You are intuitive. You were born with this ability, this sense of intuition.  It is your birthright, just like your ability to see, hear, and feel. Just like any of the other senses, there may be a child here or there that is born with this sense in deficit, just as from time to time a baby is born blind, or deaf.

But for the vast majority of people, intuition is a natural part of the human existence. [continued below picture]

Many people have grown up in an environment that has downplayed or outright condemned the use of this sense.  There are many reasons for that, including:  religious dogma, prejudice, bad experience, ignorance, fear, and sometimes just because it seems illogical.  Seeing comes through the eyes, hearing comes through ears, smell resides in the nose, but where does intuition come from?  Its genesis is not as easy to point to, or as rapidly understood.

You have been functioning in the world with an active intuition all your life and chances are you have misunderstood this fact.  You may have experienced intuitive hits, perhaps visions, dreams, messages, knowings, etc.  You may walk down this road instead of a familiar one and run into an old friend.  You may know who is calling on the phone before you pick it up.  You may instinctively know when to ask for a pay raise, or when a friend is in need of assistance.  In all these instances, you may wonder, at these rare and seemingly un-reproducible events not realizing that they are probably not so rare and are highly reproducible.

Let me say that again.  Experiencing your intuition and extrasensory events is not rare and is highly reproducible.  It is merely a matter of re-orienting your perception and developing your skill.

Everyone can agree that most people can learn to drive a car.  To learn to drive, you take a class and eventually get behind a wheel and sometime after you have practiced with supervision you take a test and get a license.  But consider this:  Before you learned to drive, you already knew how to watch for traffic, how to navigate left or right, how to turn a wheel, how to press outward with your foot, how to turn a key in a lock, etc…  What the class taught you were the rules of engagement and gave you the supervised experience to put all these small behaviors together into a process you call driving a car.  Developing your intuitive abilities is no different.

So this week, at least once a day, do something just because you sense it’s the right thing to do.  Pick up the phone, send out an email. Turn right instead of left.  What ever it is, just do it and note if you begin to have experiences that are rife with synchronicity.

Make no mistake, you are already psychic, you are already brilliant, so wrap your mind around it and have some fun!

You are ready to ask a question of your favorite divination tool! How do you ensure that you will hear the answer intended for you to hear?

Below is a sure-fire method for enhancing your listening capacity: [continued below picture]

1. Relax – Stress is the #1 suppressor of your listening capacity. It doesn’t matter if it’s emotional, mental, or physical stress. It doesn’t matter if it’s positive or negative stress. Whatever the stress – let it go!Take a few moments and close your eyes. Take a breath in and hold it for a count of 10 then exhale and wait for a count of 10, repeat that a few times. Then think about your body starting with the head and feel the muscles in the head relax. Then think through each of your body areas in succession: neck, upper body, arms, hands, spine, lower abdomen, thighs, calves and feet. The act of putting your attention on the body area is what relaxes it.

   Remember, intention followed by attention creates action or change.

2. Let go of any notion of what the message will be – It’s easy to be caught up in desire or fear and assume what message will be conveyed, or more often, know what you ‘want’ to be conveyed and rally your energy for that message to appear.Unfortunately, if the message you expect or strongly desire doesn’t show up in exactly the way you want it, the message that does appear may seem confusing or even irritating. If you begin each divination session with an affirmation, it can be easier to let go of pre-conceived notions and allow the tool to reveal truth.

   Try an affirmation like, “I am a clear and open reader.”

3. Be willing to listen to the message the tool actually conveys – There can be many nuances to any message, or more than one way to interpret that message. What you want is for your intuition to guide you to the fullest, most truthful message possible. This takes a willingness to see truth.Tell yourself, before you begin, that you are open and willing to hear the truth of the situation. Try an affirmation such as, ”I am willing to see and hear the truth in this situation.”

   Now, put this all together into one affirmation that you say each time you sit down with your tool. Say something like this:

   “I am a relaxed, clear and open reader. I let go of pre-conceived notions and invite my intuitive channel to guide me. I am willing to see and hear the truth in this situation.”

   After a while the act of saying the affirmation will bring about the state you want to fully enhance your listening capacity and get the most out of your divination experience.

I often hear people lament on how they wish one thing they had done, or had been done to them, had happened differently, or had not happened at all.

If left unchecked, this line of thinking can only lead to one thing – regret. Holding onto regret only serves to perpetuate a state of judgment and fear. [continued below picture]

So what is the alternative?  We have spoken before about forgiveness.  We have spoken about letting go of fear and judgment and replacing it with understanding and love.  All this is true and good as a means of release, but can seem difficult to implement in the moment.

Try this: Spend 5 minutes twice a day for 7 days bringing the memory of the situation you wish to be different into your mind, and once visualized in depth, transform the scenario into one more to your liking. What we experience today is a holographic piece of all we have experienced throughout our existence.  And what we feel, how we react to the world is in direct response to how we hold those experiences in our being.

If you spend 5 minutes twice a day actively transforming the outcome of an event in your mental archives, it will transform how you hold that event.  It matters not if the original outcome has long lasting effects in the physical. By transforming how you hold it, you fundamentally change who you are and therefore your experience of now shifts.  The more to your liking these pictures transform, the more open, loving and compassionate you will be.  Regret will leave your side as a companion to be replaced with joy.

Gratitude is the key to almost everything! I call gratitude the universal grease and you can use it for almost everything including, creating good relationships, having good health, feeling more happiness, and using several of life’s laws such as the law of attraction and the law of reciprocity.  [continued below picture]

So how do you bring more gratitude into your life? First of all, look around you. Do you have a roof over your head? Do you have food to eat? Are you able to keep warm? These are basic human needs that, if you have them met, you are among the luckiest people on this earth. Many people on this planet do not have these very basic needs filled. So be grateful. 

What else do you have in your life? Family you love? Friends you enjoy being with? Pets that are always there for you? A job? Health? What do you have in your life that you can be grateful for? Everyone can find things to be grateful for in their life. You can also be grateful for living in the country you live in, the weather, your favorite television program. You see, it doesn’t matter where you start, just start to crank up the gratitude machine!

The more gratitude you feel, the more you will find in your life to be grateful for. So, this week, spend at least 5 minutes a day in gratitude, and this week I highly suggest you do this first thing in the morning. You can do this sitting in meditation, or walking the dog, it does not matter what your body is doing as long as you feel the gratitude in your heart. Each day, pump it up! Feel it more and more, you can be grateful for the same things each day, or different things, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is cranking up that gratitude machine so you have the grease you need to create a better life.