Intuition is an unfathomable source in our lives. It can be used for good if you listen to the calling. It can create disaster if you do not respond to its calling. I have been on high blood pressure medication for four years. I have had no problems until the prescription I refilled last month. About halfway through the prescription, I had an intuition that something was wrong. I have a blood pressure machine that I use periodically to check my blood pressure. I felt something was wrong. I used the machine and discovered my blood pressure was at a high rate, varying from 150/110 to 148/115. Normally, on the medication, my blood pressure is around 110/70. I called my pharmacist and asked him if getting a bad batch was possible. He said probably not, but told me to check with the company that makes the medication. They, of course, told me that it was almost impossible to have a bad batch. I figured they would not tell me the truth. I continued to finish the batch and made an appointment with my doctor to renew the prescription. I took the new prescription today and my blood pressure had returned to normal. There is no way of proving it, but I know in my heart I had received a bad batch.

I need to fill two prescriptions by next Tuesday. Intuition told me to wait until Monday. I did not heed my intuition and went on Saturday morning. As I pulled into the parking lot of the pharmacy, a truck hit the front end of my truck. The driver took off, leaving me with a damaged truck that I had kept pristine for six years. While a bit heartbroken over the fact that my truck was damaged, I knew in my heart that if I had listened to my intuition, the accident probably would never have happened.

I have vowed to always listen to my intuition from now on, whenever it makes itself known. The strange part is that I received an intuition a week ago that I would be writing something on Triond about my truck. I could not imagine why I would write about my truck, but now I find myself doing exactly that which I had considered unreasonable.

I have studied a bit about intuition since then and have discovered that there have been many tests on the use of intuition. It is considered to be a sense that we usually do not heed because we do not think of it as a reasonable feeling, such as other emotions. Extraverted people tend to use their intuition more frequently than introverted people. This is because introverted people do not use the function of intuition because they are less likely to believe it is a true sense of our factual lives. I have always been very intuitive and I will forever be a true believer in the sensing of intuition.