Trusting Your Intuition

No-one can teach you intuition, but there is a clue in the word in tuition, your inner knowing: the teacher is within.

We are all intuitive. HOWEVER, social conditioning, cultural norms, formal education that emphasise and reward logic and rational thought and dismiss inexplicable knowing, relinquish intuition to, at best a mystery, at  worst to wishful thinking. Knowledge is information; it is useful and has its place. It is different from knowing though.

Whilst knowing is innate, we don’t always trust it. For a variety of reasons, e.g. it may defy logic, it may fly in the face of expectations, it may raise a host of “yes buts” for us so that we may well talk ourselves out of following an inner nudge.

• Do you remember times when you “knew”, but you ignored your hunch?
• Are you afraid of what “following your intuition” might mean for you?

I’m also sure that every single one of you has also, at some time, known or made a decision based what was really good for you, what was in your best interest, what made your heart sing, as if this was the most natural thing in the world!

There are of course tools available to access intuition. For some, it will be a pendulum, a mechanical device, to ask yes/no questions. A pendulum’s swing follows, quite correctly, an ideomotor response: the pendulum is an extension of the body. In other words, the pendulum swing expresses what we know. No magic I’m afraid.

The thing is, when we are anxious, when we carry an emotional charge or have mental chatter or internal dialogue about the guidance we are seeking, we are likely to influence the pendulum’s swing. We’ll get a “no” where we were hoping for a “yes” or vice versa.

Paradoxically, deep down, we know this, and this is when we stop trusting the answer, and eventually ourselves.

Why a workshop on intuition?

This workshop is an invitation to pause and begin exploring how your inner knowing reveals itself to you.

Together, we will explore:

• Ways of coming to a place of authentic calm, so you can truly come into the here and now, this moment
• What your particular intuitive style is: how do you know when you know and what makes it reliable?
• What it means to “take a risk”.
• What our “mistakes” have taught us.
• How to rediscover a sense of wonder and possibility.

Date: Saturday 4 October 2025, in-person in Harrogate, HG1

Fee: £70, payable in full to secure your place. Numbers are limited to 12 people. Refreshments are included (not lunch).

Drop the mind that thinks in prose; revive another kind of mind that thinks in poetry... Move from intellect to intuition, from the head to the heart, because the heart is closer to the mysteries". (Osho)