A wonderful unexpected benefit to practicing proactive gratitude is that it seems to sharpen your intuition.  I’ve been delightfully surprised by this little “side effect” of my gratitude practice.   That “inner wisdom” that once seemed so difficult to distinguish from the voice of my ego, is now clear, strong and unmistakable.

Why should this be? On the surface it doesn’t seem as if the practice of gratitude has anything to do with developing intuition.  Traditional techniques for developing the intuitive voice usually have something to do with guided meditations or clearing internal blocks to receiving those messages that guide us into a more joyful and expanded life.

I think it has something to do with energy and vibration.  As they say, “everything is indeed energy.”  We know that being in a state of gratitude is a vibration.  You can feel it.  And you can sense when someone else you are around is in a state of gratitude.  It feels very different from being around someone who is angry…even if their anger is not directed at us nor has anything to do with us.  We still get a very different “vibe” from those two individuals. 

It must be that the practice of proactive gratitude (when practiced for a time) shifts our energy sufficiently into a similar vibrational frequency where intuition resides.  When we are on the same vibrational frequency, we are suddenly more sensitive to the intuitive hunches and inner guidance that were always there…we just couldn’t “hear” it before.   Or more likely, there was just too much “noise” or mind chatter in the way.  Negative mind-chatter gets very noisy!

Being in a state of gratitude helps quite the negative chatter, lifts our vibration into the frequency where intuition lives and gives us the confidence we need to follow our intuitive guidance.

See if it isn’t true for you too. I’d love to hear about your experiences in this area as well.

Many blessings.