Where Does Intuition Come From
Posted: Sunday, June 10, 2007
by Susan Thom
Since I believe in a Divine Light, filled with compassion and love and strength and power, I don’t know why I question intuition, but it almost scares me sometimes. I think I believe the connection between the Divine power and our minds, creates our intuition, the positive energy between the two. I’ve had intuition all my life, but I never really thought about it much as a kid. But I remember feeling things that would come true. On the other hand, I was very naive, so that made for a little twist in the old brain.
Next, my grandmother was going in for a heart operation, and I didn’t feel good about it. I was living on my own, and working, and when I got home, there was a note on my door from my neighbor. She wanted me to call her when I got home. I did, and she told me my father had come by to let me know my grandmother had died.
A couple of years later, I met someone whom I thought had some good traits, and I figured I’d try a relationship with him, but I knew deep down, it wasn’t going to work. I don’t regret it, because we married, and I have three beautiful children, but besides that, sin city! I had that intuition, but I took the chance. My children are my reward in this deal, and we adults can move on, in opposite directions! And my intuition was right on the sex of each child, without ultrasound.
A few years later, my mom wasn’t looking so good. She had cancer several years earlier, but at this time, she didn’t mention anything was going on to me, or my siblings. My intuition kept knawing at me until one day, I picked up the phone and called her doctor, and found out she was riddled with cancer, and she only had a few months to live. She suffered for three months in the hospital, and everyday the doctors and nurses would try to prepare us for the fact that number one, my mom probably wouldn’t make it through the night, and number two, that she was under a lot of morphine, and wouldn’t know what was going on. She would talk to each of us when we’d go into her room. No one could believe it. One morning, my ex husband was leaving for work, which was in another state, and he’d be away for two weeks. I knew my mom was going to pass that day, I could sense it, I could feel it, I just knew it, there’s no explanation, and I asked him to stay home. He said he couldn’t tell his boss that he couldn’t come into work because his wife thought her mom was going to pass away that day. So he left. A few hours later, I got the call. I called him just as he was getting to work, and he had to turn around and drive four and a half hours back.
Twelve years later, my dad was ill. He was in a nursing home, and was getting ready to move to another one. He was seventy eight years old, and he had never been sick in his life. He was just sick at heart when my mom passed away. I went to see him one day, and he didn’t look good. And I don’t mean physically. He just looked tired of living life. I spent some time with him, and then I helped him to his bed. I said, "Dad, if this is too hard, you don’t have to do it anymore." Nothing more was said. I went home, got my three kids, and drove back so they could see him. I told my aunt, my brother, my sister and sister-in-law that I didn’t think he’d be around much longer. None believed me. He passed away two weeks later.
I had been talking about my childhood sweetheart to my close girlfriends, for years. I’m talking twelve years. I would tell them that somehow, someway, we’d be together again. They all humored me. Eventually, one friend questioned his existence! We got back together almost nine years ago and live with my three children. We found that both of us had felt the same way, and thought of each other constantly, but were in situations we needed to ride out before we could reunite. I had given him an ultimatum and he had taken it. We were nineteen and had been together since twelve, and we broke up, but the feelings never went away, and remain today.
My great aunt was in the hospital and I went to visit her. She was ready to pass away, and I didn’t know what was holding her back. I knew she was on her way! I again, went home and got my kids and we drove the forty five minutes back, so they could see her. She unfortunately, told them the next time they saw her it would be in a wooden box. Not too good for their psyches, but it was reality, and they had to deal with it. Within two days, she passed away.
My son Michael got his permit, and it was time for mom to "teach" a child who already knew everything. He was too fast, and not too co-ordinated. The first two weeks were actually hell on wheels! Eventually, he got better, but he still needed practice. Years of practice. I told him to always adjust his speed in wet weather, and around a curve. He passed his driver’s test, got a small pick up and was on the road. We live in a rural area, where there is only one main road, and no highways, so the practice isn’t really in preparation for defensive driving. I worried about him every time he went out. I had a bad feeling that was lingering in my gut. One night, he was going too fast around a sharp curve, and he flipped and rolled his truck twice. He wasn’t hurt, but I believe he learned a lesson. I didn’t like that intuition coming true.
So, what does it mean to have good "intuition?" Is it common sense? I don’t think so, not in totality. Is it intelligence? No, I don’t believe that has anything to do with it. Is it a feeling you get because you can sense that something is going to happen, when no one else senses it? I believe that to be true. Is it the ability to push through the outer coating of some situations, and feel the negative and positive vibrations ? I believe that, too. Why do some of us have it, and not others? I don’t know. Is it a gift from a Higher Power? I think so. I just know that when I feel these intuitions, or premonitions, I act accordingly.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Great Article I do believe it is the morals installed as a child. It is a gift of determining write and wrong that everyone has; some just ignore there own intuitions which usually will turn out to be the wrong choicePlease log in to respond to this comment.hi contak, thank you so much for reading my story. i truly appreciate it. and i also appreciate you joining my fan club. i have lots more in me, so keep an eye for other stories! :) and i believe you are right about some ignoring their intuition, i try to pay close attention to the feelings i have that just won't go away, and need my attention. thank you again, best regards, suan thomPlease log in to respond to this comment.
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