How Does One Receive Intuitive Messages?
We've all heard the admonition to "Follow your heart." "Listen to your inner voice." "Trust your guidance." These are all ways that we receive intuitive guidance.
Intuition can take on many forms: i mages, symbolic pictures, and vivid dreams. For example, a designer who receives visual impressions might "see" the solution to a product design problem as a series of images relating to the product.
Intuitive impressions may also be experienced kinesthetically. These impressions might be felt as emotions, a sense of direct knowing, a hot or cold sensation in the body, or a gut feeling. For example, an intuitive therapist might receive impressions by "feeling" the direction she needs to take with her client.
Another way of receiving information is verbal. You might hear words in your mind or find that your intuitive answers are formed as metaphors or symbols. You "hear" the words telling you a new direction to take. There is no single, "right" way to experience intuitive information. How it is developed and perceived is a matter of what works best for you.
Ernest Holmes, the founder of the Science of Mind Church says, "When the scientist listens, the artist imagines, the mathematician calculates, or the poet waits for the muse to guide fancy into word pictures, each is praying for divine guidance. And each receives as much guidance as he or she is capable of perceiving."
It has been said that coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. We often have serendipity occurring in our lives as a way to show us we are on the right path. Intuition rarely gives you the message just once. If you miss the message the first time, you'll continue to hear, feel, and see "intuitive nudges" toward the right path from your inner guidance system. As Ellen Debenport has said, "Here's the good news: God is a nag. God won't give up. If we are destined to carry out some divine idea, we won't be able to shrug it off. For me, God doesn't just whisper within. If I'm supposed to get a message, I start to see it and hear it everywhere - books, sermons, television shows, conversations with friends."
Take a moment right now and think of a major change that you've made in your life in the past five years. Can you remember some of the circumstances that led up to your decision to make this change? Most likely you had an initial inkling that this would be a good move for you. The more you investigated, researched, and took action, the better it felt. You began to notice things falling into place. Doors seemed to open for you; synchronicities began to occur. These are intuitive nudges. You are receiving a "YES" from God.
Excerpted from Divine Intuition by Lynn A. Robinson, M.Ed . - www.lynnrobinson.com
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