Awakening through intuition - Trusting what can’t be explained

There’s a peculiar moment that often arises on the spiritual path: you know what your intuition is telling you, but your mind resists. Logic argues, conditioning interferes, and fear masquerades as caution.

It can feel impossible to follow intuition when everything in our culture trains us to trust reason above all else. We’re encouraged to explain, prove, and justify our choices — but intuition doesn’t work like that. It rarely comes with a guarantee or a neat explanation. It feels instead like a quiet, steady knowing.

And that can be uncomfortable.

Recently, in a group discussion, people shared about this tension — that they could feel the guidance, but they found it hard to act on it, because it didn’t make sense on paper. That’s when practices like emotional digestion, grounding, and body awareness become so important. They help us recognise what’s fear and what’s intuition.

Fear feels wobbly, racing, and anxious. Intuition feels calm, sure, anchored — even when it points us into the unknown.

I’ve come to see intuition as more than “my inner voice.” It feels like life itself wanting to move through me. A current larger than me, inviting me into experiences that logic might never allow, but that the soul recognises as true.

Each time we honour intuition in small ways — the tiny nudges, the gentle pulls — we strengthen trust. And then, when the bigger crossroads come, our trust is ready to meet them. That’s when intuition becomes not just guidance, but a path of awakening.

This is one of the themes we’ll be exploring in my upcoming Awakening Retreat Day. Through meditation, silence, and embodied practices, we will create the inner spaciousness to listen more deeply — beyond fear, beyond conditioning, into that steady ground of being where intuition speaks most clearly.

Because sometimes, awakening isn’t about transcending the world, but about finally trusting ourselves enough to live fully within it.