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The Gifts of Spontaneity and Listening to Your Intuition

Spontaneity, Intuition, photograph of man jumping by Caleb Woods

Photograph by Caleb Woods

Heeding our intuition vs. our ego frees us to experience joyful spontaneity — and vice versa

Spontaneity: carefree freedom from constraint

 synonym: abandon, ease, light heartedness, naturalness, unconstraint, uninhibitedness.

I did something spontaneously this morning.

I noticed that I did something spontaneously this morning.

Both are significant to me.

Spontaneity is a result of a part of my daily practice of listening to my intuition. Although I began this practice of listening and feeling the signs and cues of my inner innate wisdom — my intuition — quite a while ago, it

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