To start, let’s align our coordinates:
What do you understand by the word “intuition”?
Your answer: ________________________________________________
And here are the answers from the club session participants:
… A whisper of the soul…
… Hearing your true self, what you really need right now…
… When you hear and accept your inner voice …
… Inner guidance…
… It’s when your brain can’t explain why, but inside you know it has to be this way …
… Trust in yourself and the world, inner knowing …
… The ability to foresee, to feel — whether you need it or not …
… Sensations and inner voice …
… Feelings, sensations, thoughts …
… Connection with your Higher Self, with your divine soul, Spirit…
… Inner knowing …
… Inner gut feeling …
… Inner clear knowing …
As you can see — everything written above is directly connected to the world of spirituality.
And there are two ways to develop intuition. Honestly, I can’t even imagine how those who don’t engage in spiritual development teach and talk about how to develop intuition, because this part is directly connected to our spiritual Vertical.
The “Mechanical” Path – Training Trust in the Body’s Intelligence
You can take the “mechanical” path, where you train yourself and develop a certain skill, a certain reflex, like how dogs are trained, conditioned to a certain action, rewarded for positive behavior and punished for negative or inappropriate behavior.
If you’ve never done anything spiritual, or if there are people with you who have never done anything spiritual — intuition can be developed mechanically, because it all comes down to trust, trusting yourself and, ultimately, what you believe. I’ve said it many times before — pay attention to what’s happening around you, to your sensations, to what you feel.
See also Stages of Spiritual Development. How to Determine Where You Are
This material will help you orient yourself on where you are on your spiritual path and understand what to do.
Most people, unfortunately, are always waiting for something grand, something supernatural. This creates false expectations that later fall apart.
Take, for example, the connection with the Higher Self — when you start talking about signs from the Universe, how they show up in everyday life, about seeing certain signs and signals — many people are very surprised because they think it should be some kind of “Voice from Heaven,” a voice that sounded in their head, or something very clear and obvious.
The fact that simple, ordinary hints — seeing something on TV, hearing something in a conversation, someone calling and saying something — that these are also manifestations of universal signs, guidance from above — many people don’t even realize. The same applies to developing intuition.
See also The Rule of Three Signals. How the Universe Teaches You
The Universe communicates with us in different ways. One of them is through signals. If you are not on the path you chose before incarnating on Earth, the universe tries to tell you this through 3 signals.
Let me repeat — there is a “mechanical” path, where you yourself train this skill within yourself, to begin with — when a certain sensation appears in the body, positive or negative.
When a questionable situation arises — it is always useful to pay attention to what is happening in the body, and how your body, or rather, the physical mind, responds to what is happening. Because the mind only interprets what it sees, based on the program that is embedded within.
There are many programs, some are traumatic, some are emotional, completely different. Therefore, we cannot always interpret the incoming information; that is, there are filters in the mind through which information arrives distorted. The body — it has its own bodily intelligence, and very often gives clues.
Therefore, the simplest way to learn to discern something, if you don’t trust anything — learn to trust your body, work with it.
Example #1
When asking a question or entering a situation, pay attention to what clues the body gives, specifically, what is happening in the heart and what is happening in the solar plexus.
Everyone is familiar with the situation when you are afraid of something or become anxious, your solar plexus starts to “knot up,” as if a lump appears there — this is the first signal that you need to pay attention to this, that something is not right.
And conversely, there is a state when there is harmony, peace, and bliss in the heart, pouring out from within — this is a direct clue that you are moving in the right direction.
There are entire systems for developing trust in the body and deciphering the body’s signals; if anyone is interested — type “kinesiology” into the search, and you will find many clues on how to interpret these signals and how to use them.
Example #2
We live in the era of email. You receive a message and, without looking inside, try to determine — what sensations, what emotions does it evoke in you. Especially since many people now have heightened energetic sensitivity, and on the energy level, it is very easy to read what is happening.
Again, if you are in control of your own energy and have done some energy practices, then playing with this is very easy: An email arrives — you look at it, you don’t know what’s in it, you try to sense what you feel and what you are reading on the energy level.
That is, you are developing a reflex — practice for some time, and it becomes clear.
Who among you has encountered this feeling — when someone sends you something trivial, offensive, insulting, or negative, with complaints, and you feel it right at that very moment?
You can play this game with text messages too. A text message arrives, you don’t know what it says, but inside you feel anxiety, or conversely, a state of lightness, because someone wrote something pleasant to you.
Why do I call this path “mechanical”?
Because you are cultivating in yourself the ability to trust what you feel, what you read from an energetic perspective.
Yes, it takes time.
Yes, you met someone and paid attention. You see them for the first time, but you turn inward and listen to what is happening inside you, and then, based on the actual development of the relationship — business, friendly, romantic — you see how much your feeling matches what you see in reality. That is, always compare the feeling with what is actually happening.
This is a long path, but it also helps you move forward.
Phone calls, emails, messages — in the world of technology, it is very easy to learn this.
If you constantly keep journals and constantly write down what is happening to you — such chains can be traced.
You don’t need all of this internally for yourself; the mind needs it so that it can see that you are capable of doing it.
Especially if you don’t believe in your own strength, doubt yourself, doubt your own worth — you need these kinds of hints.
Listen to that little whisper that tells you — “oh, I should have done this.”
There is a large category of people who are “dependent” on the opinions of others, or who bow down before the authority of other people and very easily give up their own feelings, what they themselves feel, say, hear…
When it seems to you that you need to go in one direction, but next to you an authoritative person says — it’s better to do it this way, this way, and this way, and you act against your inner whisper, your inner voice — you also need to catch these moments, you need to constantly be in a state of awareness.
I caught this and looked at the result of my actions — if I see that I gave in again, again took the path of least resistance, listened not to myself but to what was around me, and agreed with it, and see that the result is not what I wanted, then I don’t scold myself, don’t put up barriers, don’t start criticizing, but simply make a mental note:
next time I will listen to myself.
This is the beginning. But, I repeat once again — this is a mechanical path, you gradually cultivate this in yourself, this quality and skill, while simultaneously gaining trust, and teaching your mind to correctly decipher the signals that come from outside.
But in reality, people who walk the spiritual path — follow a slightly different path, because our intuition is a direct connection with the Higher Self.
In the next article, we will dive deeper into this topic, break down the processes, and understand how it all happens.
Excerpt from the club session “Developing Intuition” / March 2013