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Hi Soul-friends
It’s Tannaz hosseinpour and welcome back to another short solo episode of the minutes on growth podcast. this month in my book club we read a wonderful book named trust your vibes by Sonia Choquette. the book reminded me of the importance of trusting our intuition, gut, vibes, however you feel comfortable calling it and how different our lives can look when we choose to dismiss or ignore its voice which got me reflecting on my own life.
Recently, ashkan and I have been planning a trip to europe in the summer for one of my dear friends weddings but something within me held back from booking the tickets when I first received the save the date. even though I intuitively knew I was going hence why I RSVPed, I had this feeling within me to hold back on booking the tickets. A few days ago, I woke up in the morning, and instead of grabbing my phone, I recited one of my favorite morning prayers ” universe tell me where to go, what to say and who to say it too”. honestly, the quality of my days significantly alter when I recite these words first thing, instead of going into autopilot mode and grabbing my emails. when we’re intentional with the universe, the universe reciprocates that energy.
Anyways, that day after my prayer, I had this voice inside of me telling me that today is the day to book the tickets. As I came downstairs into the kitchen, ashkan looked at me and said “do you remember my friend named x from many years ago – he just called and invited us to his wedding which is a few days after your friends wedding – do you think we’ll be able to make it?”
I couldn’t help but laugh… the universe grand 6D vision… no wonder I was hesitant to buy our tickets… we were meant to be at this wedding too which meant that our return ticket would be from another airport.
This is just a small example of how our intuition is connected to the universe’s wisdom. The question is… how often do we listen to our intuition? because our gut, vibes, spirit guides are always speaking to us … but more often than not, we’re so deeply immersed in our auto pilot mode or our ego has hijacked the driver’s seat that we don’t allow ourselves to pause, and actually hear what its telling us.
The wonderful part is that our intuition is always trying to protect us and keep us safe. I remember Oct 2nd 2020 like it was just yesterday.. I was in Dubai with my ex, and that night as I was sitting in our bedroom, a voice inside of me said I would never see him again and I burst into tears. I was flying to Toronto the next day for my brother’s birthday, something I did every single year… but this time it felt different. even though my return ticket was for Oct 24th, there was this knowing within me that something would happen on this trip, and I wouldn’t return to my house in Dubai and my relationship would somehow end. My ex held me tight and told me that I was wrong, and that logically it made absolutely no sense. We had been together for over 5 years and it was a stable relationship. I had a return ticket. I was even hosting a Halloween party on the 31st. But like the ticket situation.. our intuition always knows.. always one step ahead of us…I couldn’t explain it but I just knew.
Fast forward to Oct 15th as I was in Toronto, something traumatic beyond my wildest imagination took place, and to this day, May 9th 2024, I haven’t returned to that house or seen my ex.
Wild
Everyone keeps telling me that my angels and spirit guides protected me from that incident and it wasn’t a coincidence that I decided to uphold my yearly tradition of attending my brother’s birthday even though it was in the middle of covid and my 3 week trip consisted of me staying in quarantine for 2 weeks. Honestly, I didn’t even want to come to Toronto that year because of all the travel restrictions, but a voice inside of my head kept saying… go. and I’m glad I listened to it because it really did protect me.
There’s been many more incidents where listening to my intuition saved me and paved a new path for my life such as when my intuition told me to do a uturn from law to coaching and psychology.. and many incidents where ignoring my intuition led me to pain (for example staying in relationships and friendships for too long, making the wrong financial decisions (Decisions that were ego based) and more. Nevertheless, all these instances were filled with lessons and I love our ability to look back, to pause, to reflect and to ask ourselves how can I learn from this. every challenge is an opportunity to grow…
a side note here… our ego thinks it knows everything … it usually responds to “I know I know” when someone shares their opinions, or insights into something… our ego is the voice that thinks she knows best and knows it all (I know better than you and my way is the right way mentality)… our ego isn’t willing to learn or grow because well our ego thinks its perfect and perfect doesn’t need to grow… and it is precisely this ego that can prevent us from listening to our intuition…
so if you notice yourself saying “I know, I know”..pause. take a deep breath, and allow yourself to take a step back to make space for your intuition to enter the conversation…
After everything I’ve experienced, I now trust that my gut houses a mini version of the universe within it – my gut, my intuition is linked to the universe source of wisdom and insights. when I’m connected to my gut, I’m connected to the energy of creativity, to the energy of love, to the energy of understanding and patience. and when I’m in an agitated state, in a state of judgment, me vs you or us vs them mentality , I’m disconnected from myself, which means that I’ve disconnected myself from the universe.
I like to visualize a lampshade for this.. I am the lampshade.. the socket is the universe’s flow.. always available… it’s up to me to plug myself in or not.. that is the beauty of free will.. the universe’s insights are always available to us but never pushed upon us because we have the free will to choose…
so soul-friends, I will leave you with this… will you exercise your free will to plug yourself in? to listen to your soul’s voice? to hear what your intuition is trying to tell you? or will you allow disconnect yourself from it all?
Thank you for listening
Speak soon
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