
When tragedy hit, Keanu Reeves didn’t collapse, he recalibrated.
In the late 1990s, he lost both his unborn daughter and her mother within a short time.
That experience could have hardened him. Instead, it softened his perception. No noise. No public outbursts. Just stillness.
He became known in Hollywood as the man who pauses before he answers, who listens twice before he speaks once, who turns down nine projects for every one he accepts.
Why?
Because he knows that clarity doesn’t come from urgency, it comes from accuracy.
He waits until the signal feels real, not reactive.
That’s not detachment. That’s mastery of the inner signal, and that’s the difference between guidance and threat: one expands your awareness, the other tightens it.
If you’re sensitive, you’ve probably mistaken fear for intuition.
They feel similar. Both arrive fast, both live in the body, but their signatures are different.
Fear contracts. It floods your system with static.
Intuition expands. It feels calm, even when the choice is bold.
The ego’s early layers (shame, guilt, apathy, grief and fear) amplify imagined threats, making you scan for danger instead of direction. But your intuition doesn’t need protection, it needs space to speak.
When your guidance feels urgent or panicky, it’s not higher insight, it’s the body remembering old pain.
When it feels grounded, steady and strangely peaceful, that’s real guidance.
This Week’s Big Idea
Real guidance vs Imagined threat
A two-step test to tell truth from fear, before you act
Next time you feel a strong pull to act…
Step 1: Pause
Step 2: Ask yourself: “Is this expanding me or protecting me?”
Truth expands. It opens your chest, slows your breath and widens your sense of possibility.
Fear ‘protects’. It tightens your body, narrows your focus and rushes you into reaction.
Your body already knows the answer, before your mind starts arguing.
Think of a moment today when your body tensed but your mind said “it’s fine.”
Pause and ask: “Was that fear, or was it guidance asking for space?”
Share what you noticed in the private group.
Your clarity might be the mirror someone else needs to tell if they are feeling fear or truth.


1. Workbook
In Achieve Success: Developing Intuition, Day 17 (p. 58) helps you distinguish between real guidance and imagined threat, so you can trust your instincts without second-guessing.
If you already have your copy, open Day 17 and practise naming your signals before the ego interrupts.If not, click below to get your copy, and learn how to turn overthinking into accuracy, not anxiety.



2. Online Course
The FREE companion course pairs with the workbook. The secret unlock link is on page 36 of the workbook. Press play and follow the prompts in the book.


3. Power Hour (private group)
Weekly, we translate real moments together, separating judgment from guidance. You don’t need to be perfect, just show up.

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