Trying To Make Sense Of The Sixth One..

We often talk about, and are taught about, our five major senses and their uses. Our sense of sight and what it is we view with our eyes. Our sense of hearing and what it is we hear with our ears. Our sense of smell and what aroma wafts its way in. Our sense of taste and what is pleasing or unpleasing to our tongues. And our sense of touch, of what it is concretely we can feel. All of these are gifts of the body and the electronic part of it. And most of these, we often use to override, instead of work with, the sense I want to talk to you about today. We call it the sixth sense. Some call it intuition, and the dictionary defines that as “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning”.

I am not sure if I should say sadly or not sadly, I haven’t decided yet, that we all have brains. Our brains like to think logically and consciously, and they like to cast doubt. Maybe that is a good thing, maybe not. I am unsure of that also. I am still learning. I like to think that if only we could understand that we know we know, then life would be so much simpler. There wouldn’t be a need to verify what we already know to exist. Then we could use our brains to take the steps we know we need to take. Most of us, including myself, miss the sometimes subtle intuition that appears. And it is more horrifying when we miss the slap in the face intuition, and then have to look at ourselves later, and say “damn, how did I miss that?”. I don’t know about you, but I know that I quite often have to say to myself “HELLO… well duh – pay attention”.

And that is what it takes, attention and faith in yourself. Most people don’t like to talk about intuition, and others like to say the whole thought of it is crazy. Well using the words of one Billy Joel “you may be right, I may be crazy, but I just might be the lunatic you are looking for”. Because as I walk in trying to listen to, to find, and pay attention to mine, I am also wanting you to recognize yours. For it is when we trust that and follow that, that people we need, people who need us, lessons we need to learn, or lessons we need to teach, occur.

So, I ask you, have you ever been sitting somewhere alone, waiting on a friend, and all of a sudden just known someone was looking at you? That is intuition. The circling of the head and use of the eyes to see who it is, is your brain trying to verify. I will also add that if you slowly look around and view each person, you will also get a sense on who it was. Even if they are no longer looking at you. That too is intuition. All too often, however, we get the feeling we are being watched and we turn our head to see and do not meet any eyes and then think we are crazy. I am here to tell you, you are not.

Or let me ask you this, have you ever been driving home and had an urge to take a road not normally on your path? That is intuition. The sad truth to life is, most of us ignore that urge. Our brain starts saying “why do I want to go there? that is the long way home”. Only to end up in a two-hour traffic jam a few minutes after we ignored the urge. Or have you ever walked toward your phone, picked it up and then it rings? or there is someone already there saying hello? You moving to your phone was intuition.

These are just a few examples to give you of the existence of intuition. I hope you will give it some thought and begin to recognize it in your own life. I even further hope, you avoid the fear, that comes in learning to let it lead you in your life. And in admittance, I will have you know that I am following my intuition to put the thought of intuition into your existence. Why? I do not know. I may never know. The fact is the seed is planted and where the tree is to grow it will. As always I wish you luck and love in it all and invite you to comment or join the discussion whenever you get the urge. Until next time…