Travel and Intuition – Personal Development is the Connection

The connection between travel and intuition as personal development might be a long shot for some people so let me demonstrate how it works. Joe Vitale, writing in The Key, refers to intuition as the inner prompt and considers intuition prompted actions to not always have logical reasoning but acting on an inspired nudge.  Isn’t that a delightful way of looking at one of our most valuable subconscious tools?  Joe says that he takes action based on his inner prompts. Definitions of intuition relate to the mind knowing something without being able to explain with reasoning.  Intuition, also known as “gut feeling“, has been known forever and as we have moved as a society to favour scientific reasoning, logic and rationalisation, intuitive responses have become less valued as a way of knowing.

In my business world of personal development, intuition is critical to understanding the whole self, the full suite of reasons why and how we make decisions and is used as a valid method of decision making. Build trust with your intuition.  Almost every person, though, has to find ways to reconnect with their intuitive processes and that is where the travel comes in.  Many, if not most, people connect with their intuition when their mind is peaceful and slow and driving can do that for you.

I am one of those people who finds breakthrough ideas coming through while I am driving, blow drying my hair and walking in the mornings. I hold the unscientific view that the left and right brain connection is good at these times and helps to stimulate intuition.  Anecdotally though, many people recount the experience of great ideas that feel totally true to them coming while driving.  Works for me, and I just love the idea that I am attending to my personal development while driving and on long trips I can feel particularly happy with myself for doing such great self development work.  And I just sit back and wait for the aha moment.