Why is my Intuition-Internal Knowing Not Working Any More

Looking at the more common reasons why our intuition might be off line, working differently, and blocked and what to do about them.

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Why is my Intuition/Internal Knowing Not Working Any More?

"When it's time for a change or there's a life problem I need to solve I've always been able to tune in and get information on what direction to go next or next steps. But now there is just silence. I can hear my own breath, I can hear my tinnitus, but nothing else. Have I lost the connection? Am I doing something wrong?" – clients/students

This is an issue which isn't often talked about but is fairly normal and rarely an issue of something being wrong or broken, thankfully. I liken this to trying to find a radio station when you are driving out in the middle of No and Where. The radio in the vehicle isn't broken, the way you are attempting to find a station isn't inappropriate and there really isn't a better method for doing it. The radio stations are there, your equipment works, but in this moment things can't connect through no real fault of your own. This will change as the situation changes.

There are a number of common reasons for this radio silence or why a person might not be able to tune in to information or wisdom about their current life situation or questions and I thought it might be helpful to go through them for those who are now or may experience this on their spiritual path.

The easiest to identify is when we are too busy, maxed out emotionally/physically, or sleep deprived to receive information.

We are souls experiencing embodied life and part of the process is attending to and being interconnected with the needs of the body. While we are here, energy/information whether through intuition, our higher self, our guides or other beings, comes through our body. There are a variety of ways this happens depending on the source of the information, the type and how it's to be used/processed, however all of it has to go through our limbic system as well as the chakras. Among other things these two systems do, they very much attend to what our bodies/mind/brain need to survive.

So, if the priority for us is to sleep, sleep will come first no matter how much we really, really want to meditate. If our limbic system is full up with safe/not safe messaging about our job, our relationship(s), our living situation and so on, any other information will have to wait because there just isn't any capacity beyond dealing with those. It's like trying to hear a whisper at a death metal concert. You can try, but it's not going to work. 

In those cases, if you can wait on your questions or seeking, then do. Let things get calmer, clearer, more rested and resourced, then try again. If you need information in that moment, the best course would be to find a reader or spiritual resource who can get the information for you.

The next most common reason for getting radio silence is when the answer is "no" or "can't answer how you've asked the question".

Conversations with spirit guides or any beings in the Akashics follow social rules similar to those we use here in embodied life. In the Akashics this means guides will wait patiently until they are spoken to. They will not burst in with a message or reams of information to impart. If asked, "What do I need to know?", they often remain mute because there really isn't anything the person "needs" to know. Many won't respond to such requests because they cannot violate our free will or because we have structured our lives prior to and during our time here such that they cannot act in this way. Others will respond noncommittally or will follow the letter of what was requested, but will avoid taking on any responsibility.

It could be how you're asking the question, feeling into the situation, or structuring the request is causing the silence.  Words like "should," "need," or "for the best and highest good..." often get a non-response because there isn't anything which fits those requirements.  If there is no one thing you should do but multiples you can, then there won't be a clear answer.  On the other hand, it's not unusual for me to look at a situation or request a client has made where they want things to work out for everyone's best and highest good and this simply isn't possible.  This is usually when there is someone being abusive in the situation, but there are other reasons as well.

So, to unstick this issue, it can help, or at least clarify things, to reword or rethink the way you're formulating your thoughts, questions, or requests.  Removing words like "should" can open up the conversation so you get answers you can work with. You can also try changing things by offering suggestions. For example, if you're asking about a change in career, manifestation project or even area/town/state/province to move to, offer 1-3 you think would make sense in the situation without using the words "should," "need," or "best".  Then let the information flow in.  You can do this multiple times to narrow things down and sometimes I find offering one suggestion which is a long shot or absurd can help because it either isn't actually absurd and there is a lot of information which comes about it, or it highlights the information about the better options you're considering.

Then there is the bigger trigger for this type of radio silence, and it most commonly happens with Eldership or Eldership style transitions.

In Western culture we tend to think of eldership as getting old, losing abilities and functionality, retirement, and struggles in some form or other.  However, it needn't be, and it is more about transitioning from a very direct, production focused lifestyle to one which emanates and interconnects in all directions.  From age 56 to 65, although there are those who start at 45 and others who don't begin until 70, we move or are moved into the Eldership where the rhythm of things shifts like the changing of the tides.  Instead of things going out from us into the world, the world is attracted to and called towards us.  Put another way, instead of working to reach a goal as we did throughout our adult lives, we become the goal others work to reach. 

All we have learned, achieved and become now converts into a radiant energy which, if allowed, pulses out from us. How we live, rather than what we can do or offer, is the point and most valued to the world around us. This doesn't mean crumbling into obscurity, surviving on limited means, or giving up on our dreams. Quite the contrary.  It's about returning to life as a being rather than a doing. It's about manifesting just as richly as ever, but pulling the results to us rather than using ourselves up in order to push them out. 

The transition to eldership can be rather difficult as it asks us to wrap up loose ends, come to terms with all we've done and all we haven't, and most painfully, give up our identity as a "doing".  We are challenged with focusing back on ourselves, our dreams, our personal needs and desires, reawakening our childhood sense of ourselves and our potential, but through the lens of all the wisdom and experience we've accreted. 

This can be a time when we are energized to take on a career or skill we've been called to for decades, when we give ourselves permission to let go of other's expectations and start living in a way which gives us joy, or when we allow ourselves the freedom to indulge in any damn thing we want to learn about, do, or just sit with. 

It can also be a time of reckoning with those things we'll "get to once I have time". The things too frightening, difficult or painful to deal with during our adult phase because the energy and attention necessary would derail everything we're busy doing. This is the phase when we are able to manifest deep healing and expanded awareness, unfold to our psychic gifts, and finally manifest the relationship we have always wanted, even if that is with ourselves. 

It is not uncommon for people to get stuck in their manifesting at this point, feeling like they are beating their head against a brick wall because how they have always done it either doesn't work any longer or is so painful they aren't sure they can keep going. Or to attempt to reach out to their intuition/knowingness and receive radio silence. Not because they can't tune into the station any longer, but because they are asking for things to work the old way, the way they've always known, and they just can't. There's no way to work through this as a caterpillar when you're already transforming into a butterfly, as it were.

Manifesting in eldership isn't about doing more faster, but being more. It's literally about chucking out all the old made-up rules we've created for how the world works and how we work in it. It's about converting our experience into wisdom and literally starting to work smarter, not harder. Setting ourselves the problem of: If I literally cannot do it the way I did it before and if the old way is only one way among a variety of ways to manifest the goal, then what new way am I best suited to use and is best suited to support me now? 

The most difficult part of eldership is letting go of how we have been for so many years in order to be something we are not yet. While this is something we crave as a child when we have our entire lives ahead of us and only lack the freedom and maturity to achieve it, in eldership we can experience it as a loss. 

If your inner knowing as a child and then an adult was about getting from this stage to another, moving out of a bad situation into something better, traveling down a path to achieve the next goal, the intuition/knowing in eldership is of unfolding yourself fully to become like a deity on a lotus. Manifesting in eldership, knowing what to or where to go next and how, becomes about choosing rather than being directed. It becomes about pulling opportunities to you rather than having to uproot yourself one more time and go.

Hence asking about what to do next in a situation, when entering eldership, can get radio silence. Because you have done all the hard work, lived the life, developed yourself to the point where you get to choose how you unfold into this next phase of your life. Not that this is necessarily easy, freeing or without anxiety. But if you let your inner knowing, your intuition tune in to this new way of manifesting, answers will begin to come. 

Which leads to the next challenge: choosing to act on them.