You could escape many pitfalls, avoid common mistakes, and overcome life's fundamental problems if you always listen to your inner voice.
When you fail to heed your intuitive urges, you miss the power and fulfillment to which you are entitled.
So if you want to achieve greater success in life you must develop your intuitive sense and allow it to speak impressively and with conviction.
Your soul communicates with you in different ways, including through intuition.
And you can turn to your inner self for an answer to a problem and receive definite information through intuitive impressions which might not be obtainable in any other way.
But are you like most people who ignore the intelligent ideas, suggestions and other communications which flow from within? Intuition relates to knowledge or impressions transmitted through your inner faculties.
Intuitive knowledge, however, is distinguished from that gained by deductive reasoning, observation, or generalization from particular facts.
Communicating with your inner self may prove difficult at the beginning because all your life you have been trained to heed the words of others rather than those derived from intuition.
But you must learn to rely on the impressions and insights that come from within, rather than the complex exterior knowledge which you have accumulated through life.
This way you would lessen the risk of making wrong choices and decisions.
And you would be able to advance towards a place of achievement and accomplishment.
It is possible to develop your intuitive abilities through various techniques, including meditation and self-communication.
Meditation sensitizes, activates and fine-tunes your intuitive faculties.
And you should make it a common practice to communicate with your inner self to find solutions to problems, and avoid common mistakes and disappointments in life.
There is nothing mysterious or abnormal about self-communication.
It is a natural psychological thing to do for the conscious physical self to turn to the subconscious mental self for guidance or enlightenment.
Think about how many times you have asked yourself what you should do when faced with difficult problems or trying circumstances.
Satisfactory answers are readily available because mind is supreme in its potential wisdom.
Through your inner mind you have ready access to a reservoir of infinite intelligence.
And you can learn to resort to this knowledge through intuitive development.
But a communication link must first be established between the superior intelligence of the inner mind and the more finite intelligence of the brain.
This is necessary because an intuitive insight only becomes knowledge when it reaches down into the brain and is there interpreted.
Most of us ignore intuitive impressions or hunches which are often subtle and vague.
But through proper concentration and passivity, you can blot out the faulty impressions of the objective senses and hearken to your inner voice.
With regular practice, it is possible to develop intuitive impressions to greater clarity and strength.
As a beginning exercise, do not look at your watch when you wish to know the time.
Instead, close your eyes and allow yourself to become passive for a few seconds.
This is necessary because your passive state allows your intuitive faculty to express itself.
Accept the first time that comes to mind.
Do not reason or try to modify the first answer that is registered on the screen of your consciousness.
You should try this same procedure when your telephone rings, if you wish to know beforehand who is calling, and before you open a letter.
There is no need to be discouraged even if you are off target the first dozen or more times you try this experiment.
Because your intuitive capabilities have been ignored and unused all your life, it may take regular practice over a period of time to develop this higher faculty of self.
You should also develop a habit to rely more often on your intuitive sense when you seek to find solutions or answers for many of the problems you encounter in everyday activities.
Pause for a moment and try to recall those disappointing moments in your life when you missed golden opportunities or wasted chances of success.
Isn't it true that those neglected opportunities or wrong decisions came about because you ignored intuitive signals or insights? If you are like most people, you often analyze a situation or problem and inject objective interpretations based upon normal but inaccurate assessments.
The fact is intuitive impressions and urges must be heeded and acted upon spontaneously As a human being, it is absolutely necessary that you should communicate with and seek help from your inner self, which is the higher and more enlightened aspect of being.
The answers and solutions to all the problems that develop in everyday life are attainable this way.
(Meditation techniques and other experiments to help you develop your intuitive powers are explained in my book, The Power and Freedom of the Human Spirit).