Why do I mention it today?  More than likely because I am in a heightened stage of that awareness and I am listening like I have never listened before to things that I not only understand but heed as practical advice and direction towards a future I am very much looking forward to.  The intuition is a key, a clue and an insight to the world around you.  It is a means to step out of the dark and into some light… with a foundation of trust and an open mind to allow what may not seem practical into your personal realm of possibility.

We humans are skeptics.  We are judgmental and we are, in large part pessimists.  It is all too easy to find yourself in a place of negatives, doubting what you believe you see and settling miserably into a foundation of fear and even anger.  It is not a comfortable place to be but so often it becomes so familiar that we begin to believe that it is normal… real happiness becoming “elusive” and “impossible.”  We become stuck in places, situations and even relationships because we can’t see that we are simply not exercising the choices that would bring us into happier places because our discomfort becomes an illusion of comfort.

I am more than aware that the world is not always going to be a comfortable place for me personally.  I would have it no other way… for the discomfort is the challenge provided to light the spark and get me motivated to grow, learn and change … while moving forward and towards the comfort zone again.  The trick that I have un-covered for myself over time is that the answers to all lessons and growth are within me… and come intuitively if I am listening.  They are swarming and obvious when my awareness is in tune.  The trick is to listen and recognize the thoughts and flashes… the inner “sense” that is telling me what I need to know.  Something as simple as “it will be all right” or that there is a connection with another soul…. or perhaps a hint to someone’s not being honest.  It’s all there.  If I get the flash I am enlightened.  If I discard it I am tossing away a gift.

I have always been an intuitive.  I believe for years I paid no attention to the sense that it provided.  Perhaps I heard the inspiration but often emotions or over-active imagination clouded the intuition and off I went into tangents that spelled trouble and a walk down the longer path.  It could be argued that I am on the correct path whether or not I am listening to the intuition or not…. and I would agree.  If the path provided is one of tangents and a bit more hardship it is necessary and deemed appropriate by the story that is my life.  Everything really does happen for a reason and I am not going to start second guessing the experiences I have had to get me where I am today.

Of late I have been feeling incredibly intuitive.  It is grounding because without it I would feel raw and a bit vulnerable.  There is much happening to me and around me that would cause me to feel some loss of hope and balance.  Intuitively, however, I am feeling the opposite.  I know that what I am feeling is telling me the direction I should move.  It is showing me who I should and should not trust.  It is assuring me that the answers are within me and the problems are nowhere near as “intense” as I might make them without the trust that the intuition provides.

That is where being an intuitive but actually paying attention to the gift pays its dividends.  It is a gift in sanity (where some may believe it to be completely the opposite.)  It is a tool to the future and a practice in awareness that allows a soul to live in the moment… and no matter what it is that I want to achieve out of my life it is worth nothing if I do not live in the moment to actually experience.

… and in this moment I could not be happier.  I am in a safe place, in good health, in good spirits, with hope, happiness, inspiration and so many different pieces of creativity and enjoyment scattered across my daily routine.  I am loved and I love and I am inspired and have the ability to inspire.  I am blessed.

I am intuitive.

Be Happy.  We Well.  Be.

I love the moments when I stop, breath, smile and remember that there is always another way to look at literally anything in the world. Granted it is not always easy to grasp the nature of an alternate view, but it is ALWAYS an option. We always have the choice to change a thought, a habit, a response or the very direction we are taking within our lives.

Perception is not always about drastic change in thought or action, however… but spiritually it could make all the difference in the world regarding the way we feel about ourselves and the moment by moment existence we are experiencing.

How I look at or perceive a situation, be it the way something has been said, done (or not done), or a piece of my reality which claims priority within my very busy and active mind…it is not always what it seems. That isn’t to say that I am always wrong… simply that I may not always be right and a review is in order. The lesson is in where I put the full importance and how I hinge that upon the state of my entire being.

The last statement was written with slight dramatic flair on purpose. It is in many cases a point in contention for the way I will pour priority into active thought and allow something that is simply not as important in the grand scheme to become the reigning purpose for being.

One of the things that has been a confusion in my years has been a highly intuitive sense. I know when something is happening… or when things are about to happen or change. This is a gift that is often mishandled and mislabeled. Intuitive nature is not necessarily a psychic sensibility. I do not predict the future by any means (although there was that dream the night before Elvis Presley died…) Intuition means ONLY that I sense a difference. Being that I am also sober as a judge (I ask myself sometimes if a drink or a joint every now and again may not actually be key ingredients that will stop the constant wheel turning. Could it really be that bad??) I am highly AWARE of these shifts in “perception” within people and environments around me. When I do I then do what a sober, creative writing, emotionally responsive Piscean will do: I create scenarios without even knowing that the process has begun.

That should be a master plan for a magnificent series of short stories, a twisting-turning screenplay or a novel with options for a series.

Instead what it can become is a series of answers built on fears of past failures that undermine logic and common sense. Now where this paints the picture of an unstable lunatic I would hardly fit that description. Instead I give you a real live, honest and loyal human being dead set on making sure that the path in front of him is the best possible one created.

And this is where the perception becomes important. I crave communication. It was never highly available to me in earlier more shut off years. When I am craving communication it is usually to combat creating answers to questions myself. Asking questions is an amazing gift. Seeking answers is the sign of a person who wants to learn and better themselves. I am that person and I am proud that I seek. But the important thing I must remember is to look at and weigh the options of the answers that are around me… whether created, spun, gossiped or hard-to-handle realities. Whatever I do, see, hear or feel is multi-faceted and amazing. One common response or reaction, whether verbal or held within is only that. To stop and remember that it is all different in the eyes of others, and in turn, my own eyes. Everything can be viewed in positives, negatives and everywhere in between. All of this is part of the mystery of my own intuitive nature.

I am not afraid of change. So I must repeatedly ask myself what I am actually afraid of. The answer for this intuitive is the unknown. Tell me what the change is and I will digest and regroup. Leave me to just know it is out there and I will seek the answers. It is who I am and if I don’t accept it I will hold myself in contempt and assume myself less of a human being than others I am around. Simply not so.

My perception is that even in moments that may not appeal to others… I am strong in recognition of the process. I think my way into things… and think my way out. I strive and succeed in everything I do. I do that because I can. I do this because perception of the result is positive.

And I remember as a good friend told me today. No matter what SEEMS to be “wrong” or out of place in a moment. No matter what it is that might cause me fear or dis-comfort. I am afforded all of these feelings as a human being LIVING. In my life there have been many around me who would love to be in these shoes today.

Be Happy. Be Well. Be