How to Know if It's Your Intuition or Imagination

As a Spiritual Life Coach, something that I have learned on my own healing journey has been experiencing the amplification of my intuition over the last few years. It’s a fascinating dance—one that, I must admit, hasn’t always been comfortable for myself or my clients.

Why Your Intuition is Vital to Spiritual Growth

Opening up to your spiritual intuition is like unlocking a language within yourself.

Yet, it’s usually not a smooth process, as it is common for your trauma to often block your intuition without you even knowing it.

As you embark deeper within, you will bump into triggers that can feel uncomfortable to look at and even be misconstrued as fear – appearing as guidance.

As you experience more healing in your life, distinguishing between your intuition, trauma, and imagination becomes crucial to your spiritual growth.

Through my own Spiritual Healing work, I’ve honed the skill of discernment.

Intuition has a unique delivery—often the first instinct, characterized by a steady and certain energy. It’s a divine language that speaks through the essence of being.

How to Recognize Your Intuition

You feel a calm voice emanating from the gut.

Information is delivered to you gently, in whispers.

Certainty and knowing accompany the intuitive message.

It just feels right in the heart, even if the head struggles to comprehend.

When it’s Likely Your Imagination

A dreamy voice originates from your head

Your visuals are ideal, precisely pointing at your desires.

There’s a disorienting, lost energy that follows the visual.

It feels distracting and may lead to procrastination.

If you find yourself needing to reconnect with your intuition, I encourage you to ground yourself in your body.

When you ground your energy you will feel a centered sense of wellbeing come back into your energetics. This helps you then gain a stable energetic posture to connect your gut and your heart, which is the beginning of being able to accurately decipher between your intuition, trauma and imagination.

This inward journey inward becomes a portal into having a dialogue with your innermost self.

When it’s Likely Disguised Trauma

It’s important to also consider if it’s intuition or trauma. Are you certain that you are listening to your intuition that just gave you that message? or are your traumas leading you down the wrong path?

Here’s how to know if it’s coming from trauma:

❌ A fearful voice from the gut

❌ The information is racing, chaotic, uncertain

❌ There is a rushed energy, feels like you are wrong and need to act now

❌ it feels distracting and may lead to pleasing others over honoring your path

How Do You Know When It’s Your Intuition?

To reiterate, the litmus test lies in the calm gut voice, the gentle whispers, the undeniable certainty, and the alignment with your heart’s truth. It’s a language worth learning—one that leads you deeper into the profound realms of your spiritual path.

All of these voices, whether it comes from trauma, imagination or intuition, could say the exact same thing but its not about the message, its about how its delivered.

For example, intuition doesn’t say “don’t take a left”, intuition goes “turn right”.

The way intuition comes through is gentle and loving. It doesn’t use fear to motivate you.

As a Spiritual Life Coach, my purpose is to empower you to navigate this inner landscape, helping you unlock the profound wisdom that resides within. Trust the language of intuition—it’s your inner compass pointing the way on this transformative path.

If you’re an aspiring intuitive coach, I welcome you to become an exceptional Spiritual Life Coach and learn two decades of experience in just 5 months in our transformational spiritual life coach certification.

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By Sophie Frabotta, M.A.
Author,Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Healer

I am a heart-centered, soul leader who is so honored to be doing this work. With over 10,000 hours of 1-1 experience, a leader in the field of Spiritual Life Coaching, and a Globally recognized Spiritual Life Coach Certification – I teach students the depth of real transformation in a way that most have never seen. Having transformed my own body, mind and spirit, I am honored to take you into your inner chamber, show you how to lift out of karmic soul wounds and stabilize your higher vibration in 5D.

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