Developing Your Intuition Through The Exploration Of Your Physical Senses - by Chris Cade

In the past, I kind of thought of the term "sixth sense" as being a bit of nonsense. It wasn't until things started happening that I couldn't explain with my rational mind that I began to think more deeply about the topic.

I started asking myself interesting questions ...

If we all possess five senses and we use them extensively, then what is the sixth? Where does it come from? And where is it located?

These questions ran through my mind for years, and I've slowly started to piece them together. A lot of people say intuition is located in the "crown chakra" in the middle of the forehead. But for me, I always felt it in my belly center ... or as a sort of "knowing". I didn't really feel my "sixth sense" in the forehead like others.

Over time, I began to grasp more the meaning of the "sixth sense". That it wasn't really a place on my body (though sometimes it manifests as feeling), "sixth sense" is another word for intuition. I've also discovered that people called it different names: hunch, voice in head, gut feeling and so on to name a few.

Partly out of curiosity, and partly out of necessity (feeling like these unexplainable intuitive experiences kept happening) I yearned to explore more about the subject and I read from somewhere that one needs to sharpen the five senses before he could tap in to the sixth. This piece of information not only got me thinking, but it got me working as well.

It never occurred to me until then, that we have the ability to sharpen our senses. I always thought that we had our own frequencies, animals had their own and nature was in perfect harmony. It turns out I was wrong, and that intuition was something to be awakened and its' wake up call had to be made loud, clear and persistent.

One thing that has been suggested, though I haven't really followed it as a practice (I sort of did this on my own, anyway), is to switch off lights in the room and study the area around me to identify shapes I see. Then repeat this exercise in different rooms in my house each night. Although at first you might not notice anything significant, you might have a hunch that you're moving in the right direction. Nightime always seems to be a time when my intuition is easier to hear.

Maybe this is because when we use all five of our physical senses, we can get a little lost. Instead, when we focus in on a very specific sense, then we're much more able to tune out the other stuff ... and this allows us to more easily hear our intuition.

Another exercise that can help sharpen auditory skills is to lay in bed at night when everything is quiet and try to listen to the subtle sounds that surrounded you. When I've done this, sometimes I experienced what is known as "dead silence", at other times I've heard distance voices and sounds of vehicles. Whenever I heard these sounds, I tried to come up with a mental picture to associate it with.

These intuition awakening exercises are all ones I've had to discover on my own, without any real guidance. It's been a lot of trial and error. Recently, I came across a new program called "The Intuition Zone" and I've been reviewing it and going through it to see if it might help me develop my intuition further. So far it's been helpful (though I do have my gripes), and I'm looking forward to going through the program more in depth.

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