Before you learned to speak, intuition was your first ever language.
Just like animals have their instincts hunting for food and avoiding danger, we human beings are born with intuitive abilities which navigate the best choices that we can make in our lives.
Sadly many have gradually ignored, overlooked or even pitied intuition since the age of six or seven – when our ego personality starts to develop and absorbs everything around us.
However, do you feel that we are experiencing a massive consciousness awakening globally? There is no better time to reclaim your intuition than now.
As a divine being, your intuition is more complex and advanced than the basic survival, fear-based animal instinct. Your guided intuition is your divine power working through you, like a direct telephone connection between you and the Universal wisdom.
Many great inventors in history, including Da Vinci and Steve Jobs, claimed that their aha moments came through like ideas just dropping into their head (thanks to those souls who have crossed over – they still work hard dropping inspiration from the soul plane).
Understanding your intuition and listening to it can make your life much more interesting and adventurous, and help you avoid the unnecessary pain on your way living your purpose.
Here is a quiz, for you to see how naturally intuitive you are and how well you utilize your intuition. There are also tips to develop or strengthen your intuition, no matter where you are right now.
You score 3 for always, 2 for sometimes, 1 for occasionally, 0 for no – never.
1. When you visit a place, you can feel something in the air, (“friendly”, “pressured”, “joyful”, “challenging”, “confusing” etc) although you might not be able to put your finger on it straight away.
2. You experience telepathic connections with your loved ones: eg, dreaming about your friends and then receiving an email from them, correctly guessing who is ringing you before picking up your mobile.
3. You experience deja vu.
4. You tend to get overly involved in other people’s problems or challenges.
5. You feel that you are connected with your Higher Self easily.
6. You experience “coincidences” during major changes, eg, job hunting, relationship building, moving to another city/country.
7. You sense immediately if someone is lying to you (even if it is a white lie).
8. You feel hunches during your decision making process. You might not able to explain why at the time, but you are happy to follow the hunch. Only later on, you find out that your hunch has led you to synchronicity (showing up at the right place at the right time).
9. You accidentally predict the ending of a film, even though it might make you feel like a fool before seeing the ending.
10. You are sensitive to temperature or weather changes.
11. You have a photographic memory.
12. You can sense intention behind people’s actions. You have an inner-knowing that we are all confused and lost on some level, and when people hurt you it is because deep down they are scared.
13. During conversations with certain people, you can finish off their sentences, either out loud or in your head.
14. You have out-of-body experiences (eg, through accidents, physical sickness).
15. You can see things that others can’t “see” normally, eg, aura, geometry shapes in the air.
16. You make fairly accurate predictions without deliberate guessing: eg, friends getting married or being promoted.
17. You understand that the unexplained physical illness can be triggered by spiritual or emotional discomfort.
18. You can tell the differences between clear guided insights and overwhelming emotions.
19. You believe that there is universal energy flowing through everything and that you are a miracle worker.
20. You remember some of your past lives through dream, meditation or encounter with your soul family members.
If you score less than 10, your intuition is awakening.
Tips to strengthen your intuition:
:: Set an intention to reconnect with your powerful spirit by deep breathing or silent meditation. Remind yourself daily that you are divine and your spirit speaks to you through intuition.
:: Keep a journal about all events that relate to following your intuition, eg, you acted upon your vibes and left for work 15 mins earlier and only found out that a traffic jam was unbearable later on. It’s not always easy to follow your inner-voice, but the hard-core evidence can give you more courage. Use some writing prompts (such as this one) to strengthen your “reflection muscle”.
:: Acknowledge, notice and act upon your vibes as often as possible, even though it might feel bizarre or difficult at times. For example, if you have a funny feeling about a JV-partnership, make sure you check the integrity and all necessary documents about your partner.
:: Feed your spirit daily. Tame the scepticism and enjoy expanding your intuitive awareness.
If you score 11 – 25, your intuition is developing and working for you.
Tips to strengthen your relationship with your intuition:
:: Set an alone time for yourself daily, tune-in to your inner-world. Set an intention to “speak”, “meet” or feel your spiritual guides, angels and Higher Self. Bear in mind that the experience of connecting with your divine support team often is subtle, eg, you might see images through your mind’s eye, or hear a whisper, or a form of inner-knowing. Don’t expect a golden face to suddenly appear in the air and speak to you out loud. If you are in my newsletter community, I’ll share more about this topic in the near future.
:: Find and join a like-minded group, witness and nurture each other’s progress.
:: Devote a few hours per month to explore sixth sense development, universal laws and metaphysical studies.
:: If you have pets, try to communicate with them through words, telepathy or gazing.
:: Learn to discern the differences between intuition and emotions. Many people think that emotion is intuition, and they blindly followed their emotion but end up having a horrific experience. You don’t want to follow your emotions all the time. Otherwise you’ll be on a rollercoaster!
:: Emotions are intensive, heavy, clouded, most of the time fear-driven (eg, triggered by past unhealed wounds. Real intuitive guidance is always clear and delivered with a “neutral” and loving tone. Real guidance will never frighten you nor tell you that you are “special”.
:: When you feel like you are overwhelmed by your own emotions, do some body movements, such as dancing, yoga or walking amongst nature, before tuning into your intuition or making any decisions.
If you score 26 – 40, you have a pretty good relationship with your intuition. You are a natural!
Tips for making intuition work for you in more aspects of life:
:: Ask your Higher Self to inform you about your life purpose: What is your life purpose? What gifts do you have? How can you share your gifts and serve the humanity the best?
:: Try some observational exercises daily: eg, noticing details of the building on your way to work and see if you could pick out something new every day.
:: Openly talk about intuition with people around you, despite the fact that some might not understand. Acknowledge and respect your vibes no matter what.
:: Aim not to make any decisions in a rush, even if they appear to be super-urgent ones. Ask your Higher Self to lead you throughout the day.
:: When you are at this level, my friend, you need to set a firm energetic boundary. In the past I’ve seen too many people, myself included, who are sensitive to their surroundings. Without knowing it, they end up absorbing the energy from others (quite often anxiety and negativity given the pace of our society right now). Protect yourself from negativity: having bath with epsom salts; envision a white light or your Guardian Angel surround you when you are in a crowded place; constantly check-in with your own energy and shake off any stagnant energy you have absorbed by moving your body regularly.
If you score 41-60, this is clearly one of your most innate gifts, sharing and educating intuition development is part of your life purpose.
Tips for taking it to the next level:
:: Be courageous and come out of this closet if you haven’t already.
:: Take self-care and self-love as your top priority, find a reliable healer to balance your chakra regularly (tame the tendency to do everything yourself).
:: Consider blending intuition into your work, especially if you are a coach, therapist, teacher or creative (eg, writer, designer, artist). Invest time to cultivate your senses and develop your channels, such as : clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience.
:: Whenever external tools start overwhelming you or distracting you from truly enjoying your work, use your intuition to find the best answers within such as solving a chicken-egg situation.
:: Explore using different tools eg, Numerology, Tarot, Oracle cards, Automatic Writing, etc and see which one(s) you are particularly drawn to. No, they are not limited to “witches” only, you can channel some really simple and useful advice from, for example, oracle cards.
:: Do some past lives (yes plural!) readings for yourself and tap into your inner-master. Aim to understand life from a deeper perspective.
:: Practise “observe” not “absorb”, “empathy” not “sympathy”. Understand the differences between soul and spirit, ultimately you want to do your work from your spirit frequency not your soul frequency. Because the latter often has many stories involved which can be draining or exhausting if not careful.
:: Very very occasionally, your intuition style might change due to, for example, uplevelling. That’s OK, don’t give up. We all go through the dark nights of the soul at times. When it happens, embrace it, and keep your daily life simple and delightful. Trust that it will pass and you’ll come out even brighter.
:: Aim to become a role model – a balanced being, and inspire others to reclaim their intuition and share their gifts.
All my love + good vibes,
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My son and I just took the Intuition Quiz – it was so helpful, and we really appreciated the tips and exercises you had in each scoring category. What a wonderful time for all of us to tune into our spiritual side – perhaps we incarnated in this lifetime so that we would be able to help others during this “pandemic” experience?
I’m so glad that you and your son resonate and find it useful, and that you find meaning and purpose during this delicate time. Sending you good vibes!
Hi I am 34 and never really considered, appreciated,or thought of gifts spiritual or any level other then I knew ghost and spirits were around and real but just never thought about any of it until I began going through my spiritual awakening unwillingly brought on or activated by my torturous relationship w/ Covert narcissistic personality disorder that is when I started to understand vibes energy I saw through him to his intent intuition guided me through a thought then I would ignore it or speak and be made crazy until a word he or a friend may let slip an energy like no other would come over me and each through me like a wave I felt this physically staying usually in my lower stomach and move up quick sometimes as far down as mid thigh leaving my head tingling on top as it all suddenly made since not every time but often I noticed him see me also aware knowing the moment the energy hit we spoke telepathically several times during those moments amd even since but he won’t admit. All that to say i scored a 43 and still have a hard time trusting in it my intuition that is seems every time I speak in it I’m thought to be crazy. I have no clue what exactly are my strongest gifts since my awakening a year ago so much has happened and a lot I don’t understand I admit its like I hear things everything very loud some days almost unbareable. No one else hears feels or cares sooo
Hi, I took your quiz and only scored a 9,but that is ok because I known time has degraded my abilities do to turmoil, confusion and battling wills. I have always been strongh and I listen to my inner voice, but I seem to attract gifted people who I belive I can learn from…but at the end of the day the only thing they want to do is steal my streght to build up theirselfs. I have built a wall around me to protect myself, but I know that is not the correct anwser..although it will do until I find my anwser. I have no rest because I feel my inner calling which I wish to explore once again, but saddly I have family close to me blocking my time, movement and wishes to move forward. Do you have any ideas to help me navagate this negetivity pushing me back…thank you
Hi, thanks for reaching out. I feel for you that you trusted people but only being taken advantage of. From what you described, looks like that your personhood (personal power) was compromised. Start with an intention of getting your personal power back – you train people how to treat you.
You can check out this article I’ve written, https://www.yourlifeexpression.com/say-no/ the examples I shared are for creative freelancers/entrepreneurs, but the same principles apple in life situations too. Sometimes it’s so hard for intuitive/empath/highly sensitive people to say NO, because the conflicts would be too much for your nerve system to handle. You might have been battling this for a very long time, it can be very challenging. I shared some tools in the second part of that article to help you hold your ground.
Take care.
Ian really excited to learn intuition
I’m a 26 and just in last 6 months starting to relize it. I’m 41 . And sometimes am not sure if I want to learn how or make it stronger is this normal?
Hi Stephanie, the beauty of having intuition is that you get to decide what’s right or normal for YOU? Have you joined my newsletter community? As I have a mini-series talking about your concerns.
Thank you Yiye, I have known I was gifted since I was 5 years oldand for some reason you have been brought into my life I look forward to working with you and understanding more about myself.
Hi Sha’ron – it’s wonderful to connect with you! This is a journey to become intimate with your Spirit – sending you my best wishes 🙂
Hi Yiye,
I’ve enjoyed this and intuition is part of me. Thank you for that i saw this as a reminder.
Hello Ivan, I’m so happy that intuition is part of you! Thanks for dropping by 🙂
I love this. Wonderful post. Thank you for sharing your insights and guidance with such clarity.
I’m glad that you enjoyed it! 🙂