As an entrepreneur, you regularly have to make choices. What would it be like if you could use your pure intuition when making these choices? In this blog, I describe a number of intuitive techniques that will help you make decisions.

For example, you can use them to intuitively choose which of my training courses or workshops are currently right for you.

Making choices: A4 sheets on the floor

For this method, you need four A4 sheets of paper, a space where you can place them on the floor, and about ten minutes of your time. Follow the steps below.

1. Write each option you have on a separate sheet. Keep the number between four and five. Also include one sheet with just a question mark. This stands for the choice you haven’t thought of yet.
2. Fold the sheets in half and mix them up, so you no longer know which option is on which sheet.
3. Now, intuitively place each sheet somewhere in the room. Don’t overthink it, just put them down where it feels right.
4. Take a few steps back and notice what happens inside you. What do you perceive, physically, emotionally, mentally, and energetically? Is one sheet drawing your attention? In what way?
5. Walk toward the sheet that calls you and observe what happens as you move closer.
6. Step onto the sheet.
7. Notice what happens in your body, your emotions, and your thoughts. You might also receive intuitive impressions through seeing, feeling, knowing, hearing, tasting, or smelling. Simply register everything that happens. You can write it down if you like.
8. Move to the next sheet and repeat the same process.
9. Do this for all sheets.
10. If you want, you can step on one or two sheets a second time to deepen your sense of them.
11. Once you’ve felt all of them, open the sheets and see which option was where. Then connect your experiences to the options.

Sometimes it’s very clear, you simply know which option feels right. Other times, it’s more subtle. You might have felt excitement with one and calmness with another. In that way, you’ve gathered extra information about what each choice brings you. You can use this intuitive information when making your final decision.

If your attention or feeling keeps going to the question mark, that means the right option hasn’t yet revealed itself or you didn’t include it. Sometimes you’ll immediately know what that missing option is. Other times, it just needs a bit more time to become clear.

Making choices: The options in your hands

This method works with two options. If you have more than two, you can use it to compare them two by two. It helps you sense the difference between the options.

1. Sit down with your feet on the floor and your hands open, palms up, a bit wider than your hips.
2. Take a few deep breaths, and as you exhale, let your body relax. Close your eyes.
3. Imagine that you hold one option in your left hand and the other in your right hand.
4. Now focus on your left hand. What do you notice there, perhaps also in your left arm or even the whole left side of your body? How does your body respond to this choice? Maybe you receive images or sounds. Be curious. The information is often subtle, so observe carefully. Every little sensation is information.
5. Then shift your attention to your right hand, your right arm, and the right side of your body.
6. Compare the two sides. What differences do you notice? How does that feel?
7. Now you have extra information about the two options. Sometimes it becomes very clear which one you should choose, and sometimes it’s more subtle.

Source: Workshop by Anton de Kroon

Making choices: Expanding or contracting?

In this method, you explore how your body, or even your whole system, responds to a choice. You repeat the following steps for each option you have.

1. Sit down with your feet on the floor. Take a few deep breaths and relax as you exhale. Close your eyes.
2. Now imagine that you go for this option. How does your body respond? You can pay attention to several things:
   • Does your body feel more open or more tight?
   • Does your heart expand or contract?
   • Do you breathe more freely or more shallowly?
   • Does your energy feel more spacious or more constricted?
3. Then let go of this option completely and repeat the same steps for your other choices.

Making choices: Heads or tails

This is a very simple method, again for when you have two options. If you have more, you can repeat the process a few times, always comparing two at a time.

1. Take a coin.
2. Decide which option stands for heads and which for tails.
3. Flip the coin ten times and let it fall to the ground (or catch it and turn it over on your other hand, either way is fine).
4. Count the outcomes. Which option came up most often?
5. Now observe your body during this process. What happened when one option came up more often? What happened with the other? How does your body respond to the final result?
6. Also notice your emotional reaction. Are you happy? Did you hope for this result? Are you disappointed? Do you feel the urge to flip the coin again?
7. The most important thing is not what the coin says, but how you respond to it. That reaction tells you a lot about what you truly want.

Source: Embodiment training by Mark Walsh

Making choices: Intuitive background information

In this method, you collect intuitive background information about your different options.

1. Write each option on a separate sheet. You can also add one with a question mark.
2. Fold the sheets and put them in envelopes or in a box.
3. Then, for each sheet, do the following steps:
   • Take the first one and hold it between your hands.
   • What images come to you? What sounds, feelings, tastes, smells, or thoughts appear?
   • How does your body respond?
   • Now take a pen and paper and write a fairytale. Simply begin with “Once upon a time, in a land far away…” and let the story unfold by itself. You don’t need to understand it, just follow what comes up in images, sensations, and knowing.
4. After you’ve done this for each sheet, look at the intuitive information you’ve written down. You still don’t know which sheet represents which choice.
   What does the information tell you about your options? What differences or similarities do you see?
5. Then open the sheets and review your intuitive notes again with this new awareness.

Source: Based on an exercise from the book “Practical Intuition” by Laura Day

Making choices: The guinea pig track

This is a quick method that uses visualization. Read the description below first, and then visualize the process.

1. Sit down with your feet on the floor. Take a few deep breaths and relax as you exhale. Close your eyes.
2. Imagine a large box in which a guinea pig can run a little track. At the end of the track, there are several holes, one for each of your options. Each hole represents one choice.
3. Now imagine a guinea pig being placed at the start of the track. It starts to move forward. Watch with curiosity as it follows its path and see which hole it chooses to go through at the end.
4. The hole your guinea pig chooses shows you which option is right for you at this moment.

Source: Based on a training by Nienke Binkhorst