If we want to reclaim our most powerful spiritual faculty, we have to start with honesty.
We keep telling ourselves (and each other) to “trust your intuition,” as if that advice lands in a vacuum. As if we’re all living peaceful, regulated, grounded lives that would allow intuition to be trustworthy. We are not. Most of us are barely breathing through the collapse of late-stage capitalism, the weight of unprocessed trauma, and the relentless pace of our own expectations.
We are not trusting our intuition. We are running from ourselves.
Intuition is extraordinary. It is divine intelligence speaking through us, but it requires conditions. Safety. Stillness. Nervous system regulation. Presence.
Most people today are living in permanent survival mode. Fight. Flight. Freeze. Fawn.
Inside that state, nothing is trustworthy, including intuition. Asking someone in a full sympathetic nervous system spiral to “trust their gut” is as useful as asking them to pick up a jumbo jet. It isn’t happening.
What does show up, whispers, glimpses, nudges, we misinterpret, doubt or drown with overthinking. We assume intuition failed us, when in reality, we were simply too overwhelmed to receive it.
What helps you come home to yourself?
- Breathwork
- EFT/tapping
- Removing yourself from chaos
- Interrupting the addiction to busy
Even five minutes a day for a week can soften the edges enough for intuitive clarity to return. We don’t do this because we’re scared of what we’ll feel when we stop running. But intuition cannot find us while we’re sprinting away from our inner life.
If no one is home, the message can’t be delivered.
Intuition is not a cosmic vending machine. It’s not here to solve your problems, hand you guarantees or reassure you that everything will be okay.
Intuition is a truth teller. A truth bomb. A call to deeper honesty.
It asks:
- Where am I lying to myself?
- What am I pretending is fine?
- Which relationships, jobs, habits or identities am I staying in because I’m scared?
- Where am I using busyness to outrun grief, fear or unmet needs?
If you are not ready to hear the truth, you are not ready for intuition.
Intuition raises consciousness. As soon as we regulate the nervous system, even slightly, we shift into a state where intuition can actually land. In that moment, consciousness rises toward the truth of who and what we are.
If we only engage intuition as a way to get certainty, to find out if something will “work out”, we block the deeper medicine intuition offers.
Sometimes the thing we fear most, the outcome we didn’t want, the path we resisted, is the greatest blessing we could receive.
Your intuition is your superpower. It is your highest intelligence. Most of us are misusing, misunderstanding or completely overrunning it with fear. When we change our relationship to intuition, we change our internal world and our contribution to the collective good.
If you want to understand how your intuition is already communicating with you, I’d love to guide you deeper. My free Dominant Intuition Style masterclass helps you pinpoint whether your primary clair is knowing, feeling, seeing, or hearing, and teaches you how to work with it consciously.
So much love,
Ricci-Jane Adams
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