by Melissa Van Rossum

Created on: July 28, 2008

Using Your Intuition to Live a Happier, More Successful Life

I met a friend for lunch recently and as often happens with those I share time, our conversation turned to topics of spirituality and healing.

She described how her intuition, and trusting it as a Guiding force, was an integral part of the first part of her life. But she stopped trusting her intuition when she was in her 20s when she felt it had betrayed her.

Jane (I've changed her name to protect her identity) has always been a very intuitive person. While she was growing up, she enjoyed the precognitive part of her that knew what would come next in her life. She would find herself in situations, both the meaningful and the completely inconsequential, and she would watch with joy as the scenarios would play out in front of her exactly as she had known they would.

When she was in her 20s Jane met a man whom she instantly knew would be her husband. Though they were both dating other people at the time, she knew it in her gut - or more accurately her solar plexus - that this was the man she would marry. Because they were dating other people, she and this man developed a friendship and remained friends for several years.

Throughout their friendship Jane waited for her premonition to come true, but it never did. When they finally had the opportunity to date it didn't work out the way Jane had seen it, and she felt foolish and betrayed for believing what she had been shown.

It's hard when you are accustomed to trusting your intuition or any such intimate part of yourself and then things don't turn out as you thought they would. It's easy to feel betrayed and let down when this happens.

Most people get mad when they feel their insights or some other intimate part of themselves have let them down'. For example, when a woman gets on a scale and she finds that she's unexpectedly gained weight, she gets mad at her body and feels that her body has in some way betrayed her.

Many people who get ill with anything from the flu to cancer, feel their bodies have betrayed them, and those that don't accomplish as much success in their careers as they'd like to, often feel betrayed by the promises of life and by themselves. Those that divorce feel betrayed not only by their loved ones but also by the love they felt in the beginning of the relationship. So much so that they can have a difficult time trusting love again.

Using your intuition to understand your experiences accurately, how you created them and the spiritual

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