Meditation Isn’t What You Think It Is: How Quieting the Noise Helps You Hear Your Intuition
What if you already know how to meditate—you simply don’t call it meditation?
Meditation doesn’t have to mean sitting cross-legged on a pillow, trying to make your mind completely blank. It can happen while you’re writing, creating art, listening deeply to music, running, cycling—or doing anything that allows the constant mental chatter to begin to fall away.
In this episode of The Intuitive Hour, Michelle explores the connection between meditation, awareness and intuition—and why learning to quiet the noise can help you recognize the subtle information that may already be present.
You’ll discover why intuition can be difficult to hear when the thinking mind is constantly analyzing, planning and explaining; how states of flow and being “in the zone” can resemble meditation; why increased stillness can actually produce greater awareness, rather than checking out; and a simple practice you can use anywhere to bring your attention back to your breath, body, senses and surroundings.
Michelle also shares how cycling has given her unexpected experiences of meditative awareness—moments when the mental chatter falls away and what remains is breath, movement, rhythm, environment and heightened presence.
The signal can be subtle. The noise usually isn’t.
This episode invites you to stop worrying about whether you’re “doing meditation right” and begin asking a different question:
Am I becoming quiet enough to notice?
Because sometimes developing your intuition isn’t about learning how to make something happen.
It’s becoming quiet enough to recognize that it already did.
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