By taking the time to tune in to your intuition and then using it for the most basic level of making the choices of everyday life is good practice for learning to use it as a reliable source of guidance in major decisions. Alternatives are always available, even when you do not see them clearly.
Intuition can open up new possibilities, sometimes by allowing you to see alternatives you have overlooked, sometimes by offering a fresh, creative solution to a situation in which you feel stuck. Being a nonlinear mode of knowing, intuition can frequently point the way out of a double bind. Giving yourself the space to playfully consider alternatives as real options which could become available, despite rational objections, is a form of brainstorming.
Each time you choose to take advantage of a new opportunity, trusting your intuitive sense of what is best for you, you are strengthening this habit and choices become easier and clearer. As your choices become increasingly self-determined and well-defined, you can have as much freedom as you choose to believe in.
However, your personal interests distort your perceptions and get in the way of clear intuition. The conscious mind, or ego, frequently interferes with intuitive perception. Fear and desire both interfere with intuitive perception. If you are anxious, angry, or emotionally upset, you are not likely to be receptive to the subtle messages which can come into consciousness via intuition.
