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3 Easy Ways to Recognize Your Intuition, by Melanie Barnum

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Let's be real for a second. We don't always know that our intuition is being utilized every day. We don't always realize we use it occasionally. But I'm here to tell you that, whether you're aware or not, you're regularly directed by your intuition. It's your gut instinct, the feeling you have, the nudge, or even the images you see that are guiding you throughout your life.

That being said, it can be difficult to be aware every time your metaphysical senses are present. Our intuition can feel as simple as a light breeze, or it can be as loud as someone yelling in your ear. In other words, it can show up in so many ways it becomes part of your regular day, without you even realizing it. Though it's not always necessary to identify that you're using your extra sensory perception (ESP), when you acknowledge your intuition, it tends to show up for you more often.

Look, I'm going to tell it to you straight—life is so much better and more fulfilling when you use your intuition. Whether you pay attention to your gut instinct, follow a hunch, or even have a tingly sensation that alerts you to something, it's all intuition. Calling it by a different name doesn't make it any less. And thank goodness! Learning how you perceive your gifts can help you recognize them more often.

The How
The most common perceptions, or the way we receive impressions, are known as the "clairs," clair from the French word meaning "clear." These are coupled with the metaphysical version of our physical senses. Clairvoyance (psychic vision), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (feeling), claircognizance (knowing), and I usually put these two together, but they are different—clairgustance (taste), and clairalience (smell). We've all experienced at least one of these, regardless of whether or not we realized it.

I am often asked how to determine which gifts someone may have a propensity towards, and I tell them, "What feels right to you? What do you feel more connected with?" If they still don't feel a distinctive inclination towards one or another, I tell them to pay attention to the words they tend to use more often. For example, when talking to someone, would you be more apt to say:

• I hear what you're saying!
• I feel you!
• I see what you mean!
• I know!
• This situation just stinks!
• This is leaving a bad taste in my mouth!

By simply paying attention to how you're speaking, it helps you realize your intuition is working! You can discover what strengths you may naturally have.

Recognizing Intuitive Moments
Your intuition is there to help you. It is a valuable part of your life because it continually tries to guide you towards your joy or keep you out of trouble. When we are moving through our day, it can be difficult to separate your intuition from everything else, so here are 3 ways to recognize those moments. And, again, when you begin recognizing that these are intuitive moments, and acknowledging that you are indeed, a naturally intuitive being, you will begin having more of these powerful ESP moments.

Here are three ways to recognize when your intuition is working.

1. Having a physical reaction in your body to someone or something.
When you meet someone for the first time, especially if you shake their hand, you instinctively pick up on their energy. This can cause a physical reaction. It might pull you closer towards them, their energy drawing you in. Alternatively, their energy can make you feel overwhelmed or even repel you.

When this occurs, it's because your energy fields are connecting and you are intuitively receiving information from them and from their aura. An aura is the energy field that surrounds all living things. It is usually about one to two inches away from the body, but can and does expand and retract.

When you meet someone, you generally will expand your aura towards them to kind of feel them out, intuitively. If they make you uncomfortable, your gut instinct will be to pull back, physically but also metaphysically. On the other hand, if they give you the warm and fuzzies, you will naturally expand your energy towards them.

This energetic reaction happens instantly, often unconsciously, and is a result of your intuitive vibes in action.

*Practice*
Whether you know someone or not, you can see how your energy instinctively reacts. Practicing feeling the energy of people with whom you're familiar will help you recognize how you feel around people you don't know.

Friends, hopefully, will expand your energy and you'll feel comfy and contented vibes. They make you happy. On the other hand, people you don't like can make you feel off. You might even feel confused or disoriented when thinking about them or when in their presence. Frustration, anger, or irritation also changes your body's reaction to someone you dislike. Pay attention to what your body is telling you!

2. Receiving symbolic information in your mind.
Let me introduce you to your intuitive mind! This is the place where you may hear or see things internally. These images or sounds can be sent from your deceased loved ones or your spirit guides in order to keep you safe and on your path, or they can materialize in your mind in answer to a question you may be thinking about or even asking aloud.

For example, if you're headed to look at a home to purchase that you've never seen before, and you see an image of a sparkly, shiny house in your mind's eye, it can be your clairvoyance showing you that the home you are on your way to visit is going to be a good option for you. Conversely, if you have a flash of a home in disrepair or actually falling down, this is probably that same psychic sight telling you that you will most definitely be disappointed by it (unless you’re planning to do a major renovation!). The imagery you see might not look like the actual house—more likely will just be the representation of a house. That's what makes it symbolic. Pay attention to what you see!

Hearing a symbolic message in your mind can also be random or can be sent in answer to something. For instance, maybe you're thinking about whether to stop at a fast-food restaurant on your way home to pick up dinner. It might be a bad idea if you hear a random toilet flushing! Or maybe instead you hear the jingle of a local grocery store, which can indicate that picking up some healthier groceries to cook dinner might be a better choice in the long run.

Now, these may seem insignificant and extremely simple examples. As you begin paying attention to the information you see or hear in your mind, you will be able to recognize more easily your intuitive guidance from your third eye and your psychic ears.

*Practice*
You don't have to wait to receive random guidance. You can practice by asking for it, instead. Let's say you are trying to decide what college to go to, or to help your child decide what college they should attend. Ask to intuitively hear or see a response and wait. You might get an answer immediately, or it may take a while. When the answer "shows up," it might be in the form of the school logo flashing in your mind's eye. Or, it could be the sound of boat horns blasting if you are looking at a school on the coast. You might just see colors that will relate to a specific college. You may even taste or smell food if you're debating between a culinary school or a liberal arts college. The sky is the limit for the information that may come through, but be open to any version that directs you intuitively.

3. Having intuitive connections to others.
It might be cliché, but it's cliché for a reason. Do you believe it's random when you are about to call or text someone and as you pick up your phone you see they are already reaching out to you? I don't. What I do believe is that we are connected to people we are friends with, or family members. We also can be connected to others, like doctors or neighbors.

This means that we can link to them intuitively. And further, we can retrieve or receive infinite amounts of information from them. It is within this boundless society that our intuitive relationships thrive, allowing us to know when someone is reaching out to us.

Take a mother's intuition, for example. This is when a mother knows something is happening with a child who is not near them or not present. It might be a moment of panic when a mom suddenly knows something's wrong so she rushes to her child's job, to discover they've just passed out. That is a connection that is highly charged because the mother and child are so close.

*Practice*
We are all connected. Think of the energy of the universe like a huge, endless bubble. It can be glittery and sparkly, or just clear. Whatever you want it to be. And now, see yourself and your family and your friends inside this bubble, where there's air and life. Now, imagine this bubble surrounds the entire earth, pushing out, again, to encompass the entire universe. And of course then, you'll see your house and your neighbor's house, and so on and so on.

So, what next? Send an intuitive message out with your mind. Tell your husband (or someone close to you) to reach out to you, call you. Allow at least 15 minutes for a response, and if it doesn't happen by then, try it again. This time, though, show him an image by visualizing it in your mind's eye and sending it to him. It can be dinner that's being prepared or a movie you want to watch or something else entirely. Really focus on the image and focus on sending it to him. You might have to try this a few times for it to work.

Learning to manipulate (in a positive way) energetic connections helps you to create stronger links or bonds among your family and friends, and possibly more importantly, allows you to receive those intuitive calls from them!

You've just discovered three different ways to recognize when you are using your intuition. Remember, there's no limit to how intuitive you can become. These gifts, these abilities that may have once seemed otherworldly, may now seem attainable to you. Possibly you've noticed that some of the examples I've given you have already happened, and you just hadn't realized it was your intuition talking to you. Now that you know how to decipher these messages, it's up to you how far you take it. Above all, enjoy these gifts! They are part of your birthright, and they are accessible right now!

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2024. All rights reserved.

My grandmother's house gives me the creeps. As soon as I walk in, I just get this bad feeling. I also get that feeling that someone is watching me. It's not just at certain times, but as soon as I walk through the door and until I leave. My mother and sister feel the same. We won't even spend the night there because we're so scared. Is my grandmother's house haunted? If so, are these bad spirits? My grandmother talks about living in haunted houses as a child. Could these spirits be following her? My grandmother has had a very hard life and I feel these spirits may be causing it somehow. Is there any way to make them leave?

~Karen

Susyn:

Since others experience the same bad feelings you do, your grandmother's house may indeed be haunted. You didn't mention how your grandmother feels about the house. If she lived in haunted houses as a child, she may be used to the energy in the house and not notice it. You can evaluate whether an entity is harmless or evil by the emotions it brings up. The fact that you won't even spend the night there suggests that these spirits are dark and troublesome.

To determine if it is the house that is haunted or if these spirits have attached themselves to your grandmother, you must consider the history of the house. Has your grandmother lived in the house for years? Did your mother grow up in this house? If these uneasy feelings started when she moved into her current home, we can assume that these entities are attached to the house. On the other hand, if you or your mother have felt these same negative vibes in previous houses or in the home your mother grew up in, they may be spirits who attached themselves to your grandmother years ago.

If this bad energy first appeared when your grandmother moved into the house, a medium should be able to clear the premises. This will depend on whether the spirits are past residents of the house or if the location contains a portal through which any spirit can enter. Research the history of the house to see if previous residents died there or if other people experienced these negative sensations. If you bring in a psychic who specializes in hauntings, he or she should be able to identify where these entities are coming from and how to evict them.

Spirits have been known to follow a particular person wherever they go, which means that cleansing the location won't help at all. These spirits can cause trouble for the person they attach to, including health or mental problems and the chronic difficulties you mention your grandmother has experienced.

Try to get your grandmother out of the house for a week or more. If there is a shift in her health and outlook, you can conclude that the trouble exists mainly in the house. If her difficulties do not subside, these entities are attached to her. In this case, an exorcist or shaman should be called in to break the attachment of any negative spirits. Using one or more of the above methods should get rid of these negative entities. After that, you should experience a more peaceful atmosphere when you visit, and your grandmother's troubles should ease.

*****

Oceania:

Since homes are extensions and reflections of their inhabitants, the way you feel inside a home is a good indicator of how you feel about the person living there. If you feel uneasy in your grandmother's house, there's a good chance you feel uneasy around her. Values like loyalty, duty and respect for one's elders can make it difficult to admit we don't particularly like or feel comfortable around a family member, so it's easier for you, your mother and sister to excuse yourselves from spending the night with your grandmother by declaring the house haunted than to admit that you don't want to spend time with her.

The men in your family are notably absent from your story. Two explanations for this come to mind. In general, women are more empathetic and intuitive and can more readily pick up on subtle energies like repressed pain and anger, so the men in your family may be oblivious to the discomfort you women experience. The second explanation is that men feel less pressure to yield to social obligations and may simply excuse themselves from uncomfortable situations.

When you walk inside your grandmother's house, you become tangled in the web of energy emanating from her. You don't want to be there and feel relief when your visit ends. While you don't state her age, we know your grandmother is from a different era. Not so long ago, it wasn't acceptable for women to claim their feelings, express pain and anger directly, or complain about their roles in family and society. Your grandmother may be carrying a great deal of unexpressed emotional energy that oozes out indirectly through intrusiveness, sarcasm or passive-aggression.

Feeling as if someone is watching you may actually be your sense of feeling on edge if your grandmother can be critical, negative or scrutinizing. You make the disclaimer that she's had a very hard life, which may be the way you justify and excuse her bad behavior. (How can you possibly get angry at someone who has suffered so much?) You do feel angry, however, and may be coping by projecting your anger onto the house.

Your grandmother herself may have used the same technique growing up. It's easier to swallow living in a haunted house than it is to admit you don't like the energy in your family. I recommend you not concern yourself with spirits or the house itself; instead, focus your energy on setting healthy boundaries with your grandmother, being honest with her, or further minimizing your visits.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.