After spending time analyzing the multitude of techniques available, and distinguishing them within the A – Z framework of my book, Ignite Your Psychic Intuition, I simplified sparking your intuitive abilities into three easy steps: gratitude, openness, and surrender.

1. Gratitude
   To effortlessly increase intuitive abilities, acquire a spirit of gratitude. Be thankful for everyone and everything in your life. Everything that’s happened molded you into the great person you are today, so be grateful for the good and bad experiences. Feel you gratitude encompass you—feel it inside and out, from your head to your toes! Your “attitude of gratitude” opens your heart, allowing the door of intuition to swing wide open.
2. Openness
   With an attitude of gratitude, you become aware of the vastness of the universal consciousness and its place in your daily life, opening you to heightened sensitivity. You’ll become more sensitive to internal and external energy. 

   With internal energy sensitivity, for example, your dreams play a greater role in providing help for life’s problems; you’ll experience more “gut feelings” and a soar in creativity.

   As your openness grows, so will your sensitivity to external energy. External energy is the energy emanating from someone or something else (for example, information present in someone’s aura or information you receive as imprinted energy from an object or a place. As your intuitive perceptions increase, your ability to fine-tune their meaning will increase in accuracy. You’ll receive spiritual nudges to grab opportunities, and at times, warnings to stop you from acting.

3. Surrender
   When you are grateful and open to internal and external energy, you’ve reached a state of deepened spiritual understanding, abundant in wisdom and love. You begin to understand and accept how powerless you are in the huge scheme of things. You’ve reached a state of true surrender and a crucial point in your intuitive development. 

   True surrender is a complex spiritual metamorphosis, one that moves us away from a state of man-made fear and boundaries, to a spiritual mindset of fearlessness with endless possibilities. Once you’ve reached a state of surrender, you never want to return to a limited, fear-based life.

   Incorporate gratitude, openness, and surrender in your life along with the other tips and tools of Ignite Your Psychic Intuition, and watch good changes begin to unfold for you!

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   Our thanks to Teresa for her guest post! For more from Teresa Brady, browse inside her book Ignite Your Psychic Intuition or email her at teresa@byteresabrady.com.

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to write a book about intuition and love.  In many ways these two often highly charged energies have defined much of my life.  While psychic ability has always come naturally to me, I cannot say the same about relationships. Since early childhood I have confronted many challenges and learned many lessons through my connection with others. While using my intuition to help others has been rewarding, learning how to effectively apply it in my own life and specifically in my relationships has been life altering. Working as a professional intuitive and counselor for many years has shown me that I am not alone. Most of us would like to be able to further develop our innate intuition for use in our relationships.

Even if you are not aware of it, your intuition is hard at work in your interactions and connections with others.  Your gut feelings, that tingling sensation up and down your spine at the sight of a special someone, and the instantaneous feelings of ease or tension when first meeting another are common intuitive signals that we have all experienced.  With a little attention and practice you will find that you have within you a trustworthy and insightful relationship-decoding mechanism that offers you unexpected benefits.

Developing your intuition for use in relationships differs from other types of intuitive development. Most methods ignore or discount the significant role that emotional energy can play in both accelerating or sabotaging intuitive clarity and reliability. As we all know, relationships are chock full of emotions.  My book Love and Intuition explores the inherent intuitive power within emotional energy and love and will help you to identify your particular intuitive love type.  It will show you how to align yourself with the potent energy of emotion to intuitively tune into yourself and others, heal negative emotional patterns, enhance intimacy and attract a soul mate.  Intuitive development will also add excitement, exploration and fun to your relationships.

My hope is that within the pages of this book you will become empowered to intuit, create, and enjoy the love that you so much deserve.

When I first met intuitive coach Jodi Livon in August of 2007, we talked for a couple hours over a cup of coffee. She knew she had many things to say about her experience with psychic development, but didn’t yet have a book proposal or solid direction for her writing. A few months later, she emailed me a proposal. Less than a year later, a final manuscript. And about a year after that, Jodi is charming her way into the heart of everyone who reads her book The Happy Medium: Awakening to Your Natural Intuition.

One of  the challenges throughout the publishing process is making sure that the author’s personal charisma shines through in how we package and promote the book. In Jodi’s case, I think we nailed it. You can feel Jodi’s warmth, knowledge, and genuine personality as you read. Last week, Jodi talked about the process of owning her intuition on TCL, Twin Cities Live. From her comfortable office in suburban Minnesota, she did an insightful reading for one of the show’s employees. Back at the studio, she explained that intuition is a natural element of everyone’s life.

Given how well the segment went, Jodi was invited back September 8, 15, 22, and 29. Tune in to TCL for Jodi’s remarkable insight on what it’s like to see the side of life that many of us are taught to put aside.