“Women and Courage” and a further exploration of being a “shakti sage.”
From my perspective, being a sage includes: wisdom, intuition and gentleness, amoungst other qualities.
Intuition is an interesting one to ponder. Much has been written about “women’s intuition”, sometimes from the perspective of appreciation and depth, yet occasionally with a slightly minimizing and patronizing tone, discounting the richness and wisdom inherent in “women’s intuition.” One can sub-categorize this intuition as a “mother’s way of knowing”; “a nurse’s way of knowing”; “a healer’s way of knowing” etc.
Personally, I have experienced a little bit of trickiness when tapping into and planning to take action based on my intuition. This is also a “trickiness” that has been expressed by a number of my coaching clients. Since our egos/pain bodies/gremlins (one can use a variety of words to describe this type “energy field”) love attachment, continuity, the status quo, high drama, judgments etc; the trickiness becomes an interesting dialogue with ourselves to figure out if what we are “hearing” is our intuition or our ego. When faced with this dialogue, which can feel abit like a “committee meeting within us”, the following phrase can be very helpful; “the body never lies”.
So, tap into your intuition, your inner way of knowing, your wisdom and your courage. Be attentive to those other voices that may come in. Using your body as an indicator of intuition, where in your body does you intuition reside?
Intuition tends to be soft, gentle, neutral, flowing and centered in your body.
Ego/pain body/gremlin messages tend to feel strident, kind of whiny, negative and scattered.
Play around with this during the week, luscious shakti sages and you may find that the following questions help you in your exploration.
1. Think of a time that you experienced very strong intuition about something, and acted on it.
2. Think of a time that your ego, or pain body or gremlin was loud and insistent. For more information on “pain body’s” read any of Eckhart Tolle’s work like “The Power of Now”, or “A New Earth”.
3. Consider how ‘intuition’ and ‘ego’ feel different for you and learn how to tell the difference.
Namaste,
Zoey
Hi Zoey: Thanks for a good article – it helps clarify some of the challenges of working by intuition. When I let my ego run the show re doing a workshop at an upscale resort near my home, I ignored the undercurrent of my intuition all through the process. I knew I was playing with fire, but I was so attracted to that particular fire, I sold myself out. Needless to say, the whole plan broke down after the first couple of steps & things were over after they barely started!
When we feel excited about something, yet scared, that’s okay. When we feel only scared, with no excitement, none of that softness & sureness you speak of, perhaps only a pushing drive, we need to run like hell the other way!