Tell me you’ve never had that feeling of….”I knew that was about to happen!”

Feels strange, or amazing or sad (depending) when what you were thinking or dreaming of actually comes true. That’s what this post is about – PREMONITIONS.  Meaning – knowing what’s about to happen.  Is it the same thing as INTUITION?  Not exactly.  Or is it like Deja vu? “I’ve heard that before.”  Intuition may be based on past experiences and generalization, more than likely formed by your sub-consciousness, while a premonition is seeing what happens before it happens (what REAL psychics use). May occur in dreams. Often may feel like de ja vu: the feeling that something has already happened.  May be because of a premonition or you may have actually been in a similar situation.  Then there’s instinct: an inherent feeling of how one should deal in certain situations based on evolution (protecting oneself by curling into a ball for example).  If only we had the intuition of….

BILL GATES: “Sometimes, you have to rely on intuition.” OPRAH WINFREY: “My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self — my intuition.” DONALD TRUMP: “I’ve built a multi-billion empire by using my intuition.”

My own intuition says what’s wrong with me! What if we were all like them? What a wonderful world that would be – or rather, would we all be fighting over real estate & who takes over what?  We all have the capability of having meaningful premonitions that we should pay more attention to. Now, for the first time in history, we can use “premonition” and “science” in the same sentence.  How does that work?

Larry Dossey, MD, author of The Power of Premonitions gives us the “heads up.”

“Premonition” literally means “forewarning.” Premonitions are a warning about something just around the corner, something that is usually unpleasant. It may be a health crisis, a death in the family, or a national disaster. But premonitions come in all flavors. Sometimes they provide information about positive, pleasant happenings that lie ahead — a job promotion, where the last remaining parking place is, or, in some instances, the winning lottery numbers (but don’t bank on that one).

The main thing is not to try too hard. Premonitions usually come unbidden. They largely “do” us; we don’t “do” them.  So the trick is to invite them, not compel them, into your life. First, simply realize that these experiences are extremely common, and that it’s likely that you will experience them.

The Science of Premonitions

Can we glimpse the future? Is there any truth to people’s belief in premonitions? Such provocative questions have largely been ignored by scientists, many of whom argue that claims of precognition can be completely explained away as superstition or delusion. But a small group of scientists continue to tackle these questions head on.

In a laboratory at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Northern California, psychologist Dean Radin approaches human experience with an open mind and experimental rigor. In a series of experiments that Radin describes as “presentiment,” participants are invited to see and feel into the future.

Sitting in a quiet, electromagnetically shielded room, Radin first measures the participants’ physiology. Using electrodes on their hands to study their autonomic nervous system, the curious scientist then looks to see how the experimental participants respond to emotional and calm pictures that are presented on a computer monitor in a random sequence. After each picture, the computer screen goes blank before the next picture is presented. As predicted, when participants see an emotional picture, their physiology shows more arousal than after the calm pictures. This is standard science. But more interesting to Radin and his colleagues is what happens to the physiology of the participants before they see the pictures. According to Radin, their physiology actually appears to anticipate the emotional stimuli up to five seconds before they see the emotional pictures. These intriguing findings have found support in other laboratories across the United States and Europe.                             Spirituality and Health Magazine

  Further, Larry Dossey, M.D. has this to say (taken from his website):

“I’m not asking you to take anything in this book on blind faith, but to open yourself up to the possibility of premonitions and the evidence supporting them. Listen to the stories people tell. Explore the research that demonstrates our capacity to sense the future. Ponder the implications of mind outside of time. Invite premonitions into your life and see what happens. If you do so humbly and reverently, your life will likely become more premonition-prone, and you may touch that exquisite, infinite realm to which premonitions, now as always, are a door.” 

  I have a feeling (call it intuition/premonition) that this book will do very well.