9 Things To Know About Psychic Premonition
How Intuition Can Shape Your Life
A dream prompts a mother to remove her baby from his crib an hour before a chandelier falls and smashes it. More than a dozen people are no-shows for choir practice for the first time ever when the church explodes. Before his patients ever call to say they're coming to the hospital, an ob-gyn gets a pain in his chest signaling they're ready to deliver. Visions of planes crashing into buildings causes a mother to cancel her family's Disney World trip scheduled for 9/11. Are these coincidences, or is something happening we need to pay attention to?
This is the question physician and author Larry Dossey, M.D., asked himself during his first year of medical practice when he began having premonitions about patients that kept coming true. Here, he shares what he's learned in his years of studying such phenomena--from what it may be, to how to develop your intuition, to when to listen to your hunches and when not to.
Premonitions Are Extremely Common
They probably arose early in our evolutionary history because they provided our ancestors with a greater likelihood of survival and procreation. They were thus likely to have been incorporated into their genes and passed down through succeeding generations. As a result, we now appear to be hardwired for premonitions. They have become our birthright, part of our original equipment.
The Definition of 'Premonition'
Premonition means literally “a forewarning,” indicating that they often announce upcoming events that are unpleasant — e.g., a health crisis or a natural disaster. This is not absolute, however; premonitions may also foretell pleasing events such as a job promotion, the location of a parking spot, or even winning lottery numbers.They Occur in Many Ways
Premonitions can be realistic or symbolic. They occur commonly during dreams, but also during full waking awareness.When to Take a Premonition Seriously
Five rules of thumb aid us in knowing which premonitions to take seriously: (1) if the premonition warns of a health crisis or death; (2) if the premonition is numinous, highly vivid, or “realer than real”; (3) if a dream is recurrent, appearing often in the same night or in succeeding nights, as if clamoring for attention; (4) if the premonition is associated with physical symptoms; or (5) if the premonition is experienced independently by a spouse, partner, lover, or close friend.There's Scientific Evidence for Premonitions
There are four kinds of scientific evidence for premonitions: (1) presentiment experiments have shown that the body responds to a future event prior to one’s conscious awareness of it; (2) in precognitive remote viewing tests, a distant individual “gets” information from a sender up to a week before it is mentally sent; (3) online tests that demonstrate precognitive functioning, and (4) global consciousness effects that are detected by random "event generators" stationed around the earth, which often react prior to the occurrence of a subsequent happening.Premonitions Result From Close Bonds
Premonitions alert us to impending problems and crises of those we love. These warnings are extremely common between parents and children, spouses, siblings (particularly identical twins), close friends, and lovers. Empathy, love, compassion, and a sense of oneness mediate premonitions.
You Can Invite Premonitions
Although we cannot have premonitions on demand, we can invite them into our lives by setting the stage for them, so they are more likely to occur. We can become more premonition-prone. The most effective way to do this is to develop a discipline wherein we quiet our mind and attend to the subtle messages from within and without — through meditation, contemplation, immersion in nature, or just “getting quiet.” Courting mystery also helps. As Rumi said, “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
You Can Invite Premonitions
Although we cannot have premonitions on demand, we can invite them into our lives by setting the stage for them, so they are more likely to occur. We can become more premonition-prone. The most effective way to do this is to develop a discipline wherein we quiet our mind and attend to the subtle messages from within and without — through meditation, contemplation, immersion in nature, or just “getting quiet.” Courting mystery also helps. As Rumi said, “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” Premonitions Speak Through Dreams
Keep a dream diary, in which you record your dreams on waking. This makes premonitions more likely to occur and insures that they will be remembered.They Can Reveal Spirit
Premonitions are an indicator of the soul and a bridge to the transcendent. Their value goes beyond their practical benefit of warning us of upcoming dangers. They reveal the presence of a timeless aspect of our consciousness, and therefore point like an arrow to an immortal, eternal aspect of who we are.This text is excerpted and adapted from: "The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives" by Larry Dossey, M.D. (Dutton, Penguin Group, 2009).Courtesy of Beliefnet.com
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