Listening to your Intuition

This week, I was asked by an acquaintance if I’ve been listening to my heart.
It was a statement that made me stop in my tracks.
I immediately asked myself if I’ve listened to my heart for guidance. Its been a while since I’ve listened to my heart, in fact I think it’s a very rare that I do listen. It knocked the wind out of me.
I’ve always had a gut intuition. I’ve been called an “old soul”, and have listened to my gut instinct or old spirit since I was a kid. For years, if something wasn’t right, or wasn’t clear, my gut and my body would provide guidance on what I should do. Lately, I’ve been listening to my intuition and focused on listening to my internal guidance to give me clarity and direction. I’ve received outside signs from the universe: a specific song playing, an arrow on the bill of a check, a sticker that said “be the light”, a stranger asking me if I was from Arizona. All these weird serendipitous messages from the universe. They aren’t coincidences.
The Celestine Prophecy reiterates that the messages we are given from the universe are not put there by happenstance. In every interaction we have a choice, to accept, listen to and see the message; or we ignore it completely, because we never knew it was there. We were too blind by our own ego, bullshit and perspective to see it. Pema Chodron also reiterates this through her famous quote, “nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”.
I think I’ve been so protective of my heart throughout this healing journey, that I’ve kept it inside, for fear of damage, health, and really having no control. I’ve rarely listened to it from an emotional perspective, I’ve only listened to it from a physical perspective. What I find now is that I am at a point in my life where my intuition is guiding me into a new chapter. That endings are near and changes are around the corner. I have a choice: either listen and go, or ignore and keep existing.
