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 keeping up with everything? Weary of the stress and anxiety of constant expectations?

If you answered yes, won’t it be nice to have a simpler and 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 merely on what you are sensing from your gut instincts without conscious reasoning, evidence, distorted or negative thoughts, or false emotions. It is living simpler, running on your gut instinct. Living with your intuitiveness avails you to connect with your true self and increase your ability to experience the moment 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 sense rather than seeking facts or proof that may be tainted by what you have been told, inaccurate stories or 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 the ability to understand and get in touch 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, increased mindfulness, appreciate your environment, and calmer in mind and body. Revel in all you are and have at the moment.

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

Increase 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. Outdoors will help you to be more content and connected with yourself.

2. Engross yourself in life’s simple pleasures 

Life should be involved in comforts around you. When you conduct your daily tasks like showering, drinking coffee/tea or eating. When showering, connect with the sense of the warmth of the water on your skin, and the relaxing of your muscles. After pouring your coffee or tea first thing in the morning, hold the cup in both hands and focus the feeling warmth of the cup on your hands, savor the aroma, and breathe deeply. While eating, focus 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 ideas, insights, thoughts, memories, your personal stories or what you are grateful for that day in a journal. Expressing through 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 to 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 as well as enhancing your creativity and sense of accomplishment. 

Your journal entries don’t have to be long or complicated. Jot down a thank you note, an experience, and 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 enhance your energy fills you with happiness or calms 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 our fingertips. It can be a blessing, but also it can cause you to disconnect from yourself, family, friends, and the 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 where you unplug from all your devices including TV, smartphone, and indulge in a quiet period. Treat yourself to time with just being with yourself without distractions. It seems distractions are continually interrupting your time and you slip down on your list of priorities and tasks even with the best of intentions. 

Spend the first few minutes of your intuitive session through practicing intuitive breathing. Intuitive breathing will quiet your being as well as serve as a mini-meditation which will reduce your level of accumulated anxiety and stress and set you up for your intuitive session. Daily time spent with yourself will help you enhance your relationship with you and to 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 environment, comfort, calmness, and 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 lead to your ability to untangle hurdles, and reducing distractions as well as gaining an added degree of comfort, fulfillment, happiness, and a more significant sense of health. 

Living intuitively takes practice. Understand the effort into your practice is absolutely worth the effort.
          Coach Bill