I must start off by saying that EVERYONE has intuition. You can deny it all you want and make fun of all us "crack pots" but it is simply just true. Call it what you like: God, higher-self, the Universe, angels, instinct or any of the other terms that come from various religions. I am here to say I believe it all comes from the same source that no matter what you call it and it is by no means a bad thing. You can deny you have it all you want but "it" is there for all of us to tap into if we so choose. The more you use it the stronger it gets. It really is a wonderful gift. Why not use it to your advantage?

We all have had those little experiences and probably some big ones too. We have them every day and just don't notice them. The phone rings just as you think of someone, you see someone after 20 years who you had just thought of, you are on vacation in another country and bump into an old college roommate. you see someone at an airport who you can't stop looking at and them boom you are seated next to them. Next thing you know they offer you a job. You are at a party or in a crowd and all of a sudden you begin to feel angry or upset. Just look next to you I am sure you are picking up energy from someone close by. Your gut just tells you, "I don't like that person." Or you think something sounds great on the surface but for some reason you just feel uneasy about it. Most of us write these experiences off to nothing more than a mere coincidence. What are the chances that is true? Use these experiences and feelings to your advantage. That is what they are there for. Oh and for the record I believe there are really very few coincidences if any at all.

As the story goes....I was 3 years old and my parents decided to take me one Sunday afternoon to an old Inn in Connecticut for Sunday Brunch. The Inn was well known and very refined. Not the usual stomping ground for a 3 year old child. I was an only child who was very well behaved, quite accustomed to elegant dining and very grown up situations at an early age. Even still I can only imagine my mother being a bit stressed by this jaunt to Connecticut for brunch with a 3 year old. As we entered the Inn my mother noticed I became agitated immediately upon our arrival. As soon as I passed through the old Inn's large front door I ran through with the speed of light and began to run from room to room disturbing quite a few of the guests. My mother was mortified as she herself was refined and not really willing to take this behavior in stride. I continued to become unusually anxious to the point neither of my parents had ever seen. I began to demand to see the fireplace constantly repeating ";Where is the fireplace";, ";Where did you put the fireplace!"; I finally just stood and pointed to a wall crying and said "Where is the Fireplace!"; The Inn's manager looked very disturbed but apparently not by my histrionics. He pulled my mother aside and sheepishly said that when the Inn was built many many years before there had been a fireplace in that exact spot yet there were no visible signs today. That was the first experience my mother remembers noticing.

The second profound experience I do clearly remember. I was sitting in the back seat of my mother's car being seen and not heard when I was probably 5 or 6 years old. She was in the front talking to her friend when I heard her mention another one of her friends, Alexandra Dans. I spontaneously popped up from the backseat and loudly exclaimed, "Alexandra Dan's mother is going to die today!" Well my, once again, proper mother was not too happy with my apparent rudeness. When it finally registered what I had said she was very upset. She said "Oh that is not nice, etc, etc, etc." I felt embarrassed and wasn't really quite sure why I had said that. Well, sure enough Alexandra Dan's mother did die that night. That was when, I think, my mother knew for sure that I was a bit like her mother. My grandmother was beautiful blue eyed toe head who was a creative, talented and a bit of a lost soul. She had many interesting hobbies one being Tea Leaf and playing card reading, usual done on the sly back then. I never really new this when I was young as she died when I was 11 years old. My mother often in later years would say her mother had "The Second Sight." My mother had very good intuition as well but never really used it and when she did felt guilty about it. She later went through a period where she felt her intuition or psychic gifts did not match with her religious beliefs. She pretty much shut down that aspect of herself and even her strong interest in Astrology. I was always raised as if intuition was a completely natural thing along with psychic ability and Astrology, etc but these things were not something we worked on and strengthened.

If you have read thus far you probably feel there is some merritt to using your intuition. Honestly, you really do have it and the more you use it and rely on it the stronger it will get. Not everyone sees ghosts, reads tarot cards or can touch someones hand and tell them intimate things about themselves but everyone can use their gut!

Intuition is really the first step in opening yourself up to further experiences- if you want them. If not, you need to follow your gut anyway. You all have that little voice inside that comes off as that"nagging" feeling. That "nagging" feeling is what you need to listen to. Trust me, much like people when you listen it will stop nagging you. If you do something that does not resinate with you whether it be a job or just hanging around the wrong people that gut will pop up to alert you that it is wrong. It will sit on you like a rock until you change it. Some of us are so accustomed to living with that weight that you don't even notice it. Time to shed the extra pounds!

Start small and just see what happens. You can't be choosy with the gut it works best if you do it across the board. The next time you can't stop thinking about someone you haven't seen in years call them or search them on-line. Next time you have a dream about someone or something that you can't get off your mind think about what you can do to fix it. Next time you meet someone that makes you feel unsettled, stay away. Next time you are about to make a decision and that "old nagging feeling" is there don't do it. Each day these experiences are in front of us from driving to shopping to friends.

If you are open to hearing that voice it will get stronger every day. Dreams are a great way to help speed the process. Write down all your dreams the minute you wake up. If you wait your conscious mind will filter them much like how your gut feelings get filtered and you won't remember them. The conscious mind has a way to over-ride intuition. Write down when you follow your intuition and the outcome vs. when you don't follow it.

It is a fascinating Universe we live in. It is here for us to use to our benefit. If we don't we are not living the fullest life we can. Be positive and believe!