Intuition, Your Secret Source For Everything

Intuition is your sixth sense. It is as real as your other five senses and often more reliable. Yes, you too do have intuition everyone does!

Intuition goes by many names and shows up in many forms; hunches, gut feelings, inspiration, flashes of insight, the small still voice which comes to you during meditation or prayer, guardian angles, various types of body sensations, communications from 'the higher self, soul, God or spirit', and so called coincidences.

Intuition is like any other sense or muscle in your body, the more you use it the stronger it becomes. I have been highly intuitive all my life. Recently I have become aware of the many ways that intuition has guided me even when I have been unaware of it. I have also notice that the more I acknowledge and consciously call on it the more accurate and active it becomes in every area of my life.

The Anatomy of Intuition

Over the years I have wondered how to help people to strengthen their intuition. I have come up with what I will loosely call The Anatomy of Intuition. This is not based on any scientific data just my own observations of how it seems to work for me and others that I know.

Intuition does not originate in your brain, although it used information stored in the brain and may seem like a voice or flash of insight in your head. Your brain is a biological computer rather like a personal computer. It stores and evaluates data from all the senses. Data is primarily evaluated through the brains 'operating system' part of which is the subconscious mind. The subconscious is comprised largely of memories of yes/no decisions made from past experiences. Such as a hot stove or fire hurts, thus the rule is embedded into the subconscious to not touch hot things.

Growing up we had thousands of experiences in which we made pleasure/accept or hurt/avoid decisions. The composite of these personal experiences and rules, govern our preconceived and conditioned responses to the environment. It is our own personal map of the world. Our personal beliefs about how life, people and the world 'should' operate. This becomes the filtering system through which we see, experience and make judgments about the good or not such good things that happen to us.

The world has changed a lot since we were children, not to mention that we have acquired skills, tools and knowledge that we did not have as children. Never the less, most of us are operating on an old date base of information about how things 'should' or 'can be'.

Discovering that some of our ways of dealing with life no longer work very well, we may consult a coach, psychotherapist, spiritual councilor, attend seminars or read self-help books in an effort to 'debug' and upgrade our out-of-date information base.

Consciousness awareness is not the brain or its operating system. It is an independent part of us which is much bigger and more objective than the brain. It is infinite, eternal and has no time, space, or matter constraints. People who have had near death or out of body experiences will tell you that they 'know' that Consciousness is not physical body dependent.

Consciousness is composed of several levels of awareness; higher consciousness, universal mind, group consciousness, specific knowledge, present time individual consciousness and the subconscious.

The level of consciousness that we are aware of at any particular moment is a matter of focus, much like a camera lens can focus on a flowers' petals or the whole landscape but not both at the same time. You can ask your intuition for information from any level of consciousness you wish. The more you understand and have knowledge of each level the more specificly your intuition will be able to give you concrete direction.

In my early 30's I was very ill. I had been reading an Adell Davis book on nutrition. Suddenly one night I awakened out of a deep sleep with a huge 'D' printed in the center of my internal vision. I tried to go back to sleep but the 'D' kept appearing everywhere I looked. Finally I got up went down stairs and pulled out the Adell Davis book I had been reading and looked up vitamin D. There it was, a list of the symptoms that I had been experiencing. I added vitamin D to my diet and my health began to improve.

Higher consciousness is the seat and source of intuition. It includes and incorporates the knowledge, awareness, experience and wisdom of all the other levels of consciousness simultaneously. Having access to this enormous storehouse of knowledge it is able to make leaps in logic, probability and possibility far beyond the capacity of the brain alone. Thus an intuitive answer may, at times, seem fanciful and even far fetched.

Since intuition needs input and data to give clear relevant direction, allow your intuition to guide you in what books, news media, seminars, people and so forth to take in. I have literally had a book fall on my head in a bookstore to get me to read it. And of course it was exactly what I needed at the time. There is no such thing as chance or coincidence. If you ask, you will receive, even if you have to be hit in the head before you notice.

That said, intuition is more often a quiet, gentle nudge. It usually does not shout loud enough to be heard when you are upset, fearful, being judgmental, angry or into wishful thinking.

If you are too preoccupied to hear it during busy times it will often come to you in dreams, the shower or while driving the car. Meditation or spending quiet contemplative time each day is a good way to tune into your intuition.

To activate intuition ask for its guidance on everything, moment by moment, and listen with your whole body. If you are not getting an intuitive response to your question, you may not be asking the right question. Try asking from an other perspective.

Be aware of your body sensations, a word in your mind, an image or picture, an energetic pull or coincidences. The more you listen to and act on your intuition the more it will speak to you. Follow your urges. Notice the subtle ways intuition notifies you to be alert and to pay attention. You will be surprised at how often it will give you a short cut to what you want.

Recommended Books and Tapes:

Conversations With God, Book 3, by Neale Donald Walsch, Journey to the Boundless, by Deepak Chopra, M.D. Anatomy of the Spirit, by Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Joy's Way, by W.Brugh Joy, M.D.