232: 11 Practices to Strengthen Business Intuition (Part One)
Oct 13, 2023
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Discover the power of intuition and how it can enhance decision-making. Learn about the importance of intuition in building business skills. Explore receiving intuitive guidance and its impact on decision-making. Gain insights on accepting or declining podcast pitches. Discover strategies to enhance business intuition, including home frequency and muscle testing.
Intuition is a skill that can be practiced and honed over time, requiring individuals to listen to subtle messages from within and recognize signs and symbols that guide decision-making.
Cultivating intuition involves various techniques such as reviewing past intuitive hits, engaging in muscle testing, asking for guidance during meditation, and paying attention to synchronicities and signs in the external environment.
Deep dives
Refining Intuition is Accessible to Everyone
Refining intuition is not limited to a select few; it is a skill that anyone can cultivate by paying attention to it. Often, people unknowingly suppress their intuition by ignoring that inner voice. By acknowledging its availability and giving it space, individuals can tap into their intuitive intelligence.
Practicing Intuition and Trusting Yourself
Intuition is a skill that can be practiced and honed over time. By deliberately refining the intuition muscle, individuals can develop a trust in themselves to follow their instincts. This requires listening to subtle messages from within, learning to recognize signs and symbols that guide decision-making, and exploring various techniques such as muscle testing and visualization.
Different Ways to Cultivate Intuition
There are numerous ways to cultivate intuition. These include reviewing past intuitive hits and analyzing the feelings and signals associated with them, engaging in muscle testing to ask yes or no questions and receive answers from the body, asking to be shown guidance during meditation or quiet contemplation, giving time for intuitive insights to simmer and develop, and paying attention to synchronicities and signs in the external environment. The key is to find what resonates most with each individual and explore the unique ways in which intuition manifests.
Intuition is always speaking to you in subtle ways. Are you listening?
Intuition isn’t a gift that is only bestowed on a special few; everyone can strengthen this muscle—how loudly you hear these signals, and the trust in yourself to take action on the information you’re receiving.
I read your words “all-in on myself” and how you consciously cho(o)se to believe that the Universe was/is redirecting you, and can’t but think “Jenny’s so in tune with her intuition. No matter what comes, she has this trust muscle that allows her to keep going, to keep betting on herself and her ideas” and I wish I was “better” at it. Is this something you’ve gotten better at with practice? And is there any advice that you would share with us here about how to cultivate this way of being?
In this two-part solo episode, I’m sharing eleven strategies that have helped me build (and trust) my intuition at increasingly subtle levels. As always, I would love to hear from you! How do you practice the skill of following your intuition? Leave a voice note for a future listener-submission episode at http://itsfreetime.com/ask.
📝 Permission
Trust your intuitive hits, even if you do not have a verbal or rational explanation (yet!) to validate the “memos” or make sense of your insights. Oprah says, “Your life is always speaking to you. It speaks in whispers guiding you to your next right step.” Are you listening? What is your life whispering to you right now?
✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next
Review your intuition history: Reverse engineer previous intuitive hits and the action you took; times you listened, times you didn’t. Times it “worked,” and times it didn’t — even then, you don’t always know what the bigger picture might have been. How did your intuition speak to you in these moments (a whisper, a feeling, an image)?