The Whisper Of Your Intuition
For Your Healing 🕊️
Greetings Loved Ones,
First off, WELCOME to our new format! I’ve made the leap from Flodesk to Substack, as you can see, in order to consolidate. I’m so excited to be joining you on this side of the pond.
Substack will be home to our normal newsletters, ‘Monthly Mysticism’ for paid subscribers, blog posts, and more quips and ideas for your healing. I’m also rolling back The Lifted Podcast to go out on the first Wednesday of every month (instead of weekly) for the time being, so this is a great space for us to stay connected in the interim.
We are in a sacred space right now.. quite a vulnerable one.. as we transition out of this year of the snake (shedding) and into the year of the horse (action). In any kind of vulnerable transition, there is a period of integration which is not to be rushed. Instead, it is to be felt and tended to. Think of a snake having just shed its skin - as it prepares for the new layer, it will need a safe space to simply exist and regenerate.
This Autumn will ask us to slow down enough to actually hear the whispers of our intuition. There is something to know here.. not something to do (yet). There is something to process, not push out. In my personal practice, I asked spirit to receive clarity on my next chapter last week. I was feeling this itch to change something, but not add something. I couldn’t quite tell what that might be.. until I entered a meditation and all heard was:
Simplify.
Simplify.
Simplify.
It was exactly what I needed - an encouragement to release what felt like clutter and to refine my lifestyle, starting with my business. I cut my offerings in half and it felt like getting a (good) haircut. I turned my focus completely toward what has been bringing me the most joy and the most fulfillment: group offerings. I shed almost everything else which was both liberating and terrifying at the same time - a potent concoction of emotions which lets you know that you are indeed making the right decision.
The thing is - when our focus is fragmented, we tend to sacrifice excellence in any one area. So, my question for you is, what do you need to quit in order to give proper attention to what really matters to you?
Furthermore, when we receive insight (and our consciousness expands) there is an integration period that needs to be honored (which most of us tend to push past at first, leading to burnout). Have you ever noticed that after experiencing heightened emotion, you’ll feel exhausted? There’s no better sleep than the sleep that follows a good cry, for example. That exhaustion is the integration portal. To push through it is to self-sabotage.
I’ve been doing significant personal work both in therapy and through studying Carl Jung’s writings. It’s pushed me to my mental and emotional limits, and as a result, I’ve needed more rest than usual (which has made me quite uncomfortable). My normal routine includes being out of the house for most of the day, but over the weekend, I only left for brief walks.. the rest of the time I was journaling, napping, and integrating. In the past, I would have bulldozed myself into burnout to ‘keep up’ with normal levels of productivity.
But this time, I listened to the whispers of my intuition to let the dust settle.. to integrate. The ironic thing is that my productivity and creativity shot through the roof when the time came to work again. I have felt so excited, crystal clear on my next steps, and completely reinvigorated. This never would have happened without the permission I gave myself to slow down.
You can think of your cycles of integration like letting a bathtub drain itself of the dirty water so that it can be a pure vessel for clean water again. It’s a purging cycle that takes the time it needs to take, and a purification process as a result.
So, if you find yourself in a period of confusion or self-doubt, consider that there is something to know, not something to do. In the stillness, your answers will arise.
“I cannot employ the language of science to trace this process of growth in myself, for I cannot experience myself as a scientific problem.” - Carl Jung
Love always,
Helen