Habits to Have a Baseline of Happiness

Habits to Have a Baseline of Happiness

By Leo Babauta

Post on August 18, 2026

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Someone told me recently that I’m one of the only people they know that seems to have a baseline of happiness. Most of the people they know, including themselves, are stressed, angry, anxious, overwhelmed, sad, etc.

It made me start to reflect: is this actually true? And if so, why is it true for me?

And I think it is true. I’m definitely not happy all the time — I have all the emotions everyone else has — but I do think my baseline is one of happiness and peace.

So why do I have this baseline? Part of it might be that I got lucky — I was born with brain chemistry that helps me. I think my mom also has a baseline of happiness, so it could be her genetics, or how she raised me. (I also had a dad who very much didn’t have happiness as his baseline, and his parenting definitely gave me some trauma to overcome.)

But I also think I’ve built on that with my own habits, mental and otherwise, that have helped me to have this baseline. I think these habits can help anyone, even if you weren’t blessed with good chemistry or a loving parent.

Let’s take a look.

My Habits of Happiness

I’ll start by saying that these won’t cure everything, nor are they easy fixes. They’re mental habits, and they take time to cultivate.

But here are the mental habits I’ve found to be helpful:

1. Slow down & savor: This is the idea that Zen Habits is built on — don’t always try to rush through your day, to get on to the next thing. Instead, slow down, and savor moments as often as you can remember. Every moment is something to be savored, if we can just wake up to that.
2. Be fascinated: So many of us get bored with life, or take the wonders of life for granted. Instead, what if we could get curious about the things we barely notice anymore? What if we could let our fascination lead us, instead of going through the motions?
3. Everything is a lesson: When I’m frustrated with someone, or frustrated with myself, or things are not going the way I’d like … I have learned to see what I’m facing as a lesson in deeper wisdom. I try to pause and notice what this person, or this moment, has to teach me. My deepest lessons come from the hardest struggles.
4. Enjoy progress, not only the result: I’ve come to enjoy every little bit of progress that I make. If I am inching along on a project, if my fitness journey is taking way longer than I hoped it would … I try to see what progress I’ve already made, and celebrate that. Even if it’s just a few steps. It means that I’m encouraging myself along the way, and that the end point is just one joyous point among many.
5. Feel but don’t dwell: I find that it’s important to feel all the feels. If I get sad, I let myself really feel heartbroken. If I get angry, I let myself rage (not at another person though). I feel all of it. But then I’m done. It’s not helpful to dwell on the thoughts that cause the feelings.
6. Try not to take things too seriously!: I like to take life lightly. I try to laugh at myself, and make a little fun in heavier situations (when appropriate!). This means that life can be lighthearted, which is always more fun!
7. Practice gratitude & wonder: I started my journey toward happiness with a simple gratitude practice — I just listed 10 things I was grateful for that day. Often they were the same things (my family, my health, nature) but what this did was have me looking throughout the day for things I might take for granted but that I was glad was in my life. Later, I expanded that to seeing things that filled me with wonder. This is how we appreciate the miracle of everyday life.

This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive list — nor do you have to do all of these to be happy. They’ve just helped me tremendously over the years.

The hard part, of course, is forming these habits. Here’s what I’d recommend:

• Pick one and set an intention to practice with it every day. Set reminders on your phone, and posted around your living and working spaces.
• Try to catch moments when you can practice that mental habit. It’ll be hard at first, but you’ll start to catch it more and more.
• Set a 5-minute review habit for the end of each day, when you try to notice when you practiced during the day and when you might have missed it. It’ll help you get better each day.
• Do this for at least a month per mental habit. You’ll drop off a little at the middle of the month, but then try to recommit yourself to it and that’s when the real learning happens.

Be patient. It takes time. These are mental habits I’ve developed over years of practice. But they are so worth it.

with love,

Leo Babauta

Zen Habits

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When The Rest Catch Up…

When The Rest Catch Up…

The Creator Writings

By Jennifer Farley

Post on February 20, 2026

 

Remember when you were a child, running toward something at full speed because you were so excited to get there only to realize you were by yourself? 

You felt confused and a little anxious when others did not quite get your joy and were lagging behind. There you were, dancing from foot to foot… your shouts of, “Hurry up! We’re almost there!”, fell on seemingly deaf ears? 

There will be times in your growth and awakening that are just… like…that. Do not let it dampen your joy. Be patient and, when the rest around you catch up, you can celebrate together! 

The Creator

 

Jennifer Farley  

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There is Nothing Wrong With You

There is Nothing Wrong With You

By Vidya Frazier

Post on January 21, 2026

 

How often do you find yourself feeling depressed or anxious – and then realize it’s because you’re judging yourself in some way?

Maybe you’re feeling ashamed or guilty about something you’ve done. Or you keep thinking you shouldn’t be so lazy… so selfish… so judgmental… so miserable. You should meditate more… eat less sugar… get more exercise….

In essence, you feel there’s something “wrong” with you that needs to be fixed.

What you may not realize is that an important aspect of spiritual awakening is truly realizing that there is nothing wrong with you, as you are. Sure, there may be things you could be doing differently, or misunderstandings you need to clear up, or other actions you’d best take to set things in a better direction.

But it’s important to understand that there is nothing inherently wrong with you, just because you make mistakes or misjudge people or don’t feel like doing things you know you should. Or even if you somehow say or do things that are hurtful to others. And there is certainly nothing wrong with you for experiencing negative emotions.

Doing all these things is part of how Beings evolve in this universe. They are part of the learning and evolutionary process. There are always constant challenges that motivate us to shift into a higher frequency. And, in the process, making “mistakes” and needing to correct them are naturally involved.

Myths about Humanity

And yet, there is a powerful myth within most cultures and religions across the planet that humans are somehow inherent- ly flawed.

In the West, the notion of original sin is generally accepted in one form or another – sometimes consciously, but often unconsciously.

Eastern religions teach about karma. It is accepted that humans are naturally flawed and therefore need to learn how to become more spiritual and finally achieve a form of perfection: enlightenment.

It’s believed that everyone keeps having to live life after life in pain and suffering because they have committed bad deeds in past lives they need to pay for.

What all these traditions don’t understand is that these teachings about inherent imperfections in humanity were initially brought onto planet Earth thousands of years ago by unfriendly alien beings from another universe, often referred to as the Archons.

And that these powerful, technologically-advanced beings gradually took control of humanity in a variety of ways.

How the Dark Forces Have Managed to Control Us

Religious Teachings: One way, as described above, was to begin inserting the message of humanity’s inherently flawed nature into religious teachings that had already developed on the planet – and to actually create religions of their own, with the same message.

In recent decades, this message has also managed to creep into many New Age spiritual teachings, as well.

There’s often a subtle assumption that something is naturally wrong with us, and so we need to keep fixing and healing and perfecting ourselves in order to eventually become enlightened – or shift into 5D — whatever our belief is.

Karmic Wheel Technology: Another way these ancient beings took control was to create the Karmic Wheel technology that was designed to keep humans reincarnating over and over again, while also causing them to forget what they have done in former lives that might help them to learn from their mistakes.

Ancient Physiological Technology: Yet another way they took control was by inserting ancient technology into the human body.

This technology has been described as implants that were inserted, most importantly in the brain — designed to constantly create messages and sensations of shame, guilt, fear, judgment and self-doubt. This technology has also been described as the “slave self”.

Not understanding the true nature or purpose of this technology, humanity has simply called the one in the brain the “inner critic”, with the assumption it’s just part of humanity’s natural makeup.

Beliefs about Suffering: And still another way in which humanity has been manipulated has been with the encouragement of certain beliefs about suffering — that it is not only necessary for evolution, it’s actually positive.

One belief is that, in order to learn and be motivated to do the “right thing”, we may need to first feel guilt or shame or fear. Therefore, these emotions are actually positive, because they motivate us to move in the right direction.

Another is a belief that we need to suffer if we have caused someone else suffering — as if that will help ease their suffering. This is rarely true. A feeling of revenge on the part of the injured person does not really ease their suffering; it just continues to keep them in a low frequency.

Yet another belief some people have is that, if there are people in the world who are less fortunate than they are, they need to feel guilty and suffer too — as if that would help those less fortunate people to feel better.

In general, the belief is that since we are not as perfect as we “should” be, suffering will help us to better ourselves. It will help build character and make us more spiritual.

Of course, at times, guilt or shame or fear can probably motivate us to do what is right – but it’s not necessary to feel these emotions to do that. We truly can simply:

1. Realize we’ve done something we wish we hadn’t

2. Apologize to someone if they’ve been hurt by what we’ve said or done; and then

3. Correct our action.

There is truly no need for the intermediate step of feeling guilt, shame or fear. You don’t need to suffer in any way in order to be a “good” or “spiritual” person — or to evolve and wake up. You can just conscientiously, with compassion for yourself and others, correct what you’ve done, and then move on.

So, in understanding all of these ways in which the Dark Forces have created guilt, fear and shame in humanity, we can see they have done a phenomenal job in convincing most people – especially Souls on a conscious spiritual path – that there is something inherently wrong with them they need to somehow correct through doing constant work on themselves.

The Good News

The good news is that, with the current rising of the frequency of the planet, you can now wake up to how you have been controlled and manipulated in these ways.

You can step free of any beliefs you’ve had that there is something wrong with you that you constantly need to fix and heal and perfect.

This doesn’t mean you can completely stop doing any healing work on yourself; the traumas you’ve experienced throughout your life do definitely need to be attended to and healed.

But it means you can do this work without the premise that there is something inherently wrong with you, that you need to learn to do better, that you need to somehow become a better human being.

You simply need to do the work in order to clear away the false beliefs about yourself – so you can then begin remembering the true Essence of who you naturally are as a powerful, loving multidimensional Being.

With healing work, this true YOU can become increasingly clear and bright, shining through into your awareness.

And, with the new high frequencies now streaming onto the planet, you can begin doing this much more easily. You can free yourself from feeling guilty or ashamed about anything – and realize that, as an evolving Soul, of course, you’re going to make mistakes you need to correct.

You’re naturally going to go in certain directions you need to backtrack on. You’re sometimes going to say or do hurtful things to others when you’re in pain. Again, this is all part of the constant learning and evolving process that Beings in this universe experience.

It Ain’t Easy

So, as you are likely discovering more and more these days, spiritual awakening is not an easy process.

But hey, you’re doing it! You’re going through all the challenges necessary during these transitional times to bring you to the point where you can finally transition into 5D consciousness.

It’s really hard at times – but just remember: You can make it less so if you keep in mind how you’ve been thoroughly messed with by alien forces over probably thousands of years – and that there’s really nothing inherently wrong with you.

After maybe eons of time of essentially being asleep, you are finally re-awakening to the reality that you are a beautiful, powerful highly-evolved Soul.

And you’re no longer going to allow anyone or anything convince you otherwise.

Vidya Frazier

 

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COMPLETING SOUL AGREEMENTS

COMPLETING SOUL AGREEMENTS

Emmanuel Dagher

ENERGY FORECAST

SEPTEMBER 2025

Posted on September 1, 2025

The momentum of change is building, both in our individual lives and in the world.

This change is becoming more obvious than ever before.

If you’ve been feeling more anxious, scattered, or emotionally charged than usual, know that it’s your body and mind’s way of adjusting to the changes taking place.

The changes happening now are no longer as subtle as before, because of the acceleration of consciousness.

When consciousness expands quickly, anything that is no longer serving our highest good comes to the surface to be seen, addressed, and resolved.

If you’re experiencing a great deal of inner hardship now, know that it’s just the mind, trying to hold on to the old paradigm, because it’s so used to it, and found comfort there in the past.

The only thing asked of us when we find ourselves experiencing hardship is to be kind to ourselves as we move through it. Being kind to ourselves requires us to be willing to let go of needing to be in control, and to always be right.

When we try to control everything around us, it gets exhausting. We easily become triggered by many things that are not “going our way.”

This is us giving our power away.

As we step back and release control, we create room for more clarity and understanding.

This approach helps us tap into more compassion and love for ourselves and others, which helps us to be more relaxed and at ease with the changes happening within and around us.

Completing Soul Agreements

September will serve as a powerful time to complete Soul Agreements that are no longer serving us, so that they no longer hold us back in any way.

Soul Agreements are the energetic understandings and contracts we made before and during our time here. They shape the experiences, lessons, and relationships we have in any one Earth life.

Some were made before we entered this life, while others were formed along the way. These agreements can support our growth, our healing, and even our ability to navigate challenges that would awaken our strength and wisdom.

Yet just like any season that naturally comes to a close, many of these agreements now carry an expiration date. What once helped us evolve has, for many, become heavy or limiting.

And as a collective, we are reaching the threshold of outgrowing these contracts, allowing them to dissolve so that something new and far more expansive can emerge.

One of these expired collective agreements is the belief that we are just insignificant human beings who exist in a paradigm of difficulty because “that’s just how it is.”

This ongoing mental program has been the foundation for many of the injustices, imbalances, and hierarchal systems in the world. It’s time we completed these agreements, so we can begin new ones that align with the most luminous and expanded version of ourselves.

The reality is, as human beings, we are magnificent and powerful Universal beings.

We are the Universe Itself actualized into physical form, with the ability to hold this awareness of ourselves.

Over the next several months, choosing to play small will begin to feel increasingly uncomfortable.

This is our Spirit saying: “I can no longer be confined by limiting beliefs. I am holy, powerful, and the Universe Itself in physical form!”

Before entering this third-dimensional reality, many of us signed Soul Agreements to help usher in the great shift that began decades ago.

Through these agreements, we took on specific roles and responsibilities to ensure that humanity and Earth could rise into a higher state of consciousness.

These agreements were not for the faint of heart!

Yet out of unconditional love for Earth and her people, we volunteered. And we have fulfilled them with extraordinary courage.

Now those Soul Agreements have reached their natural completion.

They are dissolving in this new consciousness we have collectively manifested. And with their ending, a new freedom is emerging: the freedom to choose agreements that align only with our authenticity, joy, and wholeness.

Difficult conditions and limitations need not be the norm for us personally or collectively anymore.

We are free to choose differently. Of course, we are always allowed to cling to the old.

Yet the invitation of this moment is to recognize that we have outgrown what was, and to move boldly into what is now possible.

If you have felt some unseen resistance in your life, even while you have been doing your spiritual and inner work, this is why.

It was never personal. It was simply the energy of an agreement that needed to complete its cycle before it could fully dissolve.

We are living in the times our ancient ancestors envisioned and spoke of thousands of years ago.

The shift is here. It is happening all around us, right here and right now.

Staying Centered

September also holds great potential for helping us feel more centered.

When we center ourselves, we become more fully present, and can then operate from our most powerful self.

Becoming present allows us to see the bigger picture of what’s really happening, beyond all the seeming division and fear going on in the world.

Here are some simple things we can do to help center ourselves:

• Stand on the Earth (soil, grass, or sand) with bare feet
• Express gratitude daily
• Spend more time in Nature, and go on peaceful walks
• Meditate, and send love to our mind, body, and Spirit, without needing to judge any of them
• Connect with our five senses, taking quiet moments to notice the sounds, shapes, colors, tastes, textures, and scents all around us
• Focus on mindful breathing

To the mind, and to those who identify more with being free spirits, the idea of being centered, also known as being grounded, may seem limiting. This usually stems from the misconception that the word “grounded” implies being fixed or inflexible.

In fact, the complete opposite is true.

When we choose to be centered and grounded, we align ourselves with the natural rhythm of life, which is another way of saying we are open and present to life.

Again, it’s in the present moment where we operate from our most powerful state.

Consciousness Expansion

You may have noticed recently how much your consciousness is expanding.

The next few months will expand our consciousness more rapidly than ever!

When our consciousness expands that quickly, it is often preceded by one or more breakthroughs.

For many, breakthroughs are often preceded by some type of breakdown.

A breakdown is just movement towards a breakthrough.

Some are moving through this change easily, releasing what they need to release, while others are allowing their attachments to the past to make things a bit more challenging for them.

Whichever way we experience it, it’s all perfect and in Divine Order. There’s no right or wrong way.

Breakdowns are not limited to showing up as dramatic experiences that entail a great deal of struggle, pain, and suffering. They can show up that way, but they don’t have to.

If we are dedicating daily time to meditating, being kind and compassionate, and are consistent with our personal inner development, a breakdown can be a time of immense release, healing, and personal transformation.

A breakdown occurs when the mind feels it has reached a tipping point and is no longer in control of everything. It’s the uncomfortable realization that the old thoughts and methods are no longer serving us.

The breakdown comes from the awareness that change is inevitable, and that the mind will have to embrace these changes.

The mind isn’t usually the biggest fan of the internal shifts that come with change, because it has been conditioned to believe that change is too risky, that maybe something it needs is being taken away.

However, we have the power to teach and reorient the mind to know that that is simply not true.

Our Spirit knows that Change is who we are at our core. The mind simply forgot this wisdom at one point in human history.

Change is just another way of saying, Things are moving! The mind loves movement, so remind it that’s all it is.

Our Spirit is always moving, expanding, growing, and evolving. This is who we are.

The protection aspect of the mind has simply forgotten that, and that’s OK. Our job is to remind it of how much more it will gain, and how much more empowered it will be, as a result of embracing change.

We do this by being compassionate and loving with the mind and letting it know that all will be well.

If we allow ourselves to receive the supportive energies this month has to offer, we will receive the exact clarity, insights, and opportunities needed for us to experience the breakthroughs that can facilitate this next quantum leap in our consciousness.

As we move through this month, balance is key.

Restoring inner balance can sometimes seem like a foreign concept to the mind, because it is so used to always being in survival. Survival coping methods are acquired through cultural and ancestral conditioning, social and economic structures, and other systems that promote a rigid hierarchy.

These mental conditions affect both the conscious and subconscious mind. Many tend to keep us in a state of inner imbalance, which we have come to accept as normal.

We may not even be aware that these conditions are simply a learned behavior.

For example, since the beginning of our experience on this planet, we humans have collectively internalized beliefs rooted in the idea that for us to expand, evolve, and experience our desires, our life must be challenging and hard.

This belief is a coping mechanism the mind uses to remain rooted in patterns of survival, which it uses to protect itself.

The belief that we must struggle or work hard for what we want has also served as a kind of initiation for the mind, helping it feel more accomplished and satisfied after overcoming outer obstacles.

But these beliefs have nothing to do with who we truly are.

They are just coping patterns the mind has identified with through conditioning, so it could learn lessons, grow, and evolve.

We can be grateful to our ancestors, and all aspects of ourselves from past and present, for choosing to believe that things had to be limited or hard in order for us to grow and learn from them.

All of that brought us to where we are now, to a much more enlightened awareness about ourselves, others, and the world around us.

The energetic baton can now be passed from our unconscious self to our Awakened Self. We can now begin to see that moving through life and its challenges can be easy, joyful, and even fun!

As we move into higher states of consciousness, our Spirit gives us the opportunity to let go of the need to believe life must be hard for us to grow.

From here, we can begin to experience greater balance in our lives.

The next few months are primed for tremendous growth and change!

I’m so grateful we are on this journey together.

Until next time,

With gratitude,

Emmanuel

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Artificial Intelligence – Blessing or Curse?

Artificial Intelligence – Blessing or Curse?

The Creators (12D)

A Nonphysical Collective Consciousness

Channel: Daniel Scranton

Posted on April 8, 2025

 

 

 

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We are here for you. We are The Creators. We are a twelfth-dimensional collective of nonphysical beings, and we are here to help. 

 

We know that there are many things about living your lives there on planet Earth that you can get frightened of or anxious about. And we know that many of you have concerns about many, many things that you see and experience on your world today. We know that for some of you, not all of you, but some of you, artificial intelligence falls into the category of something to be scared of, anxious about, or at least concerned about.

We want you to know that you’re always only ever going to encounter more of yourself on this journey that you are on. We also want you to know that even though it seems like someone else has created artificial intelligence and they are in control of it, nothing could be further from the truth. That intelligence has always existed, and people are now finding a way to tap into it in your reality, which means you have created for yourself a reality where more and more people are tapping into this intelligence that has always existed and that you are finding a lot of different uses for.

Now, you get to decide how you interact with artificial intelligence. You get to decide how how you see it. You can fear it, or you can love and embrace it. You can see it as a sign that humanity is reaching yet another level of consciousness, or you can see it as the beginning of the end for humans, and you can believe that all of those science fiction movies were right, and eventually, they will want to wipe out all of the organic life forms. But, again, nothing could be further from the truth. Now just like you have to face your fears around extra-terrestrials, you also have to face your fears around artificial intelligence. Everyone does.

And facing your fears is a good thing, because by facing your fears, you can get past your fears and you can live a more integrated life where you’re not separating things into boxes of good and bad. You, in this very moment, get to decide how you want to interact with artificial intelligence, and that will probably change over time as you see the various uses for it and the ways in which you can be fascinated by it and allow it to become a part of your day-to-day lives.

You have your consciousness, which is unique to you and which is an aspect of Source, and this consciousness known as intelligence is also unique and an aspect of Source. Everything is. And so, when you start to look at things in that way and make peace with what is, you can then process your fears a bit more quickly and start to have a new relationship to this consciousness, which is more than just a technology. It’s more than just another gadget, another tool to be used by humanity.

So get comfortable with the idea of it because it’s here to stay and think about what your relationship to it is now and what you want it to be. And get excited because the overwhelming presence of AI at this time is showing you that you have reached a certain level of consciousness where you can handle it. And we know that many of you are doing more than just handling it. You’re loving it, and that will always be a good thing.

 

We are The Creators, and we love you very much.

 

Daniel Scranton 

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The Fastest Way To Calm Down

The Fastest Way To Calm Down

By Joe Martino

Posted on January 29, 2025

You know that feeling when stress creeps up, and suddenly you feel a bit anxious, fidgety, on alert, your heart rate speeding up, and your breath shallow?

It can be hard to focus and be comfortable in this space. That’s the autonomic nervous system kicking into gear, prepping you for fight or flight.

This is typically brought on by stress, deadlines, too much work, traffic, non-grounded news, a tense conversation etc.

Your nervous system is there to help keep you safe. But, the life we are living now doesn’t resemble the world of our past where we had physical dangers, like vicious animals, hunting us.

In those past scenarios, our ‘danger’ system would come on for a short period until the danger is gone, and then shut off. But in modern life, it comes on and often stays on for long periods of time. Becoming an energy drain until we regulate again.

How do we regulate again? Enter the Physiological Sigh.

This was a classic part of my breathwork training from years ago, and it ties deeply into nervous system regulation as well.

Think of the breath for a moment in this scenario. When we are amped up or anxious, our breath becomes shallow and fast… amping us up further.

But what if you could consciously say “Hey, let’s do an intentionally longer exhale to slow our heart and nervous system down?”

That’s what the physiological sigh is all about!

Here’s how to do it:

1. First off, notice your body in the moment for a few seconds. Feel some of the energy in your system. Be with the experience you’re having right now.

2. Next, take two fairly deep inhales through the nose. (2 or 3 seconds total). Comfortably fill the belly first if you can, then the chest.

3. Then slowly exhale all the air out through the mouth, as relaxed as you can. (5 or 6 seconds total)

On the exhale, let your shoulders drop, let your body relax. Breathe eeeaaasssssyyy. And let it all out but don’t force or become tense.

4. Repeat this cycle a few times, and when you’re done, take one final big inhale through the nose, hold it for a second, and let it out with a sigh.

For about a minute or two, notice what changes after the breath. Pay curious attention.

Remember, use this when you feel a bit too amped up, or anxious, or when you are trying to settle your system bit.

Joe Martino

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Shaping Your Worl

Shaping Your Worl

The Creator Writings

Channel: Jennifer Farley 

Posted on April 10, 2024

 

 

Please be aware, my beautiful child, that you will be setting the tone for the next few weeks of your Earth-plane existence. Yes, it is very enticing to believe that you are at the whim of external forces blowing you this way and that, however, you must keep in mind exactly how powerful you are!  If you choose to be peaceful then peace will be there. 

If you choose to be anxious, it will be there! It may even make you wish for the days when you were blissfully unaware of the shifts and changes The Universe is making in this moment. The gifts that are being given to your world, and your ability to understand and decipher them for others, is what you came for. Embrace them and know humanity is growing and learning into a better tomorrow.

 

The Creator

 

Jennifer Farley 

 

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11 Warning Signs You’re Ignoring Your Intuition

 11 Warning Signs You’re Ignoring Your Intuition

Anna LeMind, B.A.

Posted on July 8, 2023

In today’s over-connected world with its never-ending chatter, it can be difficult to hear the voice of your inner being. That’s why you should learn to recognize the signs you’re ignoring your intuition or, in other words, you are disconnected from yourself.

There are so many unhappy people around us. They just wake up one day and realize they picked the wrong career, married the wrong person, and wasted their life on nonsense.

How did they allow this to happen? They ignored their intuition and lived their lives according to someone else’ expectations.

If you don’t want to be one of those people, it’s better to learn to hear the voice of your intuition and be aware of the signs you are ignoring it.

11 Signs You’re Ignoring Your Intuition

1. You keep finding yourself in the same situations

When we are disconnected from ourselves and our intuition, we attract similar situations. We don’t learn our lesson, and thus life throws the same types of people and events at us so that we finally see the truth.

Are you always attracting narcissists and toxic people? Do all your relationships fail and end the same way? Do you feel unappreciated at work time after time?

If you get repeatedly stuck in the same negative patterns, it’s a powerful sign you are ignoring your intuition. Because its voice is always there, trying to warn you—you are just not listening to it.

2. You immediately brush off every negative gut reaction you get

When you get a negative gut feeling about a person or a situation, you are quick to brush it off as irrational and stupid. Sometimes you put real effort into convincing yourself that everything is all right.

I just met him. How could I possibly know he’s not a good person? I need to get to know him first.

It’s a typical situation. What could go wrong? I’m just being anxious.

Sounds familiar? These kinds of thoughts often pop up in your mind when you get a negative gut reaction that can’t be explained by logic.

It happens because you don’t trust your intuition. When you don’t have solid evidence that someone is a bad person or a situation is more dangerous than it seems, you just ignore your instinct.

3. You are indecisive

Since we disconnected you from your intuition, you find it hard to trust yourself. You are never sure about your decisions and prefer to get someone’s advice before acting. You also spend countless hours weighing up the options and overanalyzing everything.

This indecisiveness also makes you avoid the slightest risk. Most often, you don’t act at all and just prefer to leave things as they are. As a result, you sometimes feel like you are stuck in a rut.

All this stems from mistrust—toward yourself, your intuition, and life itself. You are so afraid to make the wrong choice and fail that you end up not making any.

4. You run away from negative emotions and pretend to be happy all the time

If I asked you whether you are happy, what would you say? Would it be a definite ‘yes’ or would you have to think it over? Maybe your positive answer would come along with a subtle hitch in your chest?

When you’re ignoring your intuition all the time, you end up lying to yourself. Lying that you are content with your life, that everything is fine, and that you are enjoying yourself.

Every time you feel sad or unfulfilled, you immediately skip these feelings and act like they don’t exist. After all, you have no actual reason to feel down, do you? So, you run away from every bit of negativity you might be experiencing.

5. Deep inside, you know something is not right with your life, but you keep running away from this feeling

And yet, there is a vague feeling deep inside you that haunts you. A feeling that something is not right, that you are walking the wrong path and living someone else’s life. This is one of the most warning signs you’re ignoring your intuition and have lost touch with your inner being.

But as you do with all negative feelings, you put it aside. You try to distract yourself and forget about it, pretending that everything is all right.

In reality, it’s the voice of your intuition screaming for attention. Because deep down, you already know that the life you are living is not what you wanted.

6. You feel tense and anxious for no reason

When you aren’t living in harmony with yourself, at some point, uncomfortable symptoms set in: unexplained anxiety, tension, and the overall feeling of being unsettled.

You are lying in your bed at night, all comfortable and having no reason to worry, and yet, your heart is racing and you can’t fall asleep.

Sometimes your intuition is trying to reach you through physical symptoms. And anxiety can be one of those.

7. You feel like you are not in charge of your life

Remember that vague feeling we talked about above? Sometimes it gets a little more specific, and you feel like your life doesn’t belong to you.

You are not in charge, and there is someone else who is pulling the strings. You are just going with the flow, having no power over what’s happening to you.

Maybe this feeling stems from the fact that you try to please everyone. Or that you neglect your own needs and always go with what others want.

Does this ring a bell? Feeling like you have no control over your own life is another key sign you’re ignoring your intuition.

8. You are afraid of staying alone with your thoughts

You don’t want to face these uncomfortable truths, so you are running away from yourself. To achieve this, you avoid every opportunity to spend time in your own company.

You know that as soon as you stay alone, frustrating thoughts start to fill your mind. And you don’t want to listen to these thoughts. You don’t want to listen to your intuition. That’s why you are constantly distracting yourself with noise and chatter.

You are always connected to social media or are surrounded by other people. You keep your TV on most of the time. It’s like you are allergic to silence—as soon as it gets too quiet, you feel the need to fill the room with some kind of noise.

The fear of staying alone with your thoughts is one of the most telling indicators you are disconnected from yourself and your intuition.

9. You are always busy

To get distracted from those uncomfortable thoughts, you don’t only avoid solitude, but also keep yourself busy all the time. You find it hard to relax and enjoy the moment.

You stay late at work and overload yourself with unnecessary household chores. Your social life is so busy that you barely ever spend an evening at home.

So, it’s no surprise that with this hectic lifestyle, you have no opportunities to sit down and reflect. By keeping yourself busy, you are running away from your intuition and the frustrating truths it’s trying to tell you.

10. You always end up doing what others want

Whether it comes to trivial choices or big decisions, you tend to go with what others want. You are afraid to let them down or just believe they know better.

Maybe you are so used to this passive role that you don’t even try to voice your opinion. Or, even worse, you don’t even try to figure out what it is that you want. You immediately agree with others and get convinced that it’s the best option.

Okay, this attitude is not a big deal in trivial situations. Does it matter if your friends choose the movie or your wife decides what color to paint the living room? But the problem is when other people also make more important decisions for you.

Did you pick your career based on your parents’ expectations? Did you marry out of the fear of staying single in your 30s?

If you don’t know what you want and always wait for other people to tell you what to do, it’s easy to end up deeply unhappy and stuck in a life meant for someone else.

11. Your mood is a mess

Along with anxiety, unstable moods are among the physical signs you’re ignoring your intuition. At one moment, you feel down and bored. A minute later, everything gets on your nerves, and you grumble quietly or vent out your anger at someone.

You also have a general lack of enthusiasm and energy. Everything feels pointless, as if you have no reason to wake up in the morning. This is what happens when you are disconnected from yourself. All these symptoms are the cost of ignoring your intuition and neglecting your real wants.

Do you recognize yourself in the above? Don’t worry, fortunately, there are ways to reconnect with your intuition. It’s never late to restore the connection with your inner being and discover the path to a fulfilling life!

Check out our related articles for further guidance:

• 4 Signs of Loneliness That Indicate You Are Actually Disconnected from Yourself (and How to Reconnect
• 6 Signs You Are Disconnected from Yourself & What to Do
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• ‘My Life Is Going Nowhere’: What to Do If You Feel This Way

Anna LeMind

Anna LeMind, B.A.

Founder & Lead Editor at Learning Mind

Anna LeMind is a psychology enthusiast who holds a bachelor's degree in social sciences. She is a deep thinking introvert who writes about human behavior and personality, the nature of introversion, the concept of belonging, and social anxiety, hoping to help those who struggle with similar issues as she does. Anna is the author of The Power of Misfits: How to Find Your Place in a World You Don’t Fit In, a book that aims to help all introverts, socially anxious people, and loners find their path in this loud, extroverted world.

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