How intuitive are you?

There are a couple of questions you can ask yourself to validate your intuitive abilities:

• Have you ever had a premonition?
• Have you at any point met a stranger and instantly felt a connection?
• Have you ever looked back to find out someone was looking at you?
• Have you sometimes felt the need to call someone to find out they were thinking of you?

Most likely more than two scenarios have happened to you. This shows that everyone has a certain degree of intuition, it is just that they are not refined.

The key to developing intuition is awareness. When you raise your awareness, you begin to pick up information that you never thought existed.

Here are simple techniques that you can apply to your daily activities to improve and develop higher intuition.

Mindfulness

Don’t be intimidated by the term mindfulness, because mindfulness is simply being aware of the present moment. Mindfulness is a type of meditation that you are always practicing. Our ability to be in the present moment is diluted by overstimulation and overflowing of information.

You find yourself constantly on your phone or chronically immersed in your daily concerns and needs. But, by learning to bring back your awareness to the present moment, you will develop a natural habit of being in the present moment. This habit will enable you to pick up on what is happening at the moment.

Relaxation

In modern society, a lot of people have forgotten how to relax. When you learn to relax, your senses will pick up more information than they do when they are tense.

If you are tense the flow of your blood prioritizes the tense parts of your body. This means the energy of the body is not equally distributed for it to function at an optimal level. That is why when someone is in danger they can’t think clearly because blood flows in the limbs for fight or flight.

So, by learning how to relax your body, you are releasing the tension on different parts of your body to make it function at an optimal level. This will then allow your senses to pick up subtle information clearly.

Meditation

The practice of meditation is like ‘Jerry’, the kind of neighbor everyone loves in the community of spirituality. Meditation has many benefits. Through meditation, all of your tensions and worries will fade away. Additionally, this meditation will unlock higher intuitive abilities by opening blocked energy centers.

Becoming an observer

This is a bit tricky to do because, less attention is needed but more awareness is required. What you do is simply be an observer without doing anything. You simply let ideas emerge without the act of thinking.

A suitable exercise for this is to simply sit down without doing anything for an extended amount of time. You just sit there, thoughts will come in and out. Do not try to fight them or get involved in them, just let them pass and flow. It is actually more challenging than it sounds. You will discover that you are more addicted to doing things than you know.

Thus, you will be able to identify things for what they are and feel things for what they are, which will dramatically increase your intuition.

Learn to listen

Listening is not limited to hearing people’s stories, but it encompasses all types of being aware of your surroundings. This includes paying attention to your body, your environment, your emotions, and your thoughts.

By simply being aware of what is happening in your mind, emotions, body, and surrounding, you are activating the dormant senses. Then it will become second nature for you to be aware of subtle activities you were not conscious of before.

Learn to let go.

We find ourselves stuck in the endless spiral of thoughts. This should have been that way, and that should have been that way. If you are constantly focused on past events, you miss what lies ahead of you and what lies at this moment.

By learning to be moderate and letting things unfold easily, you can then catch up with the present moment and experience it fully. When you are in the present moment you are connected with the flow of current energies. This way, any incoming information will find you alert and aware to respond to it.

A guessing game

Because your intention is to increase your intuition, you can start to guess simple things like:

• guessing who is calling you before picking up the phone,
• what is the exact hour before you look at your clock,
• What is the weather going to be like in the coming day?

Doing these simple guessing games will open a door to your intuitive abilities.

Conclusion

Integrating these simple habits into your life will bring you tremendous benefits. Not only will it increase your intuition but it will also activate other parts of you that you didn’t know existed.

You will be connected to the present moment, sense the flow of energies and be able to discern what is right for you and what is not. Over time you will naturally repel what doesn’t resonate with you. You will be able to sense the intention of someone else even if they are on the phone because you have raised your awareness.

It is indeed a beautiful thing, and it is readily available for anyone who wishes to integrate these simple habits into their life.