There's one great way to know if you are living through inspiration or not by taking notice by being aware of all the experiences you do love. Then take notice of the experiences you do not enjoy. If you have more of what you don't enjoy then it's a great indication that knowing how to be in the inspiration flow can be what will create the change.
All it takes is being aware of how inspiration is a passionate flow that allows your desires to be fulfilled so easily. You feel uplifted and energized while the passion sustains so effortlessly when you are inspired and go with its flow. You require less sleep and just feel great all of the time. Until you are not in the inspirational flow then you are most probably in the resistant rapid wave of challenging experience in your life and of your creations.
The comparison can be quickly recognized just by observing your day to day way life is enfolding in your experiences by being either aware or not being aware. When you become aware of the difference in comparison of inspiration compared to motivation it's that realization that can be empowering. The realization that shows you quite plain and simply how different of a vibration the two energies can be.
It seems that we can be full steam ahead in the beginning when we have a goal and motivation chugs us along. Then as we tread upon our motivating journey to fulfill the goal or end result, whatever the desire that motivated us to begin with, we then become exhausted. It's like we are running out of steam with so much resistance along the way. We usually find that many challenges pop up for us to go through before we get to our goal's end results. If we are open to learning about our self and beliefs then we will always find a learning curve of an opportunity to learn and grow from the experiences. It just seems like such an uphill climb compared to be on an inspiring flow.
Inspiration can take you on a simpler journey to experience the end results of your desires manifested. The difference between the two can be compared to night and day. Let's use the analogy of a glass window that we want to see a beautiful view through. Our goal being to see the view outside through the window can be compared to our goal or desire. If the window is dirty then we have a bit of challenge to see through it clearly to see the view to experience what we want. But when we take the time to clean the window as inspiration can do for us, it allows us to see clearly with no obstructions. So we are not straining to see what we desire to see when the glass window is cleaned, its effortless for us to see the beautiful view so clearly.
Just as we become motivated by a goal and struggle uphill towards it compared to having the inspiration of a desire and allowing it to flow through you and following its lead along the way to experiencing it manifested into our experience. It would be like going downhill which has no resistance, it just flows. It similar to be guided and trusting the guidance and when you do you clearly see through hindsight that by following the guidance of inspirational signs that urges you. You will quickly notice that you seem to manifest everything along the way with no effort.
So next time you notice an uplifting notion to do something, take notice how it feels and if its inspiration and you allow it to guide you and you follow it, you will notice within a few days things you desire just become into your experiences. So easily and effortlessly it just flows into your awareness and you get many AHA moments throughout each day. When you continue on the inspiration flow you will notice that every day becomes so magical in so many ways that you actually look forward to more and more inspiration to behold you of its flow.
You also become to notice more intensely when you are out of the flow of inspiration too. You will feel the resistance more profoundly because you'll notice that you feel so relaxed and high in your passion to inspiration. It feels so heavenly great that any resistance becomes greatly magnified. And of course it will because when your in your passion of inspiration it feels so great noticing the difference and that's what takes you to never wanting to alter it again. The difference of the feelings of the two vibrations are just that opposites and they are because motivation is ego based while inspiration is inspired by infinite spirit or source. The most genuine infinite love there is.