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So You Think Im Intuitive?
Category: Self ImprovementAs a holistic practitioner and teacher, I have the opportunity to work with many individuals. Through the years, learning how to tap more deeply into my intuitive side for personal wisdom and guidance has been an interesting journey of discovery. Many students and clients will look in awe when as I share information received. I’ll chuckle, and tell them, “I used to have that look too”, until I realized to be gifted intuitively was not something passed out before birth to a select group of more evolved beings. We all received this gift
How we have chosen to work with this, is strictly a personal decision. So if you are one of those sitting on the sidelines, salivating over others who can tap into their inner guidance easily, thinking you were not selected for this role. Drop the restricting belief! It is something you can do, but you need to make the choice to just do it.
As one begins working consistently, it becomes easier to learn how to access this inside information. So, now I would like to share some of the things I have found helpful to activate this process, they are summarized below:
1. Intuition is not a special gift for a selected group of people. It is a gift we are all given as part of our birthright. Some choose to open the gift and work with it, others choose to put it on a shelf and forget about it, others may be apprehensive about opening it, allowing it to stay under wraps until a later time…Think about this analogy and how it may apply to you…
2. Accessing the ability to receive intuitive information is easier than we think, and is already in use in our day to day lives. We may not give it credit when we have used this information, simply because it may have come to us in very ordinary circumstances, rather than appearing with all the bells and whistles.
Now just think about it…have you ever planned on going some place and then suddenly had a change of mind for no apparent reason, or decided to change the direction or route you were taking? Only to have discovered later on how fortunate you were to have missed an accident or a traffic jam. We will never know how many people were using intuitive guidance on September 11, 2001 when the Twin Towers were struck, and they had decided for some reason not to be there when they normally would have been.
How many times during your life have you had a creative idea, an inspiration or solution to a problem that appeared out of nowhere? We all have encountered this experience, which is intuition at work.
Have you ever had what feels like a gut reaction about something or someone in relation to one of your children? This again is intuition.
Want to take a nap and wake up in an hour but don’t have an alarm clock around? Just state before nodding off, I want to wake up in X amount of minutes. The message is relayed to the subconscious, which will wake you up at the designated time.
Have you ever found yourself saying, “I had an epiphany today!” or maybe you heard someone else say it…this is a direct result of inner guidance or intuition at work.
Any time you say, ” I can’t explain it, I just have this feeling about..” you are expressing yourself intuitively.
The next time you start to say “I don’t have intuitive ability.” stop and take a moment to examine some ordinary happenings in your life and you may be surprised to find that you are to the contrary, more intuitive than you give yourself credit for.
3. When thinking about those examples mentioned above and remembering yourself in similar situations, try to recall exactly what state of being you were in when it happened.
If you recalled having a creative idea or inspiration, what were you doing? Were you stressed out or more relaxed? Were you engaged in an activity that required your full concentration, or were you in a comfortable, calm atmosphere?
Generally, when a person is in a more relaxed state of being, when the logical, chattering side of the mind grows quieter, this opens the gateway for communication with the subconscious, which allows intuition to be recognized and heard. If you are one who describes yourself as not able to turn off the mental chatter-try this: be a detached observer, listen without attachment to the talk. I like to describe it as if I were sitting in front of a TV watching CNN, just watching the tag lines at the bottom of the screen go by…eventually the incessant thoughts will stop coming, and you will be peering at a blank screen…
This is also like daydreaming– giving your mind permission to relax and take a break. It takes time to cultivate the ability to get into this state, but the more you practice, the quicker you can arrive there at each attempt.
4. All intuitive ability is not the same…as mentioned above, we all are gifted with this ability, but how we perceive it is not the same in everyone. For some it will be like watching a TV screen with clear images, for others it may be more like a quick running slide show, others may experience it as if they are listening to a radio, and still others, it may affect them as a feeling. One way is not better than the other. These modes of expression may vary at times. The best thing to do is to learn to trust the intuitive information as it comes in. Sometimes the understanding is known immediately, but at other times it will become apparent at a later date.
Here is an example of a time just recently that I received an intuitive message…
I had just finished my morning walk at the park, got into my van, looked at my bottle of water, then thought “Oh I’ll drink it later!” I drove about 1 minute away to the grocery store located right next the park where I had just been. As I approached the store, an elderly couple was exiting. The wife said to the husband “If you wait until you are thirsty to drink, then it’s too late.” I mentally thanked the woman for the message, did my shopping, then drank the bottle of water as soon as I got back into the car.
Do I believe this was a coincidence? Most certainly! But I view a coincidence as something that is meant to happen, not a random event. This was an intuitive message for me, sent through this couple as a reminder of something I was working on to increase (my water consumption).
These messages can come to us in any number of ways: through the words of a song, a billboard message, an overheard conversation, a magazine ad, etc. The trick is to be open to receive them…by fine tuning our awareness..
So maybe during the next few weeks, you can work on fine-tuning your awareness….you just might be surprised at what you are learning!
Susan A. Anderson, Sellersville, PA, is the owner of Seeds for Change Wellness, a grassroots program focusing on providing educational information, programs and holistic health services. As a Reiki teacher and practitioner, Susan offers classes monthly and sees clients regularly. Visit her comprehensive website http://www.seedsforchangewellness.com for the lastest information on health, wellness, spirituality, and environmental issues or her blog http://reikiretreat.blogspot.com
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