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Intuition and Psychic Powers

Intuition is the ability to know, realize and discern what is innately right for you. It is your built in wisdom and every human's inherent birthright. Intuition is designed to act as your personal guidance system in life and is sometimes referred to as your instinctual powers or sixth sense. The home of your intuition lives in the sixth chakra or brow chakra. Also known as the third eye, this centre is often considered sacred and much coveted as the chakra to get open. The word psychic is seen as the ability to divine the future and this is also a function of your sixth chakra which means everyone has in-born psychic abilities.

What many fail to realize is that their third eye opens and closes, functions and operates, as needed. Many assume their third eye is not open because they think they will see something special when it is open. For example, you may think that you will see angels or spirit guides flutter into the room if your third eye is fully open. This is the least common way you will experience your third eye functioning and the least likely way to encounter an angel or spirit guide. There are many other more likely indicators you will experience when your sixth chakra is activated.

Your own everyday perceptions are the strongest indicator that your third eye if functioning. Begin by becoming more aware of the observations you are already making in your everyday life. Have you ever encountered someone and realized they were saying one thing but meant another? Did you not see below the radar, see the truth of what they were really saying? This observation would indicate your third eye is functioning and lending you its wisdom and insight. For example, you run into a friend on the street who smiles and gushes a welcoming hello, yet your senses tell you she is insincere. This sense of yours is your intuition speaking to you and it would behoove you to validate it often.

You may perceive your intuition in a myriad of ways. There is no correct way or right way for you to experience your intuitive messages. But you will have a personal and unique way, so it is best to discover what this is and work with it.

Seeing with clairvoyant vision (beyond the physical realm) is not the only way to get intuitive communication and you may experience your intuition as any of the following: You may get shivers on your arm; tingles up your spine; butterflies in your stomach or a clenching in the gut. Realize this is your intuition working through your physical body and it may present in any part of the body. Pay attention at this level and learn to discern what your body intuition is telling you.

Your intuition may also communicate to you by way of your feelings. Perhaps a sense of impending doom, a feeling or relief or a sense of exhilaration. Or you may feel compelled or just have a hunch (any feeling is valid). Your third eye is a feeling centre, but have you learned to trust your feelings? Discernment is a function of the third eye and this chakra balances with your second chakra (also a feeling centre). Your intuition will open much wider if you can balance the functioning of your second chakra by recognizing what emotions are coming upon you during the day (you do not choose your feelings - they come upon you and then you have choice - suppress them or express them, love them or hate them, judge them or have compassion for them).

Another way your intuition speaks to you is through imagery and pictures in the mind. Can you recognize these mental images and discern their meaning? Symbolism is the language of the Universe - have you realized this yet and started to learn the meaning of your personal symbolism?

Creative visualization and using your imagination will increase the power and functioning of your intuition. It will anchor you in this ability to see beyond the physical and increase your natural psychic abilities. Looking at your past patterns and predicting your future is commonly referred to as "learning from your mistakes". This is a function of the sixth chakra and if you have ever learned from a mistake than your third eye is functioning just fine.

Practice your ability to pretend and create with the minds eye daily and you will see an improvement in your intuitive abilities. Also begin to recognize the unique physical, emotional and mental ways through which your third eye is already functioning. As you begin to identify this unique way of yours, trust it and validate it, it will strengthen the function of your third eye. Your journey will become smoother as you allow your own intuitive wisdom to guide you.

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