Keeping In Touch With Your Intuition: Inbaal Honigman On How To Get In Touch With Your Intuition And When To Trust Your Intuition When Making Decisions
An Interview With Maria Angelova
Blind grab a crystal from a bag, and guess which one it is. Pretend that your hand can ‘see’ the color. As you improve, you’ll learn the connection between color and feel.
Intuition is defined as the ability to understand something immediately without the need for conscious reasoning. Where does intuition come from? Can it be trusted? How can someone tune in to their intuition? To address these questions, we are talking to business leaders, coaches, mental health experts, authors, and anyone who is an authority on “How to Get In Touch With Your Intuition And When To Trust Your Intuition When Making Decisions.” As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Inbaal Honigman.
Inbaal has been a full-time professional Tarot reader and teacher for the past 23 years. Having been introduced to the Tarot in Greece in the 90s, it sparked a lifelong interest in the mystical arts. Passionate about Tarot and astrology in particular, she shares her insights with the media regularly in the UK.
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we start, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory?
I come from an ordinary, working family in Israel. My dad owns a hydraulics business and my mother was an arts and crafts teacher at a local high school. I was raised with one brother.
I was always the smartest kid at my school, and skipped the 4th grade. Nobody in my family was religious.
Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you share how that was relevant to you in your life?
My granddad, who was a Pisces like me, told me since I was young, to travel first and study later. Travel first, he said, always travel first. So I did — and never came back. I went to live in Greece after my army service, then the UK… and I’m still there!
Is there a particular book, podcast, or film that made a significant impact on you? Can you share a story or explain why it resonated with you so much?
In the 90s, when I lived in London, a friend from Argentina gifted me a book called The Celestine Prophecy, it wasn’t the full book, just the experiential guide, and it influenced me massively.
Now often referred to as ‘The Secret’ for the 90s, the book guided the reader in learning to create miracles.
Let’s now shift to the main part of our discussion. Let’s begin with a definition of terms so that each of us and our readers are on the same page. What exactly does intuition mean? Can you explain?
Intuition is the ability to just know — know what’s going on, know how people are feeling, knowing whether something is true or false, and knowing how things will turn out. It’s a sixth sense.
How would you define common sense? Are intuition and common sense related?
Common sense includes taking all the information available to you, and putting it together to accurately assume some facts.
Intuition is the missing ingredient, the information we do not have. A detail we weren’t told and couldn’t possibly know, and yet we do.
How are they different from each other?
Common sense is provable, measurable, and dependent on past experience.
Intuition is the little bridge we make that we can’t prove or measure, we just know it to be true. It has no reason, and yet it works.
What are the positive aspects of being in touch with your intuition? Can you give a story or example to explain what you mean?
When you’re in touch with your intuition, you can choose the right bus stop to go to, because the bus would go there first. You can book the right hotel for your holiday, because you know it will be quieter than the others, even if you don’t really know.
More importantly, you can accurately ‘guess’ why your baby is crying! Or root through the right box to find that missing sock.
Are there negative aspects to being guided by intuition? Can you give a story or example to explain what you mean?
Intuition can give you information you’d rather not have, for example when my ex cheated on me, he covered all his tracks but I just knew he did, and I was right.
Can you give some guidance about when one should make a decision based on their intuition and when one should use other methods to come to a decision?
Common sense is a great way to make decisions, and it rarely lets you down. But when all things are equal and there are still multiple options… look within. Your intuition is always on your side and waiting by the sidelines to help you make a choice that’s right for you.
If you’re trying to choose what subject to study, common sense isn’t enough to help you decide if your life between the ages of 20 and 30 would be better served by an English degree or a pharmacology degree. Ask your intuition what ‘feels’ better.
From your experience or perspective, what are some of the common barriers that hold someone back from trusting their intuition?
I believe everyone is born with strong intuition, but parents and teachers cause them to go against their inner voice.
When a baby reaches for a piece of food, and is interrupted by a parent who shoves a spoon in their mouth instead, that causes a breakdown, the baby doesn’t trust themselves to know what’s food.
When a child is obliged to wear a school uniform instead of picking the clothes that they feel would be right for the day, this interferes with their nature to choose for themselves. This all interrupts the intuition from growing and becoming second nautre.
Here is the central question of our discussion. What are five methods that someone can use to become more in touch with their intuition?
1 . When the phone rings, try and guess who it is before checking. In fact, always try and guess stuff! It’s fun, and it allows your intuition to grow, and with it, your confidence. Back in the 90s when I was developing, landline phones made this game much easier.
2 . Play hide and seek! Easy if you have kids, but also good for your grown up friends. Hone your intuition by testing it — left or right, upstairs or downstairs?
3 . Blind grab a crystal from a bag, and guess which one it is. Pretend that your hand can ‘see’ the color. As you improve, you’ll learn the connection between color and feel.
4 . Automatic writing is a forgotten art — get a friend to ask you a question, then loosely hold a pencil and scribble an answer. It might not be fully linguistically sound, but when you try to read it afterwards, try and make up words and see if it makes sense.
5 . Use Tarot cards or even regular playing cards to guess which card is at the top. Give yourself a treat every time you get it right! To encourage yourself to do well again and again.
You are a person of significant influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be?
‘Everyone is doing their best’. The belief that we are all trying (yes, even the trolls on TikTok) is a liberating belief that allows me to do my best, because I tell myself that everyone is doing theirs.
Even if some people are awful, this is the best they’ve got. When they know better, they’ll do better, too.
Is there a person in the world whom you would love to have lunch with, and why? Maybe we can tag them and see what happens!
Honestly I’d just love a lunch with my husband! We’re both working long hours and raising four kids, so between laundry and driving to school, we get zero time just the two of us together.
How can our readers further follow your work online?
I’m active on Instagram at www.instagram.com/inbaalpsychic although I do have a lot of impostors, so please be careful.
Thank you for these fantastic insights. We wish you only continued success in your great work!
About The Interviewer: Maria Angelova, MBA is a disruptor, author, motivational speaker, body-mind expert, Pilates teacher and founder and CEO of Rebellious Intl. As a disruptor, Maria is on a mission to change the face of the wellness industry by shifting the self-care mindset for consumers and providers alike. As a mind-body coach, Maria’s superpower is alignment which helps clients create a strong body and a calm mind so they can live a life of freedom, happiness and fulfillment. Prior to founding Rebellious Intl, Maria was a Finance Director and a professional with 17+ years of progressive corporate experience in the Telecommunications, Finance, and Insurance industries. Born in Bulgaria, Maria moved to the United States in 1992. She graduated summa cum laude from both Georgia State University (MBA, Finance) and the University of Georgia (BBA, Finance). Maria’s favorite job is being a mom. Maria enjoys learning, coaching, creating authentic connections, working out, Latin dancing, traveling, and spending time with her tribe. To contact Maria, email her at angelova@rebellious-intl.com. To schedule a free consultation, click here.
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