Using Your Intuition to Find Success and Happiness
by Amir Zoghi
Have you ever worked really hard for something, I mean you put everything into working towards this outcome or goal? You probably put all your blood, sweat and tears into it. Did you ever come to achieve the goal and feel a sense of emptiness? You would have thought to yourself, once I achieve and accomplish this then I would be happy or successful, right? But to be left with an empty feeling only adds more fuel to the fire and you feel as though you need the next “bigger” outcome or goal. This is the experience of pursuing a goal ignited from your head. It is when you have a hidden agenda to your goal and that’s when you feel as though you need to force the outcome, when you have a hidden agenda.
On the contrary you may have also experienced having an intention and without any great effort, without any force you notice your intention unfolding effortlessly. And furthermore you would notice that even without the outcome of your intention or goal having materialized, you would already feel a sense of happiness and success just to be doing what you feel. This means that you find enjoyment and fulfillment while on the journey and not only at the destination of the goal. This experience occurs when you are pursuing an intention or goal that is “True” for you. In other words, you have pursued a goal, an outcome or an intention fuelled from your heart, instead of your head.
The main difference between these two very different experiences is the space from where the goals are being born. If they’re being born in your head they are goals that have been fuelled by a sense of lack. Because you feel a sense of emptiness within yourself, you naturally seek to fulfill that emptiness by pursuing goals or people into your life to fill the void that you feel about yourself.
A goal or intention that comes from your heart in not only “True” for you but it happens effortlessly when you follow the guidelines of your own intuition. To do something “True” simply means that there are no hidden
Agendas for you in what you’re pursuing, and that is why you feel a sense of fulfillment when pursuing that goal, even without the goal materializing. You feel a sense of love and appreciation for yourself right where you are in the present moment, rather than needing the goal to be materialized before you can feel a sense of fulfillment. And we already know what happens in those instances. You feel happy for one moment but a moment later you’re left with that same empty feeling that you began with.
Let me tell you about that intuitive feeling, that sense of certainty that comes to you and gives you guidance to experience success in what is “True” for you in an effortless manner. Your intuition is the voice of your heart and not only does it speak the language of love but it only speaks to you in possibilities. You cannot find your intuitive voice, it finds you, just as how you do not find love but love is what finds you. Now, your intuition can only find you where the intuition lives, right here in this moment, the present moment.
We are all intuitive, males or females, it’s just that some use their intuition far less than others or maybe not even at all. Your intuition is just like any other muscle, the more you use it, the more dominant its presence becomes in your life. But to use your intuition does not just mean to listen to it and not to act on it. To use it means to become aware of it but then to be able to act on it as well.
The reason most people actually cannot follow their intuition is understandable, really. It’s because the intuition is merely a feeling and this feeling has no logic to it. And most people will make a decision based on a feeling but then require supporting that feeling with logic. How many times have you felt to do something intuitively or to be somewhere perhaps and you tell a friend about it and what do they say? “How do you know you’re meant to do that?” And almost definitely you say, “I don’t why, but I just know!!” What you’re really saying is that you “know” because you feel it intuitively and the intuition is a sense of a knowing, but you don’t know why you know because there is no logical reason to support what you know.
Now, let me tell you why things feel as though they are effortless when you’re following your intuition. Ever hear the phrase of being in the “flow” or being in the “zone”? The moment you decide to not only listen to your intuition but to act on it, or to express it through your body, you are establishing yourself in the “flow”. Or in more sporting terms it is commonly known as the “zone”. Where are you when you’re in the “flow” or in the “zone”? You are in the moment, so when someone says that they are in the “flow” or in the “zone”, what they’re really saying is that they are in the moment! They’re experiencing something or doing something moment by moment.
In fact this very article that I’m writing is being written in the “flow”. By not making any plan as such of what to write, I’m actually allowing what to write to come to me, and all I’m doing is letting my fingers type away on my keyboard. Just as you cannot find your intuition, but you allow it to find you, the same goes for the “flow”. You cannot plan the “flow”, how can you? How can you plan the present moment? All you can do is be present, be open and then feel. This is not a thinking process; in fact it’s not a process at all, as all processes are for the head and not the heart. You either feel it or you don’t. Just as you either feel what you’re reading or you don’t. If you do, it’s for you; if you don’t then it’s not, simple really.
The Truth is simple, only we’re used to complicating things by analyzing things over and over again, rather than letting things present themselves just as they are. One final thing I would like to leave you with, your intuition is the first voice or feeling that arises within you, the second one is that little voice that you’re living with in that your head of yours. You know the one, the one that probably just said “which second voice”?
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Amir Zoghi is an international leader and speaker in the area of Self Awareness and human potential. His modern age philosophies ring with truth within his inspired audiences. He is a natural intuitive, sharing his wisdom through his writings, teachings and in speaking his voice on the stages of the world. He is a master of channeling a message that is deep and profound and delivering it with absolute simplicity and clarity for anyone to relate with. Connect with Amir at: http://amirzoghi.com
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