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How Can You Recognize Your Intuition?

Learner: How do you know when your intuition is correct?

Spirit: On the Earthplane, one of the strong forces you have to deal with is Fear. When you have decisions to make, you fear making the wrong decision. There are two forces: Love and Fear. On Earth people very often spend a great deal of energy thinking on the fears and worrying over the fears and imagining the fears, and they often end up making a decision that will bring them the least amount of fear or repercussions. What you want to do is to look at your choices and instead of just citing the disadvantages, list the advantages. Chew on the advantages. In your mind, create the situation you are considering. Think of the positive advantages, not the fears. In your mind make this a reality. This is something that you usually can’t do in a matter of hours. Don’t work to think about the negative aspects, because the fears will slip in anyway, and you’ll have to keep putting them out. You are searching for the positive feelings of the experience.

Next you begin a process of communication with yourself. You are not looking asking your Guides what decision to make, because they are not going to make it, you are. What your Guides are going to do is to help you think and to help you feel the energy of all of your options. They will help you get in touch with your Higher Self. You need to know the voice of your Higher Self, because that is where you will receive your guidance. You need a few minutes each day in which to be silent. The reason for the silence is to quiet your personality and allow yourself the opportunity to hear your inner, Higher, Self. The important thing is to quiet your mind from its day-to-day activity. You can have music if you wish, or silence if you prefer, whatever brings you peace. You are seeking guidance about something, yet during this time, do your best to eliminate all thoughts. Try not to think. Allow your mind to become silent.

It is during your silent moments that you will begin to bring forth better awareness of your intuition. You must practice in order to easily recognize your intuition. You will know when you succeed. It is a different feeling. Your thoughts may say, "I think this is right." Your intuition will produce a feeling that it is right. But, of course, the feeling is not forcing you. You always have the right to reject those feelings.

The physical plane is a very difficult plane. Souls choose to incarnate there in order to learn big lessons, but it is hard. Developing a strong awareness of your intuition’s guidance will help you through these lessons. Let me tell you another secret: When you hear yourself being warned with lots of negative concerns – with many fears – it is always your personality. That does not necessarily mean you shouldn’t listen to those thoughts. But optimally, what you are looking for is when your gut intuition tells you something and your own logic does not rise up in rebellion. If you think you are being told to do something, and after your meditations you feel this even more than you think it, listen to that.

You need to practice these techniques frequently in order to learn to recognize the voice of your intuition. It becomes a "knowing." Many times you will say, "I don’t know how I know, but I know." When you know how you know, that is your logic. Again, that is not necessarily to be disregarded. I am just talking about how to know the difference between the two bases for making sound decisions. For example, if your logic tells you not to risk something new to you, but your gut intuition disagrees, you may be receiving spiritual urging to walk farther into or through that Fear and take a chance. You may at least want to meditate more before you make your decision. If your logic is telling you to go ahead but your gut intuition is clinging tight to your coattails, trying hard to hold you back, listen to your intuition and hold off on making that choice until you can discover why your inner self is so uncomfortable with it. If you seriously want to learn to recognize your gut feelings, your intuition, you will need to make repeated efforts to do so; and you will need to practice following it. If you do this, eventually you will be able to "check in" with your soul more easily, for you will recognize how that communication feels when it comes into your awareness.

You will know you have gone against your intuition when you make a choice that turns out with different results than you had hoped for and in hindsight you find yourself saying things such as, "I knew it! Something was telling me not to do this. It just felt wrong for me." (Or "something was urging me on, to take the chance. It felt so right!") But then I thought what if…." Or, "But then I was afraid if I followed my hunch…"

It is very important, though, that you learn the difference between your wants, or your hopes, and the spiritual leading of your intuition. If you don’t, you might convince yourself that something like selling your home and laying the proceeds all on a bet at the roulette table is intuition. Rarely, if ever, would that ever be an accurate reading of spiritual guidance. What you are looking for is to be able to think something through using the logic with which you are created and then have the results of that thinking confirmed by your intuition. Or if your gut feeling comes into your awareness before you have thought about it, then having that feeling confirmed by your thoughts. You want these two inherent abilities of yours to work together to help you make wiser decisions. You will still make mistakes in judgment, of course, for as long as you are there in your classroom. But if you work to use your intuition the way human beings are intended to, are created to do, then your mistakes caused by not being aware of and heeding your soul’s leading will greatly decrease, I promise you.

More Intuition Continued