You’ve formulated a pressing question for your intuition to answer. You’ve quieted your mind sufficiently to hear the whisper of an answer. You’ve asked your intuition the question expecting an answer. How do you capture intuition’s quiet answers?

Intuitive Listening is Like Fishing

Listening for an answer from your inner voice is a bit like fishing. When you go fishing, you put the bait out; you relax; you wait motionless; and you let your mind wander until you feel the slightest stirring. An answer to the question you’ve posed to your intuition may not come immediately. Stay open to the answer throughout the day. And sometimes, the fish just aren’t biting, and it’s best to try another day.

Pay Attention to the Simplest Answer

The next step in listening for an intuitive answer is to pay attention to whatever comes. Sometimes inner voice answers seem too simple, or too obvious, as truth often is. For example, I had a friend who was an avid runner and who began to experience heel pain. She went to the podiatrist who recommend medication and shoe inserts and told her to stop running. She followed the doctor’s advice, but her heel pain persisted. She then asked her inner voice what she could do to alleviate her heel pain. The answer that came was, “Better shoes would help.” She went out and bought new athletic shoes, dress shoes, and sandals; and the pain went away. The answer she was looking for, and received, was so simple and obvious, but was overlooked without guidance from her intuition.

Write Down Your Answer

The final step in listening for an answer from your intuition is write down any answer that do you receive. Why? Words of guidance can be so easy to forget. Have you ever played the “telephone game” as a child? In that game, a phrase is written on a piece of paper and whispered into the ear of the first person in a line. That person whispers the phrase to the next person in the line, who, in turn, whispers it to the next person, and so on down the line to the last person. The last person in the line speaks out loud what she heard—and what she heard is always, and often humorously, different from what’s been written down. If you write down the question that you are asking your intuition, and you write down the answer given, you can compare the results, and feelings, of following your intuition to the answer that you received and the question that you asked. Many use a journal to record how their successful solutions resulted from following the accurately recorded answers they received to their intuitive questions.

A Proven Approach

What is a proven approach to listening for an answer from your intuition? Once you’ve formulated the question, quieted the mind, and asked your question expecting an answer, then listen intently and patiently, pay attention to whatever comes, and write down the answer.

Try it! You’ll be pleased with the results.

Author's Bio: 

Jim Wawro, Author, "Ask Your Inner Voice". While trying cases as an international lawyer, I discovered that some people have learned the secret to actively calling on inspiration whenever they need it. My books reveal the proven methods used by history's greats and regular people alive today for actively tapping into the wisdom that lies within you. Read more at the website linked in my profile.