I have a bad habit that I suspect I am not alone in.
I will know how I feel about something, then decide I should probably ask somebody else. That person gives me their opinion, which makes me think of another possibility, so maybe I ask one more person. Before long, the very clear thing I knew at the beginning is buried underneath six opinions and enough information to make the whole situation considerably more confusing.
Very helpful.
I think there is a point where asking for advice stops giving us clarity and starts helping us avoid trusting ourselves.
That doesn’t mean I don’t ask people what they think. I absolutely do. There are people in my life whose opinions I value, and sometimes someone outside a situation can see something I am completely missing. If I am dealing with something outside my expertise, I also want actual information from someone who knows more than I do.
I just don’t want everybody else getting a vote on something that belongs to me.
That distinction has taken me a long time to understand.
I have been intuitive for most of my life, and even with all the years I have spent doing this work, I can still second-guess myself. Being intuitive doesn’t suddenly remove the very human desire to know for certain that we are making the right choice. Sometimes I would love a giant flashing sign from Spirit that says, “YES LISA, DO THIS ONE.”
Usually I don’t get one.
What I often get is much quieter.
There is an initial reaction before I start analyzing. I feel drawn toward something. Something doesn’t sit right with me. An idea keeps returning. I meet someone and have an immediate sense about them. I am considering a decision and one option feels strangely settled while another keeps creating resistance.
Then my brain arrives with a clipboard.
It wants evidence.
That can be useful because intuition and common sense should be able to sit at the same table. If I have an intuitive feeling about a business decision, I can still look at the numbers. If I have a feeling about a person, I can still pay attention to their actual behavior. If I feel pulled toward an opportunity, I can still research it before rearranging my entire life.
I don’t think trusting ourselves means blindly following every feeling we have.
Discernment matters.
What I have become much more aware of is the moment when I already have enough information and I keep searching anyway. I read one more thing. Ask one more person. Pull the situation apart one more time. At that point, I am usually hoping somebody will give me the magical piece of information that makes choosing completely risk-free.
Unfortunately, life does not seem to offer that service.
Eventually I have to decide.
One thing that helps me is going back to the beginning of the situation. Before everybody else’s opinions arrived, before I started imagining every possible outcome, what did I think?
Sometimes the answer surprises me because it was there almost immediately.
I also pay attention to whether I am asking for advice because I genuinely need information or because I want permission.
Those are very different things.
There have been times when I knew what I wanted to do and kept asking people about it because I wanted somebody to tell me it was okay. I wanted reassurance that I wouldn’t regret it, disappoint someone, make a mistake, or look foolish.
I don’t think Spirit can promise us any of that.
We are going to make some decisions that work beautifully and others that teach us something. We can listen to our intuition, use good judgment, gather appropriate information, and still occasionally get something wrong. Self-trust can’t depend on never making a mistake because none of us could ever trust ourselves under those rules.
For me, self-trust has become much more about knowing that I can handle myself even when I don’t know exactly what happens next.
That changes things.
I can listen to the little internal signal without demanding that it predict the future perfectly. I can take the next reasonable step and see what happens. I can change course when new information comes in, and I can stop holding a public referendum every time I need to make a decision.
Sometimes what helps me most is getting quiet enough to hear myself again. Reiki has always been one of the ways I do that. When my mind is going in circles, settling my energy gives me a little room between what I actually feel and all the thoughts I have piled on top of it.
That is what I wanted to create with my Reiki Distance Energy Healing Session to Trust Your Intuition. I am sending Reiki throughout the session with the intention of supporting self-trust, clarity, discernment, and that quieter connection with your own inner guidance. We also work with some of the fear, overthinking, old experiences, and outside opinions that can make it harder to trust what you are picking up.
I invite Archangel Michael and Archangel Raphael into the session along with our angels, loving ancestors, Spirit guides, and loving spiritual team. I work with Michael for protection, courage, clarity, and discernment. Raphael’s healing energy feels especially helpful around the places where an experience may have taught us to question ourselves.
You don’t need to become more psychic before you can trust yourself. You may already be receiving more information than you realize. Maybe the practice is catching that first little knowing before you send it through seventeen committees for approval.
You can receive the Reiki session here:
Reiki Distance Energy Healing Session to Trust Your Intuition 💜 Stop Second-Guessing Yourself
https://youtu.be/s26rKIHGRyc
Much love,
Lisa 💜