Has Following your Intuition Ever Led to an Outright Negative Outcome?

“Has Following your Intuition Ever Led to an Outright Negative Outcome?

By negative I mean you would have been better off not listening to your intuition – I understand that sometimes short term negative turns out to be very helpful in the long run.”

Last week I asked readers for questions they wanted me to write about on the blog. 

The above was one of the questions sent in to me by a reader.  I liked it the best out of the dozen or so that I got and thought it would be interesting to write about.

Before I begin my take on this question, I just wanted to say dudes I am not a guru.  Just a gal who is used to zooming out and tuning into spirit.  My responses to the questions are based on my own personal, human experiences, with some lashings of what my higher self thinks about it.  So let’s get into the question.

Has my intuition ever led to an outright negative outcome?  The bigger question is perhaps: does intuition ever screw things up for us?

The only thing that came to mind when I read this question was when I left New Zealand in November 2009 and moved to Brisbane, Australia.  I planned to stay there for a year but came back to New Zealand after three months because I had such a horrible time there and the climate didn’t suit me at all. 

Yet, my intuition told me it would be great.  Other psychics told me it would be good.

The reason why I was going to live in Australia for a year was because I thought that I didn’t want to settle in New Zealand long term, even though my family live here.  I preferred Australia (New South Wales) the first time I visited last year. When I left for Australia in 2009 (the second time around), I consciously thought that I was leaving for a new life and I planned on finding a place to settle long-term.

When I got there, within a week or so, I realized it was going to be hard and I thought about going back, but I decided to stay.

Being in Brisbane was the most challenging time of my life so far, which is weird because relative to other life experiences I’ve had, it shouldn’t have been so trying.  Here’s my drama queen story.

In short, the things I hated about Queensland were as follows (in no particular order):

I also hated that I was not allowed back into New Zealand once I was in Australia because my passport had expired and I also needed to apply for a new visa.  That whole process took a couple of months and while I was waiting, I felt trapped in a place I hated and I was afraid they might not let me back into New Zealand and I’d have to go back to the UK (my country of origin, although my family no longer live there).

Moving to Australia had brought some other misfortunes that I won’t mention here because they involved other people too.

Above all, the experience was trying because I was terribly homesick for New Zealand and it was so intense I felt like I couldn’t cope anymore, emotionally.  Of course I could, and I did, but at the time I was shocked at how intense it was because I always thought I was in control of my emotional state.  If you’ve been homesick before, you’ll know that real homesickness is like an intense loneliness and distress that nothing and no one can satisfy.  Only going home heals it. And I couldn’t go home because I hadn’t renewed my passport. And the homesickness was totally unexpected. I’d never experienced it before. I didn’t even know where home was, until it came around.

I was so angry with spirit for a few months that my life had suddenly become so hard, even when I felt intuitively that it was the right choice to move to Brisbane, and I’d got that same message a couple of times from other psychics too.  I was bitter and resentful about it and I couldn’t believe that such a choice that I’d taken lightly in the past (I’d moved around a lot and lived in many places on my own) could have such negative repercussions for my life this time around.

Although coming back to New Zealand healed the homesickness and restored a positive emotional state, for a while, I still felt that my intuition had led me astray and led to some seriously negative outcomes.

But once I got over it, I realized that although the experience felt intensely negative, there were certain things I’d learned that were intensely helpful.

I stopped relying on spirit to give me signs about what was best for me, and started thinking about taking responsibility for my own comfort.  The fact was, much of my suffering was my own fault. I hadn’t researched the climate and environment enough; I hadn’t gone with enough funds and I hadn’t bothered to renew my passport.  I realized how having more money could have made the experience a lot easier (I could have afforded air conditioning, for a start!) And if I’d had a passport that was renewed, I could have left as soon as the going got tough.

I also realized that I had been so immersed in the spirit world that I’d lost some sense of practicality.  And above all, I realized where home was: New Zealand.  After that, I decided it was time to settle down.

So there were plenty of positives after the fact, and my life is much better for it now.  I feel ten times more grounded and I don’t ignore the practical side of my life like I used to.  And my business has flourished since, because I get more done.  And I just moved into a new apartment, have a new job and plan to get residency here in New Zealand. I’m not sure how all this will turn out or if life will stay peachy. But I do know that in 2009 I wasn’t a vibrational match for making any of these changes that made me happier, and I wasn’t motivated to make them, because I was too ungrounded. Going to Australia indirectly improved my life a lot.

And I’ve related this story to illustrate the point that negative is your own perspective. You may think that your intuition has screwed something up for you, but in the end you have two choices when it comes to intuitive messages: either you can have faith in what you truly feel is the right choice in your instincts and in your heart, and accept that the consequences will be good in the end, or you can ignore your instincts and use your logic or past experiences or fears.

It’s totally your choice.  I personally, passionately believe that the universe is kind.  I don’t believe in a cruel God and I don’t believe your higher self ever leads you astray.  I also don’t believe that ignoring your intuition is the wrong choice, but I do think that you grow faster (and get to where you want to be quicker) if you take a risk and follow your intuition.

Perhaps a combination of intuition and practicality is the best.

In hindsight, I truly believe my higher self wanted me to go to Australia to learn a few hard lessons.

But that is my perspective.  Another person might feel like they’d been totally screwed over by their intuition.

What about you?  Have you had your faith shaken by misinformation? Have you had times where you feel your intuition has led you astray? What happened?

PS – As an afterthought, I want to say that I have done a couple of readings in the past for people who have felt like their intuition/messages from their higher self have led them astray.  The answer to the question was: sometimes it doesn’t serve you to have a particular piece of information.  If you insist that your higher self tells you what you want to know, you may get fobbed off with misinformation.  In order to protect against this if you are unsure about the message, a good question to ask is: “Does it serve me to have this information?”  If you get a ‘yes’, the information should be good.

If you have a question that you want me to answer on the blog, based on my experiences, then send it to me! Here’s the article inviting you to do that. I look forward to receiving your question.

Anna