My Result on a little BlogThing Quiz:
You Are 64% Intuitive
You are a very intuitive person. And luckily, your intuition is normally right. You’re wise enough to know that relying on intuition alone can be dangerous. When your intuition seems really off, you tend to ignore it – and look at the facts instead.
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My course is specifically about women, and most women truly do seem to have a knack for ‘sensing’ things that aren’t being said, or for asking the right question at the right time. We often play it off as ‘silly’ or we just ignore it altogether. But there really is something to it.
We were encourage by our ‘coach’ to learn more about our own intuition and to trust it more. We were given some great examples of how her intuition has worked in different situations. To further illustrate the point, we all particpated in an exercise during our luncheon seminar.
Each one of us already had a partner with whom we had been dialoguing about various things earlier in the lunch. We were to go to the back of the room with our partner, and stand facing each other, one on either side of a line of masking tape. That process formed 2 lines of women facing each other. The exercise was for us to tell our partner what we appreciated about them, or what our impression of them had been so far. We took turns, each having 20 seconds to share.
Then, one line of ladies shuffled down so that we were now across from the person on our partner’s right (the first person in the line went to the end of the line). We had to repeat the same exercise with the ‘new lady’ across from us, even though we might have only just met this person at that exact moment. We would have to share based on our immediate impression, taking in all the information we could about this woman in the short time we had to share. We took turns, each having 20 seconds to share. Then we shuffled again, and repeated the process again, at least 15 times I think, until we were back with our original partner.
Obviously we were encouraged to just share whatever came to mind, because there wasn’t much time, and if we thought too hard we’d probably second-guess ourselves or think our ideas were silly.
How do I know that there really IS something to intuition? Because I only knew 3 women in the room – my partner with whom I had spent a total of maybe 10 minutes talking with through lunch, my pastor’s wife friend who I don’t know that well, and a pastor whom I had met briefly once before and who first introduced me to coaching – but EVERY woman who shared their impression of me or what they appreciated about me said something that was perfect. Each woman shared something that was SO bang-on that I was blown away by the insights.
And as I shared with those women, they would say to me things like, “WOW, I hope I can do half as well as you did – that was good,” or “How did you know that? That’s so true!” or “Oh my, that is SO much like me.”
We were all encouraged by the exercise – encouraged to hear some great things said about us; encouraged to share those “pop-up” thoughts because we had each one experienced the impact they can have for the person we’re listening to; and especially encouraged to trust our intuition, that gut-feeling, out-of-nowhere sense about something.
It was so powerful, so fun. I felt very “present” or “engaged” because I HAD to listen between the lines and there was NO ROOM for distraction, no time to worry about what she might think of me, no space to take a 2nd look.
With that experience under my belt, I hope to be more in tune with my God-given Intuition as I heed the urgings of the Spirit more and more. While I might have been a tad skeptical before (you know, all that new-age kind of stuff…), I’m sold now!
So, how intuitive are you? I’m not sure I would trust the Blogthing’s answer too much, but it’s definitely something worth considering!!
