Most people who excel in their area of expertise like inventors, gurus, geniuses and teachers attribute their achievements to intuition.

Intuition is the guiding voice that tells you what is the right thing to do when you don’t have enough information to be certain.

Like a muscle, intuition is trained and developed. Everytime we practice listening to our intuition we get better at understanding what it says.

Ego is the identity we have for ourselves. It’s constructed by everything we identify ourselves with, even the meaning we give to our memories and our personal story.

It’s a structure that does not want to change. Everything new should fit in the already predetermined structure, otherwise it’s scary and unappealing for the ego.

While intuition serves the soul and is a force of expansion, the ego serves itself, the structure of beliefs and the identity.

Once we successfully tap into our intuition, we will likely become the person we were meant to be. However, the ego doesn’t allow us to do that because it threatens its existence.

The ego exists thanks to the person we are right now and every change to our identity looks like death in its eyes.

This fear-based character that hides in our minds wants to be always in control. It even masks itself as intuition to protect itself from pain, change or any vulnerability.

Hence, it is of utmost importance that we’re able to detect when an ego pretends to be an intuition.

7 Signs You are Listening to Your Ego and Not Your Intuition

Here are the 7 signs to determine when it’s truly your intuition that is speaking:

1. The Ego is always the loudest voice in your head.

Our mind is capable of thinking between 35 to 48 thoughts per minute. Yet most of these thoughts are not our own thoughts.

We pick up streams of information from the collective consciousness that surrounds us all.

Thus, it’s necessary that you slow down and spend quiet moments with yourself alone so you can hear your own voice. Intuition speaks in a whisper and you can’t hear it unless you are attuned with yourself.

Meditation helps you to tap into your inner silence where the voice of intuition can be heard.

Because intuition also connects through your feelings, tapping into your heart-centered awareness is important as well.

The ego is always the loudest voice in your head. If you listen to a voice that forcefully tries to be louder than any other thought, that’s your ego speaking.

2. Intuition doesn’t pressure, threaten or force you to do anything that is against your will, the Ego does.

Your soul is timeless and so is the voice of your intuition. It doesn’t threaten you to do a thing right away or else you may dislike the consequences of your inaction.

Your intuition gives you the confidence that you will get to where you’re supposed to be at the right time.

The ego is threatened by time and feeds on the fear inside you. It will act based on this fear and persuade you to do or not do things using your fear.

For example, you already know that there is potential danger of changing your place of living. It’s a small danger but still you know it’s there. Your soul wants you to change your place of living because it will help you grow and become a better version of yourself.

Your intuition guides you to do it. However, your ego is not ok with that. So, it uses the fact that there might be potential danger and exaggerates it to extreme. And now you are afraid.

It starts telling you stories, consequences and reasons why you shouldn’t do it. It forces you to see everything that could go wrong. Your fear might get so intense that you wake up with anxiety or have panic attacks just thinking to move there.

And after a while of overthinking, you justify it to yourself why you shouldn’t do it.

But your intuition is gentle, it doesn’t rush with anything. Your intuition is guiding you to feel what you WANT to do because it just wants you to celebrate, to love, to be joyful, and to get excited about life.

3. Intuition is speaking through emotions, the Ego is speaking through thoughts.

In moments when you don’t know what voice you’re listening to, don’t try to listen, feel.

Unlike your intuition, the ego wants to be heard rationally.

Your intuition is always there with you, guiding you even when you’re unaware of it. In fact, the emotions you feel are part of your intuition.

Next time you don’t know what voice to listen, do what you FEEL you should do.

You don’t have to be less confident in tapping to your intuitive guidance just because of the outcome your choices bring, it’s given to you for a reason.

Remember, your soul wants you to grow.

Tapping into your intuition is knowing that there is a Higher Intelligence beyond your conscious mind that’s ready to help you at any moment.

4. Intuition develops differently for each person.

Once you’re able to constantly attune yourself with your intuition by following it and making courageous decisions, the universe will open up to you more opportunities and will give you more signs.

Intuition works differently with different people. Some people hear things, some just know, some get answers or signs from lyrics of songs, while others get inspired by giving advice to others.

It is best to be aware of how your intuition works and constantly test it.

The more you trust that inner guidance, the more it reveals itself to you until it will become a major guiding force in your life.

The ego, however, is always developed in the same manner. It speaks through your thoughts, it acts as if it is you and defends with fear.

5. Intuition doesn’t guarantee you a life free of pain or change, the Ego does everything to prevent those things.

What the ego believes is that if it can tap into intuition, it will lead you away from pain and bring you everlasting happiness.

But the soul knows fully that this is not the case.

The ego does not want to consider that disadvantageous circumstances are needed for the soul to experience healing and transformation.

The soul knows that sometimes growth requires pain, just like when you grow your muscles.

This is the reason why, at times, intuition leads you to this kind of situations.

Your soul knows that it has to evolve and expand even if it means going through a path full of pain and change. But the ego doesn’t like it.

6. Intuition doesn’t tell you often what to do, instead, it tells you how to be.

A common misconception of intuition is that it acts like a fairy godmother that will direct you where you shall live, whom shall you marry or where shall you work.

If you feel these are the things your intuition is telling you, most likely, you’re not hearing your intuition at all. Rather the voice that speaks as your intuition is actually your ego.

The ego finds solace in a relaxed consciousness. It operates with exact details and definite things.

Intuition might not be giving you a detailed instruction on how your life must go, yet it nudges you, in a most loving way, to where your soul expands the most.

It doesn’t tell you what to do or how to do it. It tells you how to be.

7. The Ego will never tell you to do something that scares you.

Unlike your ego, your intuition might sometimes point you toward something you are really afraid of doing.

Your ego will never tell you to do something that you are afraid of.

However, the greatest treasure is inside the cave you most fear to enter not because that cave is the scariest, but because YOU are most afraid of it.

It’s the act of going beyond your greatest fear that’s actually the treasure you are going to find. That’s what makes you grow into one of the best versions of yourself.

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