Your intuition has been right more often than you think. Here’s how to prove it to yourself using journalling to build your intuition.
Ever had a gut feeling about someone, ignored it, then watched it play out exactly the way you sensed it would? Most people have. Yet very few can tell you how often it happens, and that’s the real reason they don’t trust their intuition. Journalling for intuition changes that. When you write your hunches down and check them later, you build the one thing your logical mind can’t argue with: your own evidence.
Why you keep talking yourself out of it
Intuition is quiet. Overthinking is loud. Lets talk about journalling for intuition purposes.
A gut feeling arrives in a split second, before any reasoning has had a chance to kick in. Then your mind rushes in with “don’t be silly”, “you’re just tired” or “you can’t possibly know that”. By the time the situation unfolds, the original feeling has gone. You either can’t remember it clearly or you put it down to luck.
In NLP (neurolinguistic programming) we talk about how the mind deletes, distorts and generalises information to fit what it already believes. If you believe you’re “not very intuitive”, your mind quietly deletes every time you were right and holds onto the one time you got it wrong. The belief survives, not because it’s true, but because nothing ever challenges it. An intuition journal challenges it.
What an intuition journal does differently
This isn’t “Dear Diary” today I had cornflakes for breakfast. It’s a record of evidence, and it does three things nothing else can.
- It catches the intuition the moment it arrives, before overthinking has had a chance to edit it.
- It shows you how your intuition talks to you. Some people see a picture. Some hear a word or a phrase. Some feel it in their body, and some just know. Once you can see your entries side by side, your strongest channel becomes obvious.
- It gives you your hit rate in black and white. When my students do this, most are surprised. Not because they’re always right, but because they’re right far more often than they would ever have guessed.
How to start: the four-line method
Journalling for intuition is easy, just keep a notebook by your bed or a note on your phone. Each entry takes under a minute.
- The hunch. Write it exactly as it arrived. “I don’t think she’ll turn up.” “Something told me not to take the A299.” “I’ve got a funny feeling about the new manager.”
- How it came. A picture, words, a feeling in your body, or just knowing?
- When to check back. Tomorrow, next week, after the meeting.
- What happened. Fill this in later, honestly.
That’s it. No essays and no special notebook. The key is writing it down before you’ve had time to talk yourself out of it. This mini practice of journalling for your intuition will show it’s worth quite quickly.
Intuition or overthinking? Your journal will tell you
After two or three weeks, read your entries back and look at the ones that turned out to be right. You’ll usually notice a pattern in how they arrived. They tend to be calm, neutral and instant. They state something simply: “Don’t go.” “She’s not okay.” “That’s the one.”
Now look at the ones that didn’t come true. They often came with a racing heart, a long story and a lot of “what ifs”. Intuition tends to state. Overthinking tends to argue.
Once you’ve seen that difference on paper in your own handwriting, you’ll start to recognise it in the moment too. That’s when you stop second-guessing every decision.
Don’t throw away the misses
A wrong hunch isn’t a failure. It’s information.
Ask yourself what was really going on. Was it fear dressed up as a feeling? Were you hoping for a particular outcome? Were you tired, stressed or picking up on someone else’s mood? This is where the journal goes beyond proving your intuition and starts showing you where your old beliefs and worries have been drowning it out. You learn as much about yourself from the misses as you do from the hits.
Why most people stop after a week
Most people start journalling with the best intentions and give up within days. Usually it’s because they make it too big, wait for the “right” moment, or feel they have nothing worth writing. The four-line method gets round most of that, but keeping going is a skill in itself.
That’s exactly what we’ll cover in my masterclass, Start Journalling (And Keep Going), on Wednesday 28th October 2026 at 6pm on Zoom. I’ll show you how to set up your intuition journal, the prompts I use myself, how to read your entries back so the patterns jump out, and how to make it a habit that sticks.
It’s £35, or free if you’re an Awaken & Align member. Book your place here
Tracy x
P.S. If you’d like to start building your evidence today, my free 7-Day Psychic Challenge gives you one simple exercise a day, starting with a meditation to quieten the overthinking. Join free here