Nurturing Your Intuition
Being on the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE, founded by Edgar Cayce) list of "field tested psychics" prompts calls and emails with questions about whether just anyone can develop intuitive ability or whether it is a gift from God bestowed only on a select few.
Edgar Cayce believed that the ability lies dormant in all of us and that it can be developed with diligence, patience, and the employment of some specific suggestions.
My theory is that the information we seek resides in the energy around us, and finding or accessing that information is simply a matter of expanding one's awareness to different energy fields or vibratory levels. Just as a radio can be tuned to a multitude of stations, a television to a multitude of channels, and each cell phone carrier operates on a different network, we can tune our minds into picking up information that is always around us.
The trick is in learning to pay attention in a different way. This different kind of paying attention is facilitated by self-hypnosis, meditation, and various breathing techniques which deliberately change the brain wave cycles to the lower stages of alpha. Being in this alert, receptive, quiet state allows the information to get through the muddle of the conscious mind.
How many times have you been engaged in a mindless activity and suddenly got a solution to a problem you've been thinking about? Or how many times have you dreamed a solution? Or how many times have you been thinking about someone and then connected with that person or heard something about them? What about knowing who is calling (without caller ID)?
These and countless other similar experiences are examples of tuning into information that is always available to us—whether the specifics came directly into awareness, through a telepathic connection, or from our own guides, angels, other evolved beings, or perhaps even from our loved ones who have passed on.
Nurturing your intuitive ability requires attention and practice, just as improving or enhancing any skill involves reinforcing what works and learning from what does not. Frequently, intuitive information seems to be only partially correct, leading to discouragement. Sometimes what seems wrong in retrospect is just a matter of misinterpretation of the information.
Intuition flows best in a relaxed, neutral, slightly altered state which results from lowered brainwave cycles. This is easily achieved through meditation, ancient breathing techniques, or light hypnosis—which occurs naturally for all of us several times a day.
Suggestions for Nurturing Your Intuition
- Practice with small things — Guess who is calling when the phone rings. The more you practice, the more accurate you will become.
- Anticipate your mail — As you retrieve your daily mail, think about what you will find that day.
- Notice synchronicities — When you find yourself thinking of someone you haven't seen or heard from in a while, pay attention to how either someone else mentions that person, you meet them in an unexpected place, or you receive direct communication like a phone call, email, or letter.
Your own innovation, creativity, and desire to expand your awareness will lead you to daily opportunities to nurture and expand your very own intuition.
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