Many of us do not realize we have a strong spiritual intuition that works within us. The challenge is learning to use it in everyday life.
Learning to use spiritual intuition can be very powerful. I find that exercising your intuition on small things first will strengthen your intuition ‘muscles’ while you develop this skill.
For example, maybe you have misplaced your glasses or your keys. Instead of panicking (which most of us do at first), sit quietly and let go of the thoughts of doubt and fear. Release overthinking to let divine guidance guide you through your intuition.
Ernest Holmes wrote: “There is a Power for good in the Universe greater than you are, and you can use It.” This power includes using your spiritual intuition to reveal where an item may be hidden in your mind and in your environment!
Elizabeth Rowley Hogue wrote a beautiful article about this in the March Science of Mind Magazine. Here are her steps in learning to strengthen your intuition muscles:
Intuition Your Quiet Superpower — A Practice Anyone Can Use
1. Pause everything. Cease all striving. Let the body be still. Sit, if the moment allows, as you would sit at the edge of a sacred spring.
2. Take three slow, deep breaths. On the exhale, release the story that something is lost.
3. Speak or think the affirmative truth: There is nothing lost in the universe. Divine Intelligence knows exactly where this is, and I am being perfectly guided to it now.
4. Let go. Release the urge to figure it out. Let your body be moved by an Intelligence that is deeper than the intellect.
5. Follow your first impulse. You may feel a nudge to walk to the garage, open a specific drawer or look under the passenger seat of your car. Do not argue with the impulse. No questions, simply go.
6. Receive. Almost always, the item appears, sometimes in the very place you looked when your mind was agitated and your eyes bleary with worry.
There is another benefit to learning to use your spiritual intuition. According to Elizabeth, it is also an “invitation to reclaim the sacred fragments of ourselves.” When we learn to quiet our intellectual or analytical mind, our intuitive mind can take over to guide us.
As Elizabeth says, the sweetness of this practice is learning that we are never alone nor without guidance from Spirit/Higher Power.
I challenge you, next time something seems lost or amiss, try the steps above. Then share with us what you discovered to be true about your spiritual intuition.