The Power of Intuition!

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One of the most interesting and fascinating topic for me, we will discuss here with utter clarity. Your intuition is a powerful thing. It is more than just a “gut feeling” or a passing thought. It’s intuition, and like most things that speak with a quiet voice, if we listen the potential is life-changing.

It may sound airy-fairy intangible, but in reality, intuition is a fine-tuned muscle you can develop over time-based on learning from your experiences and environmental clues. “Intuition is, ‘I just know.’ 

Intuition exists in all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not. The more we can learn about it, the more we can use it to shape our lives for the better.


The human brain has two ‘operating systems’. The first is quick, instinctual and effortless. This is where our intuition lies. Intuition works by drawing on patterns collected by our experience and when we have to make a quick decision about whether something is real, fake, feels good, feels bad, right or wrong, we draw on these patterns.  It all happens ‘offline’, outside our conscious awareness.

The second operating system is slower to respond. It’s more analytical and deliberate and it’s conscious.

What Exactly is Intuition?


Before you work on using your intuition to become more magnetic, you need to really understand what intuition means and how it works.

Simply put, your intuition is your inner guide, your inner teacher.

This inner teacher is one you should listen to as well.

Recent studies show that using your intuition is more likely to improve your decision making by about 10%. Think about the thousands of decisions you make on a daily basis, now think about 10% of those decisions improving just if you follow a little voice that is already talking to you all day long.

Most intuition is so subtle that we only remember it in hindsight. Your goal should be to learn how to listen to your intuition and tap into it, at the moment instead. The way to do this is to remember a very important rule: intuition is not a thought awareness, it is sensory awareness.

You need to get out of your head and listen to your gut, your body and what your senses are telling you in order to really be following your intuition.



How To Tell If You Are Intuitive

There are many people who claim to be intuitive, but what does that really mean and how do you determine if you are an intuitive individual?

This process starts by diagnosing yourself as one of two types of people: either a 5th sensory or a 6th sensory person.

A 5th Sensory human will look at the world through their ego brain. They live in a sense of fear and are worried about pleasing the people around them. Someone who is 5th sensory views the world as everything being you vs me. They are not their authentic selves and they often feel isolated and disconnected. So many people today live 5th sensory lives.

This is not the way we want to live.

6th sensory humans, on the other hand, have activated their intuition. They understand themselves more and understand that they are more than an ego. They have opened up an entirely new world of awareness and creativity. Most importantly, they are more connected to others and to the world around them both physically and spiritually.

These are the people that are highly intuitive. They understand that their authentic self is their spirit.

This is the way we want to be.

Your goal should be to become a 6th sensory person so that you can become more intuitive. If you do this, you will find yourself enjoying perks such as:

  • More creativity
  • More productivity
  • Better intuitive healing capabilities
  • Less fear and stress
  • Your focus changing from problems to solutions
  • A lightened heart
  • Better synchronicity or flow
Most importantly, your vibrations will rise and you will start to become more magnetic.


Sharpening Your Intuition

Every person on the planet has intuition but not every person listens chooses to listen to it. 

Intuition is the way the subconscious mind communicates with the conscious mind. The information that informs ‘that feeling’ is real. It’s like any other decision but the workings of it – the collection, the storage, the putting together – happen outside of our conscious mind. 

So intuition is a brilliant thing. The sharper it is, the better off you’ll be. Here’s how to feed yours so it’s flourishing:

1.    Listen.
It’s sounds simple enough – and it is. No tricks here. Your intuition can’t talk to you if you’re not listening. When you start to take notice, good things will happen. Just try it and see.

2.   Trust your gut feeling.
Research suggests that emotion and intuition have a physical presence in our gut. The gut is lined with a network of neurons and is often referred to as the ‘second brain.’ It’s known as the enteric nervous system (ENS) and it contains about 100 million neurons, which is more than the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system but less than the brain. This is why we get ‘sick’ about having to make a tough decision or knowing we’ve made a bad one.


3.   Feel.
You’ll know your intuition is there because you’ll be able to feel it – if you let yourself. You’ll feel it in your belly and it will goosebump your skin, send a shiver down your spine, race your heart and quicken your breath. Sometimes it’s even more subtle and the only way to describe it as a ‘knowing’.  You’ll feel when something is right – it will feel clear, nourishing and enriching. And you’ll feel when something is off – for me it’s an ache or a flattening. Trusting your intuition might be difficult at first if you’re not used to it, but give it time and trust it bit by bit, if that feels better. It will be worth it.

4.   Be ready to let bad feelings go.
Negative emotions will cloud intuition, which is why when you’re angry or depressed bad decisions can happen so easily. Research has backed this, finding that people made better intuitive choices in a word task when they were in a positive mood as compared to when they were in a negative mood. 

5.   Be deliberate about the people you hang on to.
People who drain you will add to the noise and make it more difficult to hear what your intuition wants you to hear. Chances are that you already know how they are. If not, be still for a moment – your intuition will be trying to tell you. Keep people who enrich and empower you and walk away from those who drain you. Understandably, you can’t always walk away from the troublesome ones and if that’s the case, empower yourself by making it your decision to stay, rather than not theirs because they’ve taken your choice. The difference is subtle in language but big in impact. One lets the power stay with you, one gives it over to them.


6.   Pay attention to what’s going on around you.
The more information you are able to gather from the environment, the more the intuitive, subconscious part of your brain has to work with – and the more accurately it will inform your decisions.

7.   Find time to be silent and still.
Having solitude turns down the clamor of the world and allows you to tune in to your intuition. Our intuition is always sending warnings and encouragement but often we are too busy to notice. Let your mind wander and be open to what comes to you – feelings, thoughts or words. One of the ways to do this is through mindfulness. By focusing your thoughts on your own experience in the present moment, mindfulness gets rid of mental clutter and makes way for you to connect with your intuition.

8.   Use your dream time well. 
Dreams are the brain’s way of processing information that’s left over from the day. They are rich with valuable data – experiences, memories, learnings – so they can work hard if we let them. Paying attention to dreams can provide information that we may not have access due when we are awake. Before you fall asleep, turn your thoughts to any unresolved issues or problems. Think about possible options or resolutions as you’re falling asleep. Close your eyes and let your brain do the rest. 

“When your intuition is roaring loud, follow it”

Disclaimer: Intuition is powerful and can lead to amazing insights, but that doesn’t mean you follow it blindly. It’s still important to use common sense and a balance of rationality. You need a balance of both – call into play both the intuitive and rational parts of the brain to position yourself to reach the best decisions.

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