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Many people are interested in developing their intuition, but don’t know where to start that process.There are lots of techniques you can use to awaken your intuition, many of which are surprisingly simple.

First of all, the conscious awareness of your intuition alone will make it stronger and clearer.  By making an effort to recognize when your intuition speaks, you open your intuitive self up to speak and give it a stronger voice.

An excellent way to start listening to your intuition is to begin writing things down.  Every time you believe you are having an intuitive thought or feeling, write down a little note about it.Keep a voice recorder with you, so that you can record any intuitive insights you may be feeling throughout the day.Write down the note and a brief summary of what you felt.  Be as specific as you can. 

Remember to not over think what you are writing down.  Intuition is by nature the first thought that pops into your head, and not the ideas you get after analyzing those initial feelings.Periodically take a moment to review your notes and see which insights were accurate.  Seeing the amount of information that you get right will boost your faith in your intuition.  Your intuition will automatically get stronger the moment you truly believe in it.

As you notice your ability to listen to your intuition becomes better, also write down how your intuition sounds.You’ll start to see that it will continually become more clarified and louder.You will also become aware that the frequency of intuitive insights increases.  Recording this in your notebook will allow you to go back and see how far you have progressed. 

You may also want to write in your notebook some detailed specifics of intuitive feelings that either were extremely accurate or were very inaccurate.  This may help you to realize subtle nuances of your intuition that point you to the actual truth. 

The more you recognize when your intuition is speaking, the more it will speak.The more you listen to your intuition speak, the clearer it will become.The clearer your intuition speaks to you, the more effectively you’ll be able to use the intuitive insights that it communicates to you.

I used to think that the phrase “sixth sense” was a bit nonsensical.  It wasn’t until things started happening that I couldn’t explain with my rational mind that I bgan to think more deeply about the topic. 

I began asking myself more 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 I always felt it in my stomach… 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 meaing 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 wasn’t until then that I considered the possibility that our senses could be sharpened. I always thought that we had our own frequencies, animals had their own and nature was in perfect harmony. Apparently I was incorrect, and intuition could be awakened. In fact, it’s wake up call had to be loud and frequent.

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. Though you might not initially notice anything different, you may feel a hunch that you’re going in a meaningful direction.Night is when I often can hear my intuition more easily.

Perhaps this happens when we use all of our physical senses and we can get a little disoriented. 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 se 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.  If you’d like to follow along in my experiences with the program, then be sure to check out my Intuition Zone Review blog.

Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you, “I told you so?”  Even more frustrating can be having to tell yourself “I told you so” because you didn’t listen to your own instincts.  Everyone has the innate ability to tap into the sense known as intuition, but for it to be useful, you have to know how to listen to it, develop it, and act on it properly.

Learning to develop your intuition is somewhat like learning to understand a foreign language to which you had never been exposed.The more you become aware that your intuition is communicating with you, the easier it will be for you to know what its' saying at any given point in time.With each intuitive experience, you'll understand more clearly when your intuition is communicating with you and what the best course of action is.Eventually, your intuition can even sound as real as somebody talking to you.

All it takes is attention, practice, and desire to develop your intuition.  You do not need to have any super psychic abilities or expensive private formal training.  Your personal intuition zone is actually growing stronger simply because you are putting forth the effort to read this article.  You are already giving your intuition a dose of the attention and focus required to hone the skill.

There are a few good practices you can put into place when trying to develop your intuition.One way is to spend time with no distractions.  For example, turn off the radio and cell phone when driving to work.Take this moment to focus on your intuition.  Try to quiet your negative or random thoughts and only hear things that have that seem to well from something deeper.Also write down your intuitive hunches so that you can later assess whether or not they were accurate.

When you “hear” your intuition, it may come in forms much more than hearing a voice inside you that tells you some piece of information in words.  Your intuition will speak to you in many different forms.Sometimes your intuition communicates in unexpected ways, such as a sudden out of place visualization, a strange food craving, or even hearing a song in your head when you're not listening to the radio. 

Remain open and receptive when your intuition directs you to do something, but does not tell you why.If and when it is necessary for you to know, the reason why will become clear.  Often the reason why does not immediately become clear even when one day you understand completely.  Trust your intuition and never tell yourself “I told you so!” again.