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How to Ask Your Intuition to Get Reliable Answers
Oct 13th
What do I do now? Many ask themselves this question when they are presented with a new challenge to which they must respond. And many go to the well of their intuition to ask for an immediate answer to this important question: what do I do now?
Adjust Your Attitude
But how do you do that? How do you go about getting useful guidance from your intuition just when you need it? Throughout history people have enjoyed the benefits of receiving useful information from their intuition just when they needed it simply by asking for it in the right way.
The historical inner voice literature suggests that a proven method of accessing your intuition is to first recall that you have received creative insights from time to time in the past and are able to again. A great lawyer friend of mine would repeat silently to himself before his oral arguments, “Lips, don’t fail me now.” This was his light-hearted way of adjusting his attitude by recalling his access to the creativity and intuition that had served him so well so many times in the past.
Research and Formulate Your Question
The next step is to research the subject at hand and to formulate a question about what you really want to know. Do you know as much as you can at this point about the subject so that your intuition has something to work with? Once the research is done, what do you really need to know from your intuition to respond to the challenge presented? Formulate that question. Then ask it expecting an answer.
Ask Your Question with Desire, Expectancy, and Belief
How do you ask your question expecting an answer from your inner voice? There are three elements to it: desire, expectancy, and belief.
The desire element is simply that you sincerely seek an answer to your question. You express that sincerity by researching the subject, by formulating your best question, by needing an answer to guide your actions, and by wanting that answer to come from the wisdom within.
The expectancy element is your recognition that you have received useful positive inspiration from within in the past and that you therefore have every reason to anticipate that you will receive a useful answer to the question you are now asking your inner voice. You honor this expectancy by listening intently and patiently for an answer, by paying attention to whatever comes, and by seriously considering acting on any answer you do receive.
The final element is belief. If you can believe at least 51% that you will get a useful answer to your question, you likely will. As Henry Ford famously said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” How to get to the 51% belief level? Think of all of the situations in your work in which you were presented with a problem that you didn’t initially know how to solve. In how many of those situations were you completely stumped and never able to solve the problem? Likely on very few occasions, and certainly far less than 51% of the time.
Try It
So, when you want intuition on demand, first do the research and formulate a question about what you really want to know. Then, ask your question expecting an answer with desire, expectancy, and belief.
Try it! You’ll be amazed at the results.
Love Energy – How to Increase Love Energy
Sep 28th
Prayer, meditation, and devotion will increase love energy. This can begin gradually, perhaps a few minutes every morning and every evening; and then as you begin to experience the benefits, you will begin to look forward to this and find more time for it throughout the day. Some are able to remain in a continuous state of devotion and prayer. These are very special people, and we automatically gravitate toward them, especially when we learn to recognize the love that flows through them. God is love, and when we focus on Him, His love begins to flow through us.
As you practice this, you might begin to feel some of that love toward all people, even toward those you have never met. This is a strange phenomenon when it first starts to happen. You see a person you have never met, perhaps just passing by in the supermarket or in the post office, and you immediately feel love toward that person. Is it the God within them you are seeing and loving or the Spirit that has increased within you which is doing the loving? You also begin to feel more love and compassion for those you have never seen or met.
The more love you express and feel during meditation and prayer, the more love that will begin to flow through you. You gradually become aware that you are a conduit for love. Spiritual experiences increase, including awareness of coincidences and synchronicities, voices and visions during the night-all of which cause you to feel more love and more appreciation. Once all service is dedicated to the Lord, or to helping others with no regard for the self, then new capabilities emerge and persons begin to accomplish what otherwise would seem impossible. When the Spirit takes over, things begin to happen; and as you experience this, you begin to recognize it more in others.
One time during meditation, I began thinking it was nice experiencing such peace and joy during meditation, but what happens when we get back into the real world? I thought of someone who owed me money and moved across the country. Later that day, the holy man with whom I was studying stopped by my dwelling with a book from thousands of years ago and opened it to the page.
He simply said, “I thought you might be interested in this.” To paraphrase what was written, it said that when we encounter injustices, we should take corrective action but not allow ourselves to be a benefactor of that action. In other words, we should take appropriate legal measures to correct a wrong, but donate any proceeds to charity. What a remarkable answer!
When We do the right thing, but are not part of it. We take correct action to bring criminals to justice. If we see a hit-and-run accident and we get the license plate number, we report it. Since we seek no monetary gain, we are free from attachment and we hold no malice.
This is totally consistent with the flow of love energy. We do what is right but eliminate any motive of personal gain. There is deep wisdom in this. In response to my question about everyday life not having the same peace as found in meditation, this holy man simply noted: “Like the banks of a river, gradually the entire river shifts.”
He further suggested to me that meditating for short periods of time throughout each day, one day each week, one weekend per month, and one long retreat each year until we reach the same depths of meditation during the brief intervals as we do during the longer ones.
