Intuition and our own anxiety can often be confused. It is natural for thoughts to step in with urgency when we have experienced previous traumas because they are offering assistance in order to protect our psyches or bodies from further harm. This sensation of forceful or urgent thoughts is easily confused for our intuition. We hear these intrusive, sometimes forceful thoughts and feel as though immediate reaction to those thoughts are necessary. They feel protective and defensive. Intuition, however, works slowly and with ease. It is a gentle knowing or reminder of what is right and true to us. Anxious thoughts will feel urgent and tense in the body while intuition will soften the body and will give time to its message.
Anxious thoughts can sometimes follow closely behind our intuition. Often our intuition is asking us to move towards more openness, trust, and vulnerability. Our anxiety struggles to accept these states because those are where our wounds lie, in our trusting state when we were harmed. In our vulnerability when we were unprotected and in our openness that was shut down. But those are our more natural states of being. Generosity and compassion are more true than our fear of what might happen.
My invitation to you is to get to know both the anxiety and intuition. Love the anxiety that tries to protect. Show compassion to the parts that step forward to keep you safe and be curious about the intuition that opens you up to more love and bigger possibilities.