Here are some things you could do to expand your intuitive abilities.
Firstly decide if such a potential exists. Many say nay to the transcendent reality that so many others do perceive. I suggest you seek to see for yourself. You may find, as others say they have, that there is something worth seeing beyond the veil.
It seems the next thing to do is practise meditation. The main game here is to stop that marvellous meaty mass called your brain from exercising its existential authority. When your intellect is stilled you’ll find a quieter intelligence within that’s capable of seeing a greater detail of connection without.
There are many people who can illuminate specific pathways to inspire your inner wandering and many of these have good things to offer. Be aware however that the words and practises of other people can only inspire you. Ultimately you have to find your own path to journey on.
An important aspect to the quieting of your intellect is the release of emotion. It’s hard to be quiet in the calm centre of your mind when emotions are boiling within you. Intuition returns incrementally as this terrible torrent’s released.
The best way to let yourself feel your feelings finish is, again, the meditation. Many use meditation as a medication to avoid the fact of their emotional feelings. In fact it’s most natural, pleasant, and profoundly functional to allow your feelings to discharge with tears, shaking, and yawning as your body and mind relax beyond time.
As you’re feed from the ravages of your feeling you’ll see the signs around you from different and diverse directions. A new and more lyrical logic might well become you as you hear your heart felt truth in the voice of the wind and the earth as much as in the politics of people.
Lastly you will do well to stop trying. You will as you must test your burgeoning new vision and it’s likely you’ll find some miscomprehension. Often this is your ego insisting on certain signs. Let go of what your ego wants to see and let what is just simply be.
Einstein said famously that we use only a tenth of our mind’s capacity. I wonder how deep the ocean of your mind is!
Martin Hunter Jones is an honorary member of the Australian Counselling Association.
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i don't know why i am always shocked when people on this site sit in judgement of others. as in all things, each person has their own reality and to "nit-pick" over details is, in my opinion, wasted energy. for some, meditation does enhance intuition. however, i suspect that there are others out there who have moved past the need for meditation as a tool to commune with ALL-THAT-IS. Personally, my intuition was once quite clear and diserning. but as more and more has piled on my plate and my stress levels have increased, my intuition has become fuzzy and neglected. so, i am someone who needs to meditate in order to clear all the extraneous "noise" out of my head. but i do respect those who feel they (for whatever reason) can connet without it.
one of my favorite sayings of late is................
when you're up to your ass in alligators, it's sometimes difficult to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.
so, thank you hunter for this post. i do believe that it is an excellent way to begin, especially for those who may be just beginning to explore their latent birth-rights.
Dear Hunter,
Intuitive power is just Blessings from the Divine and Heart with Purity and whose mind have clarity of thoughts...they have this ability .....Quite and peaceful mind has more ability....
Sohiniben.
Intuition is all about feeling, it's just a "sense" that you feel...a sense of reality, a sense of truth. I'm lucky, I'm a cancer, the most feely sign lol So I go by feelings alot more than the average folk, even the average water sign.
I say I have a pretty good intuition...haven't been wrong yet, that I know of lol I can just sense what's real and what isn't. And I don't think you need meditation, meditation is over hyped, like somehow it's the cure all of all. I don't meditate, rarely....I used to alot, but that was just for the novelty, so "I can be spiritual" and do what I felt I had to do. To me, it's just attaching to a concept...kind of like bandwagon hopping, and I don't do that anymore.
You can meditate if you want, but you don't need to....especially to tap into intuition. Doing that involves technique, and trying.....which is the opposite of how you connect to intuition, which is something that just happens without trying to force it. And you can analyze things to the minute detail, and still have your intuition, so it's not about getting rid of the mind, per se. It's more getting rid of being overly intellectual, with that mind chatter.....not entirely, but enough so you just observe something....that's when the right brain kicks in, and you get so much awareness and intuitive senses that mind chatter and intellect just can't pick up on.
It's easier for women, they're more in touch with feelings, and the right brain....lucky for me, I have the feminine cancer sign, so it comes naturally.
im sorry john im disagree with you 100% how can you mediate than. advise people them don't have to because you've stopped. does that making any dam sense .who knows that if continue what else you could of gain.ive mediated for 10 years. Ive gain way more than intuition . first off mediation is an overall view point. I didn't mediate to do for 1 thing. I mediate to all things. can you explain intuition because I could care less about that.
meditation is supported through maintaining health which for this society needs it. it is the alignment for kundlina.
I am a healer. I absorb energy from the earth,moon,star, and so forth. and I know everything also. and without mediation I couldn't be typing and sharing these treasures better than gold and silver. mediation is for the connection and bridge to connecting with your higher self. so john I hope that you can consider to mediate and see what else gifts that you might can collect or reconnect yourself with. you can do it for 5 to 10 mins a day and its helps alot. I do it an hour a day or skip days also.
1 thing we must no is that there are no favorites people. it doesn't matter what sign and what gender you are we all have specials things about us. god has no favorites. love thy self is the most important thing you can do at this point but mediation help to no thy self. so it is very benifical.
promote love not separation.
loved :)
thank you for sharing man. when it has to do with mediation it helps lots of people. I could say what Its done for me . but why spoil the fun. I think that everyone need to have some alone time and im not talking about the one when you masterbate haha lol. mediation helps you to realize that you are your best friend. because I swear I have very good times alone but if I would share it with someone else id beconsider koo koo.
i run weekly meditation sesssions / spiritual discussions and i found to my pleaasure that many many people dont think your honest views are koo koo. they are actually pleased to be able to communicate the "heresy" of spiritual vision in the midst of self righteous secular existentialism
so if you show your self more :) you might be pleasantly suprised too
enjoy
be loved :)
that would be "mind" not "brain"
and neuroscience itself admits it knows very little about the subject of their interest...
and ..... is that all you got from this !!!!????
i tend to let stupidity slide
but today....... i suggest to you to lighten the F***k up, have a go at turning the other 90 % of your mind on, and dont bother me with your arogant foolish comments again.