This is part one of my findings and currently thinking…
Super quick – what is inspired action? The Law of Inspired Action is the lesser-known cousin of The Law of Attraction (there are actually 12 laws in total). It’s a state of mind where you follow your energy to inform your actions. Less thinking and analysing – more being and doing. Do what feels right. Do what makes you feel like you. Allowing yourself to be guided by more than a cerebral process. For the purpose of this blog I’ll be using ‘inspired action’ to relate to specific actions but ‘intuitive living’ as a way of describing applying the ‘doing what feels right’ in a broader sense.
Inspired action is something I’d been looking at and playing with for a while. It’s even more relevant right now with the social restrictions in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. People are getting to experience this way of ‘being’ without even realising it. I asked a friend of mine how he was coping with lockdown and what he’s been up to. His response was that he’s been doing ‘whatever comes to mind’, whatever he feels like, and it’s been great! If that isn’t confirmation that people are experiencing this without knowing what it is then I don’t know what is! Also, a great prompt to finish writing this blog! For many there aren’t the pressures of work, taking kids to school and other things that fill your mind and create an ever-increasing rolling ‘to-do’ list. Many people have been able to slow down the pace of life enough to experience something different – intuitive living.
When you make a big life change (or even if you don’t) and especially after experiencing an awakening, it can be confusing where to spend your time and energy – if you have any energy that is. What should I be doing with my life? What should I do today? Why do some things flow and others feel like an uphill struggle? So many questions. This is what sparked the start of the experiment. Is there a better way to know where to spend my time and know it’s right? Surely this would help reduce stress and provide more confidence in what I was doing? Time to find out.
Why now? Since having made a significant life change and left a well-paid corporate job, these questions have plagued me more and more. It felt right to leave where I was (although not necessarily on paper and I didn’t have an exit strategy), but what next? I wake up – then what? So many options and possibilities.
The anxiety was rising. I’d rethought my ‘what next’ from every angle and had a plan. Great. Things were about to take off – then Covid-19 hit. No opportunity to get out there. So what should I do? Inspired action was going round and round in my head and appearing all over the place – on social media, in books, in suggested reading online, in conversation and questions people asked me. A sign? I decided to use this strange situation and time to experiment.
How was I going to do this? How was I going to live by inspired action and live more intuitively? My approach would be to strengthen my connection to intuitive feelings included specific meditations (which I’ll try to write up and post), specific reflections during journaling, following gut instinct more without questioning it or dissecting it with thought – follow feeling over thought and avoid overthinking what I’m doing moment-to-moment.
As there’s quite a bit of background in this post, let’s jump to something meaty then the next few posts can expand on different sections. Some outcomes…
Predicted outcomes of living more intuitively
- Free up over-thinking space to give more ‘being’ time
- Increased strength with higher-self and intuition
- Increased confidence in the action I take / what I do
- Increased feeling of calm about where I’m spending my time e.g. not feeling guilty about the things I’m not doing
- Increased synchronicity and law of attraction
- All of the above (to a greater or lesser extent) plus….
- Discovering three distinct areas that inspired actions fall into giving a greater understanding of intuitive living
- Increased feeling of peace and inner calm for a larger percentage of time
- Stronger connection with higher-self and ‘the universe’ was accompanied by a very intense connection to nature
- Increase in meaningful dreams and signs
- Understanding of, and reduction, in fear of the future – and how to balance planning and intuitive living (now that’s a blog I HAVE to write)
- Increased excitement and joy about the future (even though on paper, my financial situation is totally screwed at the moment
Up until yesterday, I was still worried about where I was spending my time and feeling guilty about things that were still on my ‘to-do’ list, very guilty if I’m honest. Then BOOM! What changed?
I had a mid-week deadline and I was worried about missing it. Usually, I would start that work WAY in advance and made sure I was ahead of the game. This week I just couldn’t find the motivation to work on it. I really didn’t feel like it. There were things I wanted to do that were in my mind ‘less productive’ like specific personal research, writing, music, ‘being’ and spending time in my own head exploring things….. things that don’t pay the bills. I was stressed. Then stressed that I was stressed and not ‘being’ to try and live more intuitively. What an idiot I am haha. My anxiety was rising but there was a very persistent and comforting voice in my mind saying ‘do it when it feels right’. I trusted it. Tuesday came, still didn’t feel right. Tuesday night I was stressed again. I needed to send a draft website off and it hardly existed yet! I woke up Wednesday morning – how was I feeling? GREAT! And I felt totally in the work zone. It felt like the right time to work on things. I had energy and enthusiasm for it that had been absent on previous days. I made a drink, put some music on and created the website with time to spare – and felt brilliant about it. The same comforting voice said ‘feels right and better now?’. I felt a sense of fear release and felt like a lighter person inside. I’m not advocating leaving everything to the last minute. Sometimes it might feel right to do things earlier (maybe because the universe knows you’ll hit a problem and need that extra time) and other times in bursts. The point is, do what feels right, when it feels right – and question yourself less!
The Law of Inspired Action is usually applied to the big things. You have a path and if you follow your energy you’ll increase the number of synchronistic events that help you get there. But if you want to live intuitively then there’s no reason why you can’t apply that more broadly. I have and it’s great! An example of this might be ‘what shall I have for lunch’ – you might think this has nothing to do with your grand plans and path, but looking after your body is important. So why not ask your body what it needs – what’s the best thing I could have for lunch on this day, right now? Is there something your body needs right now? Ask, listen and see what happens.
In the next post I’ll explain the three areas of inspired action that I identified during this experiment and how you can start to use them – plus more examples of things that happened.
Has this got you thinking about inspired action? Send me a comment in the form below. I’d love to hear from you and even get more examples of intuitive living in action to include in future blog posts.
Love and light xxx
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