sunday morning to write this post because something inside of him told him – hey, Now!
Are you up for the task?
Do you want to be a vessel and let go of every notion of rational control over yourself and your life?
That is what it takes.
If you choose to do it, follow your intuition that is, you’ll come to understand, feel, and live true freedom.
If you choose this path and become a vessel, every time you empty yourself by expressing fully what’s inside of you, you will grow, and more and more will be poured inside of you.
You will grow just a bit each time.
Blessed!
I need to go back to sleep. I am tired.
With love, yours truly, Cristian.