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Are you still carrying around the time your best friend let you down? Are you still angry with yourself because you lost your temper at a friend who was truly giving you his or her best? Do you still grieve for a loved one who meant the world to you? Are you carrying around your family’s pain because a relative let everyone down? Perhaps you are really angry at a school or college or company because it chose to not accept you or a loved one.
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Unless you are willing to be honest with yourself about old hurts, resentments, and painful thoughts and feelings you continue to carry with you, you will have difficulty developing intuitively. What is required here is having the intention of forgiving those who have hurt you, not for the other person’s sake, but for yours. Also, essential is holding them in your focus, being willing to truly forgive them for their actions, and then surrendering them to the Universe. Here’s a powerful technique: Begin first by focusing on your breath, and only when calm and relaxed, picture your heart filling with love. Feel the love in your heart. Then, focus on the individual you wish to forgive, send this love to the person and, while doing do, repeat (with feeling) the words, I forgive you. Also, state, or think the thought, I surrender you to the Universe or God because I need to be detached from you and move one with my life. Sometimes, it helps to picture a cord that runs between you and the individual and to imagine taking a scissors and cutting the cord while you are forgiving this person. See them sliding away from you; feel your energy of well-being returning and filling you with a sense of peace. The more you practice this throughout the day, while in meditation, or during each of your breath exercises, the easier it will become for you achieve true forgiveness. Eventually, it will feel more genuine and you will feel lighter, healthier and happier. Remember, this is for you healing you and not for the other person!

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Intuition is given many names these days. Some call it the sixth sense; others use terms such as psychic ability, psi, and intuitive wisdom. All these terms refer to a knowing with which we are born; a knowing based on psi (from the Greek word for soul) which refers to the ability of mind to connect with other minds and places. What some experts in the area of intuition have done is break down intuition a bit further.

Belleruth Naparstek in The Sixth Sense differentiates intuitive wisdom from the knowing you have which is based on your life experience or learned experience. In other words, if I am working with a patient and dealing with a problematic situation, a solution I may come up with that is rooted in my clinical experience and training is not really my intuition at work, but rather a reflection of all that I have learned. However, she points out that the feeling I have when an elevator door opens and I feel uncomfortable throughout my whole being is definitely my intuitive knowing speaking to me, warning me to take precautions. This is a more subtle, overall body experience. And, to go one step further, this sixth sense-knowing is actually different from the times we have a sudden psi pop of knowing – which comes “out of the blue.” For example, consider how many times, while driving your car or doing some task, you have had a sudden pop of information or an image which represented the answer to a problem you were working on but which you had not been able to solve? Or how many times have you heard words coming out of your mouth which surprised you? Or thoughts you have had which really took you by surprise? Yes, you are an intuitive being and you can learn to develop this ability.

If you have a story or two to share of your own intuition or sixth sense, we would love to hear from you. Please, take a moment to e-mail us your story.

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Given that the intuitive network consists of our brain, body, memories and dreams, it is in our best interest to listen to our bodies, perhaps, more than we do. In working with patients for many years, I have had many share with me that before the loss of a loved one, they would experience a repetitive pain in a part of their body. One mom (whom I will call Ann), for example, reported that for several months leading up to the death of her son, she had an aching in her ribs which she could not explain. After the unexpected death of her son, the pain disappeared. However, Ann has noticed that on several occasions, she has experienced the re-emergence of the pain before the deaths of family members or friends. Ann now realizes that somehow her body intuitively knows of forthcoming events before she is consciously aware of them.

Medical intuitives, in particular, listen carefully to their own body when working with another who is ill. Mona Lisa Schulz cites a number of cases in Awakening Intuition in which she felt the pain of her patient within her own body. For example, while working with one woman, Schulz began to notice that she (Schulz) was burning up. When she mentioned this to the woman with whom she was speaking by phone, the woman laughed, explaining that her problem was that of having fevers. Parents, I hope, will take note of this because they are so closely aligned with their children or one another that it is not unusual for them to experience symptoms their family members are having. This is similar to Mother's Intuition which occurs when moms feel something their child (no matter what the age may be) is experiencing in another location.

Have you noticed feeling the same symptoms your family member has reported – or have you experienced Mother’s Intuition? Please, e-mail us your story so that we may share it with others.

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Probably the greatest benefit of paying attention to the guidance of your inner wisdom, otherwise known as your sixth sense or your intuition, has much to do with your ability to survive. I do not say this lightly. Each of those who have shared their stories with me for Touched by the Extraordinary have assured me that they probably would not have been able to be telling me their story had they not listened to their own inner guidance.

Just this evening, I saw a new patient, Maria, who has experienced the tragic loss of a child. The loss actually occurred more than a year ago and Maria thought she would be able to manage handling the pain of the loss without help. However, circumstances in her life have been extremely difficult and she has not been able to overcome the pain associated with the death of her child.. In fact, this distraught mom told me that she came to me, feeling that she was not sure she wanted to go on living. This is not uncommon for women who lose a child because the pain of the loss feels utterly unbearable. Maria told me that she had had my name for awhile, but only within the past twenty –four hours felt that she needed to listen to an inner voice that said she had to call for help. While Maria came in tears, she appeared to experience a shift of her own energetic well-being while in session, enabling her to feel calmer and more peaceful by the time we were finished with out meeting. Maria had listened to her own inner guidance and, consequently, expressed her belief that she feels she felt ready to do whatever she needed to do to go on with a better quality of life. Maria intends to survive ,and I believe that she will.

Please, e-mail us now with your own story of having benefited from listening to your inner wisdom. Many thanks for taking the time to do this. Know that you will be helping so many others.

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Truthfully, before I began this research, there was so much I did not know or understand about intuition. For example, when you get those flashes of pictures that come and go in fractions of a second (usually the ones we tend to dismiss), well, please, try and capture them; hold onto them; look at them. They may be really important for you because they come to you with a purpose. They represent your wisdom speaking to you. When you hear a voice in your head that comes unexpectedly and directs you to go to some place or to do something, take note of it – especially, if this does not usually occur – and you know that you are of sound mind. See if it has meaning for you or has a feeling attached to it. The wisdom of your soul, or higher self, speaks to you, sometimes, using what sounds like a voice, and, other times, in the form of pictures or images.

Also, remember that if you are connected energetically to someone, you may be feeling in your body what they are feeling in theirs. Mother’s Intuition is legitimate and has been written about by a number of authors. For example, women who have lost a baby to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) have frequently gone to their doctors when they would begin to have uncomfortable feelings about the well-being of their baby. Often discounted as being worried about nothing, these women would leave, and, only days later, have to go through the terrible ordeal of experiencing the death of their baby. Consequently, we believe that more doctors are listening to and checking into the concerns of pregnant women.

Again, if you have a story that you would like to share with us about the value of listening to your own wisdom, please take the time to enter it here. You will be helping so many in this way.

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How many times can you recall when you were on the highway, and you suddenly had the sense that you were about to encounter a problem? Or, do you remember times when you found yourself thinking of a friend, relative, or colleague, and within moments, received a phone call, e-mail or visit from them? Or, how often have you awakened, thinking about a friend or family member and then bumped into or heard from them during the day? Mona Lisa Schulz, author of Awakening Intuition, is both an intuitive physician and researcher of neuroscience. She has written that we are born with an intuitive network. This network includes our brain, body, memories and dreams. All of this, she emphasizes is what feeds our intuitive knowing about what is and will be taking place in our lives. And, when we learn to listen to our dreams, body sensations, aches, pains and our memories, we realize how intuitively empowered we really are.

One of the stories in Touched by the Extraordinary describes how one mom began to feel uncomfortable about the safety of her daughter and grand-daughters. Guided by her intuition, she telephoned her daughter, Elisa,* at the very moment the young woman realized she had made a mistake regarding a man she had allowed into her home. The man had knocked on Elisa’s door, explaining that he needed to call for help because he had experienced car problems in the snow. Upon discovering that he was inebriated, Elisa knew there was a problem and told her own two young daughters to quickly go to their rooms. It was then that her mom had called. Responding with a simple yes to the question about whether she needed the police to come, Elisa was able to have her mom call for help. Fortunately, police did come and the man was removed from their home. But, what if the Elisa’s mom had not listened to her inner wisdom? There could have definitely been a real problem.

How many of you have had such stories? Please e-mail them to us so that we may share them with others.

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