Daily Gratitudes

Today I am grateful for

1) my willingness to learn

2) my commitment to self care

3) blue skies, pleasant weather and birds singing

4) being true to myself

5) Our tropical garden

Day 1 Interpreting Intuition

Good Morning Fellow Bootcampers Welcome to DAY 1 of our New Challenge.

How very cool to be back here with you all again!!! Let’s kick things off with a great up ~ turn up the volume and get ready to have some fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NHXH4I3kvw

Now, in kick starting this New Challenge, it is very important that everyone has read the background and has completed the self assessment checklist.  At every step of the way, you will be required to take 100% responsibility for your level of participation and to “TUNE IN” in to self. Of everything we do together sits on the foundation of self care ~ self pace ~ self love.

According to good old Wikipedia “Intuition is the apparent ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason.^[1] “The word ‘intuition’ comes from the Latin word ‘intueri’, which is often roughly translated as meaning ‘to look inside’ or ‘to contemplate’.”^[2] Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify…”

So what does that mean to us? Essentially, intuition is a part of our every day experience that can assist us in making great choices if we are attuned to it. So, in starting off this Challenge, I would like to invite you to rate your sense of being intuitive on a scale of 1-10 (1 being very low and 10 being very high). Make a note of this in your journal as we will return to this later… Next I would like to invite you to recall your earliest memory of ‘sensing’ something without necessarily having the words to describe ‘it’. I distinctly recall my first day of school and it didn’t matter how much anyone tried to convince me that school was a great place, I had a feeling that I was NOT going to like it. As the third youngest child of a very large family at that stage in my life (another sister came along two years later), my mother obviously had her hands full!  The rule of the day for working class families was for the kids to go to school as soon as they could. So I started school as a shy five year old who just wanted to stay at home and play with my little brothers and our dog . I cried all the way to school, cried at the school gate and pleaded with my mother to take me home! She didn’t of course, and interestingly enough, in general, school was one of my worst nightmares LOL. Intuitively I knew that the authoritarian environment I had entered was not going to be conducive to my learning, so over the next 11 years I did everything I could to be removed from that environment . I didn’t know that at the time of course, all I knew was that I had a deep down sense of things not being quite right… Fortunately, my learnings shaped the way I parented our three beautiful children and they all have incredible intuition and continue to learn to use it as intelligence!

We all have access to our intuition, so let’s evolve it more! Checklist for today is to self assess your:

1. commitment to this Challenge
2. perception of your level of intuition
3. Recall your earliest intuitive memory and see what you can interpret
4. Be more mindful and observe your intuition as intelligence
5. Remember self care ~ self pace ~ self love