How can I tell the difference between Anxiety and Intuition?

Do I Feel Like I Can “Trust My Intuition”

The question of “how can I tell the difference between anxiety and intuition” is more common that you think. We are constantly told to trust our intuition, but sometimes our intuition can be clouded with past experiences and triggers.

So is that uneasy feeling intuition that a situation is not right? Or is it past wounding that is lurking and not able to let you feel clearly?

This is where therapy and mentoring give us space to find the answers.

An Example Where Anxiety Was Confused With Intuition

A great example is a client who was moving house. She’d finally saved enough to buy a house. On paper is was her dream house, everything she’d ever wanted. Yes she had an anxious feeling in her stomach about everything. Was it her intuition telling her something was off, or was there anxiety from a past experience clouding things.

This client had not moved for some time. In the session we explored and sat with the feelings coming up. It turns out that this client moved a lot as a small child. On many of those moves she lost things she treasured. She’d ask her mum about her favourite doll or book, “It’ll turn up dear”, but those things never did. This created an anxiety around moving for the client, to her it was associated with the anxiety of losing things precious to her. Once she was able to sit with this anxiety is started to move through and clear away.

How To Discern And Tell The Difference

The client realised that she was actually very excited about moving into her new home, the overwhelming anxiety had clouded that and left her feeling confused.

Now every case is different, but the point here, is that by sitting with the strong emotions coming up and enquiring into them, we can understand our body and our inner compass so much better.

Many of us go through life not sure if we’re following our intuition or strong emotions from our past (that are trying to ‘keep us safe’ but holding us back.

Next Steps You Can Take

This is one of many things you can explore in either a therapy session or a mentoring session with one of our team.

We offer free consultations, so you can ask questions and feel confident about starting sessions with us, should you chose too.