Opening Your Intuition with the 4 C's

Compassion

In order to open your intuition, you must be sincerely compassionate. You need an open heart, an empathetic soul and a sympathetic personality. When we're compassionate toward others, we're in tune with those around us. We're not judging, blaming, envying, or comparing. We're simply feeling. To connect within, you have to be empathic to all things and people around you. Practicing compassion has many positive, physical benefits too. People who practice compassion produce 100 % more DHEA – a hormone that helps us feel younger and happier and 23 % less Cortisol – the hormone famously known as the “stress hormone.” When we are compassionate souls, we learn to be kinder to ourselves and this where all love originates. We must first love ourselves before we can love another. Loving ourselves with a compassionate heart puts everything into balance and unlocks something deep and wonderful inside of us.

Connection

We’re all familiar with the Butterfly Effect – how our actions affect countless people in infinite and sometimes unknowable ways. Carl Jung proved the connection between all of us through his teachings on the collective unconscious. Alexander Graham Bell beat Elisha Gray to the patent office for the invention of the telephone by a few days. Several people sued J.K Rowling for creating Harry Potter, for they believed they had had the same idea. Maybe they had. We're all connected by the universal collective unconscious. Tap into this sense of connection. Take note of how often you think of someone and then bump into them later that week. If you’d like to hear from someone, put out the thought they will call you. Because we’re all connected, they’ll hear that universal call. The more you acknowledge and trust this connection, the more easily you’ll be able to tap your intuition.

Cooperation

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The third step in opening your intuition is cooperation. Intuitives have to learn how to bend, to go with the flow and how to cooperate with all types of personalities here and on the other side. Cooperation also means being open to connecting with your loved ones, guides and angels and realizing that "it takes two to make a thing go right." Your team of guides and angels are waiting to work with you in; all they need is your cooperation and willingness to learn a few meditation techniques. You have to learn to raise your vibration and they have to learn to lower theirs. This takes practice, meditation and prayer. But it is worth it because when you begin to see the connection between all of us through the eyes of a compassionate, corporative soul, a whole new and wonderful world opens up to you.

Creativity

When we engage in the creative process, we remind ourselves that we’re co-creators with the universe. Being creative also puts us into a meditative state where we are more receptive to guidance, messages and signs. Creative pursuits involve more than writing, painting and sewing. Baking, knitting, woodworking, even doodling are important creative pursuits. Working with your creativity involves perspiration and inspiration – it’s an active search for finding meaning and joy in our lives. Wayne Dyer says that when we’re working from a place of INSPIRATION, we are literally IN SPIRIT. When we are engaged in our creativity we lose all sense of time because we are connecting with the universal source of all that is. We are connecting back to ourselves and remembering why we are here. Our creative pursuits inspire others which in turn will pass on the beautiful message of taking time to connect within.

Practice Connecting with the 4 C's

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This week try to see evidence of your connection to others. Put out the message in meditation for a friend to call you and see if they feel that call and respond. Try something creative this week and take note of how you lose time and feel connected on a deeper level to your purpose. Be like a willow and bend this week. Don’t dig your heals in on any issue. Just practice letting go and cooperating with the timing of the universe. It won’t happen overnight, but you will begin to see magical changes take place in your life as you learn to connect within through the 4 Cs. You’ll feel more balanced, peaceful and whole.