Exercises linked to the sense of smell

-   Get into the habit of airing your house or apartment each morning. Stand at your window for a minute or two, breathing evenly and trying to identify the early morning smells. Do the same in the evening and breathe in the scents and smells of the night air. Walk in the woods and try to identify the smells, do the same at the seaside and … in the city!

-   Each room has its own specific smell, have you identified these?

   Having a good sense of smell is the equivalent of having a “good nose”! To be intuitive, you have to follow you nose. When you meet someone for the first time, what do you feel: sympathy, antipathy, mixed feelings? Allow yourself to experience these feelings and make a mental note of them. Later, the behaviour or attitudes of this person will explain these instinctive feelings.

   The best advice I can give you for sharpening your senses is to learn how to take your time. Avoid hurrying; being in a hurry is the best way of not noticing what you meet on the way! Always listen to your inner voice; and always pay attention to the slightest details, gestures, movements and situations. Intuition only works properly when you know how to observe.

   Now I want to speak about a very important aspect: FORGIVENESS.

¨      You are intuitive when you are open to yourself and to others, to the world and everything in it.

¨      If you close yourself to these things, you cut off your intuition, limit yourself and turn in on yourself.

   Harbouring bitterness, resentment and even hatred or ideas of revenge towards another person has prejudicial consequences for your physical and mental state. These negative feelings become embedded in the mind which gets "stuck" and is no longer able to be constructive.

   In this instance, forgiving yourself and others is the only way to free yourself. Forgiving means freeing yourself from your past and turning towards the construction of your future.

   Forgiveness makes room for intuition