A warm welcome!
This is our fourth take on sharing our gratitude as part of the ✨Gratitude Junkies✨ club created by Andrea Thorfinson and myself.
If you’re new here, this club is open to anyone who wants to express gratitude each month as a reminder that we all have so much to be grateful for!
The theme of this month is: Intuition chosen by Monica A Leyva
Intuition
Intuition is a silhouette mother that wants to reveal herself.
Intuition can often be hidden in the shadows. She is the one with a faint voice often drowned out by desire, fear, logic, reasoning, indecisiveness, social conditioning and more…
This leaves people struggling to recognise or trust her yet she offers wisdom beyond measure.
She instantly recognises what your conscious mind doesn’t…
She aims to guide, protect, and warn you despite the many times she had been ignored, misunderstood or unrecognised.
She doesn’t always give you all the answers immediately as she yearns for you to learn through experience to trust her.
Intuition, you have always been right!
I am so grateful for you, for all the lessons I have learned from you and even for the questions that remain unmet as you have always been there and I wholeheartedly trust you!
There are multiple times your advice was unheeded yet there are times I instantly trusted you and here is one of those moments…
I had a group of friends who I thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with, we always came home with the strangest, wildest stories of the nights we enjoyed.
We’d purposely test the limits of our fear by going to places which most wouldn’t, for example the night we ran into the depths of Epping Forest and almost got lost. For those who don’t know of this place, it’s not one any parent would want their child wandering around in at night!
We were all rebels in our own ways.
One of those nights we weren’t running through any woodland or lost in the middle of nowhere, we were in a place that should’ve been safe - our friend’s cousin’s home, let’s call him Michael.
We were talking and laughing away as we usually did. Throwing banter in the air, while listening to music.
Michael was in and out of his room and sometimes we’d have a chat just outside.
Have you ever been around someone who you are memorised by yet at the same time there’s something you can’t pinpoint that your reasoning checks off as mysterious?
Michael was that person.
He was slightly older than the rest of us, I used to speak with him for hours on the phone, several times a week - a bond quickly blooming that would be short-lived.
Our conversations were different to all the other male friends I had at the time.
Instead of the usual jokes, recounts about what they did last night type of stories or sports, Michael spoke with a bit more depth.
He loved books and documentaries, often he would lead me down his rabbit hole research he was digging through.
Intelligent felt like an understatement for him, he was chilling on the edge of genius.
Well at least that was the side of him I had gotten to know…
That night, one of our friends brought up a subject that none of us knew would cause the reaction that came next…
Michael jumped up and before my eyes could register his series of actions, a gun was pointing at her.
I had never seen a gun in real life before that night. I don’t believe any one of us had, most of us were only 17 and plus it’s illegal in the UK.
His whole demeanour was like that of a madman.
I couldn’t conceive how the words of our friend could have triggered an instant character change to somebody ready to threaten her life!
Instead of a familiar pattern that would emerge in the face of fear where my reasoning would tell my body to panic or feel shocked, something else took over.
I instantly noticed I had a feeling, almost a sensation of incredible calm.
An absolute contradiction to what I would have expected myself to feel.
It was like a weird peace in the presence of a weapon of war.
That night I didn’t just choose to listen to the guidance of my intuition, her power worked through me, reasoning had no premise.
I signalled to our friend to avoid saying another word.
She immediately stopped talking.
I could see the panic and fear etching into her face. Her eyes also expressed confusion at the whole situation.
She hadn’t said anything negative, nor anything that would have offended him or anyone else present.
Her comments were based on the subject that a few were having and although Michael had been silent during that topic, none of us, not even his cousin had seen any signs that he was uncomfortable, frustrated or even furious by it.
I remember Michael shouting a repetitive, nonsensical monologue.
He stopped his insane act and then placed the gun beside him like a warning or a reminder that he had it and none of us wanted to stick around to find out.
I don’t know what would’ve happened if any of us reacted, would it have been met with uncontrollable laughter as if it were a deranged prank?
Or would it have escalated?
Those questions are the mystery of this experience and because of my intuition, I know it’s something I will never find the answers to and I am incredibly grateful not to know.
It kept me calm in a situation that screamed danger.
Author’s note
I haven’t always listened to my intuition as my reasoning and especially giving people the benefit of the doubt had been stronger influences at those times.
During that night, I just remember calling it “a calm feeling” I had.
This is the first time I have realised that this was my intuition. I hadn’t thought about it in this way.
When I reflect back, I imagine my intuition as a silhouette which suddenly beamed so brightly that a clear motherly figure became revealed.
I had written about my past experience which took place a year after this where a gun was present in The Stranger Series | The Disappearance yet I hadn’t thought about intuition. In that moment my mind was focused on the stranger who helped, however upon reflection intuition was also a huge part of the assistance too.
I’ve found that my intuition arises in situations with a clear contradictory sensation to my regular patterns e.g. a feeling of calm in a moment of madness and at other times unease when everything appears great.
For you it may be a sudden thought, a weird feeling you’ve never experienced, a dream, a shift in how the environment feels e.g. a sudden chill on a warm day that only you felt. If you struggle to recognise intuition, check out the videos below.
Intuition is there to align you with a better path.
Thank you for reading and thank you Monica for this topic.
With love and light,
𝓒 𝓢𝓲𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓮 ✨
The Science of Intuition Revealed | Dr. Tara Swart on Healing & Hidden Wisdom 🎧
Okay, first of all, I had to stop reading and Google Epping Forest, and wow! Now I want to visit it... just definitely not at night. 😂
When I got to the part where the gun came out, and even knowing you obviously made it through safely, I got those awful chills of dread. But when you described that sudden sense of calm, I knew exactly what you meant. I had just left a comment on Kevin’s post about this very thing. For me, intuition is always calm. Even when it feels urgent or shows up in the middle of danger, it still feels calm, clear, and loving. That calm is actually how I’ve learned to recognize intuition rather than ego or fear. Fear feels chaotic, anxious, and loud. Intuition may say, “Pay attention,” or “Move now,” but it does not send me into panic.
I found it so interesting that this was the first time you'd realized that the calm you felt that night was your intuition.
What an intense story, C. I’m very grateful all of you made it out of that situation safely. 💜
Wow that was the most poetic description of intuition and then the story with a twist! definitely took a direction I did not expect !! I've experienced that dead calm in a dangerous situation before and how I automatically knew what to do to de-escalate it, but hadn't thought of it as intuition before. I'm glad you were all ok!!