Optimizing Your Intuition for Better Business and Life Outcomes

As a leader, do you masterfully utilize your intuition or would you say that your intuition is under-developed, somewhat neglected or altogether left lying dormant? Being that your intuition is akin to an incredible inner GPS, this is an important question to ask yourself.

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Whether you refer to intuition as a sense of inner knowing, gut feelings, higher self guidance or kooky spiritual stuff, your intuition is there to help guide you through life on a deep subconscious level. From a scientific perspective, intuition is absolutely real.

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Rather than being reserved just for the psychic folks, everyone including you has intuitive abilities. At the same time, the effectiveness of your intuition is dependent upon its level of development and whether you pay attention to this deep inner wisdom and regularly put it into practice.

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Should you fail to listen to, trust and heed the guidance of your intuition, then you are wasting a very precious personal resource. In particular, you are missing out on better decision making, improved problem solving and greater creativity. Not only that, you are setting yourself up to experience unnecessary challenges or negative outcomes in business or life.

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Said No One Ever: I wish I wouldn’t have listened to my intuition.

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To help you make the most of your inner wisdom, below I’m sharing with you interesting facts about intuition, what gets in the way of maximizing your intuitive capabilities, and my personal recommendations for developing your intuitive intelligence, increasing its effectiveness, and amplifying its positive impact in your life.

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Intuition Facts and Interesting Insights

• The best leaders are known for utilizing intuitive intelligence including a reported 85% of CEO’s who regularly tap into the power of their intuition.
• From a scientific perspective, intuition occurs on a subconscious level. It is a form of automatic brain processing that entails filtering the details of a current situation through a vast array of information stored within your mind including past knowledge and experiences as well as recognizable patterns.
• Intuition is sensory based. Where the gut “feeling” part comes into play is in relation to hunches that rise to your conscious awareness with obvious certainty.
• While referencing data is important as a leader, all the data in the universe won’t tell you the correct course of action to take. Effective decision making results from tapping into both the power of subconscious intelligence, otherwise known as your intuition, and conscious intelligence which involves reflective deliberation and analysis.
• As a fine-tuned and rapid form of perception, intuitive intelligence is beneficial for guiding you through ambiguous situations, uncertainty, and quickly changing circumstances. Used effectively, your intuition supports making wise and positively impactful decisions.
• On a metaphysical level, intuition extends beyond logic and analytical thinking. It brings value by accessing the knowledge of the non-physical realms, and in particular, collective consciousness.
• World renowned scientists like Albert Einstein, artists, and trailblazers throughout history are recognized for intentionally connecting with their intuition to solve problems, make new discoveries, or to inspire creativity.

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Things that Diminish Your Intuitive Capabilities

There are a variety of reasons your intuition may not be operating up to par including choosing to ignore intuitive hunches as well as failing to intentionally connect with and develop this aspect of your inner self.

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Having a tendency to live up in your head and over-rely …or solely rely on analytical thinking tends to suffocate your intuition. The same goes for having your subconscious mind littered with head trash or allowing your ego self to create static or fog that drowns out the wisdom of your higher self. Further, unprocessed heavy emotions such as sadness, overwhelm and anxiety oftentimes starve off the connection to your intuition.

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However, know that if you truly desire to elevate your level of intuitive proficiency, you don’t have to allow any of that to deter you.

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Tips for Increasing Your Intuitive Intelligence

Being that intuition is sometimes described as the highest form of intelligence, it certainly pays to maximize this wonderful resource that resides within you. My recommendations for developing and optimizing your intuition include:

• Train yourself to switch out of your analytical mindset and intentionally connect to your inner wisdom. Meditation is an excellent practice to calm your brain so that you can best access your deep intuitive inner knowing.
• Practice deep breathing to regulate your nervous system, calm emotions like anxiety, and bring forth a sense of inner peace that’s beneficial to connecting with intuitive nudges and subconscious messages.
• Unplug from your electronic devices and take breaks to disconnect from your work. Use these breaks to get out in nature, engage your creativity, take a shower, go for a walk, or otherwise switch your brain over to automatic pilot mode. Doing so often facilitates new intuitive insights.
• Learn to discern actual intuition from heavy emotions like anxiety. Intuition tends to be accompanied by a calm sense of inner knowing whereas anxiety feels chaotic or stressful and is generally focused on a multitude of ways that something could go wrong.
• Center and ground yourself. Tune out external voices and noise. Rather than analyzing or judging, quietly look, listen and observe the situation at hand. Doing so calls into action both your conscious and subconscious awareness, including your intuitive intelligence.
• Take care not to rely solely on intuition. Doing so may lead to flawed decision making due to overconfidence or cognitive biases that cloud your judgement. Instead, use data to verify your instincts. Then make informed decisions and take strategic action accordingly.
• Remember that intuition is both an internal resource and a skillset to be developed. The more that you practice accessing and cultivating your intuition, the more reliable it becomes.

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Bringing It All Together

Everyone is naturally equipped with the inner resource of intuition. Much like a personal internal GPS, intuition relates to subconsciously sensing which decision to make or which action to take based in part on your instincts as well as your cumulative stored knowledge and experience.???

Whether your intuition is untapped or regularly called upon, when developed and used effectively, this wonderful sense of deep inner knowing helps you in making wise and positively impactful decisions in all areas of your life. The question is: Are you ready to dial up your intuitive intelligence and maximize this incredible resource for your greatest benefit? If so, I specialize in subconscious work and am here to support you directly.

Wishing you infinite abundance,

Andrea Choate - Founder, Soul Mechanics Healing

? I support CEO’s, executives, entrepreneurs, and success-minded individuals to thrive in business, relationships and life via my cutting-edge quantum mindset coaching services. This is unique and highly effective inner work with a specialized focus on upgrading your subconscious mind, re-patterning behavior, regulating emotions, and energetically aligning with your goals and desired life outcomes. To access my next available 1:1 coaching opportunity, contact: [email protected] .

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