Seriously, let softening into it be enough, even if it's faint or even if it's unclear, because the goal isn't to get a perfect

answer. It's to rebuild trust with the quiet part of you that already knows without meaning

to prove itself. So instead of trying to be more intuitive, what if you just started listening

differently, right? Not harder or anything and not more intensely, just more

gently because strengthening your intuition isn't about adding something new, it's about removing

the noise that's already there and slowly rebuilding trust with yourself. Notice your first

response. This is the first thing to do. First, notice your first response and don't rush

past it. Hello, hello, magical friends, young me. My name is Raquel and welcome to your own

magic podcast for the creative and the curious soul. And this

which a Wednesday is coming to you a little bit late this week. Life has been lifing. Energy has

been ebbing and flowing, but honestly it feels kind of fitting for what we're talking about

today because sometimes things don't have to be

perfectly time to still be meaningful and yeah next week we're getting a little more structured

again i will still obviously do magic Monday episode for yeah and then another episode later in

the week the second one will actually be Thursday And so this episode is arriving in its own

timing and most of you will likely be listening to it on a Thursday since I'm releasing it so late

on a Wednesday, especially for you East Coasters. I'm so I want to apologize. But hopefully this

episode resonates in some way, shape, or form and meets you when you're meant to hear it.

So in this episode, we're talking about intuition, in a way that feels real and grounded and

not something you have to force or perform or get right, right? Because I think a lot of us,

we want to be intuitive, right? We want to

trust ourselves. But then we try so hard to hear it that we end up overthinking it. And so

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