"The Crucial Role of Trust in Intuition and the Age of AI Advancement"

Remember that time you had a feeling something was off and all hell ended up breaking loose?

Or one time you had that feeling you get about someone, knowing that someone was your person, like you had known them all your life, even though you just met?

Or how about that time you were in the midst of creating something and your brain seemed to just turn off while you flowed in connection to your art/ work?

You are intuitive. It is part of our makeup as humans. Whether you choose to listen to it, have a conversation with it, or trust it is up to you.

But how do you do that if you are never trained to?

The rise of misinformation, siloed information, and judgmental labeling has minimized our ability to trust. Trust each other. Trust ourselves. And trust our intuition.

But in my opinion, Trust is the only way through the rise of AI and our overly technical lives– but not blind trust in what you read, see, or hear. Trust in your innate connection to each other, to source, intuition.

Light into the unknown: Intuition

BACK IN THE OL' DAYS...

When I was a kid, before the internet, cell phones, and GPS, we relied on trust more. If you got lost, you had to use your logic and intuition to find your way home. You used your memory to retrace your steps or recognize landmarks you passed. Or if you were lucky enough to be near a pay phone and had a quarter, you could make a call. That call was a gamble, hoping that whoever you were calling had moved into the modern world with call waiting and knew how to use it. Otherwise, you risked the dreaded busy signal, which could last minutes or hours.

Which brings me to the other wonderfully silent skill we were subconsciously indoctrinated with, patience. It’s hard to imagine today not being able to get a hold of someone. Right away. If you invited someone to an event more than a day ago, you trusted they’d show—because they said they would. Then you had to have the patience to wait for them to show up. You had to have faith in them that they would. In this 80’s world, you not only had to have faith, trust, and patience if someone was on the other line without call waiting, but you also most likely had to memorize the number you were calling. Can anyone from these ancient Stranger Things times remember their first landline number? It’s one of the very few things my brain has clung onto as I slide into my golden age.

You didn’t get to watch any show you wanted whenever you wanted, or have like a million choices of genres and media outlets to choose from. You had to wait for Saturday morning to watch a few prescheduled cartoons, or for an hour after school. If you wanted to see what happened on the next episode of your favorite TV show, you had to wait in suspense until the next episode came out the following week. But to know when it was coming out, you had to check the TV guide, which only your grandma owned. Especially around the holidays, since schedule changes were up in the air at those times.

Your parents trusted you more, or as our generation has interpreted through the massive overabundance of psychological information in our modern times, our parents didn’t care about us. They were careless. They demanded we go outside and not come home till dark. Did they know where we were going? Did they have a tracker on our every move? No. They trusted we would come home by dark because they knew if we didn’t, we would be in trouble. Gentle parenting, as a concept, practice, and grounds for judgment, had not been invented yet.

80s walkman - Back in the Old Days

IS THE SPIRIT OF EXPLORATION AND TRUST DEAD?

I remember one of my favorite trips I took with my sister. We were studying abroad for the summer in England, London to be specific. We had a day off to travel or do whatever we wanted, but because my sister had lost our money, which was meant for us to travel on our day off, instead, we had a day of wandering. Ruled by intuition. Trust. I had no idea where we were or where we were going. I just went with whichever direction felt right, had the best energy. We met so many fun people, went to so many fun places, and had so many great conversations. There were times when we lost each other a bit, but we didn’t panic. We found each other because we trusted we would. It’s my favorite way to explore, to go on vacation. Now, with cell phones, the internet, and GPS, it is harder and harder not to take the convenience route and choose technology.

We relied on trust, intuition, faith, and logic more back then. There are some wonderful things that have come to rise with technology. We are connected all over the world through the web. We can connect with someone right away through various means of communication. We are more informed. And I thoroughly appreciate the concept of gentle parenting.

However, I must ask you, despite your knowledge, do you feel a stronger connection to others because of it, or do you experience more fear? Can you determine which information is trustworthy? How do you do so? Are you always able to tell what is generated by AI and what isn't? Do you trust the individuals who are programming AI? What is your relationship with trust, faith, memory, patience, and connection to yourself and others? How do you decide what to follow and what to trust?

Hands reaching to each other, backed by light: Trust

WHO OR WHAT ARE WE TRULY? HOW INTUITION CAN REVEAL THE ANSWER

I have a question I ask students when I teach mediation or intuition.

“If you walked into a room and it was all light, nothing but light, what would you see?”

What would you see?

Light. Just light.

You wouldn’t be able to discern light from light. But we can. So how is that?

Well, in my explanation, we are all gifted a beautifully karmic, lesson-filled skin suit. That skin suit scoops up a bit of that light and encapsulates it. The same light that was in the room just now is separated in this karmic skin suit. The illusion of this life, Maya in yoga, is that we are the separation – the skin suit. But we are the light, the oneness, the union covered up by layers of fear, doubt, and old lessons that came to serve us, but once their work was done, we still hold on to them and don’t release.

This explanation came from my own experience in giving readings. I always find it funny when people are scared of them. There is a misconception that fear is a part of intuitive readings. To me, what I see is where your light is hiding and under what it is hiding. Your light’s nature is to connect and shine, so we look at what’s holding it back, what old story or habit is in the way, what needs to be released, and what is asking to be embraced. Taking responsibility for someone’s future through prediction feels fear-based to me and not part of the soul’s journey. Also, I believe it takes your free will away. There are a million different outcomes that could happen in any given circumstance, from a million different choices. So to me, that reflects distrust in the client to make the decision that is best for them.

We are meant to learn in this life. We are meant to get bruised knees, fall, and fail because that is how we learn. We are also meant to, in my opinion, learn how to integrate the energetic and the physical. The light from the room downloads all the information it can from this skin suit at this point and place in time. The skin suit is like an avatar of the light. The light is the soul’s GPS, and intuition is the soul’s voice.

The soul’s voice, intuition, is led by the heart. The skin suit is led by the brain. The more cerebral we get, the further we get from our soul’s voice and GPS. The intuition has the truth. It operates out of love, connection, and energy. The physical body operated by the brain operates from fear, primarily fear of death, because the mind and body know enough to know they are transient. The soul is eternal. It is the light. So there is nothing to fear, no death to try and escape.

When I look at something intuitively, it is not always what I think is the answer. It shows me compassion, connection, love, and mercy. It shows me where my energy is more valued and has more potential. The rest is up to me in this game of life to move through, learn, fail, and thrive.

This energetic universal connection is a conversation. A conversation between the eternal, all-knowing you and the transient physical you. When you learn to listen to it, work with it, and communicate with it, the density of the world clarifies. You begin to trust more because you have proof of trusting yourself more. That vibration ripples out to all you do, opening possibilities, connection, and creativity.

You are intuitive. Do you trust it?

Do you trust your intuition?

• Yes
• No
• Sometimes

I want to learn how to trust my intuition