Learn to Listen: Your Intuition is Never Wrong
- Bethany Blaine
- Nov 28
- 3 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Let’s be honest — the world is loud.
Loud with opinions.
Loud with advice.
Loud with “shoulds.”
Loud with everyone’s projections about what a “good” life looks like.
And if you’re not paying attention, that noise gets inside you.
It starts steering your choices.
It shapes your self-perception.
It drowns out the quieter parts of you, the parts that actually know what you need.
But here’s the part people forget:
Your inner knowing has never disappeared.
It’s just been competing with everything else.
This is the same shift I talked about in the podcast episode “Stepping into The Conscious Shift.” There’s this moment when you realize your life isn’t going to change through more noise, more input, or more pressure.
It changes when you learn to hear yourself beneath everything trying to speak louder.
Your work, especially in this season, is learning how to turn the volume back up on the voice that doesn’t shout.
The one that lives in your body, not your fear.
Listening vs. Hearing (There’s a Difference)
Hearing yourself is easy.
You hear the thoughts, the doubts, the alarms, the old stories trying to run the show.
Fear has a voice.
Patterns have a voice.
Conditioning has a voice.
Urgency has a voice.
But intuition?
Your deeper knowing?
That one speaks differently.
In Stepping into The Conscious Shift, I talk about how the real shift happens when you stop outsourcing direction and start noticing the internal cues that have been there all along. That’s the difference between hearing and listening.
Let’s sort the voices through the body — because the body never lies:
Fear
sharp
urgent
demanding
tight in the chest or jaw
Old Patterns
familiar scripts
predictable outcomes
“This is just what I do”
Intuition
quiet
steady
neutral
often illogical
a soft nudge in the body
Listening means giving yourself enough pause to tell which is which.
The Trust Muscle (Why Self-Listening Feels Hard at First)
Self-trust isn’t built through perfect decisions.
It’s built through aligned follow-through. It lives in the moments where you respond to yourself instead of overriding yourself.
At first, your knowing may only reveal itself in hindsight:
“I knew that wasn’t right for me.”
“I felt that coming.”
That’s normal.
It means the channel is clearing.
With practice, the knowing becomes something you catch in the moment.
And that’s when life shifts in noticeable, grounded ways:
your nervous system steadies
decision-making gets clearer
the need for external validation loosens
the noise stops being the authority
In the podcast, I described this as the moment you stop living on autopilot and start living with awareness. That’s the muscle. That’s the shift.
The Shift: Listening Creates Direction
When you truly listen, your choices get lighter.
Not necessarily easier, but lighter.
Clarity doesn’t remove difficulty.
It removes confusion.
Your intuition will sometimes ask you to take the uncomfortable path — the one that stretches you, challenges you, or calls you forward before you feel ready.
But it will never steer you into something you don’t have the capacity to meet.
Listening is the foundation of self-authorship.
It’s where you stop being for everyone else and return to being with yourself.
And as I said in Stepping into The Conscious Shift, this is the real turning point.
Not a mindset shift…
a relationship shift with your own internal guidance.
A Practice to Reset the Internal Noise
The next time you’re facing a choice — big or small — pause.
Place a hand on your heart or belly.
Anchor into yourself.
Ask:“What do I know beneath the noise?”
Don’t force an answer.
Just be present with yourself.
This pause is the practice.
Mastery comes from repetition, not intensity.
The world will always be loud.
There will always be people speaking over your inner knowing.
There will always be something trying to sell you a shortcut, a new identity, or a better version of yourself.
But your own voice?
It’s steady.
It’s the one that never leaves.
The question is whether you’ve given yourself enough quiet to hear it again.
And when you do —
you’re not just listening.
You’re stepping into your Conscious Shift.
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