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Apr 27, 2025, 11:42 AM
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Guidepost 5: Cultivating Intuition and Trusting Faith, Letting Go of the Need for Certainty
There’s only so much you ever can control. There are limits to the level of certainty you can experience. (Especially if you’re creating something new or meaningful.)
Which is why intuition and faith are so helpful. They’re powerful tools for navigating uncertain environments.
Intuition is a cognitive process where your mind compares the situation you’re in with all the others you’ve ever experienced. This happens at a subconscious level, which is why it’s difficult to explain your intuitions and hunches.
As Brown says, “Intuition is not a single way of knowing…it’s our ability to hold space for uncertainty and our willingness to trust the many ways we have developed knowledge and insight, including instinct, experience, faith, and reason.”
So if you want to get great at navigating uncertainty, cultivate your intuition and faith.
Start practicing:
When you find yourself in uncertainty, check in with your intuition. Find stillness and consider: What’s your gut telling you to do? What would you do if you had a fitting level of fear?
Foster your internal connection. Make time for meditation, journaling, movement, and other alone-time to keep your internal connection strong.
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Periodically I cycle through reflecting on topics like intuition, luck, etc. Various people offer their lists of types of intuitions, and a quick search finds claims to 3, 5, or 6. One might assign an intuition to each chakra, yielding 7, or each trigram, making 8. It's fluid and when types combine, cooperate, or switch around, the dynamics keep dancing. Here are 5.
1. In Danger Intuition (anger, liver).
2. Eureka Intuition (this is it!, lungs—for shouting?, large intestines)
3. Ability Intuition (heart, small intestines)
4. Seam intuition (gut, pride, groundedness)
5. Help-Sympathy Intuition (spleen, guilt, oxytocin)
My take and tweak on 5 Gut Instincts You Shouldn't Ignore by Courtney Helgoe © 2010 updated © 2020.
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