How to Access Intuition When You Really Need It

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Our culture generally teaches us that anxiety will keep us safe—but really it’s our intuition that does that. In this episode of The Gathering Room—Episode #184: How to Access Intuition When You Really Need It, Martha talks about how to tell the difference between anxiety and intuition and how to hear what your intuition is trying to tell you. There’s something Martha calls the “sense of truth,” which is a feeling of concord, peace, and calm that comes into us when we believe something that feels true at the deepest levels of the self. It’s trusting that whatever we’re believing at that moment is actually real. “It turns out that a lot of the things we are anxious about are not real—not yet,” Martha says. “They’re potential, but they’re not real in this moment.” Unlike fear, which is a rational response to a clear and present danger, anxiety is a chronic, suffering sense of being afraid of things that may not ever happen. Martha says that one of the lies anxiety will always tell you is that only by staying anxious can you be safe—because when you’re not anxious, you’re not alert. However, exactly the opposite is true: People who are anxious can’t stay alert. Real intuition arrives when our anxiety is quiet. So many of us are walking around constantly anxious, thinking we’re alert, thinking we can trust our intuition, when in fact, we’re blotting out our intuition with anxiety. To access intuition, we have to go into a state of stillness and peace and then listen for the fun—that’s the state of being where your intuition can talk to you. “Your intuition can come in the goofiest, most wonderful ways,” Martha says, “once you realize it’s meant to be a frequency of joy and never a frequency of anxiety.” To learn more about listening to your intuition and finding its frequency of joy—and to join Martha in her anxiety-relieving Silence, Space, and Stillness meditation—be sure to tune in for the full episode!

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:49.2	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. I'm so glad to see you, especially since I was gone for so long with my eye surgeries.
0:58.8	And especially since, I think I've only done one gathering room since big events politically
1:09.3	happened in America.
1:15.8	And as you may recall, I was not my friskiest self just after that. And since then, I have seen a lot, I mean, some people are rejoicing,
1:22.0	and that's wonderful for them. And there's a lot also of people who are frightened and sad and scared.
1:29.3	And I keep reading things online and so forth that would make me more sad and scared myself
1:39.3	if I hadn't just done a few years of research on anxiety.
1:45.6	What I'm seeing are things that say prepare yourself for changes that are even more
1:53.0	unpredictable and potentially more damaging than you may have ever seen before in your lifetime,
2:00.4	particularly if you live in the U.S.
2:02.8	But as we all know, when the U.S. sneezes,
2:06.0	the rest of the world gets a cold.
2:08.2	So it's affecting people all over the world.
2:12.3	And I see things like articles about how to live in an autocratic society, how to live in a society where
2:21.5	ideas are imposed by threats of violence or whatever and where people, there are things
2:29.7	like roundups of people for deportation and so on. No one knows exactly what's going to happen,
2:37.0	but these are very frightening articles. And everything they describe, maybe will come to pass.
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