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6 Ways to Strengthen Your Intuition
By Kirsten Harrell, Intent.com
You are driving home from work and you suddenly get the urge to go a different route. You follow the urge only later to hear on the radio that there was a major accident on your usual route. You think to yourself, “what good luck!”
You wake up in the morning and remember that you dreamed that a family member was ill. You call the person and find out that she is not well. You think, “what a coincidence!”
Was it really luck or a coincidence? Or is there something more going on? Absolutely…it was your intuition at work!
The dictionary definition of intuition is an immediate insight or understanding without conscious reasoning. Intuition or hunches are the whispers from your soul, offering you guidance and direction. Intuition is a powerful source of information, creativity, and inspiration. When you follow your intuitive voice life flows more easily, things seem to fall into place, and you will experience less stress.
Inventors, business people, law enforcement officers, healers, and many others use their intuition regularly to make decisions and to achieve success. Intuition can help you make decisions at work and in your personal life - especially when you don’t have time to gather all the pertinent information. It can help you avert difficulties and tune into potential problems on a project. Your intuitive voice can help you with simple choices (like which route to take home) and big decisions (like which job to take).
Everyone has intuitive potential - men and women. It is a natural talent that everyone possesses. It is not something special limited to only a few gifted individuals. As a child, you freely accessed your intuition. Unfortunately, over time you likely received negative feedback from your peers, teachers, or family. You likely began to doubt your intuitive voice and shut down this channel of information. The good news is that with a little patience and practice you can strengthen and hone your intuition to create a valuable guidance system.
The first and most important thing that you can do to develop your intuition is to acknowledge and honor the intuitive messages that you are currently getting. Your intuitive voice is still there, you just need to tune into it. Start paying attention to and trusting those little hunches or gut feelings that you have. If you did nothing more than start honoring your intuitive impulses, you would find a dramatic improvement in your intuitive abilities.
Intuitive messages can come as a sudden “knowing,” gut feelings, thoughts, images, emotions, or bodily sensations. It is important to pay attention to the way your intuitive messages generally show up for you. Think back to what it felt like when you got the sudden urge to take a different route home (or some other intuitive event). What did that feel like? Was it a feeling? A thought? An image? It is important to pay attention to the details of an event like this, because it will help you understand the way you receive intuitive messages. Once you know what your intuition feels like, it makes it easier to discern between intuition and other messages like fear or wishful thinking.
In addition, you can begin some specific exercises and practices to further enhance your intuitive abilities.
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add your comment »And avoid negative people, the kind that tell you that your dreams aren't possible and that you are not good enough. When you encounter these people, you need to look them in the eye and firmly ask, "Why not?". After all, no matter what anyone else thinks, its your life and you have to live with the consequences. Most of the time, if you go back and tell someone that you made a choice that didn't turn out well because of their remarks, they'll deny ever saying anything! You are a unique person.
Sometimes, intuition is based on unconscious observation. You might not know that you know. When it comes between a choice of logic and that of the heart, I go with the heart. The real trick is knowing what it really is that your heart wants.
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I believe this story,and guys who likes to know how intuitive is,can have an MBTI test,It will help you,
BUT another aspect we should attention is our reflexes are relates to 2 parts of our brain,some of the simple reflexes are responding by our Thalamus,and some other reflexes like intuitive are responding by Cortex.When you want to trust your intuition,you should e sure that the message you've got is by Cortex,not by your Thalamus ;)
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I can't think God enough for mine. He's a sweetheart!
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hi everybody
I agree totaly with you and my intuition is good ....I want to say that this 6 ways to strengthen our intuition helps us also to read minds
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DEAR ROBYN AND ALL...
I WILL SEE IF IT WORKS...
BEST WISHES...
GERSHON...
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You cannot trust yourself! You can only put your trust in God! He created you! We cannot take ONE breath without Him! When He created Adam, He "breathed" into him, the BREATH OF LIFE! He created your mind to think! He speaks to us all the time! He knows the end from the beginning! BUT, He also gives us the power of choice! He will not put you in a situation that you cannot handle! As much as you'd like to think that you have intuition, it is REALLY God speaking to you! Do not get me wrong, I DO believe in intuituin, but I give God the glory and praise for it! Have a wonderful Sabbath!
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They said women have powerful intuition than men do.
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Just a note to state something I found interesting about intuition, while writing a paper on it for Psych. A book stated that most of us think we can't recognize it because we listen to the voice that says something like "quit your job, move to Hollywood and become an actor". So we do, and we don't become famous. We think we heard the wrong voice. But that voice was our intuition, and we listened and still changed our life, if we responded, that is. Our intuition was trying to get us to change something that wasn't working, and we did. It just didn't turn out the way we thought it would, but that doesn't mean it wasn't our intuition, or that it wasn't the right thing to do.
I don't know, this advice helped me. I thought before that I wasn't in touch with my intuition. And when I realized this, it made a lot of things flow much smoother.
Good Luck!
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Thank you for sharing . We have to trust in our intuition.
Regina
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