Intuition Isn't a Feeling, It's an Ability

One of the hardest truths for me to accept was that intuitive phenomena is real. Between my general skepticism, my religious education and my science training it was difficult to accept the psychic phenomena I personally experienced.

When I did acknowledge kooky things were happening I'd just as quickly dismiss the phenomena as a 'feeling' that didn't merit further thought.

So what if I'm having premonitions! Big deal I seem to know things without knowing why I know them! Who cares that both me and mom were thinking of Dairy Queen for lunch! Who cares?

Because there are many ways to doubt ourselves. Some of these doubts are helpful, but most are hindrances. When working with intuitive abilities it’s important to strike a balance between what you know, what you feel, and what you sense. Understanding where intuition fits into your personal experience is the difference between feeling connected to your earned wisdom or alienated from yourself.

It’s a drag to go through life questioning what you experience. Not only does it perpetuate doubt in oneself it creates distance between how we understand the world versus how we present to the world. I experienced that disconnect and it made for a life with tension, uncertainty and doubt. This impacted my development, relationships, work and spirituality.

Deciding to take my intuition seriously was the start of important changes for me. And then realizing that intuition isn’t simply a subjective experience, it’s an ability like being good at math, learning how to sing, and being a good communicator, meant that I could develop it to help move through life well.

But without the tools, training and guidance it remains an undeveloped ability.