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    The Gifts of Spontaneity and Listening to Your Intuition

    by Indira Abby Heijnen Jun 01, 2018 3 minutes
    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

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    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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