The 4 Styles of Personal Growth: Intuition

Welcome back to my series on the 4 styles of personal growth. For those who have missed part of it, you can find the third part of the series here, the second part of the series here, and the first part of the series here.

Summing Up:

To recap, the intuitive path involves shunning long-term plans and goals, and putting trust in one's intuition. It's a fairly rare path, and certainly not for most beginners. However, if the intuitive's intuition is well-developed it can lead to excellent results. Unlike other paths, which must use some intuition, people who embrace the intuitive path trust their intuition implicitly to help them grow. Other than following their intuition, they have no or very few plans or goals.

Generally the only real way to know that the intuitive path is working is to look back after being on the path for a while, and seeing where it has taken you. Truly it is the most esoteric of the paths I intend to discuss, but I'll do my best to do it justice.

Growth:

Unlike most paths, intuitives are equally suited for all areas of growth depending on what intuition tells them. They are neither strong, nor weak in any area, and can use this to their advantage by instinctively focusing on whatever area needs work and working on it at full strength. An intuitive may not even define what field they are working on. It requires being comfortable with ambiguity.

Subtypes:

Intuitive / Progressive (I/P): An I/P is by necessity different from a regular intuitive. Intuition is all about not making plans, whereas progression is all about making precise plans. Generally an I/P will instinctively know what goals to set for. Rather than logically working it out, they will simply trust their subconscious to set a goal, then bring it into the conscious by defining it through writing or typing the requirements.

Intuitive / Research (I/R): An I/R is exactly what you'd think. Despite using their intuition to grow, they aren't going to be caught unprepared. After figuring out what they want to achieve, they will arm themselves with information on the topic in order to achieve maximum effectiveness with it. If an I/R wanted to get fitter, you can bet they'd research a lot about it.

Intuitive / Self-Trust (I/S) An I/S is as close to a pure intuitive as you're likely to get. Intuition and self-trust are very similar: indeed, to the untrained eye they may seem the same. However intuition comes from a force outside yourself, whereas self-trust is very internal. With practice, an I/S learns to seperate these cues and make them work together to know exactly what they have to do for certain almost every time.

Shifting:

If your intuition is weak, you feel cut off from it, or you simply want to make a change, this section is for you. Personal growth is malleable, and a good growth expert will be able to call upon all paths in varying degrees of expertise. Here's what you may need to do if:

You're not getting results.

Your intuition probably isn't developed enough to make the path work effectively. Progression is what you need, especially since your next goal is clear. If you want to go back to intuition, you need to increase it's strength. There are several ways to do this, including meditation, changing your diet to be closer to nature, and progressive training: i.e, giving your intuition simpler tasks than taking over all your growth at once.

All these can be easily defined. If you don't want to go back to intuition, simply go over what your weakest area is, and set goals to work on that.

You know what to do, but you're failing.

You know you need to do X, but obstacles keep popping up. You need to become a Researcher temporarily. Most likely the problems you're facing have already been solved by people, and a favourite tactic of bloggers is to teach people to solve problems they've already solved (believe me, I know). Most likely you can find the answer if you go deep enough. There's more to everything than meets the eye.

However, if all your research is going nowhere, perhaps you aren't taking intuition far enough. Maybe you're on the wrong path. But only do this if research fails: and give it a couple of weeks of dedicated research. Give it a chance.

You don't feel secure.

You feel like you're giving too much control of your life to outside forces, but at the same time, you don't know how to take control. You need to turn to Self-Trust. Self-Trust is similar to intuition, but it's internal so you have complete control. If necessary, work your way up to trusting yourself more. If you already trust yourself, translate that trust into a dominant force.

Conclusion

The intuition path has it's pros and cons, but in the hands of a skilled intuitive is an excellent path to take. It's not easy to master, but the rewards are certainly worth it. If you want to become an intuitive but don't yet have the skill for it, try progressive training of your intuition. The more you trust it, the better it will work for you.

Until next time, may you know what you must do.