How to listen to your inner voice. What is intuition. No news from God

Elena and her ex-husband were fascinated by each other at first sight. They easily found mutual language, began to spend everything together free time and got married pretty quickly. “I could never boast of good intuition,” says Elena, “but from the moment we met inner voice insistently told me that if I give vent to emotions, then I will marry him - and this marriage will be a huge mistake. After five years, full of misunderstanding and constant quarrels, they divorced. “I still regret that I didn’t listen to myself then.”

How often, finding ourselves in a given situation, we know exactly what its outcome will be, but the desires and doubts, fear and pressure of others are stronger, and we stubbornly continue to ignore our own premonitions.

Right to vote

Each person has innate wisdom, which should become a guide in the labyrinth of life. Learning to hear yourself is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance, the main thing is to be attentive. One has only to stop and focus on what is happening with our body and feelings, and we will immediately find that important messages come from the depths of our being all the time. They may arise in the form of physical sensations or sudden insights, as well as manifest through intuition or pure reason, referred to in the Yoga Sutras as ritambhara prajna - "wisdom that brings truth."

David, a financial consultant, meditates every morning. According to him, he learned to distinguish his characteristic feeling of emotional discomfort. “When I feel it, I pause and listen to what is happening inside. It almost always turns out that I am trapped in negative thinking, and unpleasant sensations signal to me that it is time to change my attitude to the situation.

Maria connected with her inner guide during a yoga class. Not feeling stable in the asana she was doing, she decided to listen to the physical sensations. Suddenly it dawned on her: "Press the pads under the toes to the floor and widen the feet." After a few moments, she felt a sense of balance and stability in her posture.

Letter for you

Another type of inner conductor can be called extraordinary. This is the ability to "read" the messages that reach us at critical moments in life. It is they who guide us in making fateful decisions, warn of danger and help us take the next step on the spiritual path. Elena "read" such a message when she realized that her marriage would turn into a mistake. In her case, it appeared in the form of a thought, although it could have come in the form of an image or found itself in a dream.

Once my friend saw in a dream his sleeping son, and next to his bed - a paper guillotine. Waking up, he hurried to the nursery and found that on the bedside lamp there was a sheet of paper, already lit by the lamp. Who knows what would have happened if he had not given meaning to his dream.

Unlike the ordinary inner guide, the extraordinary almost always attracts attention. But both of them have the same nature: both foresight, sometimes not amenable to rational explanation, and “everyday” intuition have one source - our inner wisdom. And at whatever level it manifests itself, it deserves the closest attention.

No news from God

Inner messages sometimes turn out to be much more reasonable than the decisions made by the mind. Because they come from deep level our being, closest to the true Self. Following the inner guide, we come into contact with the sage and seer who lives inside each person. By listening to our true instincts, we receive guidance from the Master. But how to distinguish a real conductor from a false one, which is created by numerous desires and thoughts? Agree, when discord reigns in the soul, it is not so easy to recognize your inner voice. Our own, instinctive perception often contradicts what we were taught by parents and teachers. As we adapt to the desires of others—a necessary part of socialization—we learn to ignore our own intuition and replace our inner wisdom with the voices of parents, friends, society, and the media.

Often we are so out of touch with inner wisdom that we doubt its very existence. Therefore, before listening to it, it is necessary to recognize that it exists. And then - learn to distinguish the call of a true guide from messages dictated by fears, desires and delusions.

By contacting innate wisdom, we gain the ability to see our behavior and unconscious tendencies from the outside. You may often hear the stern voice of the referee parent, who constantly criticizes you and torments you with the feeling that nothing will work out. Knowing how to recognize it, you will not confuse it with the voice of truth. Someone has a penchant for fantasizing, which makes you believe in fairy tales even at fifty. Knowing about this trait, you can show a healthy skepticism in a situation where it seems to you that you are about to win the lottery. If you're a perfectionist and realize this, you may be able to question the "voice of intuition" that tells you to sit up all night on a new project instead of giving your body a few hours of healing sleep.

Questionable

There is wisdom and maturity in each of us that can be fully trusted. But there is also something that makes you make decisions based on children's fears or fantasies. Working with intuition helps us to see the difference between the insight that comes from true wisdom and the "illumination" that comes from the "pre-rational" part of our being - the one that stubbornly refuses to grow up.

If you suddenly see a solution to a problem that is tormenting you, don't be afraid to ask yourself: does it have anything to do with reality? Does it align with my principles and values? Will it harm me or someone else? By answering them honestly and frankly, you will be able to understand how true the message received is.

A few years ago I had to fly home from India. Packing my things in a hurry, I threw out everything that did not fit in my suitcase. A taxi was already waiting for me when I realized that I could not find a plane ticket. I searched my bag, looked in the dresser drawers, even checked the wastebasket - to no avail. Closing my eyes, I calmed down and turned to myself with a request: please find a ticket. A few seconds later, a thought popped into my mind: look again in the wastebasket. I checked. The ticket was between two sticky sheets of paper.

What to do?

I gave this example for two reasons. First, the message I received was so specific that it cannot be mistaken for a fantasy. Secondly, this situation gave me a clear sense that such messages could be trusted. True insight brings relief and peace, reconciling us even with what used to inspire fear.

Now, when I want to get an answer to a question or make a decision, I ask for help from my inner guide and work with the messages I receive.

This process involves several stages.

1. Try to formulate your request as clearly as possible, and then write it down. (This is important - the record allows you to specify the problem.)
2. Sit comfortably, close your eyes, straighten and relax your back. Say the question to yourself. Repeat it several times, paying attention to the sensations that arise. Notice whatever comes to mind, including those thoughts that reflect resistance to the process. Be sure to write down the ones that seem important to you.
3. Use your breath as a support. Concentrate on inhaling and exhaling until the mind calms down.
4. Now go deeper. Focus on the heart area (in the middle of the chest) or on the center of the abdomen (8 cm below the navel, deep inside). You can also resort to visualization: imagine that you are going down the stairs into a quiet cave and find yourself in complete silence.
5. Without disturbing the peace, ask the wise man within to reveal himself. You can turn to a God you revere, or to your spiritual mentor.
6. Ask your question. Wait in silence, without anticipation or discouragement. Remember that the answer does not always come in the form of words and may come in the form of a feeling or an image. If you didn't get it right away, don't despair: intuition has its own clock. Be careful, and within the next few days you will receive your answer.
7. When you hear the messages, write them down and keep them in mind so that they fit. Observe your feelings. Try not to interpret the message - just keep it in your mind: the changes will happen by themselves.
Be careful: if in the received answer one hears accusation, condemnation or threat of punishment, most likely it does not come from a real guide. True wisdom knows no boundaries, completely saturated with love. Intuition may ask you to take responsibility for a situation, but it will never ask you to blame yourself or others.
8. Think about what needs to be done to change the situation in accordance with the message received. This is where the real work begins. The only way to learn to follow your intuition is to take action and track the results. Sometimes the guidance we receive solves the problem overnight. If the situation is too confusing, sometimes it is necessary to take the first step and then ask for further guidance. Sometimes decision concerns only the present moment, and what actions should be taken in the future will become clear later.

Gradually, you will learn to tune in to the wave of inner wisdom, you will live more full life start to trust yourself more. And in time, the seer who lives deep within your being will play the first violin in the orchestra of your inner life. All that is required of you is the desire to address yourself several times a day with the question: “What does my higher self want at this moment? How would the sage living within act in this situation? As you awaken your innate wisdom, you will discover within yourself the limitless supply of true love.

We all sometimes ask questions that seem rhetorical to us. Where can we find the strength to start a new, truly our life, freed from the stereotypes that the environment imposes on us? How to learn to listen and hear your inner voice? How to recognize where our true desires are, and where is my mother's attitude to happy marriage and daddy - for a successful career? What needs to be done in order to finally live with one's own mind, having cleansed the brain, like a valuable ore, of unnecessary impurities and slag?

It turns out that there are still people in our lives who manage to find their answers to these questions.

garden head

Exactly a year ago, one of my good friends was abandoned by a guy with whom she had sort of serious relationship. He quit badly, ugly - he went to their mutual friend, and even in the middle of a project that the three of them were doing. The project collapsed into hell, friendship fell apart, personal life was over. A friend howled for two weeks, generously irrigating with tears the surfaces of the tables of all friendly cuisines. She banged her head against doorjamb, rolling her eyes and wringing her hands, asking the unfortunate people around her: “How could he? How could they?" Surrounding, not really understanding how, in response, they shrugged their hands and poured more for her. So a week passed. A friend during this time lost eight kilograms, wept enough and ... began to act.

This is where the fun begins. No, the abandoned girl did not come up with and implement a sophisticated plan of revenge on her unfaithful lover and insidious homemaker. She spat on them and ... went about her own life. Now, a year later, I look at her and can only thank the person who left her so treacherously. Her example clearly proves to me: trees grow on stones, and from the most lousy situation you can extract useful new experience and energy for positive changes in life. This is what the personal chronicle of this dive bomber looks like.

Two weeks after the breakup, my friend quit her position as editor of not the latest women's magazine, three weeks later she moved out of her rented apartment. Knots, bales and a favorite sofa were handed over to compassionate friends for safekeeping. An acquaintance bought a plane ticket to Ufa and, having distributed her debts, flew to the Urals with a small backpack and six thousand rubles in her pocket. For two months, the whole company followed the traveler frog, reading her blog with horror and delight: Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod. The girl stayed with old friends, apparently feeding on the holy spirit. I must say that day by day her posts became more and more optimistic. At the end of November, a friend left for the Crimea - she wanted to swim in the sea.

Just before the New Year, we met in a cafe, and, looking into her enlightened and peaceful face, I was finally able to ask: “Uh, what was that?”. “You know,” a friend leaned confidentially towards me and lowered her voice, “if this eccentric (she, of course, put it stronger - approx. ed.) didn’t leave me, I would continue to live like this, thinking that here it is - my love, here it is - my work and here it is - my friendship ... I would never allow myself to feel that I have long wanted to throw everything to hell ! After all, in fact, I've been tired of messing with this for a long time. sissy, rent an apartment in this hole and every day go to this women's serpentarium, where the main event of the day was from Chanel, on which the editor-in-chief clicked. I would never know what I really want - freedom, travel, the opportunity to choose again! It turns out that I was so tired of worrying about trifles - what to wear to work today, what to cook for dinner ... The gap worked like a bomb - it blew up a ton of slag that had accumulated in my head. I was able to look at my life in a new way. And you know, I don’t regret anything!” I looked at her - no job, no housing, no boyfriend - and felt the slag in my head begin to boil ...

In winter, my friend met her first love, with whom she parted stupidly seven years ago, in the spring she found a new one. interesting work(no office!), in the summer she went to get a second higher education, and now she is planting tulips on her plot in the far suburbs. Apparently, all the slag in her head finally burned out.

Brain hygiene

Not all problems are solved so radically, and not every lifestyle needs to be radically changed. However, if you feel that you are ready to tear your office blouse on your chest and scream after Tsoi: “Our hearts demand changes!”, It is worth taking very specific steps to clear your own head of what prevents you from changing. For example, from a false idea of \u200b\u200bits personality.

1. Take time for yourself. This is not a smooth glossy recommendation to soak in the bath with a magazine in your hands and not a call to set aside a couple of evenings a week for meeting your girlfriends in a cafe! It's about something completely different. If you have long ignored the voice of your true self, then being alone with him at first will be very unpleasant. (And how would you behave with someone who locked you in a dark room without water and food and returned after many years?) Turn off the TV (or better, throw it away altogether). Stop playing your car radio at full volume, creating a background sound that makes it hard to think. Destroy the glossy Talmuds that have accumulated under the bed. Let there be silence inside. Absolute, akin to meditative. Then there is a chance that at some point the voice of the inner child will be heard in it - that part of your personality that is responsible for creativity and spontaneity, and not for how to live “correctly”.

If in doubt about own forces to pick it out of the closet in which you put it, seek help from specialists - now there are a lot of psychological trainings aimed at awakening the little sleeping creator inside you. It is the inner child that will help you move things along. dead center- move, change jobs, start crocheting or crocheting again. In short, to receive joy from life, not profit.

2. Learn to take care of yourself. I'm not talking about a pedicure for 100 euros. I'm talking about spiritual harmony. And do not be afraid that everyone will turn away from you if you suddenly turn to your desires and stop indulging the desires of others. A psychologist lady I knew once told me: “You know, in fact, for happiness, you only need one thing: to do what you want.” While skeptics are shaking their heads dejectedly (and what do you order to feed children?), I’ll clarify: doing what you want does not mean turning from a sacrificial altruistic mother, tortured by diapers and reports, into an inactive extra-class egoist. It means constantly asking yourself the question: “What do I want at this particular moment?” - and find an adequate answer to it. Agree, it’s hard to be tormented by reports at a truly beloved job or turn into a scarecrow buried in diapers, if you don’t fall into hysterics every five minutes on the topic “I’m a bad mother!”. Especially for such neurotics, the British psychotherapist Donald Winnicott developed the concept of “Enough good mother". People are drawn to those who live in harmony with themselves.

3. Keep a diary of emotions. Will it be a closed blog or a beautiful diary with a lock - it doesn't matter. In a world where everything happens too fast, we do not have time to live our feelings. Describing experiences on paper or in in electronic format, you will learn to better recognize your own emotions, find them true reason and take better care of yourself. Often we do not notice how we replace feelings with intellect. Psychotherapists talk with laughter about the men who came to the reception for the first time. To the question: "How do you feel now?" the vast majority begin to answer: "I think ..." and become terribly annoyed when the therapist interrupts them and repeats his question. No matter how powerful your intellect is, sometimes it deserves only one thing - to be sacrificed to feelings. In Jungian analysis, there is even such an image - a victim of intellect. If you dream that your head is being cut off in a dream, your inner depths are hinting to you that you need to stop thinking with your head and trust the flow of life.

3. Learn to interpret dreams. At least theirs. No, you do not need to buy a dream book. And Freud's grandfather with his trains, tunnels and completely rely on is also not worth it. After all, sometimes a banana is just a banana. In modern psychoanalysis, it is believed that the best interpreter own sleep- this is not someone else's uncle or aunt, but you yourself. No one but you will better understand your images and character strings. And if the analyst can decide that you dream of the needle for fear of violating its integrity, then for you personally it can mean a kind grandmother who embroidered all the time, and that’s how you remember her. The analyst does not know about it. Even if dreams are almost not remembered or remembered with difficulty, do not be discouraged. Practice shows that if immediately after waking up, grab the pen and scribble a few lines, grabbing at least a couple of “sleepy” images, things will go smoothly. The constant habit of writing down dreams leads to an improvement in their memorization. And every dream is a key to your unconscious. The key to yourself, in fact.

4. Praise yourself. The inner critic is always whispering: “You can do more…”? Shut his mouth with a rolled up sock and do not discount your own achievements. The phrase "You can do more" can make any joy pale. According to statistics, more than half of women in Russia do not know how to accept compliments. If you cannot accept someone else's praise, this also indicates that it is extremely difficult for you to adequately treat yourself. Try to start with little things - after all, you can praise yourself for anything, even for delicious cooked in the morning, even for the fact that you finally reached the dentist. Straighten up, straighten out chest and say loudly, looking in the mirror: "I'm done!" (let the people in the waiting room grab their fluxes in surprise). Only a self-confident person can act decisively, changing his life with a firm hand, and self-confidence, if it was not laid in childhood by our dear parents, we are able to grow. And here you need to start with little things. By the way, it is better to answer any compliment: “Thank you”. Dot. And not: “Oh, what are you… Come on…”.

When the child begins to explore the world(crawls, grabs everything), good enough parents help him and stimulate his interest, not forgetting to provide support in time. And they don’t scare you with cries: “Don’t go! Do not touch! Don't poke around!" Your task is to return or grow in yourself the confidence that the world, although not at all simple, is still friendly. It is safe to explore it, looking for new ways for development. Everything will work out if, instead of a critic, you include an inner parent who is balanced and confident in your strengths and abilities. We are all old enough to become both a caring father and a tender mother to ourselves.

5. Get rid of unnecessary information. A couple of weeks without TV - and you will remember that you really love not the singer Nyusha, but the Bravo group, not the TV series "Daddy's Daughters", but the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Or make sure of your sincere and ardent love for Nyusha and turn the box back on. In the world of gadgets and the accomplished scientific and technological revolution, it is very difficult to isolate from the stream and consume the information that you need. Separate yourself from the mass of viewers, readers, listeners. Stop aimlessly clicking the mouse while walking around on the links that your colleagues bombard you with. Do not have long conversations in ICQ about anything with people you have not seen for years. Don't "like" photos of strangers on social media. This is your time. Better spend it on creating your news feed in the search engine. Or subscribe to blogs that are really interesting to you - this is especially true if you have not had time to read books on topics that concern you for a long time.

The formation of individuality does not happen quickly, but after all, the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Learn to trust own opinion. Mom, grandma and a strict boss can think whatever they want. (They may even be right!) But in order to live your life, you have to make your own mistakes. Then you can record victories exclusively on your account. Remember, you and only you are the captain of your ship. And it's up to you to decide how course will go this fragile little ship - on reefs, aground or to distant green islands.

Hi all! Friends, many of us like to listen to our inner voice. Only we can understand our thoughts and get answers to important questions. Time does not stand still, and today psychologists create techniques and techniques that can help to hear the inner voice of a person.

How to develop intuition

Some people like to ask friends and relatives for advice, as well as go to magicians and fortune-tellers. They don't understand that it only makes it harder to understand their own inner world, which contains many interesting and useful information.

For many, this is a very important question that is difficult to answer. There are a few tips to help you hear and understand your own thoughts. First of all, we should remove negative emotions that distort our ideas about ourselves and the world around us.

The main rule for the development of intuition is faith in its existence. There are several ways to help you hear your inner voice:

Personal space

Be sure to choose a place and time where you can be alone with yourself. Relaxation and peace will help you find the right answer to your questions.

Attention and self care

Do what you want, not other people. This is the right way to

Diary of emotions

Write down your feelings throughout the day so that you can later look at them from the side and understand the essence of the events. This will help you take care of your emotional state and understand own desires.

Write down your dreams

Dreams are best understood by ourselves, because the inner world of each is unusual and unique. Associations and symbols of dreams will help you get an answer to life situations and pressing problems.

Praise for personal achievement

Praise yourself for everything. You can say a compliment to yourself both for a deliciously prepared dish and for the courage to visit the dentist. Only by praise and compliments to yourself can you gain confidence in your strengths and capabilities.

Remove unnecessary information from life

There is a lot of harmful and distorted information on the Internet and TV, which has a negative effect on every person. Get information from other sources, read more books.

Remember to always be yourself. Listen to yourself and trust your inner instinct. Remember that the main director of your life is only you.

Many consider intuition an acquired gift. In fact, every person has this gift. Intuition is a kind of instinct. It helps to make a choice in some life situations and also to avoid certain kinds of errors.

Intuition can be trained, it is only important to want it and know the techniques that help the development of the Sixth Sense.

Here are a few simple tips that help develop a person’s inner voice (intuition):

When you first meet someone, you can try to make a psychological portrait of a person. You can even write it down, and after a while compare what was written and who the person actually turned out to be.
Stereotypical thinking is a barrier to the development of intuition. You can try to reset the stereotyped thinking. When making a decision, you need to look at the situation as if from different angles. Sometimes the most absurd decision, made spontaneously, is the most accurate.
Sometimes it is worth plunging into the past and remembering the moments when intuition worked flawlessly. Every person has had such a period. You need to remember as accurately as possible your feelings and the state when intuition worked in the most active mode.
For example, when watching football matches, try to guess the final score or try to predict the outcome of the movie.
You can keep a diary of thoughts. Don't think about anything in particular, just write down what comes to mind. Reading your own thoughts on paper with seeming absurdity can help both in training the inner voice and in self-knowledge.
If there are pregnant women in the environment, you can try to determine the sex of the child in advance.
Sometimes imagining yourself in someone else's shoes can have amazing results. It is possible, with some training, to learn to feel the thoughts of the interlocutor.

Quotes About Intuition

“Don't let the eyes of others drown out your own inner voice. And it is very important to have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you really want to do. Everything else is secondary"
“Intuition is the most complex calculations of our mind according to the laws of mathematics that are not yet known to us” B. Andreev
“When I start thinking logically and not trusting intuition, then I will get into trouble” A. Jolie
“There is something wiser in us than the head. Exactly at important points, in the main steps of our life, we are guided not so much by a clear understanding of what needs to be done, but by an internal impulse that comes from the very depths of our being "A. Schopenhauer
“If prayer is your appeal to God, then intuition is God’s conversation with you.” Mother Teresa

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For some people, the word "intuition" means nothing. For them, this is an abstract concept that has no place in their lives. Such people are used to looking for and seeing logic in everything, drawing conclusions only after a number of rational explanations.

And these people are really sorry. After all, intuitive insight, by and large, is much more honest and truer than logical conclusions. Realized by a person, the mind falters, but intuition never does.

What is intuition

Intuition is the comprehension of truth without substantiating it with evidence.

The concept of intuition came to us from ancient times. Even Plato distinguished rational knowledge from intuitive. However, philosophers have determined quite precisely that although intuitive comprehension does not require proof, it is based, like rational knowledge, on empiricism. In other words, life experience.

During intuitive knowledge, deep in the subconscious, all the experience accumulated over the years of life, as it were, merges together. This experience is instantly processed and served to a person in the most accessible way.

These methods are expressed in different ways: in the first heart starts beating fast or, conversely, shrinks before an act that is not worth doing. For others, a hint picture pops up before their eyes, and for someone, a thought is born in their head - so bright and clear that it is impossible to ignore it.

The most interesting thing is that when intuition is turned on, that is, at an unconscious level, a person can instantly process 10 million times more information than at a conscious level. AT the move is on and memory, and sensations, and perception. Sometimes even smells and tastes in the mouth are analyzed. And all this mixture is given to a person as an instant insight.

So it would be wrong to say that when intuition is manifested, logic and reason do not work at all.

Intuition is not a magical, not mystical gift, inherent only to the elect. Every person has this property.

But not everyone knows how to use it.

Depending on the situation, one of two types of intuition is activated in the subconscious - sensual or intellectual. In the first case, sensations, perceptions, emotions, memory, imagination, will are first analyzed. And in the second - intellectual and logical experience.

A vivid example of sensual intuition is the inspiration familiar to many poets, writers, musicians and sculptors. And after the creative process is launched, intellectual intuition comes into play. So even though talent is called God's gift, our own subconscious mind takes the most direct part in the expression of our talent.

If speak about creative intuition, then often the idea of a future creation is born when a person is engaged in a completely different matter - physical labor or everyday, routine work. However, this is also an intuition, just stretched out in time.

Household, everyday intuition like a flash of lightning. It is formed instantly, as a reaction to an approaching danger or an opportunity to miss something. This is precisely the expression of intellectual intuition.

Another subtype of intellectual intuition is formed as follows: a person is consciously looking for a solution to a complex problem or task, but not a single option, not a single way out of the created situation suits him. A person again and again consciously returns to thoughts about the problem. But at some point he stops thinking about it, switches to something else, and suddenly a clear, precise thought comes to his mind - he knows the right answer, he knows what to do.

From a psychological and philosophical point of view, one can talk about intuition for a very long time. This is a topic for a whole scientific treatise. But we will move on to the next point - how to learn not only to hear, but also to listen to your intuition?

It should be noted that, despite the scientific justification, there is a possibility that the flash of intuition is nothing more than a hint from higher powers.

Learning to listen to your inner voice

As already mentioned, every person has intuition. The only difference is that some people trust their inner voice, while others successfully ignore it, preferring to rely solely on logic.

Surprisingly, but stronger intuition is developed in people belonging to air and water. zodiac signs than those born under the auspices of the elements Earth and Fire. Although there are happy exceptions.

In order to develop intuition in oneself, first of all, one must learn not to dismiss sudden insights and listen to one's premonitions, and not to let logic crush the timid shoots of intuition.

By the way, premonitions are also a kind of intuition. Only they do not offer a direct solution to the problem, do not give specific guidance for action, but simply warn: it is not safe to go here; what you are going to say will hurt you; this food can cause poisoning, etc.

Intuition: learning to listen to your inner voice

Learning to use your intuition is not so difficult. To do this, there are several exercises that are very accessible to you:

Exercise #1

Having received a letter by ordinary or e-mail don't rush to open it. Look at the address and relax. Now imagine what could be written in this letter. Listen to your heart - whether it beats evenly or suddenly begins to beat loudly and anxiously.

Analyze your other physical sensations - whether your palms have become wet, whether dryness has appeared in your mouth. Or, on the contrary, you suddenly felt calm and peaceful. Already by these signs, you can understand what kind of message awaits you - pleasant or unpleasant.

After a while, you will be able to intuitively recognize not only the positive or negative content of the letter, but also its general meaning.

Exercise #2

Your phone rang. Do not grab the phone after the first call and, of course, do not look at the caller ID. Try to feel who is calling you.

There is no mysticism here, and clairvoyance also has nothing to do with it: your unconscious in an emergency starts to analyze the situation and urgently gives you an approximate list of people who can call you at this particular moment. The main thing is to stop at the right option.

After you learn to identify the caller, you will be able, as in the case of letters, to intuitively feel whether the conversation is pleasant or not.

Exercise #3

This exercise is not for the faint of heart. It comes from the opposite - one must not obey intuition, but act contrary to it. Scary, unsafe, but very effective. After such an experience, you will no longer have any doubts about whether you should listen to your inner voice or politely ask him to be silent.

So, your intuition says that you don’t need to do something. You, on the contrary, not only act contrary to it, but also aggravate the situation. And you get a full set of unpleasant consequences.

After the third time, intuition sharpens extremely. And most importantly - you are already with everything your desire you can't ignore it.

Exercise number 4

And finally - the exercise for consolidation. Before making any logical decision, try to listen to what your inner voice whispers to you. And do not be afraid - sometimes the clues of our intuition are so paradoxical that they do not fit into the framework of consciousness. But, as a rule, they are actually the most faithful. Only this becomes clear not immediately, but after some time.

For example, you are offered some amount of money under completely harmless circumstances. The mind screams with joy: take, you can buy yourself new sandals . And an inner voice whispers: stop these money won't do any good. You choose the voice of reason, and then either it turns out that you were simply set up, or you twist (or even worse) your foot in new sandals, and they themselves are torn so that they cannot be restored.

There is also a completely reasonable explanation for this - you yourself, on an unconscious level, feel the threat emanating from the person who gives it, but you cannot logically explain your feelings. And your subconscious mind has already analyzed all possible factors and brought you the final result.

So the more often you turn to your inner voice when making a decision, the easier your life will be. Just perceive intuition as the result of the activity of your own organism, and not as a kind of little man who sits in you and whispers irrational decisions. And even to the "ward number 6" not far.

But seriously, intuition is thin tool which is better to use than not to use. After all, the mind often takes into account such factors as momentary profit, norms of behavior laid down in us from childhood, stereotypes and blocks. And intuition is above all this. No wonder it is called not only "unconscious", but also "superconscious".

How developed is your intuition?

Nadezhda POPOVA