Tools
Over thousands of years people have been using their intuition not only to help themselves but also to help the people around them. As human nature pushes us to not only develop the skills we have, but to find tools to assist us or to make the work easier with the skills that we have. Intuition is no different. People have been using tools to heighten or make it easier for them to hear their intuition or to even train it like muscles within the body. They find out that the more they use it the faster it comes, and the more they deny it the harder it is to search for. As we go over the different tools that have been used over the course of history, please understand that this is a very small section in a very large list. Its most basic level we’re understanding now that intuition is guidance from, let’s just say, our higher self. We will go more into higher self in a later module.
For now, let’s assume that all these tools that are discussed are merely a phone connection between your higher self and your current self and intuition is merely the communication between the two passing along information to help you out.
Now to look at these tools just as tools, we have to be able to look at these things clearly and understand that history has both had a wonderful view of these tools and a less wonderful view.
After all a hammer can be used to build a house and it can also be used to commit murder. It’s never the hammers fault, merely the person wielding it.
Some of the popular tools that are still used today.
Tarot Cards
Tarot cards are still very popular today. Most tarot cards are a deck of cards with individual pictures and sometimes descriptions on each card. Modern-day decks now come with a book that gives the description of what each card means and how to interpret it based on how it is dealt out of the deck. Most decks have a theme within them, it could be towards the Divine or could be something darker.
Pendulum Work
Pendulums are usually a crystal or a stone at the end of a necklace or a chain. The person who holds the stone in the chain out and uses it to ask yes or no questions and the answers are based off of where the crystal or how the crystal swings back and forth. As an example, it may swing left to right for the answer no and forward and backward for the answer yes and then in a circle for a maybe. Again, there’s a lot of variables that come with pendulums, what kind of crystal, what kind of stone, and the purpose it’s being used for.
Divining Rods (Dowsing)
The art of divining was probably most popular by water or mineral diviners. Depending on the diviner they would use a y-shaped stick where they held the top end of the “Y” where the bottom end was protruding out or they’d use individual sticks they were bent and curved one in each hand. The process was where they would walk forward and based off of the movement of the sticks, it would tell them where the water or minerals were in the ground. This then evolved to a copper rod in the shape of an “L”, or the diviner would hold it Loosely in their hand and allowed to swing back and forth, and soon after that people started using it as a tool to communicate with their higher self.
Tea Leaves
Tea leaf reading became popular not only on T.V. but on the big screen as well as a way to Divine such things as the future, Omens both good and bad, and even a potential love interest. The idea was that you would drink a cup of tea, and the leaves loose within the tea. At the end of your cup of tea you would dump out the leaves onto a saucer or read them in place within the cup. The way the leaves presented themselves could be interpreted with different messages. How the leaves aligned themselves and the shapes that they took on was what was being interpreted.
Divining Sticks
This was most prominent in the Celtic and Asian cultures although some other cultures did pick it up as well. The person would have a bag of sticks, each stick coming from a different word of a different tree with different markings upon that stick, the person would grab a specific number of sticks throw them up in the air and interpret how they landed on the ground including the direction they were facing and if they were crossing over each other.
Cloud Watching
I think cloud watching is one of the most interesting ones that we even teach our children as an imagination game. I’m sure every person could remember looking up at the clouds, maybe not even that long ago and looking for shapes and imagery within the clouds. The practice of cloud watching is allowing your eyes to lose focus on the clouds and see the images as messages, now that may be a person’s face that pops out or maybe even a deeper message within the shape.
Meditation
Meditation is one of the more direct routes. And is the one we will be teaching in this course. In this practice we will be building that headspace within our mind through meditation, and allow direct communication without the use of a tool. This is the only one that itself is not a tool used to communicate, it is a tool that is used to learn how to communicate.
And many more…