Warning: Common side effects of intuition include Understanding and Acceptance
When my life is in turmoil, I do find comfort in my intuition. Even if it doesn’t always spit out an answer that makes sense right away. Somethings are so intricate, so elaborate, working themselves out over years, that you can’t possibly understand them right there and then. But a little intuitive introspection can help to accept them anyway…
I spent 10 years in college… I have degrees in Fine Arts, Psychology and Engineering. And yet, after working just 3 years in software engineering, my life got turned upside down by a sudden opening of my intuitive skills.
At the time, I didn’t understand any of this! Why couldn’t I sleep anymore? Why did I feel so bad in crowds? Why did I urgently need to move into a bigger house? And why, oh why, did I feel the urge to quit my job and become a Professional Intuitive…
The end result was that I quit my job and started my private practice. It’s not easy to walk away from a job that you love and that pays 100K/year. And to think that I wasted 10 years in college! But that kind of work just felt empty and meaningless at the time. I did not understand why I was doing this…And so I ping ponged back and forth between fighting my intuition and following it.
At the time, the only thing that I was seeking from my intuition was understanding. And even thought I could get these kinds of answers most of the time, sometimes I just couldn’t. In these circumstances where I was not getting a clear intellectual answer to my question, I would feel my intuition had failed me somehow…
It’s only in the recent years that I started to have experiences where my intuition would not explain to me what was going on, but it would bring in information that I needed to be ok with it. Meaning that I wasn’t fighting against it, even if I didn’t understand it. Phew! That made my life so much easier…
And that’s where my definitions of these words came from: an hand-on experience of intuition that lead to an intellectual or emotional epiphany.
Acceptance: An emotional state of being where events, thoughts and feelings are embraced without knowing why they happened.
As it turned out years later, I did go back my beloved work in engineering! Although I could not see this at the time, I wasn’t leaving engineering for ever: I was just taking a little break while I explored something else. And now I switch back and forth between my two exciting careers. So all these years in school weren’t just a waste of time after all…
It’s always fun when our intuition lays out information that brings understanding. But it’s good idea to have a fall back plan…to acceptance.
In love
Elise Lebeau, M.Sc.
Professional Intuitive & Software Engineer
www.EliseLebeau.com
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