Steps to The Awakening:
Try meditating to control your inner voice.
Ask it to shut the fuck up and just focus on shutting it up by breathing.
Do not stop focusing your inner eye (closing your eyes) at the point of breath (nose, stomach or chest depending on preference), and just do that.
Your mind will fuck with you to say this is all bullshit, but the US Army has funded research into meditating... There is something to be found, and you have to find it.
Imagine your mind as Youtube, and watch your thoughts... Just like you would skip a Youtube video if it's crap... or probably watch it to the end. That's what you want your inner self to be able to command, listen to it... And ask it to shut up! In all parts of your life (being mindful) and just live like when you were a child (you are just experiencing life from birth and don't know life at all - so you're attentive to your surroundings and just listen without even debating the thought in your mind - mindfulness). Just like Youtube, you have to find the reliable voice which you can trust... Not the first YouTube video you see in the recommendation section - your mind has spam too, which you mistaken as intuition). You have to find the right video, or make one from scratch in your mind - the right intuition.
Whenever you feel Youtube happening (random thoughts and emotions - that's your ego), control it by meditating only by always paying attention to your breath. The point is the next breath, so if your mind wanders, remember to refocus on the breath. This will happen and you have to exercise your "letting go" muscle by forcing yourself (true self, third eye) to do it for only 10 minutes.
Humans used to face animals in the savannah (lions, sharks, bears, bulls), and we always had the fight-or-flight response caused by cortisols which we developed to stay alive... from animals.
Humans are not animals, so don't fight nor run away... unless you need to... and realise that meditation controls cortisols.