There is an excellent column in today's local newspaper....
Intuition is a gift of the spirit
By Ellin Dize, Religion Columnist
Saturday, July 11, 2009
"Intuition is the voice of the spirit. The Bible says God can be found in “a still, small voice within” (1 Kings 19:12), so the Bible validates intuition. The spirit will help us to achieve our goals and protect us from danger (John 14:26), but few of us know how to connect with the Holy Spirit in a lasting, accessible way. A deeper connection to the soul level of our existence will bring a new understanding to our daily lives.
The healthiest and most balanced way to live is to be in touch with all of our emotions and to know how and when to express them appropriately. Any emotion that we deny and disown tends to remain inside us as blocked energy. These energies can build up over years and cause emotional and physical problems. While our intuition is not the same as our emotions, they are intimately connected.If we are out of balance in our emotional lives, generally we need some help to understand our feelings. Truly it is a mark of strength to admit that we have things to learn. Once we are aware of our emotional feelings, it is not too difficult to distinguish them from our intuitive feelings. Each emotion has its own particular energy, and our intuition has a unique energetic vibration. You might say that we are hearing from God.
Tuned in, we can feel a yearning to go in a certain direction in life. Or we may feel intuitively uncomfortable about something and just know that it is not right for us. Or, when the phone rings, we just know who is calling. And we can know we are on the right track when we feel peaceful, content and calm. Once we are aware of these sensations, we can follow the intuitive impulses we receive through our bodies quite easily. Philosopher J.P. Moreland has pointed out that if you can’t know some things without knowing why you know them, you can’t know anything at all.We need to get more in touch with our physical body to get in touch with our intuition.We spend a lot of time in our intellect, trying to figure everything out and ignoring our body’s messages. Our bodies guide us in subtle and not- so-subtle ways. That gut feeling, those goose bumps are examples of our intuition working. When we get sick, it is our body’s way of telling us to slow down and take better care of ourselves.Some would call intuition “letting go and letting God.” Our Founding Fathers called it “self-evident” truth.
This kind of truth isn’t a result of reasoning to a conclusion. Aristotle said some things can’t be proved, but without them you can’t prove anything.Intuition is a gift of the spirit. It is through intuition that we can find out about God through the Bible. Without intuition, there would be no Bible. Intuition is the basis for all divine inspiration."
