Developing Your Intuitive Abilities ~ by Lumire ~ February 4th, 2013

Everyone is naturally born intuitive, when we were very young children we acted from a place of feeling and sensing rather than thinking. As we grew older schooling and society taught us what to think and how to behave, we moved our consciousness out of the heart and into in our head. We became caught up in our thoughts, believing that these thoughts are really who we are. From this our ego grows creating the sense of identity that we call “I”.


By realising that we are not these thoughts, but rather the presence that sees them, we can start reconnecting to our hearts and remembering our natural state of being. Once we enter this state, it becomes easier to notice and connect with our intuitive abilities.


From my perspective, we have four main intuitive abilities and two minor ones, which have similarities and are linked to our five physical senses (seeing, hearing, touch, taste and smell). Most people have at least one main ability which they are aware of to some degree, sometimes two or more if you are attuned to your intuitive skills. Once you discover your abilities, you can start developing them more and use it to improve your life in all sorts of ways.




Seeing


The first main intuitive ability is Seeing, this is usually in the form of an image or moving visual scene that appears in our imagination. It might only last for a split second or it could be a few seconds if it is a moving scene (like a video clip). These images can sometimes be random, in other words have nothing to do with what you were thinking about, but they will always be relevant in some way.


In rare occasions you might see something with your physical eyes if you’re in a receptive state, though this usually occurs in the corner of our vision. Some people who have developed this ability well, can actually see other people’s energetic fields (aura) and other things we normally do not see.


With this ability if you pay attention to it, we can get flashes of what is going to happen in the immediate future, this can normally range from a few seconds to a couple of minutes ahead of when it actually occurs. Also if you have lost or misplaced something, an image might pop into your imagination of where you would be able to find it, and most of the time this turns out to be correct.


If a spiritual being like our spirit guide wants to connect with us, you may see a picture of them or of something that reminds you of them in your mind.


To increase this ability more in your life, each day take some time to allow your self to day dream, relax and let go for while, just like when you were a little kid. Doing this will help your imagination to grow and become more vivid. During the day give more attention to the images that arise in your mind and see if they are telling you anything about what is happening within and around you.




Hearing 


The second main ability is Hearing, this will most likely take the form of your inner voice, yes the voice you hear in your mind as you are reading this sentence. Your presence (higher self) communicates with you through this voice, the trick is learning how tell the difference between your regular thoughts and the ones coming from a deeper level. The easy way to do this is to ask yourself, are the words you receive based in love. They should uplift, inspire and bring joy to your experience, if not then they are probably founded in fear and most likely arriving from the ego.


Trust is the most difficult thing about this ability, since in the beginning you will often think you making all this up in your head. With time you will be able to feel the difference in the energy between your ego and your presence.


When our presence or other spiritual beings communicate with us, each sentence they send to us happens in a spilt second, almost like a thought bubble of light. Our mind takes a short while to decode the thought into something we can understand and because of this we can occasionally misinterpret what was said. But nonetheless the feeling behind the message is more important than the actual words.


This ability is also used for channelling, the words heard can be spoken out aloud and recorded or written down by hand. With practice it is easy enough to do it for yourself instead of having to rely on other sources for information.


A few people may actually hear voices separate from their inner voice, coming from either outside or inside the head through their physical hearing; though I personally have not experienced this.


To expand this ability, start by talking to your presence (higher self) daily. To do this, sit in a comfortable place, take a few deep breaths and relax; move your attention away from your head and into your heart. Start to feel the love within your heart for a little while, then allow the love to flow into every part of your body, into every cell and every atom. Next imagine a warm blanket of glowing white or golden light surrounding your entire body. Then bring your awareness back into your heart; and invite your presence to start communicating with you. Try to let the words flow out from your heart rather than from the head area, ask your presence any questions you feel like asking and be open to receive the answers. 


The inner voice will sound very gentle, comforting and loving, if the voice telling you negative things, it’s most likely your ego getting in the way. Just breath deeply again, connect to your heart, feel the love and start the process again or try doing it another time when you are feeling good. 


After a little while you will be able to talk to your presence at any time, even when doing activities that don’t require much thinking, like walking or washing dishes.




Feeling 


The third main ability is Feeling, this has to do with sensing energies that reside within you and also around you. This ability in my opinion is most important one you should try developing, as it provides you with a lot of feedback when using your other abilities. As such I will talk about this in much more detail than the others.


The energies outside you could appear from the environment that you are in, other people and objects near you. Environmental energies cover a vast amount of things, such as from the sun, moon and stars. The earth’s energy is something we experience everyday since we are in her energetic field all the time, this especially can be felt when we go out into nature. 


We also have an energetic field surrounding our body (aura) and because of this when people enter our field just by being near us, it can have some effect on us. This is more so the case if this is your main ability, since it will be easier for you to pick up people’s emotional energy, particularly if it’s negative. 


One good and easy technique to do, is to transform these energies into something more positive. To do this simply bring your attention in to your heart and start to feel the love within. Then imagine a beautiful blanket of electric blue light surrounding the outside of your body. This blue light and the love you feel inside, automatically transmutes any incoming energies in to a higher vibration. The blue light has the added benefit of creating a calming effect around you. This technique is particularly useful when large crowds of people are around you and also when having to deal with people in low emotional states such anger or sadness.


Objects whether human made or natural can also have an effect on our energies throughout the day. Human made objects such as homes, buildings, cars, public transport, can store and transmit the energies other of people when you are near them.


For example in an office building were the workers are generally unhappy and don’t want to be there, energy from their negative emotions will be absorbed in to everything around them including the equipment, furniture and the building itself. When you walk into such a place, if you are aware, you will immediately get the sense that something isn’t quite right or if you aren’t paying attention, you’ll slowly start feeling bad without knowing why. 


The good news is that you can expand on the technique above, to sent love into everything around you. Continuing on from after surrounding your body with an electric blue light; imagine the love flowing out from your heart into everything around you, into every person, every object, the empty space (air) and finally the entire building. You can also imagine the love as a brilliant pink light flowing through your heart into your arms and finally out of your hands into everything around you, if you feel more comfortable with this. Sometimes sending love will create a noticeable change in people and the surroundings, at other times things will just seem a little more peaceful. You don’t have to worry about affecting peoples freewill when doing this, as they will choose either consciously or unconsciously whether or not they want these positive energies in their life.


Experiment by doing this in different places, especially in the place where you live and take more notice of how things start changing around you when trying this out.


Next let’s move on to our sensing of internal energies, these can come from many places including our emotions, ego, physical body and presence.


Emotions are easy for us to feel, they usually have an effect on some part of our body; lower emotions such sadness, fear or anger, can be commonly felt in the area of your stomach or lower abdomen. Higher emotions such as love, joy and happiness are felt mainly in the heart region. You may also notice physical tingling sensations, such as butterflies in your stomach or a tickling feeling in your heart associated with these emotions. 


Knowing this when you encounter people or situations, bring your attention to your inner body and notice how you feel inside. If you get feelings such as peace and calm that’s a good sign, if you get feelings like nervousness or tension, that’s a sign you need to move away from that person or situation. You can also use this “gut” feeling when having to make a decision about something in general, simply ask yourself the question and you will then receive the answer in the form of a feeling. The actual feelings and where in the body they are felt may be different for you, so take this only as an example and discover them out for yourself. 


Our ego creates thoughts in our consciousness which then can trigger emotional reactions in us, depending on how much we get in caught up in our thoughts, determines the strength of the emotion. Watching our thoughts and not taking part in the “drama” of them, helps us to remain in a more peaceful state.


The physical body also gives us a lot of signs of what is happening inside of us, when it is feeling good, it is energetic and alive; when it isn’t, you will feel some form of discomfort or pain. These unpleasant sensations in our body provide pointers into areas we may need to look into. For example if we have in a pain in our lower back, it might be a sign that we are carrying too much stress in our body without letting it go. Bringing more love into the body will help transmute and release the stress.


A good way of finding out if we have connected to presence is we will feel more peace, love and joy inside our hearts. This is also the feeling we get when we connect to spiritual beings, because they usually communicate to us by connecting to our presence.




Knowing


The fourth main ability is Knowing, this has to do with receiving information from a source other than yourself, this could be from your presence, spiritual beings or somewhere else. When we receive the information it comes in the form of a download embedded in light directly into our consciousness, we then instantly have an inner knowing about that subject. This ability is very subtle and we might not even be aware of how we got the information, but we just know it somehow.


Some examples of this are, you might have a deep knowing that you are an eternal being that continues on even after the body dies, you don’t have any proof of this but you know deeply that this is the ultimate truth. Another example is, you just know that you have three spirit guides without anyone telling you about them; later on you find someone who confirms to you that this is indeed correct. One more example might be, you are working on a problem that you need to find solution for, and then suddenly out of nowhere the answer pops into head, which you had no conscious knowledge of before.


Your presence can send you information about past lives experienced here on earth and elsewhere in this manner as well; and it also can access knowledge from other sources on your behalf if you ask it to. Spirit guides will often send you little messages in this form, like when you ask them a question and later on in day you’ll suddenly realise that you know the answer to it.


You may find that it is easier for you to receive these downloads when you are in a more relaxed state, such as in meditation; you might even remember getting downloads while you were asleep for the night and woke the next day.


To expand this ability you can use the same technique described in the section about Hearing, once you get to the part about bringing your awareness back into your heart, simply stay there and be open for a few minutes to receive any messages in the form of downloads.




Tasting and Smelling


The next two minor abilities are Tasting and Smelling, the easiest way to connect with them is to think of a past memory. For example the most tastiest meal you ever had in your life, or the most wonderful fragrance you’ve ever smelt. These memories will cause you sense that taste of the food on your tongue or the aroma of that scent in your nose. Another example is, at times when somebody is telling you about a meal they are cooking at home, you can almost smell and taste exactly what they are describing to you as if you were actually there. It is also possible to sometimes pick the taste and smell of an object as you pick it up, such as a bottle of orange juice. Spiritual beings can also occasionally leave a beautiful fragrance in the room to show that they are near to you.


To strengthen these abilities try holding a packaged food item that hasn’t been opened in your hands and use your imagination to smell and taste the food, after a little while you soon find that you can actually sense the food. If you are game enough you could even try something like a bottle of dish washing liquid for a more intense experience.

So with a little practice anyone can develop their intuitive abilities, you may find that you are more stronger in certain ones than others, but once you start using your abilities daily all the rest of them will start grow as well. 


I would like to tell you that I am not a professional intuitive nor am I a teacher, I am just a human being sharing my knowledge and experiences with you. Always ask in your heart if the words here ring true to you. If not, then simply let them go and find something that resonates deeply within you.


Please remember to stay centered within your heart throughout the day, this will help bring more love and joy into your experience of life and make it easier to connect with your abilities.




Blessings,
Lumire

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