How Intuitive Are You?

by Nancy Robbins

Intuitive intelligence is a valuable tool for living.  Your “sixth sense” gives you access to information that seems to come from nowhere, but is often uncannily accurate.  There are various theories about how this happens.  You could see it as your mind drawing together everything that it knows, perhaps even from past lives, or from your Higher Self, and coming up with the solutions and guidance from your personal instant-access database.  Intuition might also be the ability to go beyond individual experience, tapping into much broader sources, similar to plugging into the world-wide web.  There are many sources of higher wisdom, both from the Earth and the cosmos in higher dimensions.  Even exploring the depths of your own inner skills and wisdom, that is latent and just waiting to be activated. The higher frequencies provide a great source of wisdom, love, and guidance. 

Like most people, you already have some intuitive ability, but there are positive ways to develop this even further.  This booklet will help you explore not only what area of psychic ability you may already have skill, but provide exercises to help develop that skill and other areas of skill that you may wish to develop.

Trust

One of the first steps in developing your psychic abilities is to trust your intuition.  Intuition is a knowing sense that you have without rational evidence.  It’s your “sixth sense,” and everyone has it to some degree.  The question is, do you allow yourself to trust it.  If you ever get a sudden sense of danger, or threat, never ignore it – trust your intuition.  You have an inner voice that is rational, analytical, and logical.  You also have an inner voice that is aligned with your feminine aspect, your psychic and intuitive skills, your creativity, your imagination (which is the highest mental aspect), that is very perceptive, and reaches into your deep inner self and wisdom.  This voice is also very important, and one that often gets overlooked.  This is the voice that guides you to what needs to be developed further and explored.  It will develop with respect.

Be playful with your intuition, follow your intuition with trust and take note of when you feel it is successful – and note it in a journal.  Play harmless games for instance – and try to guess what someone will say next, or if the phone rings guess who it is, or what someone might wear the next day.  Have fun exploring psychic connections you can make with other beings in the world – including the physical ones – trees, flowers, animals, people, and the invisible ones – past ancestors, spirit guides, star beings, and nature spirits.  You can also tap into your inner wisdom, and the outer collective consciousness.

Let’s start with a quiz to see what type of psychic you may be – empath, medium, channeler, or shaman.

Quiz:  What Kind of Psychic Are You?

Identifying Your Skills:  Give the following questions careful thought, then check only those to which you have an affirmative response.

 

1. Are you generally aware of other people’s feelings?
2. Do you ever get a sense that you are part of the universe?
3. Do you often know what other people will say before they say it?
4. While walking outdoors have you sensed something watching you?
5. Out in open country, have you felt something did not want you there?
6. Have you been out in a wild space and felt the place protected you?
7. Do you get butterflies in your stomach when you are near someone?
8. Do you get the same butterfly feeling in a location?
9. When you walk into a place for the first time can you sense the atmosphere?
10. Do you really know that the world could be a place of peace and love instead of starvation and wars?
11. Have you walked into a place and felt a shiver or a sense of a presence?
12. Do you ever “hear” people’s thoughts?
13. Are there people that you do not like to be physically near?
14. Have you had an encounter with a spirit of any kind?
15. Have you woken up to feel a weight on you when nothing physical is there?
16. Do you get a sense of wonder and love just by being alive?
17. Do you have vivid dreams that you feel may have really happened?
18. Do you look into the eyes of someone who is hurting you and see their pain?
19. At night do you close your eyes and see eyes, faces or human-like creatures?
20. Have you felt your body has been on a journey without you moving?

 

Assessment: Look at your final total of “yes” answers.  Do all, or most of them, fit into one of the following groups of numbers?  If so, this will give you a good idea of what kind of psychic you are most likely to be.

 

1,3,7, 8, 12 – You are an EMPATH: The ability to literally feel for someone else is a finely tuned sense – one where you can perceive the mental or emotional state of another individual. You may have the ability to “read” a person’s aura and interpret that information to them.  It helps to bring you closer to others as you can sense their true emotional needs, and people may be drawn to you like magnets.  You need to place energetic protection around you, however, so you do not absorb people’s problems, which will drain you.

 

11, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20 – You are a MEDIUM: If you’ve been aware of an unseen presence, or have seen a ghost, you could be mediumistic.  You also may have felt the presence of angelic or earthly spirits, which act as guardians to you.  You can look into other dimensions such as the astral worlds or the “spirit” world.  This vision is a rare gift.

 

2,10, 16, 18 – You are a CHANNELER: Accessing information and/or energy from a higher level of consciousness is often called channeling.  This may be a connection with an individual entity, or a group consciousness.  You are viewed as an “old soul” and sought out for the spiritual insight that you have built up over many lifetimes.

 

4, 5, 6, 9, 13 – You are a SHAMAN:  As you are vividly aware of nature and the spirit in animals, plants, trees, and nature spirits, your style of psychism is shamanistic.  You derive a highly tuned sense of danger from your instinctive link with wild animals; this is a great asset – your intuition literally saves lives.  You can sense impending danger in all situations, whether it’s on the sidewalk, in traffic situations, or in the workplace.  You may also have natural healing ability – an innate sense of what will harm or help someone who is ill.

 

We will explore each of these categories – Empath, Channeler, Medium, Shaman, and to that I will also add Psychic Healer, which all will be explored in future articles.