Do you Trust Yourself?
I had a really intense experience recently.
My daughter wanted to go away over Easter break with friends.
She asked me a while back if she was allowed to go as one of the friends was driving and the destination was 4 hours away.
It felt right to me to say yes, nothing seemed of concern at the time so I did and allowed her to go.
The night before she was leaving, I was hanging out with her while she was packing and she said to me that she had a bad feeling about the trip.
She wasn't sure if everyone would get along etc what seemed like normal young mind concerns.
Suddenly my mind went to the person who was driving. I would not consider myself a worry wart and neither do my kids however my focus went to the driver of the trip and I asked whether they were a safe driver.
I didn't pay too much attention to my thoughts at that moment and it was late so I decided to go to bed.
I woke at 6am and immediately had a terrible feeling.
I decided to get up and start journaling – a practice I do almost daily to connect to my intuition and ask questions that I am seeking support around.
I started tuning into my intuition and asked what is the message trying to be communicated to me in this terrible feeling I had.
Whenever I do this practice I usually see an image that describes the message to me and with my questions the deeper message is revealed to me.
On this day as soon as I started tuning in what I saw I never would have expected to see.
I saw an image a terrible car accident happening. I have never had a premonition like this before and I consider myself very trusting of my kids and what they do and where they go so I knew when this came in that I needed to pay attention to it.
I could not believe it.
I asked more questions to seek further clarification and I received very clear direction as to what to do.
And now I had to work out what to do with this information.
Since focusing on strengthening my psychic abilities I've had a few significant premonitions. I didn't fully trust myself at the time and they wound up becoming true and I vowed to never ignore my intuition ever again.
So where do I go from here, I've just heard that my precious daughter who I love more than to the moon and back is in danger of a car accident leaving her traumatised and she's meant to be leaving in 2 hours!!!!
I decided to speak to my husband who has been a skeptic in the past however recently has started to see the value in my intuitive gifts.
I told him what happened and he immediately told me to go speak to our daughter. He did not dismiss what I said or tell me I was crazy, which affirmed my next steps.
Oh boy 🙈 this is a very difficult conversation to have.
I've never shared my intuition outside of my close circle before or with others whom I didn't know if I could trust or would understand me.
I spoke to my daughter.
Immediately she told me that she too had a feeling but wasn't sure why.
This was an opportunity for me to discuss with her how important it is to Trust and listen to our feelings with a real life example. I could tell that she got it.
I felt the pressure of the teenagers and I had to say NO. I explained that no matter what, I had to trust myself. I offered to drive her halfway and she could take public transport the rest of the way.
I got another opportunity to share when I took my son to school and he listened as I shared and talked about the importance of listening to our intuition to those feelings inside of us and being strong enough to act on it and not care what others think of you.
This was not easy, I began to feel overwhelmed, the pressure of my daughter and her friends was getting to me and I called a very close and special friend who I knew would understand. And she did. She reiterated to me that I must listen to what I heard and Trust myself.
And so I did.
I had a premonition that I couldn't ignore and I did the hard thing. I did the courageous thing.
I listened to my intuition and I did it in a very public way.
It inconvenienced others plans and it inconvenienced me and it was very uncomfortable but because I was so deeply trusting of what came through, I took action.
Maybe a previous version of me would have second guessed it and asked myself:
What are people going to think?
What does this look like?
Would people think I was crazy?
This was so last minute …
But I knew in my heart that this was the only choice and I drove my daughter two hours there and we had really great deep conversations about life and I loved every minute of it.
Actually, as soon as we got into the car she admitted she felt relief. She too had a feeling but she wasn't able to put language to it.
I wanted to share my experience because I know that EVERYONE has intuition and everyone has gut feelings – not just a special few.
We don't necessarily get curious about them or follow them through or Trust them.
I'd love for EVERYONE to know that they can Trust themselves and connect to their intuition. All we need to do is to tune out the noise and tune in to our own inner knowing. There are many tools and practices that can help you get there.
Intuition is like a muscle that you can strengthen with focus and practice just like you strengthen your muscles in the gym and then when it comes to listening to your intuition and doing the uncomfortable thing you are so trusting of yourself that you can take that action.
Here are some of the things I do every day to practice connecting to my intuition:
I do Flow which is a fusion of Tai Chi and QiGong and I move and I breathe and I connect to my body because I know intuition is not found in my brain but it's found in my body and in my heart
I journal and I take time to sit and connect to my guides through channelled writing.
I try to create spaciousness whenever I can. I love to sit and look at a beautiful tree in my garden.
I'm putting together a course offering to teach you how to tap into your own intuition and your own ability to connect to these types of messages and most importantly, how to Trust yourself.
If you want more information or you want to be on the list please email me at rochelle@rochellegance.com
I invite you to be curious…
How often do you get a feeling, gut feel or intuition about something?
How often do you Trust and Listen to that feeling?
Would you like to strengthen your intuitive muscle so you can get clear support in your life?
As always, if you feel called to share anything I'd love to hear from you.
Hope you’re having a wonderful day