What is intuition to you? In my experience it's always about truth... the truth that leads me more and more into the real-ness of who I am. Sometimes I go willingly, excited and thrilled... at other times I go kicking and screaming - but the end result of truth and working with intuition is ALWAYS good, leading to more of the REAL me.

Intuition is a delight. It helps us "be real and stay real"...especially when we're tempted to put responsibilities, expectations and pressures, over and above what's "really" important (truth). While our logical mind sorts out the details, intuition's role in providing big picture persepctive is invaluable. Today's intuitive inspiration comes from the life of Helen Keller who puts into perspective, some of the busy-ness and overwhelm in our 21st century world:

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. " ~Helen Keller~

Reading these words reminds me how Intuition is the soft, subtle background voice on the edge of our busy minds that constantly reminds us to be real; to identify our true priorities, to take one step at a time, to dispell illusions and false myths, to be okay in our simple "being-ness," and know that that is enough.

Intuitive Exercise:
So consider the following questions (these are worth journalling by the way):
Close your eyes, get grounded, take a deep breath and write down your answers:

- You cannot do everything, however are there areas in your life where you may be attempting to just that?
- What is the "something" that you can do?
- How does this "something" relate to being real, inner truth and priorities?
- What shift or changes can you apply (name three) that will help you to stay true to the something that you can do?

While deaf and blind, Helen Keller couldn't do everything, but she did do the "something" she was capable of. She was the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college and went on to become a world-famous speaker, author and a radical campaigner for workers' rights and an advocate for many other progressive causes.

Helen honoured the sacredness of her something and created an extraordinary life that she mentored for others:

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."

Are you sacrificing your intuitive power for the illusion of security?

Come back to the "something" that you can do, and notice the sense of relief, guidance and joy that percolates your experience.

Q: Then it is by living from our true self that we are free from injury?

A: Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so. (Vernon Howard: The Power of your Supermind)

Intuition assists us in the process of truth, self knowing and expansion; it reminds us of the wisdom that Helen Keller noted: we can't do everything, but we can do something. And that something is what you were born to do!