Intuitive Leadership

Great post Lolly. You make me think of how important it is to promote self-awareness in leadership. The more leaders understand themselves and the happier they are the better they help others grow and succeed. I really like the idea of people figuring out what their inner voice is saying and paying attention to it by living and leading genuinely.

Thanks Lolly for one of your most important posts ever. Intuition is a gift that everyone has within themselves. It is the gift that keeps on giving–yet many of us seem to loose our attention to our inner voice. Intuition is a direct communication from God/Higher Power mediated through one’s True Self to guide our heart, mind, and behavior and, as you share, allow us to “sense and know truth without explanations”.

In a cognitive world, affective is less understood and often mistrusted. Heart-led intuition is based on deep-seeded energies that probably have some connectivity to certain regions of our brain, thus providing humans with a powerful one-two punch of heart/mind wisdom potential that can accomplish amazing things.

You correctly state that, “many disconnect, ignore, betray or invalidate it” . I believe our society does not yet sufficiently value this gift because most children are not taught to value and use their intuition by their primary caretakers, specifically parents and our school system (especially K-4), who for the most part, do not nurture intuition in young children.

Want to change the world for the better? Teach a generation of young children to value, listen, and understand how to best optimize their intuitive gifts. It’s time for parents and K-4 teachers to start changing the world.

Lolly, I appreciate your point that everyone has access to intuition and that it is a gift that should be trusted. Some people seem to be more intuitive than others. But often I hear from people that deep inside they had a bad feeling about something that they didn’t voice, only the find out later that they should have paid attention to that voice. That voice was their intuition. What should people do who want to develop their intuition? My suggestion is to start listening to that inner voice. I’m curious what suggestions you and others might have.

Best line ever: “Lead From Within: Let go of saying you don’t know and move inward to the knowing.” PERFECT!!!

Thank you, for calling it forth!

Richard,

IN-teresting comment.

It IN-voles some thinking.

IN-viting you to come back soon.

Lolly

Great post, Lolly. When we betray our inner voice, we end up living a divided life, and limit our own personal power and capacity to lead others.

My name for our inner voice/intuition? Our heart space. And yes, learning to tune into that space does indeed require courage, trust and surrender!

I was trying to remember how it was that I got here, and I got to thinking that it must have been on intuition. And I thought reading your post, I should write a short poem about Intuition. So somewhat inspired by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi book ‘Flow’ my own experiences of living with intuition,and leadfromwithin, here it is. Excuse the rawness.

Intuition the Stallion

Intuition is always roaming the plains,
enveloping vast acres, looking for gains.
There at a whistle ready to fly,
I grab his mane, leap up, and ride him high.

Balance, feel, ease my grip, and perceive.
pure intuition,
galloping, gaining speed.

Ground out of sight, Intuition in flight.
Close my eyes now, let him go,
Awake, to the flow.

Hi Lolly,
This post hits home for me. I am very intuitive and for years have faced the data brigade in many parts of my life — who not only doubt intuition (as you say disconnect) — but also cast aspersions on intuition and intuitives.

I have learned to peacefully coexist with them. I also came up with a way to explain intuition that makes it less scary for them.

http://katenasser.com/new-leaders-develop-your-intuition/

Thanks for your wonderfully inspired post Lolly.
Best,
Kate

Hi Lolly,

Thanks for calling attention to now being the time that leaders must step forward and use their intuition.

As someone who guides people on how to develop and trust their intuition, I had a good laugh when I recently attended a workshop on “Becoming More Quantum”(to deal with the rapid changes in the world) and found out it was all about trusting intuition.

It’s really that simple, isn’t it? Our intuitive selves have access to so much more information than we’ll ever be able to logically comprehend.

As leaders in a world that delivers so much data and many conflicting points of view, we’re the ones who need to take the leap of faith first and trust the knowing that reveals itself to us.

Lolly, I look forward to many more inspiring posts and words of wisdom!

Warmly,

Dianna

Hi Lolly

Do you think intuition holds ‘more weight’ for decisions close to home than those far from home? In other words the things that we are accustomed to and deal with regularly are close to home.