Trusting Your Intuition at the Goddess Evolution Summit
The Goddess Evolution Summit is a free online event, open to all genders, and it is under way right now. Prerecorded interviews began on November 7 and run through November 13, live presentations follow on November 14 and 15, and a replay week runs November 16 to 22. Trusting your intuition during an event like this means treating each impression as something worth examining, not something that must be obeyed. Here is a practical way to do that while you listen to several teachers whose views will not always agree.
TL;DR
An intuitive impression is a piece of information. A fact is something you can point to. Keep the two in separate columns while you listen.
Intuition is more reliable where you have real experience, and less reliable in areas that are new to you. A summit is often new territory, so go slowly.
When an interview moves you strongly, pause, breathe, and see whether the impression is still there before you act on it.
Write down what you felt, what you heard, and what you would need to see to know it was true. Decide later.
The live days are November 14 and 15, and replays run through November 22, so you have time to reflect before committing to anything.
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Why a summit is a particular test of discernment
A summit puts many voices in front of you in a short time. Each teacher speaks with conviction, each has a different frame, and the format rewards inspiration. That is part of its value. It is also the environment in which it becomes hardest to tell what is yours from what is borrowed.
When a speaker says something that lands in your body as yes, it can feel like your own knowing. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is the pleasure of hearing something eloquent, or the relief of being told what you hoped to hear, or the pull of a room full of people nodding along. Those feel similar in the moment and lead to very different decisions.
The aim of this article is not to make you suspicious of what moves you. It is to give you a few questions that keep your own authority intact while you take in other perspectives. Everything below labeled as a prompt is an editorial suggestion from us. None of it is a teaching from any summit session, and we are not describing what any guest will say.
What intuition is, and what it is not
Researchers who study the subject offer a fairly grounded definition. Joel Pearson at UNSW describes intuition as the learned, productive use of unconscious information to make better decisions or take better actions. The word learned matters. In that account, intuition depends on mastery: you need experience in a subject before the unconscious patterns you have absorbed can support a decision about it.
That is a psychological framing, and we offer it as one lens, not as proof of any spiritual claim. Many of the people who attend a summit like this one also experience guidance as something larger than pattern recognition, and that is a legitimate part of their practice. The point of the research is narrower and practical: whatever its source, a felt impression is more trustworthy when it comes from a field you know and less trustworthy when it comes from one you do not.
A related finding is worth holding lightly. A 2019 UNSW report on a study published in Nature found that patterns of brain activity predicted participants’ free choices an average of 11 seconds before they were consciously aware of deciding. The researchers cautioned that this does not mean all choices are predetermined. What we take from it is modest: a lot happens before we can name it, which is a reason to notice early signals and also a reason to examine them before treating them as conclusions.
Impression versus fact: a working distinction
Most confusion about intuition comes from collapsing two different things. An impression is what you sense: a pull, a warmth, a tightening, a phrase that surfaces, a sudden certainty. A fact is a claim about the world that someone else could check. The impression is real as an experience. Whether it is accurate about the world is a separate question.
A useful habit is to say each in its own sentence. “I felt a strong pull toward that idea” is an impression. “That idea will work for my situation” is a claim. Between the two sits an investigation, and that is where your discernment lives.
Big Think’s 2026 guide on when to trust intuition makes the same point from the decision-making side: emotional intensity does not establish reliability. It suggests naming the feeling, identifying what would prove it wrong, and slowing down before deciding. Treating intuition as a hypothesis to investigate keeps it useful without making it a verdict.
Questions that separate an impression from a fact
These are editorial prompts. Use them with a notebook open beside whatever you are watching.
What exactly did I feel, and where? Write the sensation or the words before interpreting them. “Tight chest” and “I should leave my job” are not the same entry.
What was happening just before it arrived? A moving story, a confident speaker, or a topic close to a wound can produce a strong response that says more about the moment than about the truth of the claim.
Is this about something I have experience in? If you have years of practice in the area, the impression carries more weight. If the subject is new, treat it as a question to explore.
What would I expect to see if this were true? Name something observable: a number, a result, a pattern, a person’s track record.
What would prove it wrong? If nothing could, you are probably holding a belief, not testing an impression.
Am I hoping for a particular answer? Wishful thinking tends to arrive with a feeling of relief or excitement, and it can feel exactly like confirmation.
Whose voice is this? Could you have said it before the summit began? If the phrase belongs to a speaker, that does not make it false, but it means the knowing has not yet become yours.
Does it still hold after I rest? Come back to it after a night, a walk, or a day of replays.
The seventh question deserves a pause, because it is the one specific to events with many teachers. Borrowed language can feel like insight. The test is not whether you agree but whether you can restate the idea in your own words and say what you would do differently because of it.
Telling intuition from anxiety and emotional charge
People often ask how to separate a true inner signal from fear. There is no perfect test, but there are useful signs.
Pearson’s framework, as reported by UNSW, begins with self-awareness: if you are overly emotional, positively or negatively, that is a moment not to lean on intuition. Psychology Today’s 2026 interview on reading people makes a similar distinction, describing intuition as the unconscious use of accumulated experience without emotional charge, while bias, anxiety, and wishful thinking tend to come with strong feeling attached.
Oprah Daily’s 2024 article reports Pearson’s description of the body’s side of this. Anxiety may bring shortness of breath, dizziness, shaking, sweating, or a racing heart, while intuition is described as steadier and clearer. Take that as a rough guide to notice, not a diagnosis. If anxious symptoms are frequent or intense, that is a matter for a licensed health professional, and no summit session is a substitute for that.
In practice, a high-energy interview can leave your system buzzing. If you notice that, you are not failing at intuition. You are simply not yet in a state where an impression is easy to read. Our post on nervous system regulation and spirituality goes deeper on why settling the body comes before interpreting what you receive.
A short pause protocol between sessions
Both Psychology Today and Oprah Daily point to the same first move: calm the body, then look again. Psychology Today’s interviewee recommends briefly relaxing with deep breathing, then checking whether the impression remains, and combining it with logic by asking whether your relevant experience actually applies.
Here is a version you can run in about five minutes after any interview that stirs something. It is an editorial prompt sequence of ours, not a summit practice.
Breathe. Take several slow breaths with a longer exhale, and let the intensity settle.
Capture. Write the first sensation, words, or ideas, exactly as they came, without editing.
Check. Ask whether your own knowledge and experience bear on this situation.
Label. Mark each line as impression, fact I can verify, or something I heard and want to explore.
Choose a small step. Decide on one low-stakes action, such as reading, asking a question, or sleeping on it.
The small step matters. Both UNSW and Pearson recommend practicing on smaller decisions first, noticing the feeling and recording the outcome, and keeping a journal of daily intuitive decisions, instead of starting with high-stakes choices. A summit is a good place to begin that record, because the stakes of noticing are low.
Hearing different perspectives without losing your own
One of the real gifts of a multi-speaker event is contrast. Two teachers may describe guidance, receiving, purpose, or legacy in ways that do not fit together neatly. That friction is useful, and it is easy to waste by trying to resolve it too fast.
A few ways to keep your judgment in the room:
Keep a “resonates” list and a “questions” list. Anything that excites you goes on the first. Anything you cannot yet evaluate goes on the second. Do not move items across until you have a reason.
Notice where speakers differ. If two voices disagree, that is a prompt to ask which parts you can test and which are matters of personal practice.
Separate the teacher from the idea. A warm, compelling presence is not evidence about a claim. Let the idea stand on what you can examine.
Treat intuition as one input. Big Think’s guide advises pairing it with curiosity, experimentation, and checking specific warning signs from comparable past situations, and it suggests trusting intuition more in familiar domains and less in unfamiliar ones, such as a first-time legal decision.
This matters most when something you hear touches money, work, or a relationship. A strong inner yes about a financial or business move is a reason to look at the numbers, not a replacement for looking. We would say the same about any decision, from any source.
Using the three phases of the summit well
The event has a structure that suits reflection, and you can use it deliberately.
Prerecorded interviews, November 7 to 13. These are the listening days. Because they are recorded, you can pause, replay a passage, and stop when your attention thins. Use them to fill your “resonates” and “questions” lists without acting on either.
Live presentations, November 14 and 15. Live sessions carry more collective energy, which can heighten feeling. This is where the pause protocol earns its place. Before you respond to a live moment in the moment, note it and wait.
Replay week, November 16 to 22. The replay week is built for the second look. Return to the items that still draw you after a few days. An impression that holds up after rest and review has passed a real test. One that has faded has told you something too. For access details, check the Goddess Evolution Summit registration page, which is the place to confirm anything about how and when you can watch.
A Perspective from Shantana
I work as a quantum channel, multidimensional healer, and spiritual educator, and the question I return to most with the women and men who come into this work is not “How do I receive more?” It is “How do I know what is mine?” Discernment is the part of channel development that gets skipped, because receiving feels more exciting than evaluating. But a channel without discernment is simply a louder inbox. The strength of your guidance depends on your relationship with it: how well you can sit with an impression, name it honestly, and decide what to do with it in the physical world. That is why we teach guidance and grounded action together. Spirituality is not a substitute for action, and you never have to hand your authority to a teacher, including me. When you listen to different voices at a gathering like the Goddess Evolution Summit, the invitation is to hear them as perspectives and to let your own knowing do the sorting. Self-trust is built slowly, through small, honest observations that you check against your life. If an idea is true for you, it will keep making sense in daylight, and it will survive a few good questions. Shantana Telise
Join the Goddess Evolution Summit
The Goddess Evolution Summit is a free online event that brings guest teachers together around wealth, intuition, purpose, and legacy, and it welcomes people of all genders. The prerecorded interviews are available now, the live presentations take place on November 14 and 15, and a replay week runs from November 16 to 22. You can register for the Goddess Evolution Summit here and confirm current access on that page.
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Bring a notebook and the questions above. They work whether you watch every session or only a few.
A simple way to review what you wrote
Once the summit has ended, the notes are where the value sits. A short review, done a few days later, turns a stream of inspiration into something you can use.
Go through your lists and sort every entry into one of four groups:
Verified. You checked it against evidence, experience, or an outside source, and it holds.
Testable. You can design a small experiment, such as trying a practice for two weeks and noting what changes.
Personal. It is a matter of your own practice and meaning, and no outside check applies. Hold it as yours, with humility.
Released. It moved you in the moment and has not stayed. Let it go without judgment.
Most people find that the second and third groups are small and the most valuable. If you want a gentler read on why trust usually grows slowly, our guide to spiritual awakening signs for intuitive women in business covers the pace at which self-trust tends to form.
FAQ
How do I know whether what I feel is intuition or just excitement?
Look at the charge. Excitement and anxiety tend to carry strong emotion, while intuition is often described as steadier and clearer. Pause, breathe, and see whether the impression is still there once the intensity settles, then write what you would expect to see if it were true.
Should I act on an intuitive hit during a live session?
Note it and wait. Capture the sensation or words, then give it time before acting. A small, reversible step, such as reading more or asking a question, is a sounder response than a large decision made in the middle of a session.
What if two speakers say opposite things and both feel true?
That is a useful signal, not a problem to solve quickly. Put both on your questions list, and separate what you can test from what is personal practice. Come back during the replay week, when the first rush has passed.
Can I trust my intuition about money or business decisions I hear about at the summit?
Treat it as one input. Research on intuition suggests it is more reliable in areas where you have real experience, so pair any strong impression with figures, comparable past situations, and your own track record. No summit session guarantees a financial outcome, and none should replace that review.
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