The Power Of Your Intuition

By Joe Love

We all have enormous reserves of mental capacity that we habitually fail to use. There is no problem that we cannot solve, no obstacle we cannot overcome, and no goal we cannot achieve when we learn to use the incredible power of our mind to its full capacity. When we us the power of our mind to it's fullest our creative capacity is unlimited.

All of the truly successful men and women in history started down the path the success by learning to listen to their intuition. Your intuition is your direct connection with infinite intelligence. It is often called the small voice within. You may experience your intuition as a gut-feeling or as an inner sense of what is right or wrong for you. Sometimes your intuition manifests itself as an inspiration, a hunch, or a flash of insight.

Intuition is a natural ability. It is a skill that you already have. But this skill must be developed. It's a mistake to begin making any important future decisions based on your intuition if you have only had a few random experiences with it. The more practice you have with your intuition, the more effectively you'll be able to use it. You intuition is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows and the faster it acts.

Every change in our life begins with a new piece of information. People who are the most successful are those who deliberately expose themselves to the greatest number of new and different ideas. They do this by reading books, listening to audio programs, attending seminars in their chosen field. They know that it only takes one good idea to change the entire direction of their life. So it stands to reason that the more ideas you come up with the greater the probability there is that you'll come up with the right idea.

All highly successful men and women are those who completely trust their intuition to guide them in every situation. They never speak or act until they feel an inner urging to do so. They know that their intuition will always bring them exactly the right answer at exactly the right time. Highly successful men and women rely continuously on their intuition and as a result they seldom make mistakes.

Your intuition is the direct pipeline to a form of intelligence that is completely beyond your physical brain. It's accessed by your subconscious mind. You subconscious mind is controlled by the thoughts you think and the beliefs you hold in your conscious mind. The more you affirm and visualize your desired goals in your conscious mind, the faster they are picked up by your subconscious mind, and this then triggers your intuition.

We've all made many decision in our life. Some right and some wrong. When our intuition tells us to do something or not to do something, it is always right. How often have you made a decision that went against your intuition, only to regret it later? How often have you pushed aside that hunch or nagging inner feeling, only for your decision to come back to haunt you? This is because you r intuition is always correct. It gives you exactly the right answer you need at exactly the right time for any given situation.

When you have a clearly defined goal that you very much want to achieve it automatically stimulates your intuition. The more you think about, affirm, and write out your goal, the more your mind will be committed to finding ways to achieve it. When you repeatedly send the message of your goal to your subconscious mind, you activate your intuition to bring you the ideas, insights, and opportunities to help you achieve it. That is why intensely goal oriented people accomplish far more than people who are general or vague as to what they want to be and have.

Problem solving is another excellent way to activate you intuition. Whenever you have a pressing problem that you have clearly defined and intensely desire to solve, it automatically activates your intuition to find a solution. But, in order to activate your intuition, the problem must be clearly defined. It cannot be fuzzy or vague in any way.

Asking hard and focused questions is yet another way to stimulate your intuition. The more you train yourself to ask hard, focused, and provocative questions, you activate your intuition to give you the insights and ideas you need to move forward in your life.

Practicing solitude on a regular basis is the best way to stimulate your intuition. Solitude is an essential tool in developing the creative insight and intuition that will give you the ideas and answers to important questions, that will in turn, bring about powerful changes in your life. Most people have never practiced solitude. They are so busy, they feel that they don't have the time to set aside 30 minutes each day to practice solitude.

What most people fail to understand is that one good idea through the practice of solitude can save you a year of hard work. All of the greatest leaders and highest achieving men and woman in history have all practiced solitude. If you want to be successful, you simply cannot afford not to practice solitude on a regular basis.

Here are eight simple steps to help you practice solitude and develop your intuition:

1. Go to a quite place where you will not be disturbed. Relax, sit comfortably, and close your eyes.

2. Begin to breath deeply. When you inhale focus on breathing with greater calmness and peace. Visualize and feel relaxation flowing into you each time you breath in. When you exhale feel yourself blowing out the pressures and stresses of the day and know that the tension is draining from your body.

3. Picture a funnel, its wide end extending up and out from the center of the top or your head.

4. Gently guide your awareness upward and focus your attention out through the funnel. Be open to whatever you experience.

5. Remember, do not try too hard; do not force your concentration.

6. Feel how a multitude of impressions seem to pour into your mind through the funnel. Notice the sensation of heightened awareness that opens to you there.

7. Practice alternating this exercise. One day practice this exercise with your eyes closed and then the next day practice it with them open.

8. Practice this exercise daily for a minimum of 30 minutes each day.

Each and every one us has at our disposal the same intuitive powers used by some of the smartest men and women who have ever lived. You have the ability to tap into and use a higher form of intelligence than you have ever used before. Your intuition can help you solve any problem and achieve any goal. Once you begin to develop and use your intuition you will become more alert, effective, and smarter in everything you do. Your potential will unfold at speed that you cannot now imagine. Your future will become unlimited.

Copyright © 2005 by Joe Love and JLM & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.
Joe Love draws on his 25 years of experience helping both individuals and companies build their businesses, increase profits, and achieve total success. A former ad agency executive and marketing consultant, Joe's work in personal development focuses on helping his clients identify hidden marketable assets that create windfall opportunities and profits, as well as sound personal happiness and peace.
Reach Joe at: joe@jlmandassociates.com
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The Real Reason Your Intentions Are Not Being Manifested

Melissa Quiter

When you are not creating what you think you are creating, there isn't anything you are doing "wrong." You simply are not taking into account the subconscious parts of yourself that are also playing a role in what you manifest. Learn to create from both your conscious and subconscious and the power to manifest is yours again.

Numerous times, every day, the most prevalent question I am asked is, “What am I doing wrong? Why is what I want not being manifested?” The frustration, the confusion and the resignation are truly palpable.

And, the answer is always the same…Because you aren’t creating just what you consciously want. You are creating what you subconsciously want also. And that is the hidden curve that is throwing everyone into a tailspin.

Humans are very complex beings. You may already be aware of the difference between what you want versus what you need, but there is another distinction that is even more important. This distinction is the difference between what you are creating consciously and what you are creating subconsciously or unconsciously.

The brain is made up of two distinct parts. There is the conscious mind, which is the part of the mind that you are always aware of. It assists in short-term memory, getting you through your day-to-day living and decision-making in the now. It is very much whom most of us identify as being “who we are.” This part of the brain has been reported to represent 12% of the overall mind functions.

And then there is the subconscious or unconscious mind -- the other 88% of the story. This is the part of you that has one very important responsibility, and that is to keep you alive. Bottom line, you are able to keep your heart pumping, your blood flowing and your organs working because your subconscious mind is taking care of it all for you. If we had to remember to breath, the same way we have to remember to turn off the lights, we would have a lot less people running around. The subconscious mind also has some other key functions that differentiate it from your conscious mind. The subconscious mind is also where you store your belief structures. Based on past experiences, you have created a fabulous collection of beliefs that aid the subconscious in its primary function of keeping you alive. To better grasp what each of these beliefs represent, think of your beliefs as each representing a separate part of you. You are made up of multiple parts, all with special and distinct responsibilities or intentions. Every time you display a behavior, that behavior is directly attached to a belief or part of you. Behaviors are the tools that those parts use to ensure the execution of their intentions.

This is where it gets tricky. If your conscious mind knows what it wants to manifest, but one, two or more parts of your subconscious mind have different intentions, you end up with what I call conflicting intentions. And, when you do the math, if 12% is focused on one thing and potentially 88% is focused on something else, the amount of energy available for focusing is highly in favor of the subconscious intentions. This is why it may seem you are not manifesting what you think you are focusing on.

Conflicting intentions are when one part of you wants one thing and another part of you wants something else. You can be consciously aware of these, like when you are asked to attend a really amazing event and there is horrible weather that night. Part of you may really want to go, but another part really wants to stay home where it is warm and safe. This is the easier kind of conflict to deal with because you are aware of your conflicting desires, and you can then make a decision based on the pros and cons of both options.

The other kind of conflict happens when you are only aware of part of the story. For example, when you want to go to an amazing event and you put it out into the universe that you really want to go. But when you go to buy tickets, the event is sold out. You may immediately think you did something wrong. If you created the “right” way, you would have gotten tickets.

The truth is that there is something else going on inside of you that created the outcome that you got. This something else has its own intention and is far different than the one wanting to attend the event. It can be directly opposed to the first intention or have a completely different focus. For example, you may find out, when doing inner work, that deep down you don’t really believe that you should be spending so much money on entertainment. A part of you wants to guard against that feeling of horrible guilt that comes when you indulge in luxury items instead of giving that money to a charity or paying bills. This intention is very strong and has most likely been with you for a long time, which is why you may not be aware of it. You think that you are focusing on getting tickets, when in truth, there may have been a whole other focus happening behind the scenes that you were just not consciously aware of.

Knowing that we all have conflicting intentions is very important to remember. Also remember, that most people have no idea this is happening and continue to just live with the frustration and confusion. But knowing, as you do now, that there is a logical explanation, you can change what you do and how you do it and take back that power of creating.

There are many tools that are available to get at the heart of what is really going on. The most valuable tools that I found are even more effective when combined. However, there is never one path in which we all must travel to find the enlightenment we seek. This combination of tools and the process I created around them simply worked for me, and now I feel it is my responsibility to share it with others who may be on a similar path as mine.

The best tools that I have found are:
- NLP,
- universal laws,
- the Law of Attraction,
- the Process of Deliberate Creation and
- the Nine Environments of Holistic Living (environmental design).
By combining these tools and using them in a structured process, ferreting out the blocks and conflicting intentions is possible. Once you know where you are starting, are articulating what you most want in every area of your life, are identify and blasting out what is blocking you from manifesting what you most want and are doing it consistently and on a daily basis, the power of creating is yours to have for life.

No matter what tools or processes you use, armed with knowing that you have access to all the power you need, it is imperative that you find what works for you. Learn what you most need to get on track to envision and live the life you would yell about from the mountaintops. Don’t stop until you have it all!

Melissa Jean Quiter authors the one-of-a-kind program for learning how to take back your power to create. “Being Spiritual Doesn’t Mean Being Poor! How to remove what blocks you from making money & creating happiness,” is a timeless program based on the Law of Attraction, universal laws, deliberate creation, NLP and environmental design. To get started, click here now: http://www.ProvocativeCommunications.com/lawofattraction.html or e-mail: Quiter@Texas.net for more articles.