Remember a time when you let your mind override your gut feeling -- with less-than-favorable consequences? After I had a few of those experiences, I learned to trust my gut and follow my intuition. As a naïve 19-year-old, I found myself in a couple of very uncomfortable and potentially dangerous situations. My gut had been screaming at me to get out, but my good girl mind justifications convinced me to stay. By the grace of God, nothing came of it. However, I got scared enough to start … [Read more...]

Using your intuition may serve a greater good than you know. Einstein taught us that a problem cannot be solved by the mind that created it. To get humanity on to its next level of conscious evolution requires more from us than the sum of our past thoughts and abilities. We need you to open your creative wisdom. Huge challenges face humanity at this juncture in time: clean drinking water and clean air; safe and affordable energy; getting people to talk together rather than kill each other -- … [Read more...]

Sometimes my intuition informs me of the next right step through a knowingness, through a still, small voice in my heart or through a physical sensation. Sometimes intuition shows up in odd, synchronistic ways. Pheasant roosters, which you don't see every day living in the city, have served as my intuitive hits in the past month. Pheasants have a history in my family. At a Park & Recreation "Pet Day" event when I was 11 years old, I won the "Most Unusual Pet" award for my pheasant chick … [Read more...]

Intuition, combined with intellect, makes a stronger decision than intellect alone. When you are making an important decision, turn on your intuition to notice something that might inform you at a deeper level than intellectual thought. Our senses are bombarded every day in our modern life with media messages and information overload. If you rely solely on externals to make decisions, you might not be serving your higher needs. Developing a strong intuitive sense of inner guidance will help … [Read more...]