Still wondering why you can't get a clear answer?

Over the years, across the many courses I've run, I've been asked hundreds of questions about intuition. Today I want to walk you through one of the most common, and I believe, the most important.

Why can't I get a clear answer to the question I'm asking?

If the answer isn't coming through clearly, it's usually one of two things. Understanding these can save you a great deal of time and energy.

1. Your question isn't clear enough.

I've touched on this before, but it's worth returning to. Think about the last time someone asked you a question you couldn't follow, you didn't know how to answer. This week I was interviewed by the wonderful Amala Black for her Original Love Podcast. We were having a great conversation, and she began to ask me a question that grew arms and legs - I found myself writing down notes to keep track of it all. In reality, it was three questions woven together, and I had to unravel what she was really asking before I could begin to answer any part of it. (It was a rich conversation, we covered so much ground! I'll share the link once she releases it.)

So you can see how the question itself matters. We receive answers to the questions we ask. And if we haven't gotten clear on what we're truly asking, the answer won't be clear either.

A place to start: try yes/no questions first - they strip things back to something simple and workable. Then begin to notice your qualifying words. If you ask whether option A is "better" than option B, be clear with yourself about what "better" actually means to you. Easier? Quicker? More aligned? Keep playing with the wording. Adjust it, and notice how the quality of information shifts in response.

2. If you're afraid of the answer, you may unconsciously turn away from it.

This is the deeper issue, and the one I see most often. And to be clear: it's rarely that you don't want to know the truth. It's that some part of you believes the answer will be the thing you don't want it to be. Fear motivates us to reject the most helpful information, the clearest guidance, the answer that would make the next steps so much easier.

When your intention turns to truly knowing, seeing, feeling, hearing what is real, rather than the story the mind is clinging to, it all begins to open. The body softens, muscles release, the mind loosens its grip, and control begins to turn towards surrender. But it takes courage to witness Truth, especially when you've been bracing against it for some time.

Remember: fear is not truth. When fear arises, it's your beliefs, assumptions, and projections creating the cloudiness. Truth lives just one breath beyond it.

A place to start: if what you're sitting with is emotionally charged, if it's a pattern you've wrestled with for a while, prepare yourself before you begin to question. Get quiet, get still, and gently instruct your mind to step aside and serve your intuition rather than dominate it. (It will listen. The more you do this, the less your mind tries to control or invent a job for itself.) Any time you feel your body constrict or a pull to turn away, breathe more deeply, sit a little taller, move your attention into your heart. Ask again. And again. Until something clear, light, and simple emerges.

I hope this is useful. Following these two things has made a real difference in my own choices and how I move through uncertainty. Learning the language of your own intuition is a practice and a process - and it may ask you to unlearn a few things before it truly comes into flow.

I'd love to hear how this lands for you. Feel free to reply and share what you're intuitively working through right now.

Sending blessings for curiosity, courage, and a willingness to move towards Truth.

- Jennifer

P.S. If this has sparked a recognition in you - if you're ready to move beyond wondering whether you can trust what you receive and into the direct, embodied experience of your own intuition - I'm holding space for exactly that next weekend. Practical Intuition immersive in Edinburgh on 20–21 June, designed for those who are ready to go deeper, into the real work. If you feel the pull, trust it - you can secure your place(s) here