How To Develop Your Intuition

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How To Develop Your IntuitionBy Hess

Why is it desirable to develop your intuition? Your intuition is the means by which you receive information from that wise, infinite part of you on the spiritual plane, your Higher Self. As such, your intuition can assist you in making decisions, setting goals for yourself, and aligning with your life purpose.

Many people don't think they are intuitive. But it is actually fairly simple to develop your intuition. It just takes a little mindfulness and practice. Here are six steps you can take in your life to develop your intuition:

1. Make room for the possibility

If you are convinced that intuition does not exist, or that it simply is not available to you, nothing will be able to persuade you otherwise. Remember that whatever you believe shapes your reality. It's fine to have doubts, or to be a little apprehensive. But in order to develop your intuition, you must at least allow for the possibility of its existence and validity. Open yourself to the idea that you are a highly intuitive being. Imagine all the information that might be available to you, if only you'll allow for the possibility.

2. Ask for guidance

Opening up to just any information makes it hard to discern intuitive guidance when it arrives in your life. Instead, focus on a specific topic or question that you wish to receive guidance on. Write that topic or question down, and ask your Higher Self for help with the issue. In this way, guidance will be easier to recognize when it comes in. When you are first working to develop your intuition, it is good to focus on a specific subject.

3. Create space to receive

Guidance may come in many ways. You may suddenly become inspired in an unexpected way – or suffer an extreme lack of inspiration in other areas. You may forget or remember items on your way out of the house. You may feel sudden impulses to do something differently. A friend or acquaintance may suddenly offer up the answer you've been looking for all along. Spiritual guidance comes to us in many ways. It is subtle and integrates itself seamlessly into the fabric of our lives. In order to develop your intuition, you must create some space within which you can allow guidance to unfold. Look at your life events from the perspective of receiving guidance. You may be surprised at the many hints that have been coming your way all along!

4. Take action

Guidance is only as good as what you do with it. If intuitive information is never acted upon, it remains useless. It does take courage to act on your intuitive instincts. When you develop your intuition, reason and logic sometimes has to take a back seat to gut feeling. Try acting on guidance in small ways at first, to help you develop confidence. Then you can begin applying your intuition to more important life decisions.

5. Let go of the outcome

When you develop your intuition, you may find that you have a great need to be "right." However, intuitive guidance is a moment by moment process. What is right for you today may not be right for you tomorrow. You are, after all, one day richer in life experiences. You are no longer the same. Therefore, what you need today may differ from what is aligned with your highest good tomorrow. Act on guidance as it occurs. Let go of the outcome. We all think we know how a situation should unfold. In reality, life may present something far better than we could possibly have imagined.

6. Acknowledge assistance

Develop a sense of gratitude towards your Higher Self. It works hard to offer you the information that serves your highest good. Acknowledge the wealth of assistance that has come into your life. Thank your Higher Self often. As you do this, you are acknowledging the greatest part of your own being.

As you develop your intuition, you will discover yourself navigating through life with a broader perspective. You will discover the untapped resources that are available to you for the asking. You will begin to recognize yourself as a spiritual being living a human experience.

Hess is an Intuitive Consultant and author of "Unlock Your Intuition." She works with spiritual seekers on discovering their soul's path and purpose for this lifetime. Visit her website at http://www.EmpoweredSoul.com for more information on 's book, her readings, or read more of her work on her blog.