July 5, 2023 • 11 mins
Join me this week as I share a new concept I’ve been tinkering with: Mapping Your Intuition.
I explain how to unravel the steps and actions taken to create something you want, and remind you of how important it is to take ownership of your role in the things you’ve created.
In this episode, I share:
- The steps to follow to create an Intuition Map
- How to work backwards to identify actions that led to past creations
- Recognizing inner wisdom
- And how to apply this process to create things you’re currently wanting.
I also share about the importance of staying open and receptive to intuitive nudges for future creations.
Show Notes
- Learn how to Map Your Intuition with a guided worksheet, located inside The Resource Library - learn more HERE
- If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
- Get the transcript and full show notes HERE
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Scarlett 2i2 USB (00:24):
Welcome to today's episode, Mapping Your
Intuition.
Mapping Your Intuition is aconcept that I've been tinkering
with, to uncover exactly how wecreate what we want, so how
we've done it in the past, andthen what can we learn from it,
to apply to what we wanna createin the future.
(00:47):
I think of it as like a knotwith many threads.
And once we start to pick apartthe knot, we see the ways that
each thread is linked together,is connected, maybe overlaps
with other threads, to createthis whole knot, which in this
example, the knot is somethingthat we have created that we
(01:10):
wanted.
I think we can use this methodto uncover how you've created
things that you want.
And then utilize it to tap intoyour intuition, to learn wisdom
that you can apply to what youwanna create in the future.
I'm gonna share the process ontoday's episode, and there will
(01:32):
be a download available in TheResource Library that you can
use to navigate this process ifyou wanna join that.
And if you want to dive deeperinto this.
So the first step in mappingyour intuition is to think about
the thing that you want.
And let's start by thinkingabout something that you wanted,
(01:53):
that you have, that you'vealready created.
In the future you can workthrough this with something that
you are actively wanting tocreate and have.
But let's start with somethingthat you already have so that
you can get the steps down.
And I want you to see yourselfas the hero here.
You created this thing in yourlife.
(02:15):
You did it.
A lot of us are like, oh, ithappened because of this.
This is like how I did it.
No, you created it.
You made it happen.
You took a lot of steps to makeit happen.
So number one, take ownershipover that.
And number two, let's dig intolooking for the nudges that you
received that led you to worktowards creating it.
(02:40):
What were maybe some alignedactions that you took, things
that worked and things thatdidn't, but that you learned
from?
I find it really helpful to workbackwards.
What's the last thing I did?
Then the thing before that?
Like a reverse breadcrumb trail.
Or if we go back to the knotanalogy, what was the last
(03:00):
thread you untangled and thenthe thread before that?
We wanna record all thebreadcrumbs, all the threads,
and take proud responsibilityfor everything that you've done
that has gotten you what youwanted, that helped you create
the thing.
Keep going until you get to thefirst inkling you had of the
(03:21):
idea, and maybe it shifted overtime.
That's great, totally fine, butkeep excavating, keep following
the threads and witnessing allof your brilliance, all of the
ways in which you just keptfollowing the lily pads and
slowly, or maybe quickly, builtor created exactly what you
wanted.
And all of the ways that youbrilliantly did that.
(03:43):
I don't think we give ourselvesenough credit.
I think, like I said a minuteago, I think a lot of times we
think like, oh, this happenedbecause of this, or like, oh, I
was just lucky, or whatever.
No, you are brilliant.
And if you are creating thingsthat are really meaningful to
you, that means that you areutilizing your inner wisdom to
do it, your inner brilliance todo it.
(04:05):
You're tapping into that placeinside of you that only you
have, and that guides you tocreating things that are really
meaningful to you.
We wanna celebrate that and wealso wanna like spend more time
there, tap into it, let'sexplore it.
Let's feel more intimatelyfamiliar with it so that it's a
place that you can tap into morefrequently and when you want to,
(04:29):
not feeling like it's just thisthing that happens by chance.
So this is how you create anintuition map.
You record what you've done,every single thing.
You acknowledge your brillianceand your inner wisdom that
guided you here, that led you tocreate the thing and all of the
many things along the way,right?
(04:50):
Because because like the thingthat you have or have created,
that you want, that is made upof a lot of mini things that
happened along the way.
And what I want you to realizeis how much of a badass you are
for creating it, and that therewas a partnership that helped
you do so.
(05:11):
If you want to hear more aboutthe partnership, go back and
listen to episode 26, it'stitled Intuition Creativity
Flow.
To me, there's this alchemicalprocess when we utilize our
problem solving skills, thisamazingly powerful brain that we
were all given, plus our innerwisdom, our inner knowing, this
(05:35):
intangible undefined place thatwe can't fully define and we
definitely cannot fullyunderstand.
When we pair those two together,and we take something and
transform it by taking these rawparts a level deeper, and
pairing them together in thisalchemical process, and making
(05:56):
these invisible callings that wehave or invisible nudges/ ideas
visible.
By taking something that onlyyou can see and making it
explicit in the world.
So that's what Episode 26 isabout.
In my opinion, it's a veryinteresting one, I've heard a
lot of really great feedbackabout it, and it's there to
(06:17):
support you in partnering moredeeply with your intuition.
Okay, so that is an overview ofmapping your intuition.
And again, I'm gonna repeat itone more time.
I know I've already said it, butyou choose something that you
have created for this first one.
(06:37):
You look at every single thingthat you did to make it real.
Every nudge, every experiment,every obstacle, every success.
You acknowledge yourself for allof the amazing work that you did
to create it.
And you keep going until you getto the original inkling of the
idea and like maybe foryourself, what did that feel
(07:00):
like?
How did you even like start tofollow that hunch?
What was it about it that wasinteresting or compelling to
you?
Breaking down that process foryourself.
This is highly individual, butif the more you acquaint
yourself to your process, themore it could be predictive.
So you've unpacked it forsomething that you've created.
(07:20):
Now we do the same thing forsomething that you wanna create.
You state what you wanna create,what you wanna make, what you
wanna see in the world.
Then you familiarize yourselfwith the inkling that you had.
How do you know?
Why do you wanna do it?
And then you start following thebreadcrumbs that you've already
done, and then paying closeattention to information that
(07:43):
comes to you, whether throughyour brain or through your
intuitive senses, your innerknowing, these little tugs,
nudges, that's kind of how Ithink about them- maybe small
awarenesses.
Pay attention to those and yousee the way that those are the
breadcrumbs that are buildingthe path to get you to create
what it is that you want to haveor see in the world.
(08:07):
That's the mapping yourintuition for something you've
created and then how you woulddo it for something you don't
yet have.
How you would use your intuitionto map the way that you're gonna
create it, which I think likethe open secret here is you'll
never know.
It's a totally unknown process.
It's just gonna unfold one stepat a time.
And how can you tune into yoursenses more?
(08:31):
Mostly probably your intuitivesenses for sure, your problem
solving.
But how can you tune into yourintuitive senses more?
To be maybe more acutely awareof nudges, something that piques
your interest, a little tug thatyou feel, and follow that
breadcrumb.
Then you've done that, celebrateit, and then you stay open for,
(08:55):
okay, what's the next thingthat's gonna come in?
What might be next?
What's interesting?
And then if you don't have anyinformation, sitting in an
unknown place where you're justopenly awaiting, you know, not
super anxious about it.
Not like, Ooh, I gotta figurethis out.
I need to like force my waythere.
Just like open, ready toreceive.
(09:16):
When you do the Mapping YourIntuition exercise, I would
encourage you to choose one bigrock or one big breadcrumb, and
break it all the way down.
Following the mapping yourintuition method that I shared
earlier, to see all the ways inwhich you created it.
Because trust me, you haveactively created everything that
(09:37):
you have.
Even the things that you feellike just happened to you.
You did the work to make themhappen.
You set yourself up, you set theintention, you did the inner
work, you laid the groundwork,you did it.
And owning that is imperative toyou continuing to create what
you want in your life.
(09:58):
If we think life is just sort ofhappening to us, which sometimes
it is, I'm not like gonna say,oh it we are totally in control,
sometimes life does happen tous, but if we think that life is
always just happening to us andwe don't have much
participation, we're going toexperience our lives very
differently, and we're going toshow up and operate in our lives
(10:19):
very differently, then if webelieve that we are in
partnership, I would say, withthe way our lives are unfolding
and working out.
And there's a lot that we can doon our end to influence the
things that we have and do andbecome.
That is what I have for youtoday.
Just a reminder, there's adownload for this in the
(10:41):
resource library if you wannadig further into this, but
there's also the instructions inthis episode that you can
follow.
I am so glad that you are hereand that we get to walk our
paths together.
See you next time.
Same time, same place.
Bye for now.
Welcome to today's episode, Mapping Your
Intuition.
Mapping Your Intuition is aconcept that I've been tinkering
with, to uncover exactly how wecreate what we want, so how
we've done it in the past, andthen what can we learn from it,
to apply to what we wanna createin the future.
(00:47):
I think of it as like a knotwith many threads.
And once we start to pick apartthe knot, we see the ways that
each thread is linked together,is connected, maybe overlaps
with other threads, to createthis whole knot, which in this
example, the knot is somethingthat we have created that we
(01:10):
wanted.
I think we can use this methodto uncover how you've created
things that you want.
And then utilize it to tap intoyour intuition, to learn wisdom
that you can apply to what youwanna create in the future.
I'm gonna share the process ontoday's episode, and there will
(01:32):
be a download available in TheResource Library that you can
use to navigate this process ifyou wanna join that.
And if you want to dive deeperinto this.
So the first step in mappingyour intuition is to think about
the thing that you want.
And let's start by thinkingabout something that you wanted,
(01:53):
that you have, that you'vealready created.
In the future you can workthrough this with something that
you are actively wanting tocreate and have.
But let's start with somethingthat you already have so that
you can get the steps down.
And I want you to see yourselfas the hero here.
You created this thing in yourlife.
(02:15):
You did it.
A lot of us are like, oh, ithappened because of this.
This is like how I did it.
No, you created it.
You made it happen.
You took a lot of steps to makeit happen.
So number one, take ownershipover that.
And number two, let's dig intolooking for the nudges that you
received that led you to worktowards creating it.
(02:40):
What were maybe some alignedactions that you took, things
that worked and things thatdidn't, but that you learned
from?
I find it really helpful to workbackwards.
What's the last thing I did?
Then the thing before that?
Like a reverse breadcrumb trail.
Or if we go back to the knotanalogy, what was the last
(03:00):
thread you untangled and thenthe thread before that?
We wanna record all thebreadcrumbs, all the threads,
and take proud responsibilityfor everything that you've done
that has gotten you what youwanted, that helped you create
the thing.
Keep going until you get to thefirst inkling you had of the
(03:21):
idea, and maybe it shifted overtime.
That's great, totally fine, butkeep excavating, keep following
the threads and witnessing allof your brilliance, all of the
ways in which you just keptfollowing the lily pads and
slowly, or maybe quickly, builtor created exactly what you
wanted.
And all of the ways that youbrilliantly did that.
(03:43):
I don't think we give ourselvesenough credit.
I think, like I said a minuteago, I think a lot of times we
think like, oh, this happenedbecause of this, or like, oh, I
was just lucky, or whatever.
No, you are brilliant.
And if you are creating thingsthat are really meaningful to
you, that means that you areutilizing your inner wisdom to
do it, your inner brilliance todo it.
(04:05):
You're tapping into that placeinside of you that only you
have, and that guides you tocreating things that are really
meaningful to you.
We wanna celebrate that and wealso wanna like spend more time
there, tap into it, let'sexplore it.
Let's feel more intimatelyfamiliar with it so that it's a
place that you can tap into morefrequently and when you want to,
(04:29):
not feeling like it's just thisthing that happens by chance.
So this is how you create anintuition map.
You record what you've done,every single thing.
You acknowledge your brillianceand your inner wisdom that
guided you here, that led you tocreate the thing and all of the
many things along the way,right?
(04:50):
Because because like the thingthat you have or have created,
that you want, that is made upof a lot of mini things that
happened along the way.
And what I want you to realizeis how much of a badass you are
for creating it, and that therewas a partnership that helped
you do so.
(05:11):
If you want to hear more aboutthe partnership, go back and
listen to episode 26, it'stitled Intuition Creativity
Flow.
To me, there's this alchemicalprocess when we utilize our
problem solving skills, thisamazingly powerful brain that we
were all given, plus our innerwisdom, our inner knowing, this
(05:35):
intangible undefined place thatwe can't fully define and we
definitely cannot fullyunderstand.
When we pair those two together,and we take something and
transform it by taking these rawparts a level deeper, and
pairing them together in thisalchemical process, and making
(05:56):
these invisible callings that wehave or invisible nudges/ ideas
visible.
By taking something that onlyyou can see and making it
explicit in the world.
So that's what Episode 26 isabout.
In my opinion, it's a veryinteresting one, I've heard a
lot of really great feedbackabout it, and it's there to
(06:17):
support you in partnering moredeeply with your intuition.
Okay, so that is an overview ofmapping your intuition.
And again, I'm gonna repeat itone more time.
I know I've already said it, butyou choose something that you
have created for this first one.
(06:37):
You look at every single thingthat you did to make it real.
Every nudge, every experiment,every obstacle, every success.
You acknowledge yourself for allof the amazing work that you did
to create it.
And you keep going until you getto the original inkling of the
idea and like maybe foryourself, what did that feel
(07:00):
like?
How did you even like start tofollow that hunch?
What was it about it that wasinteresting or compelling to
you?
Breaking down that process foryourself.
This is highly individual, butif the more you acquaint
yourself to your process, themore it could be predictive.
So you've unpacked it forsomething that you've created.
(07:20):
Now we do the same thing forsomething that you wanna create.
You state what you wanna create,what you wanna make, what you
wanna see in the world.
Then you familiarize yourselfwith the inkling that you had.
How do you know?
Why do you wanna do it?
And then you start following thebreadcrumbs that you've already
done, and then paying closeattention to information that
(07:43):
comes to you, whether throughyour brain or through your
intuitive senses, your innerknowing, these little tugs,
nudges, that's kind of how Ithink about them- maybe small
awarenesses.
Pay attention to those and yousee the way that those are the
breadcrumbs that are buildingthe path to get you to create
what it is that you want to haveor see in the world.
(08:07):
That's the mapping yourintuition for something you've
created and then how you woulddo it for something you don't
yet have.
How you would use your intuitionto map the way that you're gonna
create it, which I think likethe open secret here is you'll
never know.
It's a totally unknown process.
It's just gonna unfold one stepat a time.
And how can you tune into yoursenses more?
(08:31):
Mostly probably your intuitivesenses for sure, your problem
solving.
But how can you tune into yourintuitive senses more?
To be maybe more acutely awareof nudges, something that piques
your interest, a little tug thatyou feel, and follow that
breadcrumb.
Then you've done that, celebrateit, and then you stay open for,
(08:55):
okay, what's the next thingthat's gonna come in?
What might be next?
What's interesting?
And then if you don't have anyinformation, sitting in an
unknown place where you're justopenly awaiting, you know, not
super anxious about it.
Not like, Ooh, I gotta figurethis out.
I need to like force my waythere.
Just like open, ready toreceive.
(09:16):
When you do the Mapping YourIntuition exercise, I would
encourage you to choose one bigrock or one big breadcrumb, and
break it all the way down.
Following the mapping yourintuition method that I shared
earlier, to see all the ways inwhich you created it.
Because trust me, you haveactively created everything that
(09:37):
you have.
Even the things that you feellike just happened to you.
You did the work to make themhappen.
You set yourself up, you set theintention, you did the inner
work, you laid the groundwork,you did it.
And owning that is imperative toyou continuing to create what
you want in your life.
(09:58):
If we think life is just sort ofhappening to us, which sometimes
it is, I'm not like gonna say,oh it we are totally in control,
sometimes life does happen tous, but if we think that life is
always just happening to us andwe don't have much
participation, we're going toexperience our lives very
differently, and we're going toshow up and operate in our lives
(10:19):
very differently, then if webelieve that we are in
partnership, I would say, withthe way our lives are unfolding
and working out.
And there's a lot that we can doon our end to influence the
things that we have and do andbecome.
That is what I have for youtoday.
Just a reminder, there's adownload for this in the
(10:41):
resource library if you wannadig further into this, but
there's also the instructions inthis episode that you can
follow.
I am so glad that you are hereand that we get to walk our
paths together.
See you next time.
Same time, same place.
Bye for now.
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