Comments on: Intuition will save your life, can you access it?

By: Lori Hoeck

Lori Hoeck — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:30:41 +0000

Hi Janice,
Good to have you back! Loved your comment!

I will have to find that video.

Teens and intuition: The brain and body are in such flux for them. They want and don’t want to push the envelop. They want and and don’t to be on their own. It seems their ability to think clearly drops to its lowest lifetime level. God help all parents of teens!

Sound like you are doing well with this, Janice. I heard this title of a book that seems intriguing: “Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall:A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager”

By: janice

janice — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:49:27 +0000

@Vered – You just need to rename it and reframe it! As Lori explains so much better than I can, intuition is so entwined with our learned, ‘logical’ analytical processes that it’s hard to separate it sometimes. Is it pre-historic and animal and in our genetic make-up or is it something more spiritual and universal? Who knows. But we all have it. We just differ in the amount we strengthen it, access it, trust it and base our decisions on it.

@Lori, I feel like I’m back in a friend’s kitchen – I’ve missed TLaBB! Bird by Bird is one of my all time favourite writing books and you’ll find quotes a plenty from it on my blog. (I loved watching her ‘live’ on video, too; she’s really smart and funny.) So that’s one more thing we have in common! I love the way writing books always move and inspire me more than a lot of personal development writing does. Writers who write about writing so often have a heightened awareness of things and sense them differently.

What scares me about intuition is watching how teenagers either lose it a bit or aren’t as able to access it. Ironically, one of the things I work hardest at as a parent is doing less for my kids and encouraging them not only to think for themselves, but to feel for themselves. I share my thought processes with them, about places and folk that have my instincts prickling as well as set my mind racing, like an animal would when teaching her young, but we also discuss a lot, and I encourage them to develop their own instincts, especially about new places and people. TV shows are great for talking about scenarios without them getting anxious.

By: Lori Hoeck

Lori Hoeck — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:09:29 +0000

Hi Davina,
I bet Vered does, too!

So glad the glimmer peeked through. That means you are taking steps in the right direction.

By: Davina

Davina — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:34:29 +0000

Hi Lori. I’m one of the folk who wrestles with whether I’m listening to my intuition or if it’s just fear. I had an ah ha moment though when I read that part about intuition needing to be coaxed in relation to “bad” parental guidance or experiences. Without knowing why, something about that made sense to me. Thanks for shining that little glimmer of light.

I bet Vered has mother’s intuition.

By: Lori Hoeck

Lori Hoeck — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:22:31 +0000

Hi Erin,
I’m sure you will spur them on to some great discoveries about intuition as you “… calm down, get quiet, breathe, and listen …”

Hi TrinaMb,
I like that name!

Hi Vered,
Intuition is a part of you and you are already on your way to discovering its fullness.

Hi “Family Matters,”
True. Intuition is a fiber of life, not just reserved for self defense.

By: Family Matters

Family Matters — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:14:18 +0000

Well, I’m no martial artist, but I think intuition serves in every part of my life, be that dealing with people or even finding problems with my computer.

@vered dear, the way you write and the sort of following you have, you may not realize just how much intuition you do have.

By: vered - blogger for hire

vered - blogger for hire — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:03:54 +0000

I’m not too big on intuition I’m afraid. I was raised to be “logical.”

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By: TrinaMb

TrinaMb — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:35:25 +0000

I have learned/am learning to listen to and trust my inner voice. When I recognize it’s authenticity I share it with my children to encourage them to listen to theirs. I tell them when I lsitened and it’s outcome, and if I’ve ignored it and the result of that, hoping to illustrate the many ways they can be intune with themselves. If I had to name mine, I would call it Owl, for the admiration I now give it for its wiseness, and the dissmissive way I’ve treated that wiseness in the past.

By: Erin Lakai

Erin Lakai — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:42:49 +0000

Wow, this is very interesting. I hope I can start strengthening my two kids’ intuition before I crush it!
Thanks for the help.