A short coaching monologue by Jack Canfield teaching viewers how to hear and trust their intuition to make important life decisions. The speaker gives five practical tips—daily meditation, radical honesty with oneself, visualizing outcomes, using joy as a guide, and noticing how intuition manifests—followed by homework to identify how one’s intuition speaks and to practice regular meditation, plus a call-to-action to engage with the video and visit the creator’s website.
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Today, I want to talk to you about how to listen to your gut and follow your intuition when you're not sure what to do so you can make smart decisions that deliver better results for your life. Every day you have to make countless decisions. Now, a lot of these decisions are simple and don't require much thought. But every once in a while, a decision comes along that's so big and so important that the choice you make is going to have a significant impact on your life. Whether to accept that promotion or quit your job and search for something better. Whether or not to go out to dinner with that person who asked you out. Now, when these decisions come along, how can you make sure to choose the option that's best for you? The answer is to inquire within and listen to your intuition. Because no matter what choice you have to make, the right answer is always inside you. But listening to your intuition is usually easier said than done. All too often, our minds are so noisy with monkey chatter and so crowded with everyone else's opinions, it can be hard to hear what your own inner voice has to say. So here are five tips on how you can make that voice louder so you can more easily understand what it's telling you and make the choices that have the greatest positive impact on your life. Now, the first thing I encourage you to do is to implement a daily meditation practice. You don't have to meditate for long. Even 10 minutes a day can yield huge results. But by becoming more aware of your thoughts and learning how to find the quiet spaces between them, you will find it so much easier to hear what your intuition has to say to you. My second recommendation is to be honest with yourself. What makes you happy? What makes you unhappy? I encourage you to dig down into these questions and explore them deeply. Only you know the answer, and the best way to find that answer is to be brutally honest with yourself and fully own whatever answer comes to you. When you take time to go inward and be totally honest with yourself, the answers will come bubbling to the surface. My third recommendation is to visualize the outcome of the choices that are available to you. For example, if you're trying to decide whether you should go on vacation or buy a new car or save your money, visualize how each option will impact your life now and in the future. If you go on vacation, what will that look like? How much money will it cost? What kind of experience will you have? How will it impact your future? Consider both the positive and the negative possible impacts. If, on the other hand, you decide to buy a new car? What will that look like? How much money will it cost, and how will it impact your future for better and for worse? Now, when you visualize the short term and the long term consequences of each decision, the one that's right for you will make itself known. Now my fourth recommendation is to use joy as your guidance system. When you experience joy, that is the universe's way of saying this is what you are meant to be doing. You are on course. It's a strong sign that you're moving in the right direction. So if you feel like there's no joy in your day to day life because you really don't like your job, or because your relationship isn't that fulfilling, that's a clear sign it's time for a change. If, on the other hand, you notice yourself, experience moments of joy when you least expect it. Pay attention to when those moments are. What are they telling you about what you need and what you want in your life? And if you feel joy when you're hugging a crying child or making a group of young kids laugh, it might be a sign you were meant to work with children. So if the idea of starting your own business makes your whole body tingle with excitement, that's probably a sign you should go for it. And that brings me to my final recommendation. Understand that your inner voice can manifest itself in many different ways. For some people, it's literally a voice they hear in their heads. For others, it's the feelings of goosebumps, or a warm feeling that rushes through them, or a shiver of excitement that runs up their spine. Or if you're a visual person, your intuition might manifest itself as a picture you see in your mind's eye. So pay attention to the signs and you will discover how your intuition reveals itself to you. No matter what decisions you're called to make, the answers are already inside you. And when you cultivate the habit of slowing down enough to listen to your intuition and trust what it says, your decisions will help you create the life you were meant to live. Now here's your homework to complete after watching this video, figure out how your intuition speaks to you and get into the habit of doing regular meditation, even if it's just for 10 minutes a day, and open yourself to your inner wisdom now. If you have any questions or comments, please post them below. I'd love to hear your thoughts and thank you for watching. And remember, nothing in your life will change for the better until you do. Now, if you found this video helpful, make sure you like it. Share it with a friend who may need it and subscribe to my channel. For more videos like this one, and for some additional resources on finding your true purpose, visit my website@jackcampfeld.com thanks again for watching.
