Five Ways to Develop Your Intuition

We all have the potential to tap into our innate intuitive gifts, but as children we slowly learn to suppress our intuition in the face of parental or family expectations and beliefs. But the good news is that intuition is just like a muscle, so open up that can of Popeye spinach, and let’s get exercising!

If you’ve ever fancied having a go yourself at becoming more in tune with Spirit or the Universal Consciousness, here’s five ways that worked for me:

 

1.  Next time you have a decision to make, pause for a moment and ask yourself how you feel about the options. Allow yourself to sense which choice makes you feel happy, uplifted and moving forward. This is always an indication that this would be a good choice. If you feel, hear or know a check in your spirit, a feeling that something isn’t quite right, then this is a ‘no’. Be careful here not to let your ego do the work – she can easily convince you that something is right just because you want it! Ask your Higher Self to take the lead here, maybe asking ‘is this for my higher good?’. You may not hear the answer you want, but you will hear the answer you need.

  2.  Write a daily journal. In this place, write everything, and I do mean

everything, you are feeling, hearing or knowing. It doesn’t have to make sense, it doesn’t have to be a fine piece of literature, it doesn’t need perfect spelling and punctuation, it just needs to be from the heart. Pour out your thoughts and experiences, ask questions and write the answers, tell the Universe what you want. You will be amazed at the response you get from Source. Sure, you’ll tell yourself that you’re just making it up, that you’re only writing what you want to hear, but ignore the scared, frantic voice of your ego as she tries to keep you safe and in the same place you’ve always been. Push past it, and keep writing, every day. Just show up, and the angels will too.
 
 3.  If you don’t already have one, buy an oracle card pack and use it every day.

You can just pull a single card in the morning and ask for the day’s message, or do one of the numerous formal spreads. The sorts of questions I ask are ‘what do you want me to know today’, or more specific ones such as ‘what part of my business should I work on today’?’.  Again, when the sceptical inner voice tries to get in the way, thank it for its opinion, but that you choose not to take its advice at this time. The cards will also help you with making decisions, revealing your life purpose – well, absolutely anything, really. The more you ask them, the quicker the way in which they speak to you personally will be revealed.

 4.  Make meditation part of your daily spiritual practice. As you still your mind, allow yourself to hear the sounds of the Universe and to see the pictures that the Universe gives you. Trust yourself to understand their meaning, but if you struggle, ask the angels to make the meaning crystal clear.
 
5.  Follow the first thought. This is usually our intuitive response to a question or situation: what comes next is the adapted response that we learned as children to put in place of our intuition as we struggled to survive in our families of origin. Sometimes that first thought is so fleeting we’re not even aware of it, but with practice you will be able to identify it earlier and earlier, in time to forestall the inevitable ‘safe’ responses (bless your poor little ego, it’s only trying to help!).

And finally,  bonus number 6 – work with an intuitive (like me, hint, hint) who will mentor, support, teach and encourage to develop these wonderful gifts and get out there in the world to make a difference!