What happens when your intuition and logic are at odds with each other?

A state of unrest. Internal conflict.

You feel as if you are in some kind of a crisis, because of the perception that one wrong move in decision making will change the entire course of your life.

You are in pain for days, finding it hard to make a choice. It is hard to keep your mind still, under these circumstances. Your mind is being held captive by an escalation of conflicting thoughts.

Well, allow me to share my personal experience on restoring inner harmony. Since my blogging break, I have been in an intensive ongoing process of realignment. Some difficult questions had to be made. They involved identifying and giving up my attachments, sorting out my feelings versus thoughts, and ultimately making “unpopular” choices. The quietness while contemplating in the surroundings of nature (see picture taken above) was a comfort even while my mind was in constant chatter, obscuring me often from connecting to my deepest feelings.

Navigating Through Intuition

Here is a typical internal pattern, upon review. Every once in a while, I get intuitive flashes of words and images. If I am lucky, I also get physical validations that I have not been imagining the flashes. I will see the same word or image printed on the first page of the newspaper I turn to in the mornings. It will stand out particularly for me. Throughout the day, I can get to see the same in a bus ad or in something I come across by chance on the web. Hence, I get to know that these flashes are not just one of my random thoughts.

Still, I have to admit that even with an intuitive flash or sense of feeling, I am not always able to discern what it means at first go. The logic mind will come in with its thinking. With interfering thoughts, I get myself into a bind in the process of interpreting what it all means. Because I have intended a long time ago to pay attention to my intuitive mind, I refuse to simply allow logic override. At the same time, I realize I need to make peace with the drama – the workings of my ego – that is raging from the inside.

Art of Surrender

Eventually, with awareness, I remind myself that I have already chosen to realign myself in closer congruency to my inner being. With this intent as an overriding priority, the most appropriate decision to make follows. Thereupon, I learn to negotiate with my logic or ego self to derive some satisfactory conclusion.

What finally works is when I decide to surrender to the process. Instead of feeling hurried and impatient, I allow myself space to do self-inquiry. Hence, I avoid putting myself in the trap of calendar time but to give myself the psychological space for inner exploration. I delve into the illusory, fragmented and distorted thinking of my mind. I ask myself what my deepest fears are and looked at them, without any self-judgment. I do my best in navigating carefully lest I get hijacked again by my over-zealous ego.

As I refine my questions to self, I realize that the trick is also in the asking. The solution is far from being as complicated as I have initially made it out to be. Oddly enough, what appears difficult is really simple. The solution lies in asking the self the most appropriate question one step at a time. The appropriate question elicits the answer that results in the meeting of the intuitive and the logical mind. It satisfies intuitively and logically. Inner harmony is restored.

What is also helpful is the realization that no decision is ever a wrong one. There is understanding that each decision, whether right or wrong, leads me on a path of discovery that unfolds its learning lessons for me. What is more important is to practice choice with conscious awareness. As an observer and a deliberate choice maker, I bring my perception of reality into being. Amazingly, I also find that life takes on a richness when I continue to reaffirm the choice in aligning with my inner being.

Nature Tapestry Notes

To live in abundance is to be free from fear. You are real to who you are. You live a life that is full, expansive and with exciting possibilities.

Notes for the Day: Allow space for self-inquiry, in aligning with who-you-really-are. Practice choice with conscious awareness. Discover a richness in life – with its unfolding beauty, creativity, love, abundance and freedom – as you surrender your choice to the workings of the divine.

Share Your Experience

Have you made any major decision so far in following your intuition? Has it been scary for you in threading to the unknown? Need to make “unpopular” choices? Please share how the process has been like for you.

Abundance always,