Did you ever get a feeling that something was going to happen, and it did?
DId you ever think of someone that you haven't seen or heard from in a while,
and then get a phone call or a letter from that person almost right away?
Of course you did! Those things happen to everyone. We seem a little surprised
at the moment that these things occur, we may even mention them to someone
in the family or a close friend, and then we forget about it.
Did you ever have the experience of being in a room or a place and it suddenly
seemed so familiar to you that you were sure, in an eerie sort of way, that
it had all happened before? Of course you did. It happens to everyone.
Deja vu? No, not really. Just common, everyday, garden variety intuition.
We all have some degree of intuition, you know. We all get hunches and feelings.
Intuitive abilities are built into every human being as a protective device,
a sort of survival mechanism.
Back in the days of cave men, when they didn't have doors to put locks on,
and when there were very real terrors that stalked them, our ancestors needed
a built in survival mechanism, an inner warning device. Early man had to
rely on his extra senses to protect him against the dangers of his world.
As man became more civilized, and moved into sheltered structures, and devised
sophisticated methods of communication, he was able to relax quite a bit.
He no longer needed to rely as heavily on his intuition to protect him.
In today's world, we have doors and windows and locks. We have sophisticated
communications systems, so we are safer, more protected from the dangers
of the world than our ancestors were.
But the intuition that was built into our ancestors is still pure. It isn't
something that disappeared. We have just not learned that it belongs to
us. Nobody told us that it is still there, and that we can develop it and
use it, and yes, even learn to count on it.
For some reason, we have even been taught to mis-trust our natural intuition.
When someone admits, out loud, that they have a feeling about something
and then whatever it was actually transpires, we say, "Wow, that was eerie,
that was strange." We act as if having intuition, or more precisely, psychic
feelings, is something out of the ordinary, something of which we should
be amazed.
Rather, intuition, or psychic abilities are natural. Extra senses, or ESP,
is built into every one of us just as our normal, everyday five senses are
a natural part of us. What's more, we can learn to develop them, to use
them, and to count on them. We can use those extra five senses in many different
ways.
The very first step in the process is to believe and trust that we are capable
of being intuitive and using that intuition or psychic ability to our advantage.
Any teacher or proponent of positive thinking will tell you that if you
want something to happen, then you must first "put those vibes out."
What you must do is to start remembering the times that you had correct hunches
in the past. Once you do that, you can more easily accept that it can happen
for you again in the future.
Only now, you are going to be more vigilant, more alert to feelings or hunches.
And now, you are going to more readily act on them when they come.
If you get that feeling about something, anything, follow it through. Write
your feeling down on a piece of paper and date it. If it was a feeling about
something that is going to happen, wait and see if it does happen. If you
get a feeling that you should say something to someone, tell them. You don't
need to make a big deal out of it. Just say "I've got a feeling that..."
and see what happens. It may take awhile until you get an idea of how your
hunches come, when they come, and when they are right. Give it a chance.
It may take a bit of practice in the beginning. Remember, you didn't learn
to tie your shoe laces over night, and in learning to trust your intuitive
feelings, you have to overcome the old mistrust of being "psychic".
There are some methods that you can practice that will help you to develop
your innate intuition or psychic abilities.