THE THE INTUITION - THE SIXTH SENSE
Did you ever asked your self "What is Intuition and How Do I Use it?"
By Michelle L. Casto, M.Ed.
"Intuition is an incredible resource and gift that we have been given
to help us live our best life. Unfortunately, not many people know what
it is or how to use it. The word intuition means "in to you" in Latin.
Florence Scovel, a theologian, once said, "Intuition is the spiritual
faculty that doesn't explain; it seemingly points the way." It's also
been said that intuition is your divine Spirit talking to you. If you
will stop for a moment and acknowledge this, you will begin to realize
the incredible perspective you have at your fingertips. You have this
very amazing power! And you don't even have to get any special training
to start using it. All you need to do is raise your awareness about it
and set your intention to harness it.
Intuitive messages range from an inkling to a strong sign or message.
Your inner self is persistent and consistent. It will keep trying to
get your attention until you finally wise up! An inkling is like a
glimmer or passing feeling/ thought that comes from somewhere inside
and usually proceeds a hunch or intuitive message. A "hunch" is
accurate information from a higher intelligence; therefore, you can
rely on it. An intuitive message ranges from hearing actual words,
seeing a clear picture, or a deep inner knowing. Some people experience
intuition as a feeling, others a gut reaction, others will see images
or have a dream, others hear an actual message. Become familiar with
how your inner self communicates with you. Once you receive the
message, check it out with your research and common
The best ways to get in touch with your intuition are:
1.Be quiet Practice taking time out every day to experience silence.
Calm your mind with traditional or active meditation. Release your need
to think, analyze, and know everything. The best information comes from
the deep recesses of your soul.
2.Be open Open to the gift
of intuition and accept what is has to tell you. Many times, our ego
thinks it has it "all figured out," but your true path may look very
different than the one you are on. Being open to new possibilities and
ways of living is key.
3.Be creative There are many ways to be creative, painting, writing,
dancing, designing a website, etc. Do something that helps you get into
the "flow," that place where time seems to fly by and the work is
leading you. Creativity is an expression of your soul and goes
hand-in-hand with intuitive guidance.
4.Ask questions When you ask yourself questions, you gain additional
insight and clarity. When you ask a question like "What is the next
step I need to take?" know that you already know what you need to know.
Trust yourself. You already have everything you need inside.
5.Journal
When you write, you tap into thoughts, feelings, ideas and direction
that you are not consciously aware of. Writing allows the truth to come
forth and is an easy way to gain insight from your inner self.
You can further develop your intuitive guidance by preparing yourself
by gathering the necessary information and experiences to provide more
of an opportunity for your intuition to surface. Intuition cannot be
forced; you need to allow it. After loading up your mind with
information about the issue, give your intuition time to work on it.
And then become open to the answer. You will likely experience an "Aha"
moment, which is a moment of instant awareness, where the answer
sprouts from "out of the blue." If you have an important decision to
make and are not 100% sure about something happening, stop and think
before making a decision. Usually this is your intuition trying to tell
you that something is not quite right. Likewise, if you feel that you
should go for it, do it, so you don't miss a valuable opportunity.
Intuition is your very own best friend. It is always there for you. It
waits patiently for you. It gives the absolute best advice, and all you
have to do is ask! Like any good friendship, all it takes to nurture it
is a little time and attention. If you decide to be close and intimate
with your intuition, I promise that your life will transform into
something wonderful."
Intuition and Psychic Energy - Where Do They Come From? By Sonia Choquette, Ph.D.
" Intuition and Psychic Energy: Where Do They Come From? It is easier
to train your senses to notice your intuitive impulses if you have an
understanding of where those intuitive flashes originate. In every
psychic development class I teach, I ask the students where they think
psychic or intuitive feelings and impulses begin. Some answer, "from my
subconscious mind." Others say, "from my Higher Self." Some believe,
"it's dead people talking to you," or "your guides."
If you are going to convince your mind to listen
to your intuitive feelings, your mind has to value those feelings. Your
mind requires an acceptable reason to value psychic feelings. The best
way to convince your mind to pay attention to these feelings is to
introduce it to where these feelings come from. After all, there is a
big difference between listening to Joe Nobody's opinion on something,
and listening to a highly knowledgeable expert. Whom would you listen
to?
Ask yourself:
Where do I think my psychic information comes from?
Why should I listen?
Do I think it's trustworthy? Do I think it comes from a helpful and knowledgeable source?
Am I comfortable tuning in to it?
It's important to ask these questions. The good news is, the answers are very specific and enlightening.
Where Does It Come From?
Actually, psychic energy comes from various sources. Our conscious
minds have been trained to focus on one broadcast on our sensory radio:
the broadcast of our five-physical-sense relay. But there are other
relays broadcasting that we can and spontaneously do tune in to now and
again which give us our psychic information.
The first of these psychic relays comes from our own subconscious
minds. Our subconscious minds are like giant computers taking in
thousands of bits of information every day, information that slips past
our conscious attention, yet nevertheless is perceived and saved for a
future moment. Every detail of every experience that we've had since
the beginning of our lives, and in our last lives as well, is stored
here and held unless released spontaneously by some necessity. It would
be overwhelming for our conscious minds to process every detail of
every event, so the mind allows unneeded information to slip unnoticed
into this huge storage library. If the subconscious is jogged by need
or by visualization or relaxation, the subconscious will release back
to the conscious mind necessary and helpful information.
An extreme example of this is the case of an accident or crime witness.
The events witnessed may have occurred too quickly or have become
clouded over by emotions of surprise or shock, and the details lost.
But if this same person were to relax through hypnosis, his or her
recollection would become nearly perfect, because the subconscious
memory can be accessed.
This also occurs in everyday events. Perhaps you have been mulling over
a problem for weeks, coming to no specific solution. Then suddenly,
when daydreaming during another task like watering the lawn or taking a
long drive, a solution will pop into your head. This relaxed frame of
mind is a receptive frame of mind, and in this receptive state, your
subconscious can scan its stored information for possible solutions. If
it does find one "Eureka!" you'll have a psychic flash.
This type of psychic experience happens most often in your work or in
an area that you've spent a great deal of time learning or reading
about, or in an area of natural interest. The fact is, you may have
acquired bits and pieces of useful knowledge along the way, information
that would provide an answer or solution. Your subconscious mind can
take in and rearrange these bits and pieces and create new and
significant relationships among these bits of understanding. The
solution lies in finding new relationships to old information.
All this occurs below your conscious awareness. Can you believe that
your subconscious mind not only records your experiences perfectly, but
can also combine different records, thus creating solutions that
couldn't be found just in examining the pieces? Yet it does, naturally.
Through proper training, you can develop far greater access to this
stored information than you ever believed possible.
Telepathy:
The second type of psychic experience is with telepathic connections to
others. How many times in your life have you found yourself humming a
tune silently in your head, only to have someone next to you start
singing the same tune out loud? How many times have you been thinking
about someone and had them call within a short time? How many times
have you taken up a new interest like skiing, cooking, or sewing, only
to find people with the same newfound interest popping up all around
you? Psychic? Yes - telepathic!
We are all silent radio stations broadcasting our own tunes, and even
though we are not conscious of it, we do like to harmonize with one
another. We gravitate naturally toward people playing "our tune" and
together we amplify our broadcast.
One of my spiritual teachers once
told me that we are always telepathically tuning in with many, many
others - up to six thousand people at any given time - even though it
is usually not conscious. It sounds incredible, but this is what
creates mass consciousness. Groups of people band together and "group
think" about things: pro-lifers, animal rights activists, rebels and
fundamentalists, to name a few. People think in blocks all around the
world, and these blocks of mental energy float and move in space,
influencing political ideas, religious beliefs, and social and moral
values.
Telepathic connections can be useful and amusing, as in the case of the
telephone call from the old friend you were concentrating on. If you
are lazy and undiscerning about your thoughts, however, you can become
a psychic garbage pail, in which all sorts of negative or mass beliefs
settle and take over your mind. An example of this is the
telepathically relayed belief that cities are now extremely dangerous
and suburban areas are safer. Many people telepathically accept this
belief as fact. In reality, some aspects of city living are dangerous,
and some are vitalizing and marvellous. The fact is also that many
suburban areas are riddled with dangerous people, and one is not really
in any more or less danger in one area versus another. Safety is
governed by awareness more than geography. If you are susceptible to
negative mass beliefs, you will overcome this problem when you begin
your psychic development. You cannot be psychic if you are mentally
lazy.
You'll need to snap out of your dreamy state and be here now. If you
have a sharp focus to your mind, telepathy will automatically become
more specific, filtering away unnecessary and unconsciously unexamined
"group thought" to attract only what is helpful to your focus. One way
to do this is to set goals so that you will focus your attention and
eliminate mass thought influences. Setting goals keeps you free of
collective negative emotion and attracts telepathic support.
The Superconscious or Higher Source:
The third and most interesting source of psychic energy is from the
superconscious plane of energy. Every one of us has, as our spiritual
birthright, access to a Higher Source of knowing and loving guidance.
This Higher Source is actually composed of several distinct levels of
spiritual guidance. These types of psychic impulses influence your
future and the present choices you make that will set up your future.
This level of psychic guidance influences your perspective and helps
you look at your choices from a new point of view. These kinds of
communications are felt as warnings, urgings, new ideas, inspirations,
breakthroughs in understanding, desires to redirect your life, a need
to stop or let go of what you are doing, or a need to commit or go
forward with what you are hesitant about.
Remember, these types of psychic experiences are loving but not
flattering to your ego; stable, consistent, and unwavering but not
coercive; subtle but distinct. They will always leave you feeling
reassured, relaxed, and certain of yourself, in spite of appearances,
if you listen and pay attention. Additionally, these types of psychic
feelings help you with questions in love and relationships, health and
well-being, and creativity and purpose in life, and above all will help
you find inner security and spiritual peace of mind.
Let's face facts. Your conscious mind will be more amenable to
listening to these impulses if it is given a reason to listen. After
all, your conscious mind would like to consider itself reasonable. If
it accepts and understands the reasonability of listening to your
intuition, it will do so far more easily. You would not ignore the
advice of an expert if you were building a house, would you? Especially
if the advice were free? And painless?
It is just as foolish to ignore the assistance of your psychic guidance
as you build your life, especially knowing that your psychic sense is
offering you a solution from your subconscious mind, from a telepathic
relay, or from the loving guidance of your superconscious. The psychic
experience comprises all these sources of assistance.
What Does It Involve? Essentially what psychic development involves is
becoming keenly aware of what is going on around and inside you, here
and now. By tuning in to your little psychic impulses, you will notice
what you heretofore may have ignored. Once you make this realization,
you can begin your development.
Have you ever had a hearing test? If so, do you recall (when wearing
the headphones) that all your senses perked up to hear the barely
audible beep that sounded for but a split second? Or an eye test, where
you wore a patch first over one eye, then over the other, while
scanning a screen for a teeny blip of light moving over the area? These
exams are designed to test your ear and eye sense acuity. The more
acute, the more subtle the beep or flash you noticed.
Psychic development requires the same
acuity. Relax and enjoy, notice impulses you otherwise overlooked.
Don't worry that you are imagining things. You aren't. You are just
redefining your sphere of awareness and allowing it more room to play.
Once you understand where your intuition and psychic feelings come
from, you need to learn how to gain freer and easier access to these
channels of the subconscious, telepathic, and superconscious
broadcasts, so that they are available when you need them.
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