11 Ways to Improve Your Intuition

Intuition is your connection to power and higher wisdom. It can offer you insights that your logical or linear mind cannot. Intuition is also your source of creativity. Your intuition is already sending you messages daily. To develop intuition, it is best to increase your receptive ability, listen, and then trust.

When communicating telepathically with animals or other 'non-verbal speaking species, ' intuition is an essential skill to use. Receiving intuitive information is not a mechanical process. It very much happens in the quantum world, in the vibrational world. Intuitive raw data, also known as energy emissions, land in our unconscious or intuitive mind. It is then up to us to process this data and make it available to our conscious mind, where we can then express, use or understand it.

Using your intuition can help you live a more balanced and happier life. It can help you make decisions and communicate more deeply with all other beings, both human and non-human. Imagine if you didn't need an explanation or too much logic and reason to know something. You feel what's right and trust that knowing. Life then becomes empowered, dynamic and creative.

Following are 11 straightforward ways, plus guided meditations for you to use and improve your intuition:

1. Body scan is a simple exercise that only takes about 60-90 seconds. Use your awareness to scan your body, pay attention to what you are feeling, is there any blocked energy? Any bodily sensations that might be trying to tell you something? Are you feeling tense or relaxed? Scanning your body to listen to its messages helps you connect to yourself. If you sense an energy block, set the intention to relax and release it.

Practising Yoga Nidra - subtle body relaxation is a more in-depth way to release tension in the body and improve the clarity of mind. This practice includes a full-body scan technique.

2. Meditate - Practice Spiritual Sadhana – Take time each day to go inward and remove yourself from the external world. Stop and turn off all the noise and distractions around you, go into a quiet room or sit in nature to be still. Pay attention to your inner landscape and enjoy the quiet. Our modern lives are designed to engage the mind with distractions and noise constantly. Find a space with no distractions, no tv, music or telephones and be in that space. Meditate.

3. Something to feel about – Think less and feel more. Start switching the common phrases "I'll think about that" or "That's something to think about" to "I'll feel about that" or "That's something to feel about". Ask your body and mind, what does my intuition "feel" about this?

4. Snack on grounding food – Going off into an airy fairyland is not connecting with your intuition but rather a mental delusion. Intuition is an energy that comes from within. It is all of your five senses plus more. That is why it is also called your sixth sense. Eating some grounding food, such as root vegetables, carrots, sweet potatoes and more, perhaps bananas and macadamia nuts will help ground you and bring you back into your body to better access your intuition.

5. Sit in Nature to Connect and Listen – There are a few ways to enjoy nature. I like to go into nature to exercise and do things like walk my dog on the beach or go for a swim in the creek. This is great, but this is not a nature connection, this is nature awareness. Being with nature, with a still mind, open heart, and no personal agenda creates a genuine connection. You can also meditate on your love and intrinsic harmony with nature. 

6. Breathe and observe your breath – Sometimes, it takes two or three long deep breaths to get out of your head and move into your heart. As you breathe in, imagine all of the beauty and magic of life filling you up, and as you breathe out, let go of all the mental activity, tension and anxiety blocking your flow. Although experienced through the sense of mind, intuition is the language of the heart. The deeper you can drop into your heart, the more you hear from your intuitive sixth sense.

7. Left brain relaxation time – The left side of your brain is your liner and rational mind. It works best with structure and knowledge. It likes to be busy and to think a lot! Find a technique that works best for you to rest your left brain. It could be an aromatherapy massage, painting, writing, meditation, or listening to gentle music. Find what you enjoy and then practice it regularly. Intuition is the vibration of the right brain hemisphere. Making sense of it or putting it into its linear space is where the left brain becomes helpful, but other than that, it is best kept at bay or used for its specific purpose.

8. Journal – Keep a personal journal and use it. This is especially useful if something is bothering you or is "on your mind". Writing about it will let it out of your system and clear the way for intuition to flow.

9. Drink fresh spring water (avoid fluoride) – Water is a conductor that helps energy travel. Avoid water packaged in plastic bottles and tap water that contains fluoride, which is known to calcify the pineal gland, the source of our intuition. This will allow you to sense and experience intuitive impressions. 

10. Body movement – Dance, yoga, Thai Chi, martial arts and walking in nature (barefoot is even better) are just a few healthy ways to move your body. When you move your body, you learn to trust it. Every person's body works differently. It has a different swagger and rhythm. This is the language that intuition uses to get your attention.

11. Eat well –When you eat processed, chemical-laden junk food, you are dulling your energetic receptors and creating stagnant energy. Eating fresh organic whole foods helps you in every area of your life. Eat fresh foods and watch your physical and spiritual energy rise. 

I hope these techniques and guided meditations will offer you a solid and easy place to begin trusting your intuition and using it in your daily life.

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