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July/August 2003 Living Now
Awakening Your Potential

by Garry Morris

Along the path there are many signs leading to your spiritual awakening. You choose which sign to pay attention to at any moment in time. Is your conditioned mind blocking your perceptions so that you are missing the sign? Are you the seeker that takes each path searching for the truth, often following a scenic detour? At some point along the way, a new sense appears giving you a knowing of which hunch to follow. This is part of the journey, a hunch here, a nudge there, a simple sign peeking into your awareness. Spirit is knocking at your door, as you begin to awaken to your inner guidance and ultimately your divine guidance.

Whether you initially call your guidance a sixth sense or intuition, it becomes significant when you learn to trust and follow it. Life is simplified when you follow your intuition. Extrasensory information shows up as a gut feeling (clairsentience), a still small voice (clairaudience), a picture in your mind’s eye (clairvoyance) or a knowing (claircognizance). You can learn to utilize these extra senses. In doing so, you will enhance your perceptions and have a richer life experience. An easy way to awaken your sixth sense is to acknowledge it and practice following it. It is important to set an intention allowing your inner guidance to open and become more pronounced or amplified.

In developing your clairsentience, you may begin by allowing yourself to breathe deeply, relax, go inward and feel. Allowing your feeling nature to expand gives you a greater sense of self awareness. Choose a situation in your life where you are making a decision. Take a minute or so to hold each choice in your being and sit with it. Center your focus on the abdomen with each choice in mind, trusting the perceptions you are receiving. Is the gut feeling you are experiencing upsetting or peaceful? Notice your body’s subtle differences including your facial expressions. Taking into account your whole body’s wisdom you can choose accordingly.

In exercising your clairaudience, begin by quieting the mind in meditation. If you are an inexperienced meditator, begin simply by focusing on the breath. When any thoughts enter the mind, just thank them and return your concentration to the breath. In this way you will quiet the mind and prepare it to receive an audible response to your question. Next, ask a single, simple question. Stay quiet and listen for the still small voice to answer. Accept what you receive. If you receive nothing after a short period, ask again and wait for the response.

Developing your clairvoyance, focus on the point known as the brow chakra, or center point slightly above and between the eyebrows. Picture a bright, orange sun glowing in that spot. To initially develop this ability you may place an orange dot on this point and gaze at it in the mirror for a period of 3-5 minutes or until you can easily picture it when you close your eyes. This exercise will develop your inner sight. As you continue using this faculty you will learn to trust the visual images that are appearing in your mind’s eye. You may see colors, symbols, pictures, a slide show or a movie.

When your intuition comes in the form of claircognizance, you will be developing your faith in what you receive. The area of focus will be the top of the head or crown chakra. Focusing on the crown chakra, meditating, quieting the mind and trusting the thoughts that arrive, are the keys for developing this sense of intuition. Pay attention to your everyday decisions, noticing when solutions or answers appear suddenly and from a new field of possibilities, not from your deductive mind. Relaxing your thinking, rational mind and letting go of expectation frees up your knowing.

As you use your intuitive senses, you may find that one is predominant. This may be the one that you rely on most often, but all of the senses may be developed with time and practice. As you gain confidence, you become more open and spirit will awaken you to new connections in the moment. The more you trust your intuitive guidance the greater your awakening is accelerated. As you open to your spiritual essence and your divine guidance you acknowledge the quickening that is occurring at this time. The impact of this new awareness raises your vibration and your consciousness thereby awakening you to your unlimited divine potential.

Sharon Rose Jensen and Gary Morris, co-founders of Accelerated Awakenings, provide services assisting others in raising their vibration, improving conscious awareness and awakening intuitive & healing abilities. They are available for workshops, retreats, personal healings and activations. Visit www.IamAwake.com or call 503-392-3037.