Trusting Your Own Magic Carpet

Learn to harness the power of your intuition, tune into your body's signals, and confidently navigate life's uncertainties with trust and self-compassion - By Kate Glover

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How often do you trust your own magic carpet (stick with me on the analogies, I’m going somewhere I think).

How many times have you been in that split second moment of making a decision and you have to reach for something, a decision, a knowing and you do it.

You’re listening to your intuition in those moments.

It’s an amazing evolutionary mechanism the mind uses to map out potential options, results and dangers ahead. It visualises them, or files them against something we recognise, or just trusts we’re prepared for whatever it is we’re heading into.

Which is why it makes no sense that we so often don’t trust ourselves.

We have no way to know what the future holds, it’s one of the only truths of life, that the unknown is the only uncertainty. We’re making these micro intuitions day in day out, so why don’t we listen to them for the important stuff? The things that matter to us? Our dreams, our journeys, our purpose?

Think about times you have already followed your intuition subconsciously and things have been brilliant? Or not so brilliant but your insight has helped you move forwards?

That’s why it’s important to routinely check in on it so that when it comes to something new, something difficult or different, we can use our intuitive energy for it.

You already have a fully wonderful functional magical carpet of your own, you just need to test it out every now again.

Mind-Doughnut

What’s a Mind-Doughnut I hear you ask? It’s taking a few minutes to slow down, reboot your mind, and maybe even have a mini-insight. In dreams, doughnuts are said to signify making peace with your identity and appreciating the sweeter things in life, so we’re going to do just that.

To tap into your wonderful all knowing intuition, try this out…

Get quiet

It’s hard to tune in to anything when your head is busy, let alone your intuition. If you need to think big about something, get quiet. If you can, imagine you’re looking at the thing objectively like an out of body experience to make some observations. Disconnect yourself from it. And then create the space in your mind of nothing for a few minutes and see what flashes of inspiration come to you. They might not, but at least give yourself the chance to listen to the wisdom you already have.

Check your body

You might notice there’s a sensation pulling your awareness to it in the body. The belly telling you somethings not quite right, the throat wanting to express itself, your fingers pulling you to create. Acknowledge this. Place your hands on those places, breathe into those places, look out for signs of what it might tell you.

Morning glory

Do you ever wake up and already know the answer to something you’ve been stewing over? Our mind has the chance to recalibrate and rest whilst we sleep so that the fog can clear. We might think our brain is also sleeping, but it’s actually working through everything it’s collected during the day filing it into categories that make sense which is why sometimes we wake up and have that “aha” moment.

Go with the flow

Just go ahead and do the thing, if the outcome is positive, it’ll help build your confidence in trusting your intuition. If it takes you further away from the direction you want to be, it’s just a lesson, other options and solutions are still available to you and will make themselves clear.

Love yourself

I write regularly about the importance of loving yourself, of self care, so do this unconditionally. Adulting is mad, so sh*t talking yourself is not the way to stabilise that magic carpet, but words of compassion, kindness, love is.