Rooted Reflections is a collection of grounded wisdom, seasonal practices, and soul-aligned insights. These writings are meant to nourish your nervous system, inspire inner balance, and reconnect you to the cycles of nature and your own deep knowing.
Coming Home to Your Inner Knowing: 7 Ways to Awaken Intuition
What if you already know?
What if there’s a voice inside you that’s never steered you wrong—
only been drowned out by the noise?
Intuition doesn’t come from effort.
It comes from softening. Listening.
Clearing space for the quiet to rise.
You don’t need to seek it.
You just need to make enough room to feel it.
7 Ways to Start Tuning In
1. Step Away From Social Media
It’s loud in there.
Even when you think you’re just “scrolling,” your energy is being siphoned. Social media fills your head with other people’s ideas, desires, and identities—and that static drowns out your own voice.
Taking a break, even a short one, can create the space you need to return to yourself.
Use that space to meditate, breathe, or simply sit in stillness—anything that helps you tune back into your own frequency.
The less noise, the more clarity.
The more presence, the more you remember.
2. Prioritize Sleep Hygiene
Your intuition needs a clear vessel.
Turn off screens at least an hour before bed.
Reduce blue light. Let yourself rise with the sun.
When you honor your natural rhythms, the wisdom inside you begins to whisper more clearly.
3. Take Breaks From Mind-Altering Substances
Alcohol, caffeine, weed, sugar, nicotine—they change your chemistry and can mask anxiety or dull clarity.
There’s nothing wrong with you if you use them.
But taking conscious breaks lets you notice how they affect you.
Sometimes the crutches we lean on most are the very things that muffle our deeper knowing.
4. Move Your Body (For the Love of It)
Not to punish it or “fix” it—just to feel alive in it.
Intuition lives in the body.
It speaks through sensation.
Dance, walk, stretch, roll, flow.
Let it be somatic exploration, not a workout.
And get bodywork.
Let skilled hands help you come home to yourself,
releasing what’s stuck and reconnecting you to what’s true.
5. Eat Well, Nourish Gently
Make your own food when you can.
Bless it. Smell it. Taste it.
This is how you build trust with your body—by feeding it with love and presence.
6. Make Something (Just Because)
Creativity is a sacred channel.
Journal stream-of-consciousness style.
Paint blindfolded. Tear up magazines and make vision boards.
No outcome needed. The process itself is a conversation with your soul.
7. Spend Time With Kids, Animals, or in Solitude
They don’t filter. They don’t force.
Kids and animals live in the now—fully present, fully honest.
They show you how to trust what’s real and respond from instinct, not expectation.
And solitude? That’s sacred too.
It’s where your own rhythm gets louder.
Where your energy recalibrates and your inner voice has room to rise.
Let presence—whether with others or with yourself—remind you of what you forgot.
✨ Journal Prompts to Awaken Intuition
When do I feel most connected to myself?
What do I know deep down, even if I don’t want to admit it?
Where in my body do I feel “yes”? Where do I feel “no”?
What kind of silence feels nourishing to me?
What have I been overriding that deserves my attention?
Final Thought
You’re not broken. You’re not behind. You’re not lost.
Like many of us, It is possible that you might a little out of tune with your natural signal.
And every small choice to slow down, to listen, to be with yourself—
brings you closer to that unshakable inner guidance you’ve had all along.
Ready to Go Deeper?
Come join me for a yoga class, a bodywork session, or a community circle.
This is what we’re here for—to remember who we are, together.