Developing Intuition Part 2
People who have precognitive skills and can acquire knowledge about the future are simply people who have very well developed powers of intuition. You too can begin to enjoy the benefits of precognition. All you need to do is exercise your intuition on a regular basis.
Think of the number of times you have already experienced ‘flashes’ of intuitive insight in one way or another. What about the time the phone rang and you knew almost instantly who the caller was? How about the time you felt you ought to take an umbrella ‘just in case’ the sunshine turned to rain – and it did? Then think of all the times you have been thinking of something and suddenly another person started talking about that very subject?
These are all examples of your natural intuition at work. They are not spectacular examples, but then you must remember that they happened almost automatically. Now, just think of what might be possible if you deliberately put your intuitive power to work? The possibilities are truly extraordinary.
At this point, it should be stated that the development of your powers of intuition follows a broad learning curve. In other words, the more your practice, the better your results will be. In the beginning, however, your intuition may sometimes appear to be wrong.
In truth, your intuition is never wrong, but it can be misinterpreted. When this happens to some people, they use it as ‘proof’ that intuition doesn’t work. All it means, in fact, is that they aren’t yet fully ‘tuned in’ to what their intuition is really saying. The following case illustrates this quite well.
Tony B. had started getting interested in developing his intuition after reading that it might help him become a more successful stock market trader. Initially, he limited his use of intuition to the stock market. Each day, before the market opened, he would try to gain insight into whether the shares of certain companies would go up or down. Then, with small amounts of money, he began investing in those that he felt would increase in value.
After several months of this, Tony was brimming with confidence. His intuition had helped him to make handsome profits on the stock market, and so he now began to think of ways in which he could use it in other areas of his life.
He decided to try gaining some intuitive insight into how people felt about him, and almost immediately he saw people laughing. Tony was shocked. Was he really thought of as a laughing stock? He tried another exercise, and once again he saw people laughing all around him.
Naturally, Tony’s self confidence was all but shattered. He immediately went from being a confident, outgoing person to a self-conscious wallflower. Whereas he had once been a regular socialiser, he now avoided parties and instead stayed at home.
Pretty soon, a couple of friends came to see him and asked if they had offended him. Tony didn’t say anything. They then invited him to a party, but he refused the invitation.
Then one friend said, ‘Come on Tony, it won’t be the same without you. You’re the life and soul of our group – always having fun, always telling us jokes and giving us a laugh.’
At this genuine comment, Tony realised that he had misinterpreted what his intuition had been trying to tell him. The people he had seen laughing were laughing because they liked him and they thought he was a humorous person. They weren’t laughing at him in a negative way at all!
Immediately, Tony regained his self-confidence and returned to enjoying a busy and satisfying social life. He also learned an important lesson – that learning to correctly interpret what our intuition is trying to tell us is just as vital as using our intuition in the first place.
This is something you simply must keep in mind. There is a broad learning curve involved in using your intuition, and in the beginning you will undoubtedly make mistakes of interpretation. These mistakes will decrease the more you practice with your intuition, but it is important that you don’t act blindly on what your inner voice is saying, especially when you are first starting out.
Instead, you need to think about your insight from all the angles and explore all the possible interpretations. Then, when you come across the right interpretation, you will know. How? Intuition!
That’s enough of the theory. The only true way of mastering your latent power of intuition is, as I have said, to use it on a regular basis. The best way of developing intuition is to work with Intuitive Exercises which are designed to help you tap into what is, when all is said and done, your natural connection to the infinite knowledge of the universe. I will present the first of those exercises in my next article.
