Do you have an inner voice? One that talks to you and gives you glimpses of what will happen next? I’m not claiming psychic power – nothing as powerful as that. What would you the small-time flashes I experience? Intuition?
My voice never tells me anything truly useful like a lottery number. But often someone will spring to mind and I’ll think, “hmmm…I haven’t heard from X in a while, I should call/email them” and within minutes that person will either call or pop into my inbox.
I took my children to a July 4th party sponsored by the US Embassy in Cairo over the weekend. Upon entering the grounds, everyone was assigned a wristband – for security reasons and also a door prize. During the first round of door prizes awarded, they called out each prize before they called the winning number. One prize up for grabs was a year’s membership to a local Curves gym. I thought to myself “just what I need – if I won that I’d never have an excuse not to exercise again!”
Who do you think won that prize??(!!)
Sometimes I get sudden flashes of accidents that might occur. Like a few months ago when I was in the kitchen at dinner time chopping ears of corn in half. I thought to myself, “self, you better be careful or you’ll cut off your finger”. I apparently didn’t heed my own warning because moments later I chopped a significant chunk off the end of my index finger – and I have the scar to prove it.
I’m getting better about heeding the flashes of insight as they occur – particularly when they relate to an injury that might befall my children. What about you guys? I don’t often hear men claiming flashes of insight like these – is it really just a woman thing?
This happens to me, too, although sometimes I have what I call wishful thinking thoughts. These don’t come true. It’s a different feeling to the inner thought thing and hard to explain. There’s a sort of certainty.
Congrats on the gym membership. That sounds like a great prize.
by Shelley Munro July 8th, 2008 at 9:01 pmShelley,
by Jenyfer July 9th, 2008 at 5:51 amI get plenty of wishful thoughts as well – and sometimes it isn’t always easy to tell the difference which is why I sometimes don’t pay attention when I ought to!
Yep. When I get really uneasy about some kind of event or action, I back off. Too many times I’ve actually avoided a disaster. I always pay attention.
by anny cook July 10th, 2008 at 12:06 am