Listen To Your Intuition

– A Thanksgiving Story About Intuition

Intuition is one of the most useful and powerful spiritual gifts we have.

If I think back over the scope of my life, I can recall times when I felt that glimmer of warning that said do not do this or that, but then I ignored that still small voice and went ahead and did whatever it was I was planning to do.

And, when things did not work out as I had wished or planned, I may have conveniently forgotten that still small inner voice that warned me.

Have you ever done this?

The fact is, if I am really and profoundly honest with myself, many of the mistakes I have made in my life could have been avoided if I had listened to the still quiet inner voice of my intuition.

That voice can be so quiet that it is very easily dismissed. Also, the needs of others, or following through on previously agreed upon plans, can silence that soft urging.

Story About Intuition

One incident that I often use to remind myself of the value of intuition occurred on Thanksgiving many years ago.

My husband and I were getting ready to go to his Mother’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. We were bringing the cooked Turkey for the entire family to feast on.

He had just carefully loaded my larger car and as I was getting into the car, when I had a flash of intuition. We needed to take his sportier smaller car, not mine.

When I told him, I felt we needed to take the other car he was annoyed. He felt we just needed to get in the car and go.

About a month earlier, we had been in an auto accident when a truck turned in front of us without room to stop. After that accident, I had commented that I had felt an earlier intuition, which I had not mentioned. He stressed that I should mention these feelings.

So this time, I stopped and tuned into the intuition a bit more. Then held my ground saying I think we will need to make a sudden stop that my larger car would not be able to make.

Grumbling, my husband loaded the other car, and we were off.

Of course, after an exchange like that, one always feels a bit foolish. It seemed silly to take the time to move everything to a different car because of a still quiet thought to intuition. It could so easily be wrong.

As we proceeded to his Mother’s home, we were just starting on a Freeway ramp when from out of the sky a car flew down from our left and rolling in the air finally landed on its roof right in front of us.

We were just barely able to stop our car from smashing into that car.

When we stopped and got out to see what the situation was, my husband helped pull several small children out of the back seat of the inverted wrecked car that was now leaking fluids. They were frightened but uninjured and alive.

If we had taken my larger car, we would never have been able to stop as fast. The children would have undoubtedly been injured, perhaps fatally.

It seems the driver of the car before us, who was unfamiliar with the area, was taking the children to a movie when she missed a ramp and swerved to catch it, not realizing that it dropped off a steep incline and was not a continuation of the road.

To harm those children, even though we would not have been at fault, would have been devastating to our lives and the families of the children. They would have been injured for life or most likely killed.

By that brief decision to honor the small quiet voice of intuition, all of that was avoided and lives were saved.

Of course, my husband never got the smell of the spilled Turkey Juice out of that car, but that was a small price to pay. This reminded me of an Oprah story on How a Hunch Can Save Your Life and avoid what could have been such a disaster.

Listen To Your Intuition

As I look over my life I can see other times when I ignored that nudge of intuition and had to live out the consequences of things that deep in my heart I know I was warned, very quietly, very subtly not to do.

Failing to listen and then proceeding to do those things were actions that have proved to be some of the most damaging and foolish mistakes in my life.

In those times that I failed to listen to my intuition I realize, with the always clear advantage of hindsight, that to listen to your intuition may require stopping doing something you had planned or committed to doing and the flash of intuition seemed to come too late to stop it without disappointing others. Had I had the strength and wisdom to act on that flash of intuition several devastating life mistakes could have been avoided.

Having ignored the still voice of my intuition I had to live out the consequences of what could have been avoided if I had let myself stop and be true to the urging of my intuition. In most of those incidents to act on my intuition would have required standing up to others, or disappointing others, as I did not follow through on established plans.

Accept The Gift of Intuition

I realize as I consider many past situations, I could have avoided a great deal that was painful and difficult in my life if I had had the courage and conviction to honor and accept the gift of my intuition.

Now, older and I hope wiser I listen to the small silent voice of my intuition recognizing it as a prompting of the wisdom of my Higher Self.

Now, I encourage you to listen to the still voice of your intuition when it speaks to you and to honor it.

It may require quieting your mind and asserting yourself with no proof that what you are doing differently is actually avoiding a disaster.

It is only hindsight that can confirm to you that acting on your intuition avoided a disastrous circumstance. In fact, many times when you listen to your intuition and act upon it, you will never know if what you avoided would have happened, since everything changed when you honored that intuitive urge.

Recognize your intuition as the guidance of your Soul and honor it,
by trusting it.”
– Genevieve Gerard

In my life, I have learned to listen to and honor that still quiet voice of my intuition and I encourage you to do the same.

During the time of the holidays let us give thanks and have gratitude for the gifts we are given. Especially those where we are guided by the wisdom of our Soul.

Namaste,

Genevieve Gerard

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!