I hear most often from people that they don’t know which to listen to: intuition or logic.

If you get information that is intuitive, and you use your logic and come to a different conclusion than your intuition, what do you listen to? Do you listen to your intuition, because it is more reliable and uses information not available to your conscious mind, or do you listen to your logic, because your intuition could be wishful (or fearful) thinking, or perhaps even the ego? Today, we’re going to solve this problem once and for all, and the answer is very simple.

When you get information from both your intuition and your logical mind, you listen to both.

Yep. That’s right. You can kick that “either or” thinking to the curb, because that’s where it belongs.

Are you making intuition and logic enemies?

Do you think it’s either intuition OR logic? Do you need to listen to one OR the other?

As someone who trained in a biology lab to be a scientist for two years, and is now a professional intuitive counselor, let me save you a lot of the trouble and  confusion I felt as I tried to figure this out.

Exclusion is delusion

You can’t exclude logic and expect to be happy ONLY living by your intuition. Nor can you live your life using ONLY logic, and ignoring your intuition and be happy. You cannot have the wholeness of your experience if you take something out. If you have logic and intuition giving you information, you must take all the pieces of information into account.

Why? Because your brilliant Body-Mind is giving you the information. It’s like looking at a puzzle. Let’s say you’re assembling a puzzle of a tree next to a lake. If you look at one piece of the puzzle  it may look like water, and if you look at another piece, it may look like branches or leaves on a tree.

Should you choose only one piece of the puzzle to focus on to see the whole picture? No! That would be ludicrous. You need all the pieces to correctly assemble the puzzle.

When you get information from your logic, it’s like getting a piece of the puzzle. When you get information from your intuition, it’s another piece of the puzzle. There is something to be explored there, especially if you are getting conflicting information.

How to integrate logic and intuition

The first step to integrating intuition and logic is to recognize that not all of the information you are getting is truly logic. Let’s illustrate this with an example.

Mary is starting a new business, and she decides to ask her intuition about what to do next. Her intuition tells her that getting on a local radio show to showcase her services is possible and would be very beneficial for her business.

Next, she starts anxiously thinking about how she’s never been on a radio show, and why would they want to have her there, and how she doesn’t even know where to start. After a few minutes of this negative self-talk, she is feeling down, depressed and is no longer excited by the prospect of being on the radio show.

When a friend asks her about her plans for her business, she starts talking about how it doesn’t make sense to go on the radio show because it’s simply not logical at this time.

Is that really logic talking Mary out of doing the radio show? Nope. That’s good, old-fashioned fear, baby.

What her logic really said:

• Find out what radio shows are looking for
• Research radio shows that might be interested in Mary’s services
• Find out what Mary has that can be useful for people and interesting to talk about

Even the fear is simply feedback. It’s giving her a clearer picture of where she’s at right now. The fear stems from Mary’s feeling of not being enough. She’s afraid she’s not good enough, not smart enough, and can’t perform the tasks. She probably has some limiting beliefs about herself and her ability, that if she used logic to look at them critically, she would probably drop those beliefs entirely — or at the very least, she would see that they don’t make any logical sense.

See, your logic and your intuition work together to give you a clear and whole picture of your potential and how to reach it. Just like Mary, maybe you know intuitively that a certain action would help you grow, but as soon as you think this, you come up with a lot of conditioned fear response that is attached to action steps you need to take. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Simply take the time to see what your logic, intuition and feelings are telling you, and look at them holistically. See the big picture.

What areas have you been short changing yourself because your intuition and logic seemed to be opposed? How do you plan on changing your approach?

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