Intuitive Living: 5 Tips for Enjoying Your Life More

Are you tired of living under the pressure and stress of meeting everyone's expectations? Living by how others think you should, society expects, or from being caught up in a hectic and stressful lifestyle? Do you live your life pleasing others because you feel that others will love or like you if you please others? Has your life gotten so busy and complicated that you can't keep up with everything? Weary of the stress and anxiety of constant expectations?

If you answered yes, wouldn’t it be nice to have a simpler, calmer way of life? Ever consider trying an intuitive lifestyle?

Ways to Live “Intuitiveness”

Living a life of intuitiveness is a different way. The act of intuitive living is living based solely on what you sense from your gut instincts, without conscious reasoning, evidence, distorted or negative thoughts, or false emotions. It is living simply, running on your gut instinct. Living with your intuitiveness allows you to connect with your true self and increase your ability to experience your present rather than being fixated on what went wrong in your past or predicting what might happen in the future. Intuitive living is merely understanding something because of your senses rather than seeking facts or proof that may be tainted by what you have been told, inaccurate stories, learning, or false experiences. Rely on your gut instinct.

The art of living intuitively is asking yourself the question, “What is my sense of what is going on in myself or around me?”  

Living intuitively makes you more mindful, alert, comfortable, creative, enlightened, focused, and fulfilled. Intuitive living allows you to understand and connect with your actual capabilities, talents, qualities, and authentic characteristics. 

Adding intuitive living elements to your life is easier than you think. Here are five ways to live a more balanced, fulfilled, and mindful life, appreciate your environment, and be calmer in mind and body. Revel in all you are and have right now, instead of what you think you should have been or what others think you should have been. Focus on what you are now.

No matter with the element you seek to add below, the main question to ask yourself or your way into your intuitiveness, is  "what is my sense of _____?" When you focus on your intuitive sense, then you're able to avoid diluted thoughts and resulting false emotions. It is a more authentic and healthier way to work through every day. 

5 Tips to Add Intuitive Elements to Your Life

1. Connect with your environment

Increasing your time outdoors, enjoying the sunshine and fresh air, and taking in the beauty of nature can help you become calmer, happier, and more fulfilled. Being outdoors will help you feel more content and connected to yourself.

2. Engross yourself in life’s simple pleasures 

Life should be involved in the comforts around you. When you conduct your daily tasks like showering, drinking coffee/tea, or eating. When showering, connect with the warmth of the water on your skin and the relaxation of your muscles. After pouring your coffee or tea first thing in the morning, hold the cup in both hands, focus on the warmth of the cup in your hands, savor the aroma, and breathe deeply. While eating, focus on and sense the colors, the texture of each bite, and the taste. Concentrating on the present enjoyment of your life will help you to be more in the moment. Then begin your day.

3. Journal daily

Writing is powerful. Another intuitive tool is writing to connect to the now and your inner senses. So, writing about your emotions, attitudes, ideas, insights, thoughts, memories, your personal stories, and what you are grateful for that day in a journal. Writing can be your way of recording your history.  Your writing material allows you to take a break, focus on the moment, record it, and then not have to keep all the information in your head. You have to center on the moment to write intuitively.

Reading your journal later can empower your compassion for yourself. Journaling clears your mind because writing stores your knowledge and experiences, enhances your creativity, and helps you feel a sense of accomplishment. 

Your journal entries don’t have to be long or complicated. Jot down a thank-you note, an experience, a quote that inspired you, or a positive event that happened.  

4. Listen to music

Music can be a comfortable and compelling driver. Music lifts your spirits and can play a significant role in intuitive living.  Make many different playlists of a song you like. Songs that boost your energy make you happy, or calm you down. So turn up the volume, sing out loud, or dance to connect with your body.

5. Carve out time for yourself

The world has become so busy and complicated. If you are like everyone else, technology has overtaken your time. You have less and less quiet time with yourself. You have immediate access to people, events, and even disasters all across the globe at your fingertips. It can be a blessing, but it can also cause you to disconnect from yourself, your family, your friends, and your immediate environment. Meaning you lose connection with the moment. The constant influx of information is eroding our personal and communication skills.

The solution to reducing stress and anxiety in these times is to set aside time every day to unplug from all your devices, including the TV and smartphone, and indulge in a quiet period. Treat yourself to time just being with yourself without distractions. It seems distractions keep interrupting your time, and you slip down your list of priorities and tasks, even with the best of intentions. 

Spend the first few minutes of your intuitive session practicing intuitive breathing. Intuitive breathing will quiet your being and serve as a mini-meditation, reducing accumulated anxiety and stress and setting you up for your intuitive session. Daily time spent with yourself will help you enhance your relationship with yourself and bring you into a state of calmness and self-compassion.

Take Away 

Adding intuitive elements to your living experience allows you to find balance, tune in to your energy, gain a better sense of yourself and your environment, and experience comfort, calmness, and a more uncomplicated existence. When you carve out time to focus inwardly on your gut, you open possibilities. Following the ways above, connecting with your gut instincts can help you untangle hurdles, reduce distractions, and gain an added degree of comfort, fulfillment, happiness, and a more significant sense of health. 

Living intuitively takes practice. Understand that the effort and time you put into your practice of these elements are absolutely worth it.
          Coach Bill