Meri's Musings

This one can be really challenging for smart people with a gift for analyzing. You know something deep in your gut without knowing how you know exactly and then your rational mind takes over and says, "Well, there's no proof of that." or  even more damning "You're just making that up." And so, all too often,  the rational wrong wins over the intuitive right. If you're finding it hard to trust your inner wisdom, the whispers of your intuitive self, start small. Act as if the voice or knowing makes perfect sense and test it out on some small thing like. . . say choice of routes to where you're going and see what synchronicities develop. Or perhaps you can learn, as I did, by negative implication. Once I started paying attention to -- but not always following the wisdom of -- my Higher Self, I quickly learned I always end up in a traffic mess  if I ignore the inne...

I like this affirmation about wisdom. It doesn't rely solely on the pattern recognition arising from experience. . . it doesn't equate wisdom with pure knowledge, valuable though knowledge can be. Instead, it blends those ingredients with inner knowingness -- intuition -- that we can only access when we get still, go within, and notice what our highest self, our inner Wise Woman or Wise Man, wants us to know at a deep and powerful level.  Have you ever noticed that when you ignore your intuition, you always end up regretting it? At least that's true for me!