#IntuitionArchetypes

[spiritualmissfrizzle]

How to tell your anxiety and your intuition apart.

Step 1: Pause.

When indecision floods in, take a moment and breathe. There’s no immediate threat. Let your mind empty out or focus on a different task or thought.

Go grab a snack instead of staring at the book page on your computer.

Step 2: Decide how you want to feel.

When you’re back to the present, ask yourself, “What is it that I really want to experience, feel, or do? What’s one way I can make that experience, feeling, or action happen?”

Give yourself a moment to just turn back to the original intention.

Why Rome?

Maybe it’s that you want adventure. Maybe it’s that you want to feel in love with your life. Maybe it’s that you want to feel free.

Whatever it is, turn your attention back to that feeling.

Step 3: Focus on the process not the outcome.

Anxiety is focused primarily on outcomes, and intuition is focussed primarily on the process. When you can sense your anxiety starting to go to the worst case scenario, pull back completely to this moment and the specific action you’re taking in the present.

Does book this flight in this exact moment feel right?

Or do you want to research apartments to rent and then book your flight so you’re not worried about where you’re going to live?

Or do you want to close your computer, go to bed, and book your flight in the morning when you’re more rested?

Step 4: Baby steps.

Choose one action, the smaller the better, that is connected to how you want to feel (that just you identified above).

Then, do it.

Take a leap too big that you’re maybe not totally ready for and you might feel like you’re taking three steps back.

Find ways that you can test the waters of stepping outside of your comfort zone without jumping into the deep end. Remember you’re learning to swim and you want this to be a positive experience.

And booking your one-way fight to Rome feels like right now feels like jumping into the deep end.

So what if you just visit for a long weekend first?

Or maybe you join a Facebook group to start meeting new Italian humans?

Or you head to the travel section of your local book shop peruse the shelves for books on Roman life past and ancient?

Choose the next best step that feels right to you.