[83] When Will Your Intuition Always Be Wrong? Intuition Podcast

Hi, my name is Elise Lebeau, I’m the Left Brain Intuitive, and your intuition is calling. Let’s see what it has to say.

So, today we’re answering the question: Can your intuition be wrong? This is one of the scariest things about intuition—we’re afraid either that it’s going to be right, and that is spooky, or we’re afraid that it’s going to be wrong and lead us astray. Either way, it’s a tough thing. It takes a lot of courage to even look at what your intuition is whispering.

Two Situations Where Intuition Can Be Wrong

Today, I want to tell you about two very clear situations where your intuition can be wrong.

Asking Questions Your Intuition Can’t Answer

The first one is if you ask a question to your intuition that it can’t answer. The most famous question is “when.” A prediction about the future cannot be answered by your intuition. Your intuition is not psychic. I’ve been a professional intuitive for 20 years and I cannot predict the future.

Your intuition can calculate probability, which is what the future looks like to me, but it’s based on the present. Your intuition can look at where you are and where you want to go and say, “You know what? It’s very unlikely that you’re going to get there because you are going the wrong way.” Is that a prediction? I guess a little bit, but at any time you can decide to change course and head in the direction of what you want. And now you are very likely to get there.

So when you ask a “when” question, like “When will I find my new job that I’ve been waiting for so long?” That question is going to give you crap. There’s no good answer to that question. Your intuition cannot answer that. So if you’re asking it to answer that, you’re pretty much guaranteed that it’s going to be wrong.

It’s always tough when I see people ask that “when” question to their intuition, because a woman who does that will likely lose trust. If this is your test, you want to test your intuition, and you’re asking, “When will I finally get a job?” you are going to get something that’s going to be wrong and it’s going to break your heart. And that’s some lasting damage here. Intuition is a really, really powerful tool, but it can’t predict the future.

Logical Mind Distorting Intuition

The second time that your intuition is pretty much guaranteed to be wrong is when you think you’re receiving something from your intuition, but it’s actually coming from your logical mind. For example, you have a thought all of a sudden, “Ah, I need to quit this job.” And it makes you feel scared and worried. That right there is not intuition. It’s the fear that’s your hint, right? It’s the fear that is distorting this intuitive insight.

Your fear and your own doubt from your logical mind, because your logical mind is saying, “Well, if we quit our job, we’re not going to have money.” That’s your logical mind talking, right? This is something that’s in your consciousness. But your intuition lives in the basement. It lives in the subconscious. And it has access to a lot more data than just what’s in your consciousness. However, if you’re not specifically targeting the question to your intuition, it’s very easy for your logical mind to grab the microphone and tell you things that are distorted, based on fear, based on doubt. And there’s a very quick way to know if you’re distorting. You will feel bad.

So when I was talking about “I need to quit my job, I hate this job, but what am I going to do?” this is all fear. You can tell it feels bad. Now, here’s something that your intuition might be telling you. Your intuition might be saying, “You’re going to need to quit this job eventually. However, there are things you can do right now to set this up so that it’s comfortable when you transition.”

Maybe it has to do with some savings or maybe it has to do with having a side business or maybe it has to do with talking to a couple of people who can connect you to other people who will have an opening for you. But whatever it is, it’s not right away, and there’s a plan for you if you would like to hear it. Well, that feels better. If your intuition was able to use words and articulate it like that, and it would say that to you, you would probably feel much better, and you would probably say, “Yes, please, I’m listening.”

Intuition Is Subconscious Communication

The thing is that your intuition does not primarily communicate with you in language. And that’s because it lives in the basement. So in your subconscious, stuff is not stored in words. So when you think about the first time you rode a bike, you don’t see the words that “my bike was blue and I was in the street and there were cars.” You don’t see words like that. You remember that it was sunny. You remember that it felt warm, and maybe you remember you were a little scared. None of that has to do with words. But that’s how that information is stored down there in the basement, in your subconscious. And this is what intuition pulls from.

Sources of Intuitive Information

Now, intuition pulls from three different places. It pulls from your, what I call your personal databank, your hard drive, which is everything that’s been stored in your body, every memory of things that have happened to you that you might not remember consciously. So that day on the bike ride, your body has stored a lot of information about that. It’s just not available to your consciousness because, oh my gosh, if you remember every single detail of every day, you would explode. So the job of your consciousness is to sort this out and make sure that everything’s neatly organized so that you can put your socks on in the morning because you’re not overwhelmed by information. And so your logical mind pushes a lot of stuff in the basement and just keeps the stuff you need to function in your consciousness. So it has access to a very, very small proportion of information. Your intuition, though, has access to everything else. It’s just kind of like your DNA, you know, is stored in your body. It’s a way to store information that’s not verbal. So intuition has access to sort of similar data store, stuff that is remembered, but not consciously.

Your intuition also has access to what I call the Wi-Fi, which is a sort of direct connection to other people. So when I give an intuitive reading for the first time, it can freak out the other person a little bit. Because what I’d like to do is to start with a code reading, where you don’t tell me anything, and I will just give you information that comes to me intuitively about you. And I don’t do any kind of research. I can do this without having your name. And sometimes that can be a little surprising, I guess is a kind word. But what’s happening there is I’m using the Wi-Fi. We’re able to exchange information without words, just from energy to energy. And so that’s another source of information.

Intuition and Environmental Influence

So in my example, I said, well, maybe there’s people that you could talk to that can line you up for your next job. Your intuition has access to that information because that’s on the Wi-Fi. Other people’s information that they know is on the Wi-Fi. You have access to that, but not consciously. I cannot read minds. I can read energy, but I cannot read minds. I never know what a person is thinking. But I can know if you’ve been struggling with depression. I can know if you have a really tough relationship with your husband and why it’s tough. Because that’s at the energy level. So that’s the Wi-Fi.

The third place where your intuition can pull information from is circumstances and events in the world. I call that the cloud. For somebody sensitive, like me, who can easily pull that information to consciousness, I can’t go to New York City because of 9/11. There was so much concentrated trauma that it just oozes out and it would be traumatic for me to go there even after this long. So these are examples of the cloud, information that’s stored in just the circumstances or locations or buildings. It’s not haunted, right? So I don’t see, I don’t talk to dead people. I don’t see ghosts. That’s not what I mean. I just mean that there’s energy that gets transmitted from a human to an object. And so it just leaves a trace behind, and it can be a lovely trace. There are houses where I walk into the house and I just feel happy because the energy there is so lovely because the people who live there were so happy.

So this is what I call the cloud. And this is the third place where your intuition can get information that your logical mind doesn’t have access to.

Accessing and Trusting Your Intuition

So when you ask that question to your intuition, it has a lot more information that it can pull from to give you an answer. As long as you don’t ask it a question it can’t answer, then it has a lot of great strategies to offer you. But it’s unlikely to communicate them to you in words.

Now, I’m a professional intuitive, and I can translate anything that I feel intuitively into words. And there’s also women who are just naturally very intuitive, and they can say things in words very easily. It comes to them that way. That doesn’t mean that they’re not distorting, though. That doesn’t mean that you’re not vulnerable to fear and doubt, which will then not be your intuition. And then all of a sudden you can’t tell which is which.

This is when it’s really important to remember that intuition is just information. And it always feels better because intuition serves an evolutionary purpose. It’s designed to help us grow and thrive, which is the purpose of all life. Everything that’s

alive wants to grow and thrive. Humans are no different. We do live with a lot of fear and doubt, which sometimes can dampen our ability to thrive. But intuition is a mechanism that is built in to just serve that one purpose. It gathers information so that you can grow and thrive.

So if you think you’re listening to your intuition and you feel bad, you’re either asking the wrong question or it’s not your intuition anymore. It’s been distorted by your conscious mind.