Asking questions is unquestionably one of the most powerful ways to request and receive intuitive guidance. Asking questions of your Higher Self, your unconscious mind, deities, or whatever powers you believe in, will focus and hone your intentions to receive guidance, and throw open the doors of your mind to receive it.

When you humbly ask for help or guidance, you are asserting your desire for help and insight, along with your deep desire to receive it into your heart and mind. Asking for the specific type of help you desire sends a clearer, stronger message, making an answer easier to receive and increasing your sensitivity to whatever form that answer may take whether direct or symbolic messages sent to your consciousness, or hints, whispers, and metaphoric messages that manifest themselves in your outer world.

Nearly all living beings ask such questions internally from time to time, though seldom framing them clearly or believing that you will receive the answers you so desire. Do you ever find that your inner dialog contains questions and thoughts like these: “I wish I knew just what to do here”, or “Is this job really right for me?”, “I really want some help with this!”, and so on. If so, you are asking for guidance from your intuitive self. And you are already receiving answers, yet are not really in a receptive state, making you numb and blind to the help and answers you do receive.

Learning settings and practices that are most personally appropriate for asking your questions and receiving responses will profoundly affect the clarity of your asking and your sensitivity to the responses you receive in a profound way. Likewise, learning the best nature and form for your questions and queries is truly a key to the success of your asking, and refining such will optimize your intuitive potential. When you are more conscious of your questions, you invite greater focus and clarity, both to your current standing and perspectives, and to the guidance you invoke when you ask them.

The Intuition Zone program provides deep insight into the types of questions to ask when you seek this kind of inspired guidance, with specific guidelines, including frames of reference, settings for Yes-No questions, open ended questions that evoke broader answers, what practices and behaviors to avoid, and more, with specific examples. Click to learn more about Aine Belton’s Intuition Zone program.

Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you, “I told you so?”  Even more frustrating can be having to tell yourself “I told you so” because you didn’t listen to your own instincts.Everybody has this "sixth sense" call intuition, but to use it, it's important to develop it.

Learning to develop your intuition is somewhat like learning to understand a foreign language to which you had never been exposed.When you pay attention to the signals your intuition is sending you, you'll discover that you also understand your intuition much more easily.  As time goes by, you begin to understand when your intuition is telling you something and what that means you should do.Eventually, your intuition can even sound as real as somebody talking to you.

Paying attention, practicing, and a genuine desire is all that is required to develop your intuition.  You do not need to have any super psychic abilities or expensive private formal training.  Your personal intuition zone is actually growing stronger simply because you are putting forth the effort to read this article.  You are already giving your intuition a dose of the attention and focus required to hone the skill.

There are a few good practices you can put into place when trying to develop your intuition.  One is to start spending time with no external distractions.For example, you can turn off your cell phone and radio while going to work.Take a moment to consciously attempt to hear your intuition.  Try to quiet your negative or random thoughts and only hear things that have that seem to well from something deeper.Another way to confirm or deny your intuitive hunches is to write them down and then look back upon them at a later point in time.

When you “hear” your intuition, it may come in forms much more than hearing a voice inside you that tells you some piece of information in words.Your intuition communicates with you in many different ways.When you hear a song in your head and later on the radio, or perhaps smell something that isn't around, or even have an unexpected craving for a food you've never eaten before, these all can be signs that your intuition is trying to get your attention. 

Remain open and receptive when your intuition directs you to do something, but does not tell you why.When the time is right, your intuition will tell you way.  Often the reason why does not immediately become clear even when one day you understand completely.  Trust your intuition and never tell yourself “I told you so!” again.

While today’s consensus reality, with its focus on our five senses belittles it, each of us has an intuitive self in addition to our rational, five-sensory selves. Our intuitive selves are seldom in evidence, silenced by a lifetime of being ignored and doubted. Fortunately for us, this phenomenal innate tool is waiting within you, needing only to be unleashed and accepted as an innate part of who you are. If you are willing to listen, your intuitive self has many ways to communicate with you: through pictures, words, feelings. Its messages may come in the form of visions, inspirations, urges, flashes of insight, epiphanies and other subtle or intense pathways not considered legitimate by many.

Things that are signs of the activities of your innate intuitive self can include knowing who is on the phone before you answer it, ‘knowings’ about people, situations that affect your decisions without any rational basis, telepathy, sudden inspiration, hearing a voice within your head, synchronicity and flow, a rock-solid sense of certainty and truth, awareness of subtle energy flows, and other such experiences.

Because today’s consensus reality is dominated by a focus on the five senses, your awareness of, and ability to communicate with this exceptional part of yourself has been almost completely surpressed and forgotten. Surrounded by people and institutions that lack openness and understanding, rich in cynicism, spiritual disconnection, fact-based conditioning, and preoccupied solely with phenomenon that are attributable to events in the physical world, usually leaves our intuitive selves denied, doubted, suppressed or discarded. For many in the modern, technological world, our intuitive selves communication channels have withered up and gradually sealed over. Those messages that do get through tend to go unheard or be totally ignored.

Fortunately, not only is your intuitive self a natural and inherent part of you, it can be reawakened and engaged. With this priceless part of yourself empowered once again as your greatest ally, your life can be full of reward, revelation, and happiness. Once you empower this innate aspect of yourself and learn to communicate effectively with it, there is literally no end to the wonders and miracles that can occur. Because your intuitive self communicates beyond the physical world, it is literally in touch with the divine and dances to the highest vibrations of the universe.

The Intuition Zone is a step-by-step program that provides the exercises, techniques, and guided meditations necessary to reopen communications with your intuitive self, making it a full partner in your life. Go to http://IntuitionZone.info now if you’re ready to reawaken and empower your intuitive self.

Bill Gates, Founder and CEO of Microsoft in his own words once said ‘often you have to rely on your intuition.’ He can serve as an excellent role model when it comes to business, and so when he mentions the importance of intuition in business it’s a message worth paying attention to.

That same intuitive hunch, that inner feeling that stopped me from going ahead with wrong decisions (or helped me make correct ones), is why I have been able to avoid some financial mistakes simply by being aware of and listening my intuition, my sixth sense, my gut feeling deep inside me.

(Though it is relevant to note, I recently have had some financial challenges… and I suspect it’s because I wasn’t listening to my intuition and only made decisions with my rational mind. It takes two to tango, but I was trying to tango only with my mind)

Tangents aside, I must say though that it hasn’t been an easy ride for me. I mean, how can you know exactly what is right or wrong? It’s almost like a war between mind and heart. I have heard the line ‘the heart has its reasons which reason knows not of’ but who was ‘I’ to believe in such thoughts? I was after all just trying to make some money. Taking risks came with the field, and at the time I didn’t think this necessarily meant I had to listen to my illogical, irrational, intuitive mind to guide me. Weren’t the numbers and research enough?

Apparently not…

One day it dawned on me that it was this intuition was actually guiding me towards the right path. It wasn’t logical, but it felt right. If you’ve had intuitive experiences, then you probably understand exactly what I’m talking about.

Anyway, one thing that can be a really big help is to keep an intuition diary and write down any intuitive impressions that come to you. In my case, I kept it mostly in my head and shared it occasionally with others. (In hindsight, writing these intuitive insights down would have provided me a better foundation to work with.)

Anyway, my intuitive hunches came from dreams, thoughts, and sensations I had or felt throughout my days. And of course occasionally I had those sudden ‘bolts of lightning’ kinds of awareness. Those were a kind of instantaneous insight.

Over time I had a thorough idea about the accuracy of my awakened intuition. My intuition had a few favorite ways of communicating with me. I don’t know if that was unique to me. But it made me aware that I was awakening a very important ability within myself. Each entry I made was reviewed almost every month. My intuitive experiences have become a new way of helping me learn more about the world around me.

For years I floundered with trial and error, trying different techniques and approaches. So far that’s been effective, but really slow. It’s taken me nearly a decade to learn what I have about intuition. Part of that was because I didn’t take it seriously enough, and part of it was a lack of information and no true mentor to show me the ropes.

I do believe I’ve now found both the information and mentor, but only time will tell. I’ve been working through The Intuition Zone program from Aine Belton, and along my journey I am journaling about my experiences and review of her program.

If you want to awaken your intuition, then review the resources available and find a mentor or program that resonates with you. We all learn differently, and in my journey I’ve realized how important it is to find people who align with us.

Like Dan Millman says, “There is no one right way. There is only a right way for a specific person, in a specific place, and at a specific point in time.”

Right now, my journey includes The Intuition Zone, so if you’d like to follow along and read my review and experiences with the program then check out my Intuition Zone Review blog. Stop by – I’d love to hear your comments and experiences with developing your own personal intuition zone.