Yoga Interlude

4 Steps to Improving Your Intuition

Have you ever been tense without quite knowing why? I experienced that last night. This tension caused me to putter around the house and clean up a little longer than usual. It led me to deliberately go outside in my pj’s and double check that the garage and car doors were locked before heading to bed. That same uneasy feeling caused me to get to bed unusually late and surprisingly, it kept me from relaxing fully into sleep. Even though I could have taken the edge off by finishing a half a glass of wine that I had left over earlier, I handed it over to my husband instead.

I did do other things to help center myself. I used a grounding technique that I teach in my yoga classes. The grounding involves connecting the energy centers ( chakras) of the body, to the earth. Starting a few inches above my head, I imagined an energetic cord coming from my higher self and connecting down to my crown chakra on the top of my head, between my eyes, to my throat, down into my heart center, solar plexus, below my naval into the base of my pelvic bone and into the earth. This helped me get out of my head and more in my body and into the present. While that was helpful, I still felt that something was ‘off’.

‘What’s the matter?’, I wondered silently to myself. I was feeling better that my kids were well, that I was productive, getting more organized and that summer had finally arrived. I recognized this feeling but wanted to troubleshoot for the cause. I tried to get a sense of where the emotional charge lay. Like a checklist, I mentally skimmed over the recent events that were top of mind in search for a ‘bingo’ connection between my thoughts and the sense of uneasiness I was experiencing. I couldn’t find one.

I finally went to bed. I knew my feelings were trying to tell me something as this is often the case. Sometimes when I feel vulnerable like this, I’ll say a one line prayer that I learned from reading about the Peace Pilgrim. “Blessed be the night (or day)  for me and mine” and I imagine and intend a white protective light around our house and each of my family members.  I finally closed my eyes but slept as if I was listening for a newborn to soon wake me. And, an hour later, something did! But it was not a newborn. Through my pillow I could hear the slightest picking sound of my garage door below our bedroom. I’ve heard that sound before because sometimes the raccoons come to visit our green bins when I forget to lock the garage. Tonight, I knew for certain it was locked and that this was no raccoon.

I hopped to my feet and was stunned to see a man on roller blades standing just below my window with his back to me. He was unsuccessful at getting into our garage and stood tall with his attention now focused on our car. I wish I had thought to call the police first and quietly observe this stranger, so that I would have had a better description of him. Instead I reacted like a true territorial mama bear and opened my bedroom window with a roar and choice words that caused my husband to practically stick to the ceiling!

Funny, the kids didn’t stir, but this intruder skated off like an Olympic athlete in training. I did follow up with the police and, while waiting for them to arrive, I looked at the book on my night table. I paused with relief. It was a book that I had picked up at a garage sale 2 seasons ago and never opened. I had grabbed it randomly off the living room bookcase with the comforting intention of reading something an hour before bed. Title? “Awakening Intuition”

I realized, just then, that this time my feeling anxious was my intuition giving me a ‘heads up’. It was my intuition that caused me to want to stay awake late and remain clear minded before bed. It was my intuition guiding me to sleep light, helping me protect my family. A world renowned psychic, Sonia Choquette, defines intuition as our ‘inner teacher’. Here are four steps to improving your intuition and becoming more in tune with your divine nature.

1. Be open to it
2. Expect your intuition to inform you…check in with your heart vibes
3. Trust it…develop a relationship with it and speak it or write it down
4. Act on it.

Here is Sonia talking about her experience with intuition.

How about you? What kinds of intuitive experiences have you had? I love to get feedback. And here on my blog, you’ll get commentluv.  That’s a plug-in that allows you to leave a comment and a link back to your own blog.

Until next time,

Ali

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