I'm Natalie Lou in your listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello. How are you doing?

Have you ever had this sense that something is off, that something isn't quite right,

or that something or someone is important in some way, even though there isn't conscious reasoning accompanying it.

Maybe you've had a sense to do or not do something or you've had an understanding of something without conscious reasoning.

That's your intuition.

And it's something that a lot of us are guilty of ignoring at times or confusing it with fear. But to ignore our intuition is to ignore ourselves and it also means that we silence and confuse our instincts.

I hear from so many people who are like,

Yeah, but no, but yeah, Natalie.

I hear you on this whole like listening to yourself thing,

but I listen to my intuition before

and it was wrong.

If this sounds at all familiar,

in today's episode, I want to talk about why your intuition isn't and wasn't wrong.

Here's the deal. If you think your intuition led you astray in the past, that wasn't your intuition. It was fear. So this means that you either mistook fear for intuition and listened to it, or you did listen to your intuition, but your interpretation of it and your subsequent

response were from a fear-driven place and possibly had nothing whatsoever to do with what you

intuited. Intuition is neutral, calm, compassionate.

It doesn't always present information that we want to hear,

but it does have our back because it's based on inner knowing, you know that inner tuition,

in tuition, and have a sense of self. It's not black and white, nor is it concerned

with the past or future. It just is. Fear on the other hand is

emotive. It has to be in order to get us to act and it does this by sending messages

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