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Intuition & Crossroads

11 Jul

Wrote another chapter in my book today called, “Crossing Over,” and been busy reading not one or two but four books that I have on the go here at home this week-end.  Then I get this e-mail and go to a site that I am a member of called “Finer Minds,” and come across this quiz to test just how intuitive you are.  I’ve always known that I am intuitive, but wasn’t prepared for just how intuitive I am.  I scored 56.

Now as for the “crossroads” in the title of this blog, I “intuitively” came to a decision, which the world might call nuts; but it just “feels” right for me and I’m going to go for it – against all odds!  When you reach a crossroads, a point where you are being asked to make a major decision, what do you do?  Do you listen to everyone else, balance out what would the “normal” people do; what’s the normal or right thing to do given the circumstances, or do you listen to your heart, your gut….thinking I must be crazy, but this “feels” so right?  It’s scarey, to take that quantum leap of faith…off the praecipe, wondering whether your parachute will open; or what’s on the other side of the mountain or river you’re about to cross.  To go, just as Abraham packed up and went when YHWH told him to go, without even telling him where. Abraham had that “faith” in YHWH, trusted Him implicitly.  “Blind” faith perhaps, but look at what happened when Abraham took that first step of his journey, little knowing what would come of it!

Here’s the quiz from the Finder Minds blog site. Do not read ahead to check the scoring process.  Just honestly answer each question and then tally up your score.  You may just be amazed at your own intuitiveness!

The Intuition Quiz:

Answer options. Write down your answers and tally up your points at the end of the quiz.

  1. Never (1 point)
  2. Sometimes (2 points)
  3. Often (3 points)

1.) You are more of a spontaneous and ‘go with the flow’ type of individual, rather than a planner or an organizer.

2.) You evaluate your decisions on certain situations based on your gut feelings, which often produces the right outcome even if it’s not always practical or logical.

3.) When you meet someone new, you get instant strong negative/positive vibes, which proves itself true in the long run.

4.) You have used your intuition to successfully invest in the stock market or enter contests and win.

5.) You know your life purpose or mission in this world

6.) Whenever you ignore a strong intuitive or gut feeling that’s trying to tell you something, you’ll tend to regret it later on.

7.) You rely on your intuition when making career-based decisions. This causes confusion among your co-workers as you always make the right decisions even with incomplete facts.

8.) You’re a creative person, and you have dreams of brilliant ideas for your art/plans/designs which you often execute to much success.

9.) You often feel worried/excited before something bad/good happens without prior knowledge that this incident was going to happen.

10.) You have had creative ideas for art/books/writing come to you from seemingly nowhere which you’ve acted on and gave you tremendous success.

11.) You can feel when a loved one is hurting, even if you don’t know yet that they are in pain.

12.) Your friends often describe you as “creative”.

13.) You often make major decisions against the advice of “experts” or your loved ones based on what you’ve “sensed”, which always worked out perfectly for you.

14.) You immediately know when someone is lying to you or telling the truth.

15.) You’ve had prior knowledge of a disaster, negative event, illness, or death that later came to pass.

16.) Whenever you feel confused about a direction you need to take or you need to make a big decision in life, you meditate, knowing that the right answers will come to you quickly through this.

17.) You feel a strong sense of connection with people you’ve never met or places you’ve never been to.

18.) You are a highly empathetic person and often ‘take on’ the feelings of those around you, whether you want to or not.

19.) You’ve had a premonition that saved you from danger.

20.) When lost, you’ve found the right path back or direction by using your intuition.

Intuition falls into 4 categories. While most of us are functioning at Level 1 or 2, we all have the ability to function at the highest level (Level 4). Our goal as human beings is to continuously grow from Level 1 to Level 4.

You score 20–30. Level 1 — Warning System Intuition:

At this Level, your intuition will usually warn you when your life is at stake.

Let’s take the September 11th incident as an example. On this particular day, an unusually high number of people have claimed that they experienced dread going to work at the World Trade Centre.

Other examples include those who’ve experienced overwhelming feelings of dread just before making a journey. If you take a look at the results of the intuition contest on our blog post, you’ll see that 60–70% of all stories were at Level 1 — Warning System Intuition. This is where most people’s intuition stand.

While intuition is something we’re all are born with, many people, including yourself, do not get the chance to develop it. Your intuition has saved you from emergency situations, but you generally do not listen to your ‘gut feelings’ which you’re paying dearly for.

Don’t worry though, it’s never too late to start training and growing your intuitive abilities. If you do, you’re in for some amazing insights and a whole new level of well-being.

You score 30–40. Level 2 — Social Intuition:

You mainly use your intuition to tap into the feelings of those around you and those whom you have close relationships with. You are a highly empathetic person and can easily understand those around you.

People at this Level have been known to finish the sentences of those they’re close to, sense danger that’s approaching them like a mother senses danger for her child and are even affected by the moods of their spouses or those close to them.

This Level intuition is common in close groups, but you are more attune to it than others. Being on this Level is greatly beneficial for leaders, families and those in close relationships.

While you use your intuition to relate to those around you, you may also be ignoring it within other areas of your life. You have to keep training and enhancing your intuition skills if you want to experience the great benefits that comes with it. If you keep ignoring these ‘gut feelings’ then they will no longer happen.

However, it’s not too late to get back in touch with your intuition. With a little practice and training you’ll be able to hear and trust that “little voice” inside your head in no time and progress in other aspects of your life, such as your career, life purpose, and wealth.

You score 40–50. Level 3 — Creative Intuition:

Thomas Edison once said, “Ideas come from space”.
Many scientists and investors get their ideas and knowledge from having Level 3 intuition.

Look at the case of Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine. He was struggling for years to come up with the design for the sewing machine needle. One night he had a dream where he was surrounded by cannibals who were holding spears with holes in them. This gave him the idea that the thread hole for the sewing needle had to be at the tip of needle and not at the top. That was how the sewing machine was invented.

History is filled with countless stories of how Creative Intuition has aided in the creation of inventions, art, and designs. Even businesses have grown and flourished because of intuition.

As a Level 3 Intuitive, you are very attuned to your feelings as well as the world around you, which is an amazing skill. Being able to access your intuitive knowledge has helped not only you, but those around you get ahead in life as well.

You most likely use your intuition to not only improve on your relationships, but also your career where you use intuition to creatively solve problems, make the right business decisions or create beautiful art, music or design.

You are most likely a very creative person who is successful in business or the arts.

You score 50–60. Level 4 — Higher Purpose Intuition:

This is the most useful and the most amazing level of intuition. At this level, your subconscious mind works with you and your intuition guides you to move towards your life purpose.

People with this ability are amazingly successful in the stock market or business. Take a look at Sir Richard Branson; he works with over 300 partners, yet he knows within 60 seconds of meeting a person whether to establish a professional relationship or not.

As a Level 4 intuitive, you already know that you should never doubt your inner voice, which guides you through all areas of your life. You know the importance of honing and fine-tuning your intuitive skills and listening to your inner voice. You meditate daily, which helps you make all important decisions in your life instantly — from love to business to health.

You always listen to your intuition which is the reason why you are where you are today. You know that what your are doing now is your divine purpose. By finding your life purpose, you fully contribute to the betterment of society. Your subconscious mind gives you momentum and the push you need to help you complete your life purpose. You are a highly intuitive being that is making a maximum impact onto the world.

 

When Things are Tough – Where Is The Peace?

22 May

When things are tough, do you find it difficult to settle your spirit, to be still?  My personal experiences have been of finding it easier to find spiritual peace when things are tough, then when things are going well.

But, if you think about it, it does make sense.  When things are going well for us, we tend to forget to be thankful, to be grateful for the many blessings in our lives.  When things get tough (and this economic challenge we face would qualify as being tough for many) it is natural to sit back and assess your life and what you’ve been doing with the money and stuff in your life.  Surely I am not the only person who has sat back and done a survey of his life when the road got rocky?

I recall in the early 1990’s being laid off from a job because of some changes that took place vis-à-vis changes in Canadian law.  My position became “too expensive” to be maintained by my employer, who was forced to downsize, and I was one of the people who was let go.

I like to think that I am a spiritual person by nature.  No, I reword that statement.  I know the essence of who I am is Spirit; I suppose the better way to put it is that I liked to think that I operated from a “spiritual” rather than a “material” or “physical” perspective.  When I got laid off and was out of work for 1.5 years and lost everything, I got a chance to see that I was indeed (as per the Madonna song) very much a “material girl” and not as “spiritual” as I thought myself to be.  I lost all my stuff, all my savings and was stripped down to having to give notice to my landlord because I couldn’t keep up the high rent.  All the while, I tried to get a job anywhere doing anything.  You see, I always thought I was the “greatest” in my profession and “anyone would be lucky to have me.”  That theory got blown out of the water pretty quickly.

I told my landlord I was going to have to move.  My landlord reduced my rent by two-thirds because they didn’t want me moving!  This was amazing and yet another spiritual marker got planted in my life.

You see, my landlord had observed my “challenges” over a twelve month period; had seen me offer (free of charge) my services to those less fortunate than me, because my services came by way of “words”; free legal advice and direction.  I hated to see new immigrants taken advantage of by our slum landlords and by others who would take advantage if they could get away with it.  So, I’d tell people what they had to do (in Small Claims Court) because they couldn’t afford a lawyer, and in that court in Canada, you do not need a lawyer; it is supposed to be a “people’s court”.  I’d even go with them if they were too nervous, just to encourage them and step in if it got to be too much.  My generosity of spirit (actually walking the walk) was returned unto me ten-fold by my landlord’s generosity.  He even told me that I wasn’t to pay the new rent, if it meant I wasn’t going to eat.  Oh, and they also picked up the tab on the hydro bill!

In those times of “time” being my own, I had more time to write, to stop and talk with people, to search out new opportunities and to discover the true essence of me and what made me tick; what made me happy.  I’d always worked for the money, and never had a great love for what I did, unless it definitely helped another human being.  Then I was happy.  I stuck with it because the money was good; no, the money was great!  I guess money was my ultimate dictator, so someone had to pull the rug out from under my feet to get me to move, to change direction.

In those tough and challenging economic times – times much like someone reading this may be going through now – I learned a lot about what it truly means to be Spiritual and to walk that walk, not just talk the talk.

I lived on very little and I never did without; I never went without food and just at the ninth hour when something came due…voila, the exact amount needed to pay the bill appeared; not a penny more nor a penny less. The Lord gave me yet another fleece; He proved the faithfulness of His Word that tells us that His children, “will never lack,” and that He will, “meet all our needs.”  Note – He meets all our “needs” not our “wants”.

I would look in amazement at week’s end and see how much I had done, what had transpired in my life, how much I had accomplished, how many new people I’d met and even helped some, how strangers may have helped me, and how I did without nothing and could not help but wonder in amazement, “What in heaven’s name did I do with all that money I was making?  Here I am living on no income, and I am living!”

I eventually did get a job, and it wasn’t one in my profession.  Guess what the job was? It was as a counsellor in a women’s shelter here in Toronto!  Who would have thought!  My experience the preceding 1.5 years did me well to be able to truly hear what the women were saying who showed up, “homeless”, escaping from an abusive relationship, having lost a job.  I could so relate to them and they knew it was my heart speaking when I spoke, when I reached out and touched a hand.  They knew that I knew the turmoil and fear in their hearts and I knew they believed me and felt encouraged. I could see their chins lift, ever so slightly; could see a tiny glimmer of hope spark an eye.

I found spiritual peace in those tough economic times, like I’d never known before.  Perhaps I should say that in those quiet times I would have, when in prayer or meditation, Peace, Spiritual Peace responded and came home to rest and grow in me…and then show through me.

That spiritual peace is always there, and today, though I am working, I need it almost more than I needed it when I wasn’t working.  The work place can become a bedlam of turmoil and much adieu about nothing.  I can get caught up in things, and politics, and stuff that just doesn’t matter in the long run.

So it is with gratitude and a bursting heart that I return in mind and vision to that 1.5 year journey through tough and very challenging economic turmoil and upheaval, when I found real Spiritual Peace that became deeply rooted in me, and say with all of my heart – thank you my God for having crafted my character to meet the next assignment you were sending me out on.  Thank You for Your Gift of Peace.  You give a Gift and it is a Gift for Life!  I am not telling you by any stretch of the imagination that it was easy; it was not.  What I discovered in those times was a strength and a belief, a faith in YHWH, that He would meet my needs, would provide – and He sure enough did as well as treasures of character and things that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

Had I stayed in the old job, I never would have experienced such joy and peace; would never have gotten to know the true meaning of Spiritual Peace.

Yahshua always spoke peace.  Though he might heal you, it seems it was secondary to what he wanted to give you.  He seemed always to add blessings of peace.  So in these tough economic times, if you find yourself with time on your hands, seek out peace and it will be found.  The Word tells us that we have not because we ask not; it tells us to knock and the door will be opened, seek and you shall find, ask and it will be given unto you.

Seek Peace and it will be found.  Be encouraged by the Word of the Bible, from the mouth of Yahshua himself.  The Lord has proven to me over and over again the Truth of His Word, of His Promises.  I’ve tried to share these “real life” facts with you, to strengthen and encourage you – that He is Faithful and He is True.

The times of which I write happened so vary long ago, but in my mind’s eye, it was like yesterday.  The reason it seems but a moment ago is because there are special gifts imprinted in my heart and soul; treasures that I can re-examine at any time for my own self-encouragement should I find myself in a challenging time or a time when, perhaps a hard choice needs to be made about the next stage of my human journey.  In whom is my Faith and my Trust?  Is it the person who writes my pay cheque, or He who uses that person as an instrument to provide me with the pay cheque for, “meet my needs.”

You may have noted in my last few lines the words “my needs.”  My needs have always been met and I bet so have yours.  It’s those “must have wants” that drive us insane, that keep us scurrying around in our self-built cages chasing our tails.

We are all Spiritual beings on a physical journey, but live our lives as though we were fleshly beings – for everything that we chase after is something we feel is needed to fulfill our desires, our wants, our must haves.  Only the flesh needs these things, not the Spirit.  In those challenging times, my Spirit got some much needed attention and I was able, thanks to my unasked for time off, to delve in and pay some much needed attention to my essence.

Luke 7:50 Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

John 20:19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” :20 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” :26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

And I say to you, go in peace!  Shalom.

 

Reflections: Spring Is In The Air

07 Mar

A beautiful and sunny day here in the metropolis of Toronto (Canada); sun glowing, golfers (yes I say golfers) pacing the greens 30 floors below, a bounce in their step – swinging the invisible golf clubs, getting ready to “burst forth” with new life, new exhuberance as the spring flowers struggle to burst forth through the frozen ground, each new morning striving and pushing just a little bit more; never any doubt that they shall soon raise their faces to be kissed by the sun and washed anew by the golden morning dew.

Nature; positive and ever faithful.  If she could think would she entertain thoughts of doubt and disbelief?  We never doubt, we who live in countries that truly do have “seasons”; never doubt that in March the first faint rays of the spring will come through with the days getting a bit longer, the nights a bit shorter; arising to an earlier sun rise and closing out the day to a later sunset.  We never doubt that there will be frost in November, sometimes in October.  We trust that nature will unfold as planned.  We see that despite the bleakest and harshest of winters, the worst ever, nature still comes through for us in the spring; springing forth as she always has, always will.  She feeds off of what is available, seeking life to sustain her life; spewing out or perhaps not even entertaining anything that would destroy her.

Why can’t we be like her?  Why can’t we know with such certitude that the seasons of our lives will unfold as set forth in the master plan?  Why can’t we learn not to entertain or indulge in things that would kill us; kill our spirit, our soul?  Why can’t we always and forever be feeding our mind and spirit with live giving food that will “lift us up” to be kissed by the sun of life?

We can, but we need to change our “eating habits.”  We need to stop killing ourselves.  Yes it is I and I alone who is the destroyer of my soul, my spirit…who frosts up her spirit never allowing her to unthaw and spring forth like the beautiful tulips in the spring.

I must change my diet, feed myself with live-giving nutrients.

There is power in a single word, just as this blog speaks.  I must speak love and wonder to my soul that my face be lifted up and kissed by the son; that I might spring forth in new life each moment of this life!

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Samuel Ullman

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

Take my breath away o day that dawns before me!

Reflections of Spring