Intuition is one of your amazing psychic gifts. It is the direct knowledge of something without the conscious use of reasoning. Intuitive experiences include mystical insights (a feeling of oneness with life), discovery and invention in science, inspiration in the arts, creative problem solving, the perception and understanding of complex phenomena, ESP, precognition (future knowledge), telepathy (communication by inexplicable means), clairvoyance (seeing out of the natural range of human senses), feelings of attraction and aversion, hunches, and strong feelings of what is going to happen.
Intuition has often been referred to as the 6th sense, but it is more than that. Intuition dramatically enhances and sensitizes your other 5 senses. Clarissa Pinkola Estes vividly describes intuition in her book, Women Who Run with the Wolves, “Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down. It has eyes that can see through the shields of the persona. It has ears that hear beyond the range of mundane human understanding. “
It might be helpful to look at the range and dynamics of intuition on four levels: the physical, emotional/heart, mental, and spiritual. The physical level of intuition requires that we learn to trust bodily responses, noticing situations that are comfortable and uncomfortable, tension headaches, sensitivity to others that you want to know better or stay your distance. Physical intuition is the sensation in the pit of your stomach when you are in contact with something or someone that is dishonest or unethical.
The emotional level of intuition is the feeling of being drawn to someone that you want to know better; a feeling of the heart opening or noticing that your heart is closing down; something feels right or something feels wrong. Emotional intuition can be an outpouring of love, playfulness, or laughter in response to a situation or a person. Intuition at the emotional/heart level is a place of clarity. As Saint Exupery said so beautifully in his book, The Little Prince, “It is only through the heart that one can rightly see.”
Mental intuition is the ‘aha’ experience; unexpected breakthroughs in thinking, creative ideas, inspiring thoughts, and the power of imagination that feeds the higher mind. Mental intuition is the unearthing of new possibilities, options, and choices. Mental intuition is a sudden flash of understanding that turns out to be precisely and unexplainably correct.
The spiritual/transpersonal level of intuition is a feeling of oneness, peacefulness, and unity that transcends worldly problems and concerns. Anytime you feel blissful and deeply connected to nature or to some spiritual quest, or know that despite all the logical reasons why you should be angry or afraid, instead you feel a profound trust that everything is OK, these are examples of you drawing upon a higher inner intuitive wisdom.
What blocks intuition? Some of the basic ones are being too judgmental, critical, fearful, angry, stressed out, feeling hopeless, powerless, and relying too much on the intellect for answers on life’s journey. Albert Einstein wrote, “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
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