Psychological tests prove that when we are given a series of questions and told to answer them with the first word that comes to mind—without thinking about what we are going to say—our answers are more truthful and authentic. By bypassing our conscious mind, we more easily access the truth about how we feel.

The more we access our intuition and use it to guide our behaviour, the more authentic we become—and the more authentic others perceive us to be.

Accessing intuition takes practise. Some of the feelings we access when we listen to our intuition are not easy to accept. We may experience fear, anger, and other long-buried emotions. However, it is only by listening to and processing these feelings that we can come into our full power as leaders. With practise and honesty, you can learn to lead through the body.

These exercises can all assist in the process of accessing your inner truth:

• Take regular Power Breaths three or four times a day. Breathing deeply into the belly, rather than the lungs, helps clear energetic blocks.
• Maintain good posture (shoulders back, stomach in) to align the neural pathways between the gut and the brain and ensure that your spine is not restricting nerves that carry the all-important chemical messages from one to the other.
• Meditate to still your mind, so you can hear the quiet voice in your gut. With practise, this quiet voice will become clearer and easier to interpret.