Trusting Your Intuition

Trust the Experts

Isn’t that some successful company’s tagline? Perhaps it’s not so successful, since the product isn’t popping to mind, but I’ve been wondering lately: who are the “experts?” Do degreed professionals qualify? What about people who claim to have “vast” experience in what they do? How many of us auto-magically trust people who call themselves experts (giving them our time, money, resources, etc.), and end up complaining when they don’t meet our expectations?

If you’re like most people, you have experienced first-hand what it’s like to place your most precious assets in the hands of “experts,” just to be disappointed. You expected one thing; they delivered another. Having been there, I can relate to the experience some call “having departed from oneself.” No, I’m not talking about one of those ethereal moments of bliss. Rather, I’m referring to the moment when your body tells you that you’ve strayed from your intuition, and trouble’s about to pay you a visit.

Unless you’re between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one, you’ve likely come to the realization that you don’t know everything there is to know about life.

And that’s scary.

Until you discovered that there are specialists for everything under the sun. Whether it’s the car mechanic, your children’s pediatrician or your mother, chances are, you’ve been led to believe that someone else has all the answers. This probably came as a great relief, since it means that you can leave the decision-making to, well… someone else.

It’s usually at this moment that the Universe finds a most poignant way to throw you the mother of all curve balls. All at once, you get the opportunity to discover for yourself that the “experts” don’t know everything (even your mother). And if you bother to talk to more than one of them, you will soon find out that sometimes even the experts don’t agree!

Sadly, you learn a lesson. (more…)