New Beginnings

The heavens are aligning in a particularly inspirational way this weekend, as we celebrate the spring equinox – marking the birth of a new astrological year – and Easter, traditionally a period of rebirth, at the same time. If that’s not a clue, I don’t know what is …

To get with the programme, make sure you carve out some time for yourself over the Easter break to consider how to invite the energy of a new direction into your life. It’s a time of regeneration – letting go of the old and making room for the new to take shape. That spaciousness comes from introspection and opening up to intuitive inklings of what might be ready to be expressed in your life.

If you’re a regular reader, you already know that stillness is the key when you’re looking for inner guidance. What you might not know is that the author of Practical Intuition, Laura Day, considers that there are four main personality responses to crisis that affect how you receive and interpret intuition. They reflect the fundamental ways in which you respond to difficulty – through anger, denial, depression or anxiety.

According to Day, each of those approaches carries within it a specific gift. Anger has passion, denial contains effectiveness, depression bears wisdom and anxiety incorporates awareness. Each one deals with things differently when life doesn’t go well and therefore needs a different type of preparation for opening up to the intuition that will guide them out of difficult circumstances.

As she says, “Each type has a different way of meditating. An Anger type needs to discharge some of their energy. Instead of sitting and chanting, what they need to do is maybe run a quarter mile or do a hundred jumping jacks.

“A Denial type needs to release some of the fear. Once the denial type sees what’s wrong and has the courage to do that, they can solve anything. What they need to do is something that makes them feel, whether it’s a song that makes them cry a little, seeing a friend that warms their heart or looking at an old photo album to get them back into their feeling self. That gives them the peace that they need.

“A Depression type is afraid of action because they’re already exhausted just by the idea of life. The first thing a Depression type needs to do to intuit clearly is to find support. They should make their environment supportive – get a comfortable chair, have a beverage – making them feel like they’re taken care of first and then their intuition will flow accurately.

“Anxiety types’ nemesis is confusion. Anxiety types get so much information all the time intuitively and can do absolutely nothing with it. All it does is make them anxious about things they’re never going to encounter. What they need to do is to break their intuitive inquiries down – make a list of questions and do each one step-by-step. They need to order their experience.”
You can find short, guided ‘audio experiences’ for each of these response types at http://www.welcometoyourcrisis.com/experiences.html. They’ll help you to relax and tap into your intuition in a way that’s best suited to your personality.

That should get you geared up for a little seasonal inspiration and intuition. Have a heavenly Easter break!

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