The other day I was invited to a girlfriend’s house for lunch. We don’t often get to see each other because of our busy lives, so I was very excited to catch up with her, switch off and get out of the office! When I arrived I was introduced to another friend, also there for lunch. I was in the spirit of having fun, catching up and chatting when I began to see the word ‘forensic’ and ‘policing’ in front of me. These words were coming through loud and clear so assumed  (wrongly as I was to discover) that my new friend was possibly connected with or going to be connected to that industry. To cut a long story short, I kept babbling about forensics, policing, investigations, and the law…

Fast forward to several days later… There I was piling groceries into my car, when my girlfriend called me and said, “Guess what happened to me?” She proceeded to tell me that night after our lunch she hosted a small social gathering with her friends in her backyard. While they were having fun out the back someone smashed through the front door, rummaged through handbags and stole some purses before running off into the night. When this was discovered the alarm was raised and the police called in (lots of policing happening that night). The following morning forensics (the word I saw) turned up to investigate (investigations) further.

When I’m not working, I’m basically switched off, this incident however highlighted to me the importance of noticing messages my intuition is sending me, irrespective of whether I’m working or not. My intuition was giving me information but I wasn’t paying attention to it - it was my day off!!

Intuition is a powerful tool and we all have it. We receive information all the time and sometimes we dismiss it or fail to act on it. Have you ever experienced a time where you ignored your intuition and later regretted it? I can tell you it doesn’t happen to  me very often but it has on the odd occasion such as the other night. In the past when I failed to act on my intuition it cost me both financially and emotionally.

Learn to trust your intuition, take notice of when you’ve acted on it and it’s helped you. Remember the feeling associated with your experience of  following your intuition so you’ll know how to follow it next time. Also take notice of what happens when you don’t follow your instinct. Does it or has it cost you time, money, effort and emotionally?

I’d be very interested to hear if you’ve had similar experiences and how you now use your intuition

Good luck with it