Intuitive Insights: Harnessing the Power of Intuition + Creativity in Everyday Life
Hosted by Meghan McDonough, your No BS “Woo-Woo” Coach: Intuitive Insights is a transformative podcast. Meghan is an Intuitive Life coach who’s passion is to guide you to use your intuition and creativity for a more purpose-filled life. The podcast draws inspiration from various sources such as ancient wisdom texts, yoga, philosophical teachings, intuitive readings, interviews and personal anecdotes. Along with reflections on the intuitive messages, practical tips, exercises, and actionable steps are provided to help listeners incorporate personal growth and mindfulness into their daily lives. The aim is to empower listeners to create a more fulfilling and purposeful life knowing “You.Are.Intuitive!”
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Intuitive Insights: Harnessing the Power of Intuition + Creativity in Everyday Life
Risk, Joy, and the Beautiful Art of Failure
The space between taking a leap and landing – that magical moment of uncertainty before knowing the outcome – holds remarkable power in our lives. When we examine our relationship with risk, we discover it's not something to avoid, but rather the very essence of authentic living.
Today's reflection dives deep into how our intuition serves as an internal navigational force connecting us to a higher plane. While our brains crave certainty and answers, our souls thrive in the space of not knowing. Following the golden thread of what brings us joy creates a path forward even when we can't see the complete map.
Generational differences in risk tolerance reveal something profound about personal growth. Many who grew up as "latchkey kids" experienced independence early, facing failures without constant supervision. Now as parents, we often try to protect our children from these very experiences that sculpt character and resilience. The most valuable life lessons typically emerge not despite our failures but because of them.
In our social media era, we've developed another troubling relationship – the fear of being average. There's immense pressure to stand out and achieve remarkable things. Yet there's nothing wrong with being average, especially regarding our expectations for children and relationships. When we follow authentic joy rather than external expectations, we naturally discover our unique gifts, making "average" meaningless since each person's mission is inherently distinctive.
The cosmic shifts occurring today reflect a fundamental transition from head-centered to heart-centered living. While rational thinking has propelled humanity forward, our continued evolution depends on reconnecting with our hearts and intuition. By journaling about what truly brings you joy and unraveling those feelings to their essence, you'll discover the golden thread leading to your most authentic self. Follow that thread, embrace the risk, and make some magic today.
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Hello, welcome to Intuitive Insights. I am your no BS Woo Woo coach, megan McDonough, and today I wanted to talk a little bit about risk. It's something I've been meditating on a lot lately and our relationship to it, like as a society, personally, um, generationally, all the things, uh, before we jump into this, I would love it if you would like and subscribe, uh, but also it really just helps this to grow. So, if this energy flowing, all right. So risk, um.
Speaker 1:So my personal relationship with risk is it feels like like, if I think of what the word risk means or I feel into the word risk, it feels to me like life, like what I want life to feel, like that space between jumping off and landing and not knowing if you're going to stick the landing, not knowing if you jumped off in the right spot or not. Obviously, this is all not realistic, more metaphoric, but I mean, this is how art feels to me, this is how creating feels to me that you're going so far out of your comfort zone, or just enough outside of your comfort zone, that you don't know what it's going to look like. On the other end, you don't know how it's going to be received. You just know that your soul wants to take the leap that you want to take, the jump that you need to, and that little space between jumping, making that decision to jump, and the landing. That, to me, is where the magic happens, because that's where you have to hold on to faith, that's where you have to hold on to trust. And it's so easy to get pulled off and away from and distracted and unfocused during that time, you know, with thoughts like will, doubts, will I land? Will it hurt? Will there be someone to catch me? Will I land if there's not? You know, will I be okay if there's not? And that that space in between, that kind of breath, in between the not knowing and the knowing, or the result or the ending, the finale, where you land.
Speaker 1:I mean, for me that's where the magic lives, that's where life, that's why, to me, we are supposed to live life, that is why we are called to our intuition. We are called to our intuition. Our intuition is that internal, unseen navigational force that we feel and it cannot be rationalized. The brain wants so much to have an answer and the soul, the intuition like, thrives without one, because the intuition and the soul are connected to in my mind, they're connected to the higher plane, they're connected to the universal, eternal plane, and from that space you have perspective, right From that space, have perspective right from that space. You know, you don't have doubts because you have the entire map.
Speaker 1:But when we come in in our little journeys here in life, right in these physical forms, we have forms we have just like a piece of the map. We have a couple of things that indicate to us well, where we begin, where we're born, and then that feeling in our gut where we want to go to, that thing that's driving us forward and that can be found in what we like. It brings us joy, it makes us happy, who makes us happy? And so when you keep following that joy, when you keep following that little golden thread of what lights your heart up, the more you do it, the more you live in that space, the more you trust that space, the more comfortable you get with being uncomfortable, the more brave you get when you fall or when there's a possibility of falling, and the more courageous you get because you know that falling isn't, there's no such thing. I mean, yes, you can physically fall, but I mean failing. There is no such thing. And this, that that's a hard one for me Because the fear of failure holds me back so much. Because the fear of failure holds me back so much, but the need to risk is so great that occasionally I get something done you know what I mean and it may fail. So why I've been marinating on this is also because I'm seeing in the next generation, I'm seeing in my kids in the next generation, this fear of risk, you know, of working hard for something or for trying, or you know that it's not just instantaneous and I mean, look, it can be a sign of the times.
Speaker 1:If I think back when I was growing up in the 80s, it was like fend for yourself, kid. You know latchkey kids and so forth. It was like fend for yourself, right. So you had to grow up fast, you had to learn things, you had to fail a lot, and that was accepted because either no one was around to notice, you know, or they just had other things in their mind, I don't know or it was more acceptable that kids failed at things. But now in my generation and I'm seeing, you know, ones before me and a little after me we feel like especially the latchkey kid type kids that you know, felt like there was a distance between being guided and having to raise yourself, that there is this like I'm going to give what I didn't get and so, instead of and I'm at fault for this, for sure too I try to be mindful of it. But you know, we are human. We try to protect our kids from having to have any of those failures. But the failures are like, they're beautiful. Almost everything I've learned, that stuck with me on a deep character level that sculpted who I am, that I'm proud of, was because I failed in some way at something. And then I got back up.
Speaker 1:My son was worried about failing at something, or feeling like he'd failed at something, and I was trying to explain to him the process of learning, you know, can look not like a straight line forward, but you know, maybe two steps forward, one step back, four steps forward, three steps back, depending on your process, depending on the journey, depending on what you're learning and growing through. And I mean he did not like that answer, he did not like it at all. But I feel as though we've lost touch with it's okay, it's okay to fail and the other thing that this opens up in me, especially in today's society, with, with social media and kind of all of our lives being lived out loud. It's also okay to be average.
Speaker 1:I feel like there's a big fear around that being average, myself included, I mean, which is not like a revelation because I went into acting and so therefore I'm always. You know, that was kind of part of what I was going after, but that it's okay, especially as parents with kids. It's okay for your kid to be average. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:And sometimes that feels like a risk, the risk of acceptance of where things are and who they are. And you can pull that into your relationships too. If I accept this person for who they really are and not who I need them or want them to be. What's at risk, you know? Because I feel like sometimes, with our relationships and this fear of failure and this fear of risking, it's like if we don't hold up the image of life that we believe is correct, like a net around us that everyone plays a part in, then who's going to do it, you know? Or it'll all fall apart, and then what? It'll all fall apart, and then what? And the thing is is like that's all. That's all made up right. Like there is so much anxiety with our kids these days and society and everything kind of layering in, and I think a lot of it is because of this unwillingness or fear, as though you cannot risk to be average.
Speaker 1:But the thing is is there is no other thing as average, because we are all, honestly, the same. We're made of the same. What stardust you want to get, all we're all made of the same stardust. We're all made of the same things, but each little piece of our souls is on a specific mission with specific superpowers and specific challenges. And when you follow that joy and live in that space between, by following that joy, by following that thread, by finding the things that really excite you and turn you on and make you feel like your whole body is well, you're just ecstatic. Not the things that ignite your head, but they ignite your heart. Those things are the things that are always going to make you unique and therefore there is no average.
Speaker 1:Right and right now there's a lot of big changes. I'm a big fan of astrology I'm not an astrologer, but I'm very interested in astrology and there are a lot of big planetary changes, a lot of big energy changes happening there, but it's being seen, reflected here on Earth or, vice versa, reflected in the skies, however you look at it, and the reflection is of structural change. And what I'm seeing and feeling is that the change is going from head to heart. And the heads have gotten us so far, the brain has gotten us so far, but to go even further down the path for humanity, our hearts now have to take over. The next chapter belongs to our hearts and the next chapter belongs to our creativity, and the next chapter belongs to our creativity and our individuality, found through risk and the risk of finding what excites you, what gives you joy.
Speaker 1:So, as a reflection, I wanted to offer this week a journal prompt what Brings Me Joy? And unravel it, whatever it may be, until you get to the nugget, to the very specific nugget that may feel super random, but you're like but that's it, like. I think I've used this one before and I'm probably gonna be a terrible example, but I'm just. But you know, you know, I love, I love being around trees and I'm like why? So? Why do I love to be around trees? Because the trees make me feel calm and if I unravel it even more, it's specific trees. I need the green, green trees and I need the quiet of nature. And if I unravel that even more, it's because then I can truly hear my true self, or my higher self, or the universal self, and that's when I feel connected, and that is something I seek in life. So what brings you joy? Unravel that pill until you get to the tiny little nugget inside and then keep following that golden thread.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's it. That's this week's message. If you are enjoying this show, please share it with someone you think would like it and could use it. If you're looking for an intuitive reading for yourself or coaching, you can find me at magnetizerumitecom. Make some magic today. Big buckets of love.
