What is intuition? It is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired. Intuition can also be described as our sixth sense, inner voice, gut feeling, and inner knowing. It is the core of inner guidance where good decision-making comes from. It can come in the form of a thought or a feeling or both. We are all born with intuition. It is a completely natural part of who we are. Why don’t we listen to it? How do we develop it and learn to trust it?
“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap of consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don’t know how or why.” –Albert Einstein
Gut Feelings
Have you ever had a strange feeling that something bad was going to happen but you couldn’t quite figure out where it was coming from or for some reason you just all of a sudden feel nauseous or sick?
Following your gut instinct is also a manner in which your intuition is trying to direct you. For example, you’re about to go to an event with a friend and something just doesn’t feel right. You’re not quite sure why but you listen to the feeling and stay home. You’re glad you did because later that night, your friend calls and says that she didn’t end up going either because she got a flat tire and spent most of the night waiting for help. It also just so happens that she was going to pick you up. Listen to that gut feeling. If something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t. At the very least, use your gut feelings to protect and keep yourself safe. On the other hand, if you get a feeling that you shouldn’t do something and you do it anyway, it could just result in something that will set you back or create more stress.
Intuitive Insight
Our intuition also will send us quick thoughts which may sound like a voice in your head. “Slow down” or “Wait.” These are thoughts that appear to come out of nowhere but have important information, direction, and guidance for you. With so many distractions today, it is easy to disregard your intuition, but if you can practice by paying more attention to it, then it can be a very valuable source of guidance.
Trust Your Intuition
For most of us, our childhood conditioning trained us to look outside of ourselves for answers and solutions to everything. Few of us learned how to look inside and trust our intuition and gut feeling. Everyone was born with intuition and has at one time experienced it. Have you ever thought of someone and the phone rings and it’s them? Have you ever had a thought and it came true almost instantly? That’s your intuition at work. Most of us just dismiss it as coincidence, but if we begin to look and acknowledge it more, we can use it to achieve great levels of success.
How to develop your intuition
Meditation is one of the most popular and effective ways to develop your intuition. When we allow the mind to become still and quiet, we make space for answers to emerge from within us. Regular meditation or sitting in silence can help clear out distractions and allow creative solutions to spontaneously come into our awareness. This is best practiced in nature, by a stream or in another quiet and relaxing place.
Divination is the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by way of trusting ones intuition. By practicing divination, it helps to assist you in learning to trust your own intuition more. There are many different tools and techniques you can use to practice divination.
Aeromancy, cloud watching
Bone casting: To cast or toss a handful of bones with sacred symbols written on them in search of guidance
Geomancy, looking at shapes in rock formations
Moeing: To intuitively open a book to a y page and read the context
Oracle or Tarot cards: To pull a card from an oracle or tarot card deck for guidance
Pendulum: Muscle testing and the art of kinesiology
Runes: Casting stones
Scrying: Gaizing into a bowl of water, crystal ball or a mirror
There are several different types of extra sensory perceptions that we all have access to and can learn to develop our intuition…
Clairvoyant
To see. A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.”she has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well”
Clairaudience
To hear. The supposed faculty of perceiving, as if by hearing, what is inaudible.”his clairaudience enabled him to overhear the enemy’s debates”
Clairsentience
To feel. The ability to perceive emotional or psychic energy that is imperceptible to the five standard senses: I rely on my gifts of empathy, clairsentience, and clairvoyance to tune into my clients’ vibrations.
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