How To Tell the Difference Between Your Ego, Logic, Spirit Guides and Intuition (Blog

[Erin Pavlina]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Erin Pavlina's blog:

How To Tell the Difference Between Your Ego, Logic, Spirit Guides and Intuition

[{aspiring_to_clarity}]

Very helpful post. Thank you!

I've often wondered whether some message I was getting was just me or my intuition. I liked how you showed an approximation of what each would sound like. I can now see that intuition is a quick, strong feeling. A lot of the time I was wondering "is this my intuition?" but the messages were long and fear based.

[Gayathri]

Very nice post. I really enjoyed reading this.

[Bing Wu]

Hey Erin, this is a minor thing (like cyber Toastmasters haha!) watch out for your usage of the word "It's"... for example in the 5th paragraph from last:

"It’s general goal is to notify you that you are in danger or at a vital decision-making moment in your life."

Here you should be using "Its" instead of "It's". Anytime you use "It's", ask yourself if the long form "It is" would also be appropriate. If not, you should be using "Its".

I just see many people making this grammar mistake and don't want to see someone as cerebral as yourself making it ;-)

[Erin Pavlina]

Thanks, all fixed up. I am usually very aware of the it's its thing but this one got past me

[dream23]

ah that explains it, it was defo my ego telling me to go to that strip club with mates the otha night ;-)

[Akashic_Librarian]

Ohh I like the post Erin, it's nice to see something like this. I often ignore my intution because I am afraid it might be wrong

[songwriter]

I know about when is ego and when is logic, but I hardly can tell between intuition and guides... For instance, what do you use when you follow a synchronicity?. I guess that's something coming from guides and not ego, but you learn to trust that through intuition and logic.

[evelynlim]

Hello Erin, I enjoyed the post very much. It helped cleared up some confusion I had with relation to spirit guides.

With much thanks,
Evelyn

[mercuryrising]

One question, I'm wondering about the higher self. Like, why isn't one of the voices your higher self? Why is it a spirit guide?

[Erin Pavlina]

Higher self is in the mix too. I can tune in to either my higher self or my guides, or both at the same time. But the title was already getting a bit long.

The higher self will sound like the spirit guides, but often the higher self is more concerned with simply reminding you of who you really are, whereas the guides remind us of what we can do and how to go about it.