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Intuition Helps Prevent Traffic Accidents
by Darlene Pitts
An unknown driver exits the interstate I travel on in the right lane. I sense the driver will swerve back on the interstate. I have seconds to slam on my vehicle brakes to avoid a collision, as switching lanes isn’t possible due to heavy traffic. How do I know the driver will swerve back on the interstate, without seeing a left turn signal, hand motion or vehicle twitch? My intuition warns me.
Intuition is an inherent ability to gain extended information about people, places, things and situations without using logic, five physical senses or prior knowledge. My logic rationalizes that the driver won’t re-enter the interstate. My physical senses can’t detect the driver’s hasty change of mind. I have no prior knowledge of the driver’s reckless driving habits. My intuition shouts extended information—the driver will swerve back on the interstate! The warning pops in my head “out of the blue.” I slam on my vehicle brakes. The driver swerves back on the interstate in front of my vehicle. My inhale separates our vehicle bumpers, as I brake fast enough to avoid a collision. I pound on my horn. The driver snarls as though I’m the reckless one. Furious, but unscratched, I exhale.
Everyone has intuition, which communicates messages containing warnings about potential traffic accidents, through seven intuitive senses:
1. Intuitive seeing communicates images in your mind’s eye, without using your physical eyes. Through inner and outer visions, and dreams, you intuitively see images, such as a staggering vehicle, flying hubcaps or erratic headlights. Intuitive images flash, pause or roll across your mind’s eye. These images warn you about potential traffic accidents, in graphical or visual ways.
2. Intuitive feeling communicates feelings or sensations within your body, without external stimuli. You intuitively feel feelings and sensations, such as discomfort, tension or goose bumps varying in intensity and duration. Intuitive feelings and sensations warn you about potential traffic accidents, in sensorial ways.
3. Intuitive hearing communicates sounds “out in space” or in your head, throat or heart, without using your physical ears. You intuitively hear sounds, such as shattering glass, fracturing screams or screeching music varying in volume, intensity and duration. Intuitive sounds warn you about potential traffic accidents, in audible ways.
4.  Intuitive knowing is knowing information, without knowing how you know; no visions, dreams, feelings, sensations, sounds, tastes, scents or sayings. Just as I intuitively knew the driver would swerve back on the interstate, intuitive knowings warn you about potential traffic accidents by popping information in your head “out of the blue.”
5.  Intuitive tasting communicates tastes, without putting anything in your mouth. You intuitively taste tastes, such as mashed breakfast, electrical sparks or twisted air varying in intensity and duration. Intuitive tastes warn you about potential traffic accidents, in flavorful ways.

6.  Intuitive smelling communicates scents “out in space” or in your inner nose, without using your physical nose. You intuitively smell scents, such as burning rubber, leaking gasoline or scraping asphalt varying in intensity and duration. Intuitive scents warn you about potential traffic accidents, in olfactory ways.
7.  Intuitive speaking communicates insightful sayings, through your inner voice and without you thinking about what to say. There are no visions, dreams, feelings, sensations, sounds, knowings, tastes or scents. You intuitively speak—inward or outward—abrupt sayings, such as, “Watch the lane straddler in your rearview mirror.” Or, “To your left is a sleepy truck driver winding down.” Or, “Oil slick ahead!” Intuitive sayings warn you about potential traffic accidents, in oral ways.
Seven intuitive senses of intuition independently or collaboratively communicate intuitive messages containing warnings about potential traffic accidents seconds or minutes ahead of linear time, so you can take appropriate actions to stay safe while driving. You can laugh and say, “It’s only my imagination.” You can choose to ignore the warnings and assume you need more sleep, caffeine, vacation or doctor visits. Your decision will cost you time, money, energy and health.
Many intuitive experiences occurred years before I knew about intuition. Those experiences returned to my consciousness when I discovered my intuition. During one experience, at a traffic light, I waited for an opportunity to turn left onto a military base to go to work. I received a cautious feeling in my stomach that an oncoming dump truck wouldn’t stop when the traffic light turned yellow. I ignored my intuitive feeling and attempted to turn left. The dump truck didn’t stop. I’ll never forget the crushed passenger door and an inability to remove the ignition key, from the first car I’d owned. Fortunately, I wasn’t injured, but rode the bus or trudged to and from work until I purchased another car—time, money and energy.
It’s crucial to identify and understand how your intuitive senses communicate intuitive messages containing warnings about potential traffic accidents, as they differ for each person. You may intuitively feel sudden anxiety in your chest, while someone else intuitively hears, in their throat, an alert, “Get out of the center lane!” You may intuitively see an inner vision of exploding airbags at an intersection, while someone else intuitively smells charred metal, in their inner nose. You may intuitively know when to avoid a certain highway, while someone else intuitively sees an outer vision of a DO NOT ENTER sign before turning on the highway. You may intuitively taste ashy smoke, while someone else intuitively speaks, “I need to pullover for some strange reason.” The reason may escape you while you’re having an intuitive experience. However, you’ll sense what to do.
When one or multiple intuitive senses communicate intuitive messages containing warnings about potential traffic accidents, adjust your speed, hesitate, switch lanes, change routes, maneuver into an emergency lane or do whatever you sense you should do to remain unscratched. You’ll never have to say, “I thought I imagined it.”

Darlene Pitts is an intuitive consultant, author and president of In-Strategies, a corporation promoting intuition development. Visit www.in-strategies.com to order a copy of her new book, Discover Your Intuition, A Practical Guide to Help You Identify and Understand How Your Intuition Communicates Intuitive Messages to You.

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