I’m not sure as a child I understood what intuition was, but now I know I use it as my guide. As a child with intuition, I would have had the chance to focus, without continually looking back on non-achievements negatively.

Intuition keeps our lives centred, so that we can become more understanding of why life turns out the way it does. When we understand why something happens, we have the option to take a different path. Through insight, we bring understanding.

How well our intuition works depends on how much we practice listening to our thoughts and being open to that little voice inside our head. It is something we may all come to understand and work with.

When we use our intuition we may pay attention to our inner thoughts. The more intuitive we are, the more inspired we can become. The more inspired we become, the more we can live in the present.

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Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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6 comments on “Our intuitive guide”

  1. I've never been intuitive.

    I generally follow my experience and knowledge and usually 'get there' in the end. I think a lot of that has to do with my job and training, as it is all based on evidence.

    I have certainly seen how it helps you though.

    1. I agree with you about your job and training. It would be a new intuitive thought pattern from your now thinking.

      For me I know that being intuitive definitely continues to help me in my life. I feel I make better choices and decisions and feel more calm, even on my most difficult days.

  2. I don't think I'm intuitive but live by experience. Medically I use what I've learned from my job and schooling to deal with medical issues and even some of the daily issues I can relate in a way, especially the psychological aspect of things.

    I took a lot of psychology courses in college and learned from them, but I think my every day things I deal with I use my experience to deal with them.

    I'm sure if I learned how to be intuitive I may be happier.

    1. I know you would feel and be happier if you learned how to be intuitive. I know how much happier I feel in general, even though like everyone else I still have things to deal with.

      I do agree that work and other experiences do help depending on our experiences, but learning how to be intuitive goes one step further.

      When you listen to your intuition it connects you with a greater knowledge that encourages you to deal with personal growth, empathy and compassion, which other people without intuition may sometimes struggle with.

      I believe that we all have the ability to learn how to be intuitive.

  3. I'm in the process of forgiving my friends for ditching me when I got sick. It's hard, but I've got to do it.

    I was very intuitive as a child, I suppose to the point where I became compulsive, but I can't change the past, I have to move on.

    1. It's very hard to work through the process of forgiveness, particularly if the other people you are trying to forgive haven't apologised for what they have done to you.

      I found myself in the same situation as you when my mother was terminally ill. One or two of my friends just disappeared without a trace and left me with no support. When I told one of them how disappointed I was, I walked away, as she wouldn't back down.

      Relationships are about give 'n' take and you getting sick wasn't the right time for them to ditch you. Perhaps it's time for them to talk to you about the part they played in all of this and see if you can find a middle ground, before you completely forgive.

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