[86] Are You Intuitive? The 4 Skills and 3 Downfalls of Highly Intuitive Women

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.

The Intuitive Intelligence Score

So today I want to talk about your intuitive intelligence score. This is a number that I came up with when I was interviewing women about their intuitive experience, from beginners to really intuitive women. I wanted to know what makes this successful, to make things happen that seem impossible or really, really lucky, right? Because that’s usually what intuition looks like.

Intuition and Luck

That’s what people say about my life. “Oh wow, you’re so lucky.” And I’ll nod and say yes, but I know that it’s not luck. I know that it’s because I’m using my intuition to make a lot of those decisions. Intuition is great when you feel stuck. When your logical mind is telling you that what you want is impossible. That’s when intuition is most helpful. Because logic and intuition are really two sides of the same coin. They’re both there to help guide your life in the direction of what you want.

Logic vs Intuition

With your logic, you can make a plan. “Alright, I want to go on this vacation. I’m gonna save this much a month and then I’ll be able to go on my cruise.” With intuition, it’s about pulling information that is subconscious, that you don’t have access to consciously. So intuition gives you guidance in the moment. It can’t predict the future. It’s not magic, but in the moment, your intuition can say this path is better. This is really helpful when you use it at the right time.

When You Feel Feeling Stuck

So if the light turns red, you stop the car. That’s your logic. But if you’re completely stuck and you have no idea where to go from here, you’ve been depressed, this is when intuition really can help you move forward. So if you don’t know, if you’re stuck, for a moment, imagine that five years from now, your life is pretty much the same as it has been this year. Does that make you feel super happy, or does that make you feel depressed?

When You Don’t Trust Your Intuition (like me!)

This is when we feel stuck. If it makes you sad that your life is going to be the same in five years, then you’re stuck. This is where intuition can help you. So I felt really stuck in a lot of places in my life. I’m a very disbelieving kind of person, more like a Thomas, and I did not believe my own intuition initially, and I was really stubborn about it. It probably took me 10 years to really start trusting my own intuition for myself.

However, in the course of my life, I had some very significant events that clearly proved to me that my intuition was giving me super valuable information. It did change the course of my life. And now, looking back on it, I’m like, wow, this was really good. If I had not done that, I would be in a really bad spot right now. Because of that, I know that I can trust my intuition.

Intuition For Your Health

For my health, for example. Intuition is great when you’ve come back from the doctor and the doctor said, we can’t help you anymore. That’s when intuition is great. You did all the things, and yet you are still not better. I had chronic fatigue syndrome when I was 47. I had been a single mom, you know, for 10 years. I had probably worked a little too hard, pushed it too far. One day I woke up, and I was sleeping 20 hours a day for a year. I didn’t realize initially, I thought, oh, I’m probably just in a burnout.

I didn’t realize what was going on. I tried taking a sabbatical, eventually went to the doctor, and was told that this was chronic fatigue syndrome. It’s not curable. I thought, okay, went home that day, cried a lot. But then decided to work with my intuition and start to ask every day, what can I do to feel better today? This was my question that I would ask every day, and things would come up, and I would do them.

This led me from being pretty much crippled, unable to work at 47, and unable to support myself, to being fully recovered. I felt better within the first three months that I did this. I was at 85 percent after a year, and then I lingered there for a while because I thought, well, maybe this is as good as it gets. Eventually, I thought, no, I want to get back to 100 percent. The first year I was unconscious, but in years two, three, and four, I finally cured this disease.

Intuition For Your Financial Freedom

So this was much better than the lifetime diagnostic I was given. Because I was sick, I had to quit my job as an engineer, and I was still raising my son. He was living at home, and financially, this was really stressful. The first year, while I was sleeping, I lived off savings. I was trying to figure out what I was going to do. I started to think, okay, well, let’s do it with money too, so I started to ask every day, how can I make more money today? I followed what I got.

Year one, I was sleeping, didn’t make any money.

Year two, I was making half of the money in passive income that I needed to be able to pay all my bills.

Year three, income doubled, and I became financially free.

In year four, I wasn’t expecting that, but my net worth became over a million. This is all in passive income. This is not something you can reproduce, by the way. This was very specific to me. It’s true, intuition is very specific, but it led me instead of being homeless, to being financially free while I was sick and healing chronic fatigue syndrome.

Interviews with Intuitive Women

So this got my attention. It changed the course of my life because I was stuck, and I decided to turn to my intuition. In all these interviews that I did with intuitive women, there were a few things that were really critical that really made a big difference in whether or not they were able to get the results they wanted from their intuition.

The Keys To Intuitive Success

The first one is that you need to have had at least one intuitive experience in your life, and that varied a lot from woman to woman. Some women heard a voice in their head. Some women had a really strong feeling that they should or should not do something. Some women just get words that come to them. But you need to have at least one of those in your life.

Accessing Intuition and The Downfall of Collision

Then there’s your intuitive cycle. Are you able to complete an intuitive cycle and then do it again? You have to be able to access your intuition. You have to be able to hear your intuition and differentiate between your intuition and your logic.

In this particular key skill, there’s a problem here that can happen, which I call collision. This is due to the fact that both your logic and your intuition, they’re both presenting you with information in your mind. This can lead to collision, where you can’t tell the difference between your logic and your intuition.

Activating Intuition and The Downfall of Distortion

The second key skill is to be able to activate your intuition, to trigger it on demand, even when you’re upset. This makes a big difference because when we’re upset, it tends to be harder to hear our intuition. This is when we need it the most. Isn’t that frustrating?

The problem here that can happen is distortion. When we’re upset and we’re asking something from our intuition, if we’re emotionally activated, this will distort the intuitive insight.

Aligning Intuition and The Downfall of Pollution

Instead of hearing a crystal clear message, we’ll hear something that feels bad, that is muddy, that is confusing, that is vague. That’s distortion, and it’s because we’re emotionally upset. It makes it harder for our intuition to come in clearly. The third key skill that you need is to be able to align your intuition with what you want.

A lot of times we don’t know what we want, and our intuition can’t help us when we don’t know what we want, because intuition is a guiding tool, it’s like Google Maps. If you tell it, “I want to go there, I want to achieve this dream, I want to heal this condition,” it has a destination, and now it can give you step-by-step direction every day. That’s what it does. But your intuition can’t tell you what you want. It can’t, it’s a tool to get you there. Just like Google Maps can’t tell you where you want to go. That’s not what it’s built for.

When you’re able to align your intuition with what you want, you’re going to get information that is relevant to you. Now, the problem here that you can run into is pollution, where you have this influence from other people. Pollution comes from external sources. Other people’s advice. Other people’s opinions. You bought this system for marketing and you’re following it to the letter. That can be pollution because maybe some of this is perfect for your business and some of it isn’t. If you can’t tell the difference, then that’s pollution. Having intuition that gives you crystal clear information that is relevant to your goal is what’s critical in that align skill.

Accelerating Intuition

The last key skill that these very highly intuitive women have that made a big difference was that they can make a decision based on their intuition, and they could trust that decision. I call that being able to accelerate your life by using your intuition. This needs to be stuff that you trust. Closing your eyes, and making a leap of faith and hoping your intuition will work out, that doesn’t work.

It’s scary as hell, and it will drive you into the ditch.

Building Trust in Your Intuition

Intuition is information, and you make a decision based on this extra information. You just know more, so you can make a better decision, but in order to do that, you have to build trust in your intuition. This is a critical skill that highly intuitive women have; they know how to make decisions that they can trust.

Four Key Components of Intuition

These are really the four key components. You have to be able to access, activate, align, and accelerate your intuition so that you can change the course of your life.

I wonder if you had some thoughts already about where you stand in your intuitive cycle?

If you’re not sure, I made a questionnaire online to give you your intuitive intelligence score. You can know how you score on these key dimensions.

You can find it online at leftbrainintuitive.com/score to see where you are and where you can go from here.

Alright, that’s all I’m getting for today. I hope this was helpful and I’ll talk to you soon!