Our nervous system was evolved for living in a much more natural environment than most of us find ourselves in day to day. Threats were overt rather than ambiguous. 

We need to manage our nervous system and our highly trained prefrontal cortex to create space in our inner world for listening deeply to subtle information. Our prefrontal cortex is great at planning, running scenarios and risk analysis but it's not the part of us that can listen to nuanced relationship insights that exists in a fleeting moment. We often have to practice having presence to the present moment.

Receiving intuitive information is a bit like walking out into the night and initially we can't see much at all. Then our eyes adjust and the world reveals itself.

If we immediately turn around believing the darkness is impenetrable then we miss the unfolding.

Sometimes insights come in a multi-sensory rush in a split second, other times they arrive in fragments that start to form a impression of what is wanting to be known. Each time we trust the unfolding we are strengthening our self-belief and our animal friends belief in the process.

There is an intimacy and vulnerability to opening yourself to another's world. We have to lay down our assumptions and wholeheartedly take up their invitation to find out things that we may not have believed possible.

We also step humbly into learning about how having us in their world feels to them. These insights can be invaluable to deepening the understanding in our animal relationships and in letting go of the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we are not.