Have you ever noticed how sexual and sensual feelings seem to intensity and increase not just your physical alertness but your mental, spiritual and emotional sensitivity as well? You feel more, experience more and become an open door for tuning into yourself and your partner in ways that escape your attention during every-day routine interactions. This heightened mind-body-spirit responsiveness is a form of intuitive awareness. Simply stated intuition is the ability to know something without knowing how you know it. Your intuition can surface primarily through your thoughts, your emotions, and the energy field and through your body. Everyone has intuitive ability and it is as innate and common as your other five senses.

 Intuition is love’s most natural language, as both intuition and love spring from the depths of the soul. Love is powerful energy and like intuition it speaks to us through subtle cues. More than just a feeling and an emotion the power of love defies logic and human reasoning. It is a mysterious and compelling force that leads us beyond our comfort zone and into greater awareness of ourselves, others and life. Your intuition is one of love’s most important allies. It is at work in your attraction to certain people, in your awareness of the deep unspoken feelings of a partner and in your ability to know what to say to help and comfort those you love.

Intuition is more than just the skill of accessing nonverbal information. It also describes the way that we relate to energy and this includes sexual energy.  Love and intuition working in unison with one another is the gateway for soul connected oneness with another that transcends physical boundaries. Becoming conscious of your natural intuition can add a vibrant dimension to sexuality. Carl Jung, the famed psychologist, once said that everyone who came to see him with a “sexual” issue had in fact a “spiritual” issue and everyone who came to see him for a “spiritual” issue had a “sexual” issue. Sexuality and spirituality are highly charged, sensual energies that are forever intertwined. When your intuitive senses are awakened, you can listen and respond to your partners nonverbal needs and desires while challenging yourself to open to new levels of emotional and spiritual intimacy and trust.

Intuitive awareness sensitizes you to respond to your partner’s whole being—mind, body and spirit. This kind of multidimensional connection with another infuses the relationship with excitement and it elevates love making by stimulating peak sexual experiences. Sexual intimacy is an opportunity to experience heightened levels of connection with another and simultaneously, with the divine. Sex can give us an energetic boost into the experience of the higher realms as the experience of orgasm can be a peek into the world of pure energy and bliss. It is like a sudden magic carpet ride into the ethereal.

Your sexual attraction to another is not always predictable and logical. It may even seem to be a force that is difficult to control, and understand. To the ego-mind love-making is a sexual act where personality issues such as power, control and the need for approval and self gratification are satiated. Yet, intimacy is also an exchange that can launch you into your innermost soulful being. The boundaries between yourself and another slip away and you silently communicate with one another and the sublime. You can easily tap into this powerful inner resource as the full power of both love and intuitive ability is within you.

                Use the following meditation to contemplate and redefine what sexuality may mean to you.

• Begin by contemplating the joyful union that exists in nature. Imagine that all of life is continuously participating in the joyous act of ecstasy. Perhaps leaves on a branch gently touching one another in the slight breeze feel blissful energy moving through them. Maybe the water in a cool river awaits the morning sunlight with tingling anticipation, or the deeply buried seeds of a mighty oak stir and move with ecstasy to the sound of overhead crows.
• Contemplate the thought that within the natural movement of all of life there is a transcendent and continuous rapturous interchange.  
• Now imagine that this same rhythm that exists in all of nature exists within you and it is ready to come to life. Invite breath into your body, allow it to relax you. Clear your mind, your heart, and the tension in your body through gentle cleansing breaths.
• Imagine yourself as a hollow and open vessel for the experience of nature at its most sensitive level. Allow the vibration of absolute love to flow into you.
• Imagine your partner as a channel for this most generous and loving energy that desires to make its way to you. Love is like a warm ray of light, like the swell of an ocean wave rising and falling. Open yourself to the love of your partner and to the natural flow of the life force that accompanies your partner’s touch.
• Imagine that in sexual communion there are thousands of stimulated love cells that want to ride into your body. Invite them in. They have a gift for you. They long to wake and guide you into the heavenly environment of expansion and grace.
• Encourage the cosmic to dance within you. Feast on the invisible offerings of bliss. You are a love sponge; draw into yourself particles of the celestial spark. Delightful existence moves you and passes through you. Its gift to you is a timeless moment of joy. Let these radiant particles of absolute love energy move through you and extend this energy to your partner, share your riches freely. 

When you combine conscious intuitive awareness with sexuality, the veil of the physical drops and what is revealed is the ecstatic energy of love that all of life is participating in. 

Author of the bestselling Discover Your Psychic Type and Love and Intuition (Llewellyn Worldwide) Sherrie Dillard has been a New Thought pastoral counselor, professional psychic, medium, and teacher for over twenty years. She has taught classes and workshops, both nationally and internationally, on the life-enhancing aspects of intuition development. www.sherriedillard.com

The Infatuation or Love Quiz

     Our intuition is constantly bombarding us with unspoken intuitive messages about others, especially those with who we share a romantic interest.  But how do you know what the intuitive feelings, sensations and mysterious messages really mean? 

     You may for instance, feel drawn, almost magnetized to another and are not sure why?   Has a certain someone ever walked into the room and your stomach churns and your palms sweat? Or you wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of a dream about your partner?  Even though you have not yet spoken to one another, every time the new hire passes your desk your heart races and your body trembles, why?  Have you ever felt that your boyfriend was being dishonest but disregarded the feeling because you had no proof or evidence to back it up?

Everyone has innate intuitive ability and even when you ignore or suppress it, your intuition is always at work.  Although it may seem hard to understand, spontaneous and even confusing, with a little focus and practice your intuition can become a powerful relationship ally. 

To receive the most benefit from your innate intuitive sensing, pay attention to how those sometimes subtle and sometimes not so subtle intuitive messages emerge. You may for instance, receive intuitive impressions in your body as a “gut feeling” or tingles of shivers up your spine.  I had a friend who pays attention when she gets what she call goose bumps up and down her arms.  This is to her a sign that her intuition is trying to tell her something. Some people get immediate mental thoughts and impressions about others.  While some may be empathetic and feel what a loved one feels even when they are miles away.  Your intuition might surface in your dreams and even in your daydreams. 

Once you are more familiar with the way that your intuition most often emerges, you can begin to decipher the meaning and message behind those feelings, thoughts, sensations and impressions.  This is not always easy, especially at the beginning of a relationship when you are hopeful, excited and stimulated by the prospects of a new love.  The rush of energy, the tingling and the inner sense of connection that you might be feeling does not always mean that you will have a positive fulfilling relationship with him or her.  Your intuition may be sending you a message that you have just met a true partner it might also be signaling you to run the other way.

     The following questions will help you to discern the unspoken intuitive messages that often accompany the beginning of a relationship.

1. When it comes to a romantic or potential romantic partner which statement is most true:
   1. I feel relaxed, safe and can be vulnerable and completely honest when I am with him or her.
   2. I have a nagging sense that something is not right and not adding up
   3. we have a highly charged emotional connection

1. When I am in my partner or potential partner’s presence or even when I think of him or her my body
   1. relaxes and I feel a sense of calm
   2. tightens and I feel tense

                  c.   I become intensely sexually stimulated

1. I want my intuition to help me to
   1. increase my ability to feel and express love
   2. figure out what my partner is thinking or feeling
   3. alert me as to when my partner is lying or deceiving me

1. I have had sudden moments that seem to come out of nowhere where
   1. I feel my heart expanding with love and compassion
   2. feel as if I need to have sex with my partner to assure that we are close
   3.  have an impending sense of doom

1. When it comes to my romantic relationship my inner voice is telling me to
   1. trust and let go of outcomes
   2. take care of myself
   3. heal my past emotional wounds

Love

    If you answered most questions A, Your intuition is signaling you to the start of a healthy and loving relationship.  Keep listening to the inner promptings that are encouraging you to grow and evolve.  Love is an active participatory journey.  The more self aware, honest and forgiving you are with yourself the more able you will be to give and share with another.  Love does not happen to us.  Instead as you engage in the process of listening within and honest communication with your partner the stronger the love bond will become. 

Infatuation

      If you answered most of the questions B, your relationship may be more infatuation than love.  The relationship may be exciting, energizing and fun but it may not have the true love potential that you are looking for.  If you find that you feel increasing off balance, tense or sense that something feels “off” or “not right” about the relationship, trust your feelings even if you do not have tangible evidence to support your intuition.  Increase communication with your partner, ask the tough questions and be honest about whether or not the relationship is able to support your core needs and desires. Listen to your inner voice and trust its guidance, even if does not tell you what you want to hear. 

Heartbreak

      If you answered most of the question C, your relationship may cause you more pain than joy.

     When you find that your intuitive attention is focused more on your partner than yourself you may be heading into a co-dependent relationship. Co-dependence is an insidious emotional cycle where your happiness and sense of well being is dependent on the moods and feelings of your partner.  In a long term co-dependent relationship you run the risk of losing your sense of inner power, self worth and self esteem.  If you are in this kind of relationship, take time to tune into your intuition.  Listen to the wise and loving voice within as it will guide you toward taking the necessary steps to heal and move forward either in or out of the relationship.

   Your intuition is always at work.  It is an innate and invaluable sense that when listened to can help you maneuver the often tricky waters of dating.  Your intuition can signal you as to the beginning a fantastic relationship or it can warn you of potential heartbreak.  To make the most of intuitive guidance, spend time in silence, breathing, relaxing and allowing the inner voice to emerge.  Trust and act on what you receive. Know that when you do you will be lead to a supportive and loving relationship.

     Sherrie Dillard is the author of the best selling Discover Your Psychic Type (Llewellyn Worldwide) and Love and Intuition(Llewellyn Worldwide).  www.sherriedillard.com

Intuition: The Language of Love

     Tara, a friend of mine, first noticed Jeff while standing in the crowded line of a coffee shop waiting for her morning dose of caffeine.  When their eyes met she felt a deep and compelling inner stirring. A casual hello that morning and the following morning, led to conversation and Jeff asking her to dinner.  On their first date Tara told me that there was no denying their shared mutual attraction.  Despite their many differences, such as education and occupation, Tara works for a biotechnical firm and Jeff drives a city bus, they both felt an instantaneous and unspoken connection to one another.

The immediate attraction that people in love often feel for one another is seldom logical or rational.  It is instead a form of intuitive knowing that springs from the deep stirrings of the soul.

Intuition has been defined as simply knowing something without knowing how you know it.  We have all had this experience.  For instance, have you ever had a strong feeling of trust or mistrust in another upon first meeting? Have you ever thought of a loved one and you soon receive an email or phone call from them?  Or have you ever pushed away uncomfortable feelings about another because you had no proof of problems and later regretted doing so?   These are all common intuitive signals that most of us at one time or another experience.

     Feelings of love and attraction magnify intuitive ability.  Take Gabby for instance.  For the past several weeks when her husband Carl, leaves for work, she feels heaviness in the pit of her stomach. Although Carl keeps assuring her that everything at work is going well, Gabby has a hard time ignoring the sinking feeling that something is not right.  When sharing this feeling with a friend of hers who works for the same company as her husband, she discovers that there are rumors of impending layoffs.  This information confirms what she has been feeling. With this advanced notice, Carl immediately contacts a career recruiting service that had previously sought him out.  Everyone has intuitive ability and with a little attention and focus you can learn how to effectively use it.  Your intuition can for instance, help you to attract a loving partner, provide valuable insight into others and increase self awareness as to your own sometimes baffling emotional patterns and attractions.  Your intuitive knowing can also save you from unnecessary relationship heartache, increase intimacy and help you and your partner to more effectively communicate.

The following steps will help you to tune into and develop your natural intuition.

1. To begin become aware of how your intuition naturally surfaces.  It will emerge primarily through your thoughts, your emotions, your body or your spirit essence.

            If you receive intuitive information through your emotions you are an emotional intuitive. You are empathetic and feel what others feel.  You give from the heart and most likely you long for a deep authentic loving relationship with a soul mate. Emotional intuitives believe that love can conquer all and are usually sympathetic, compassionate and sometimes vulnerable partners.

             A mental intuitive intuits through their thoughts.  They often intuit the opinions views and ideas of others.  They see the big picture, and their intuitive ability inspires creative ideas and solutions to problems.  In relationships mental intuitives need to feel understood, accepted and acknowledged for their keen perception and insight.  They tend to be nonjudgmental, open minded and interesting partners.

             If you are a physical intuitive you likely absorb the energy of others and the environment into your body. A physical intuitive will often experience their intuition as gut feelings or spontaneous aches and pains. Upon first meeting another they may for no known reason experience tingling shivers up their spine or their stomach may churn and summersault. In relationships a physical intuitive demonstrates love through touch, hugs, hand holding and sexual intimacy.

            A spiritual intuitive receives intuitive energy in less tangible ways than the other three types.  They may receive intuitive information about their family members and friends in their dreams or through instantaneous impressions.  These types of intuitives will sometimes “see” family members who have passed over and they may have visions of the future or of events in distant places.  In relationships a spiritual intuitive is likely to fall in love at first sight, be spontaneous, insightful and wise. 

2        However your intuition emerges, listen to it.  Trust your initial impressions.  It is often the first impulse you have about another, even before you know much about them that is the most accurate.  Make it a habit to check in and listen for your intuitive responses. 

       You might want to tune into the signals of your particular intuitive type.

       If you are an emotional intuitive notice how you feel around others.  Are you quickly comfortable, calm, stressed or anxious?   Do you feel opened hearted or self protective?  

      If you are a mental intuitive you might hear an inner voice telling you that either something is not “right” or that you can relax and trust.  Another common intuitive signal for the mental intuitive is an idea or thought that quietly but persistently keeps surfacing. 

      If you are a physical intuitive check tune into your physical boy.  Do you feel tight, tense or relaxed?  Do you develop headaches or stomach pains around certain people or situations?

      A spiritual intuitive will often intuit in his or her dreams. If you suspect you are a spiritual intuitive, before you go to sleep at night ask for a dream that will help you to understand a particular person or situation.  When you wake notice your initial feelings and thoughts and if you can recall a dream, write it down.  If you do not understand it, seek help in interpreting it.  You might find that it holds valuable information. 

 3     Once you become aware of an intuitive sensation or impression, spend some time alone where you can be undisturbed and further tune in.  Focus within and ask for the message or meaning behind the intuitive sensations. Listen and try not to logically figure this out. Breathe, relax and become receptive.  Then trust what you receive.  

Be honest about your desires and expectation, about another or a relationship. Your expectations of another will muffle your ability to listen to important vital intuitive information. Be willing to know the truth and release your desired outcome. 

Once you consciously begin to develop and align yourself with your intuition, the intuitive messages, sensations and impressions will increase.  Be patient with yourself and the process. With time and practice your intuition will strengthen and become more clear and accurate. 

Love is a powerful force that is always intuitively guiding you.

Love and Intuition (Llewellyn Worldwide) www.sherriedillard.com