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Perhaps you have not followed your intuition because its urgings have often seemed so incredibly fantastic that it seemed best not to act. This is often the case with people who have reached some crisis point in their lives and who sense that they must now make some drastic changes if they hope to survive. Still, old habits die-hard. Knowing that your health is being jeopardized by a high-pressure job that is netting you a six-figure income will not necessarily cause you to walk off calmly into the sunset. Although your health is being destroyed – although you may even die – there is still the matter of how you have always lived! Should you choose to reject your immediate lifestyle, it could well mean that you have been wrong! Wrong about the way you’ve been living – and thinking. No one likes to be wrong. Strange as it may seem, people would rather be right than happy. Still, that small inner voice refuses to go away. Despite your inner confusion and discomfort, it continues to urge you to take another path. What should you do?

First, let me tell you what most people would do. They would either ignore their intuition, or wait until they were able to reason through its prompting. But intuition is not concerned with reason. It is a faculty of the mind that does not explain. It simply points the way. After that, you are on your own to do or NOT do whatever you see fit.

Highly gifted people, and those who are thought to be incredibly lucky, are those who have enough self-confidence and faith in their intuition to see it through. Ordinary people, on the other hand, wait for “proof,” and so they continue to flounder in the conflicts created by their own intellectual reasoning.

Before you can comfortably follow any intuitive path, it is necessary to understand that intuition is basically concerned with pointing the way to your greater good. That is its primary function and motive. It wants what is best for you. Always! Once you are able to accept this, you will automatically become more receptive to what it is trying to tell you, and after that, you will begin to notice some subtle changes taking place. For one thing, you will realize that intuition is actually right for you, that it is interested in you, that it knows all about you, and is determined to show you the best way.

Where is the “proof” of this? It is in your own faith that this incredible power exists. Notice how it gives you a greater ability to achieve, how it enables you to attract better conditions and happier experiences. The more you think about this kind and loving power, the more you will find intuitive guidance working with you and for you – and the easier it will become to accomplish your goals.

You will find this to be true in every area of your life, not only when it is necessary to make major life-altering decisions, but also when you suddenly need to “think on you feet.”

Remember the friend I spoke of who had involved herself in an “accident that didn’t happen”? As I’ve already told you, she is a great believer in intuition and constantly heeds its wise counsel in matters both great and small.

Early in her marriage, before she learned how to cook all the wonderful gourmet meals she regularly prepares today, she was faced with an unexpected and potentially catastrophic dilemma.

“My husband was a sales manager,” she told me. “Occasionally, he would invite his sales crew out to dinner, but once, he invited the men,

and also their wives, to have dinner with us in our home. Although I gave no outward indication, I was immediately thrown into a panic, for I barely know how to boil an egg! In those day, I relied heavily upon convenience foods and frozen entrees. Now, suddenly, I was faced with the task of preparing a dinner for fourteen people, something I felt would need to be truly original, innovative and unique in order to engender pleasant memories long after they evening had passed.

“At the outset, the situation seemed impossible! I had no culinary skills – and yet, I wished to impress my husband, as all young brides are eager to do. The real question, of course, was what to do! As I silently thought about it, the answer suddenly came! If you can’t be good, be a little outrageous. In the process, you might even be able to pass off your limited menu as a deliberate theme.

I began to think in terms of ‘opposites,’ inspired perhaps by my great affection for the original Odd Couple, Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. It occurred to me that Felix and Oscar had succeeded on the basis of being an unlikely combination. And so it was that I came up with an unlikely combination of my own – a dinner consisting of hot dogs and champagne! With all the fixings. Served on sterling silver trays.

“It turned out to be an exceptional evening, an incredibly warm and comfortable experience for everyone involved. After it was over, I knew I would be eternally grateful to that small inner voice that had guided me. The one that is guiding me still.”

Have you ever had such an experience? Many people have. Just as many have received intuitive messages that proved to be essential to their safety or well being. Just in the nick of time. Or so it seems.

The fact is, the source we have come to rely upon in unexpected situations is always there – and always stands ready to work for us.

Trust it.

Believe in it.

Start using it!