Spiritual awakening methods are practices that develop our compassion, lead us to different levels of consciousness with meditation and other tools that help us shift consciousness, and develop our perception. Spiritual awakening is also a process of healing our traumas, even generational traumas, releasing negative programming and thoughts, loving ourselves, which all contribute to the path to being fully present in the now. Being in the present moment gives us observations of negative thoughts or criticisms about ourselves or others and helps us not to take things personally. In the process of our healing and spiritual awakening practices we become more aware of our intuition.
Awareness of our Intuition is a Component of the Power of Now that Opens the Door to our Innate and Next Level Abilities.
People with trauma, and those of us who were not brought up to notice our intuition often either don’t know it exists because we don’t pay it attention or no longer trust our own intuition because of being shut off from it. It isn’t that some people are special and have these superpowers; we are all born with intuition. Often, we don’t even know when we use our intuition, what kinds of intuition we have, or how we use it because it is mostly hasn’t been identified or considered a valuable human trait. Often, we think that we cannot be like other people who use their intuition because our intuition isn’t as good as there’s. That is how a culture dismisses and devalues things. But we are in the throngs of change!
When a culture identifies the different aspects of something it is a valuing system. This valuing is like the Sami people who are nomadic reindeer herders and reindeer shamans of the Arctic who have over 180 words for snow. It is important for them to know the different kinds of snow and how they are different. Just as it is important to know our intuitions, how we are using them, develop them, feel them, and how to enhance them.
Noticing.
Noticing our intuition is a non-linear practice of observing how we feel, responses, and sensitivities however they arise. The more we notice the better we get at noticing. Where do we notice within, how do we experience intuition, what is happening around us while the intuition arises, what kind of intuition it is, are the questions that help us get better at it.
Here’s one way my intuition called me. In 2008 I was listening to the sound wisdom keeper of Egypt explaining that when there are 50 kinds of intuitive categories collected and recorded, it will herald the return of the ancient knowledge. The significance of identifying 50 categories of intuition and return of the ancient knowledge will help restore lost information and healing to our planet. This sound wisdom keeper was Abd’el Hakim Awyan , an Indigenous sound wisdom keeper(1926–2008) who grew up at the base of the Egyptian pyramids and was keenly in attunement with the underground sound chambers used for healing. Awyan had degrees in Egyptian archeology and engineering and studied the ancient Egyptians extensively. I had already written thirty-five types of intuition and used that document since 1997 in my programs on energy medicine, sound wisdom, and intuition evolution. I realized through an intuitive prompt. it was my task to finish writing about the 50 categories of intuition to share with the world. As you will find, the contents grew beyond 50 categories of intuition.
What are the Ways We use Intuition Throughout our Lives, and Don’t Even Know We Are Using It?
Here is a short story about a woman who did not listen to her intuition. Often, we recognize our intuition in hindsight. The woman was a police officer and was having a difficult time with her ex-husband. One evening she drove home and as she pulled into the driveway, she noticed the garbage cans were not in the place she had left them. They were moved. She thought it was odd and had a funny warning feeling about the garbage cans but did not stop and entered her home. Her ex-husband was waiting for her and had broken into her house. He was threatening and this resulted in a negative situation.
In hindsight she said she had a warning from the garbage cans and the intuitive feeling she had when she noticed them, but she did not take heed of her intuition. She vowed she always would from then on. You can see, when the warning intuition occurred and how trusting her intuition was valuable and is considered a spiritual awakening tool. Often, we all notice hindsight intuition. We can go back and remember the feeling, learn to notice the signals, and respond in the now.
Maybe you have used these next two kinds of intuition but never knew they had names. Learning about them enhances your spiritual awakening because it shows how prevalent intuition occurs. (And, neither of these two abilities made it into the book, 50+ Kinds of Intuition!
The first kind of intuition is practiced when a book is selected to get a message by just opening it to any page and then allowing the person’s finger or eyes to fall upon a passage. Their selected passage is their message. Stichomancy is this kind of intuition. Stichomancy derives from the Greek word στίχος (sounds like steek-hohss ). A stich is a unit or row or line of prose, such as a line in a poem, paragraph, or a verse. It is a method of divination in which the seeker opens a random book to a random page. And often, people use a specific book opening to a random page and line. People have been using this method of divination for over 3,000 years!
There is a practice with stichomancy where the person goes to a new bookstore or used bookstore for the first time and wanders the isles to find where they are supposed to be without predetermination, finds a random shelf, and a random book, and opens the book to their message. This can be a fun exercise when you travel to a different town or city or when you go to a new bookstore where you are not familiar with the layout. Then you can use your intuition to guide you. There are even more advanced versions of this kind of intuition, but that is for another time.
| This next kind of intuition could be considered child’s play. Maybe you have been using this intuitive ability your entire life. Artists use this ability all the time, but some artists use it more than others in their work. We also use this ability as children when we see something that creates a form on one side of a stone like a face or creature. You have probably looked at clouds and seen shapes that looked like an object.
This kind of intuition is pareidolia. Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, and seeing faces in inanimate objects. Pareidolia is usually a visual experience, but it could be another sensory or observational awareness. Using pareidolia may also be useful for noticing bigger patterns of people’s responses, behaviors, changes from year to year as well. Many ancient cultures saw forms in the land and sky, like seeing the individual stars as contributors to their large constellation form, like Orion’s Belt and the Big and Little Dipper. These formations were not linked to wishful configurations but had meaning to the relationships to the land and/or sky because these were and are meaningful to their history, Indigenous wisdom, and knowledge. There are also geomorphological formations worldwide that shed light on their meaningful purpose and reverence. More about these geomorphological formations and their meaning to people in another blog. Noticing when you use pareidolia or when people around you comment on their use of pareidolia continues your process of noticing your intuition. Our spiritual awakening process is non-linear, arises spontaneously, and grows in spurts, and expands our foundation of being present in the moment. As we go through this time of transformation we are learning to recognize, even with hindsight that helps us notice the feeling the next time we get it, and value abilities that give us insight and understanding. Have fun with your pareidolia and stickomancy! We are lifting the veil! |
