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How to Trust Your Intuition: The Pause, Stillness & Listening Method · The Inspired Speaker Network

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  You are listening to the Awakening Woman on the Rise.
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  If you are a woman who is seeking to live a more authentic life,
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  but are feeling not enough to step out fully just yet, you are in the right place.
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  If you are a woman who is looking to live your personal truth
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  and make the impact you truly desire, you are in the right place.
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  I'm your host, Wendy Yacboski. Let's step out in this together.
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  So where do you find your truest answers?
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  Let me share with you where I have found mine over the past few years.
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  As a non-denominational minister, as you can imagine, I've done a lot of reading,
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  a lot of studying spiritual books. I've been very much into personal development,
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  so I've read a lot of personal development books.
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  And what I found is that I got away from listening to myself
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  and got into a place where someone else, some author, some teacher, whoever it was,
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  has my answers for me, what they know I need to know so that I can tell others about it.
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  And in that way, I'll have to be honest, I felt safer in what I was sharing.
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  But what I came to find was that I wasn't feeling grounded in my being with it.
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  I was starting to feel confident intellectually because I understood different principles,
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  I remembered different points, I knew they were important to others in order to
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  perhaps let go or to embrace something in their lives.
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  But I wasn't embodying it where I was living it, I needed to get it into my heart.
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  So one of the things I've done for personal development throughout the years
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  is I learned how to get still. I learned how to, well, the first way I did that was actually through
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  meditation. And I remember, you might relate to this yourself if you have ever meditated,
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  I used to be afraid to let go because if I was listening to my inner wisdom,
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  then my higher wisdom, which I called God, would tell me something about myself that either I
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  didn't like or that I needed to do that I didn't want to do. Have you ever had that experience?
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  So it makes you not really want to go in very much if you have those kinds of thoughts about yourself.
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  But here's the thing that I've learned is that I am safe in the stillness. I am safe in the silence
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  because once I believed that life, not the world life, but the spiritual life is for me,
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  I knew there was nothing to fear. I wouldn't be told, I wouldn't hear anything that wasn't
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  coming from love. It would only be for my highest and best. And in being able to
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  allow that to be my truth with practice, I started feeling like I was embodying
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  a greater wisdom than I had ever gotten from books. Now, don't get me wrong.
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  Reading is a good thing. Studying is a good thing. And the third thing that is really good
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  is about embodying it. And we don't know what we embody until we actually go within.
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  What do I really believe? What do I really think? Can I feel myself doing this?
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  So it's one of the ways that has helped me to move forward that is critical, is critical to my sense
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  of self. Because there are times, who doesn't, where I maybe worry about a decision that I
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  want to make. Maybe I worry about the result of something. The only way that I get peace
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  is by going within and getting quiet. And that framework is a three-piece process.
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  It begins with pausing. Once we've paused, we get still, which is a deeper level yet.
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  And the third part is that we listen within, a deeper level yet. Now, those might sound
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  like they're the same thing, but they're actually not. They are three different steps. Getting quiet,
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  getting out of the noise, and the world is really noisy right now, is essential
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  to hearing the truth that we are looking for within ourselves, that guidance that is here for us
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  all the time. Let me ask you, have you ever tried to find an answer when your mind is racing?
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  What you should do, what you should remember, what you should be thinking, whatever that is,
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  it doesn't work, right? We need to do something differently. We can't force an answer. We can't
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  force a truth out of ourselves. We need to open to it, allow it to express itself.
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  I have had experiences that are really the most incredible. I wonder to myself,
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  where did that come from? Those words, that urging, that truth that I just knew was true,
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  but yet when I tried to think about it all the time, it just couldn't come. It feels so important
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  for me to help you to be able to allow yourself to have the space to hear what's actually within you,
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  not what you and I and all of us have been conditioned to do to be successful,
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  which is to listen to others, how they did it. How many of you have experienced
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  somebody saying, wow, that person is fantastic. You're going to just get where you want to go
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  by listening to that person. You did your best, you worked your butt off to do it the way they
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  did it, but something just wasn't working. What wasn't working is your and my truth
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  that comes from us. That's where we need to go. My wish for you is that through this podcast today,
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  through each podcast that you listen to, that you open more and more to your authentic truth,
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  that soul of you that is speaking, even when you can't hear it, always speaking, always loving,
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  always supporting. As we move through these podcasts, you are going to find ways that work
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  for you to pause, to get still, and to listen within.