2: Communicating and Learning through the Sixth and Seventh Senses

We communicate with feelings. Our feelings are our sixth sense. Our sixth sense provides us with feeling information and connection in much the same way that our eyesight provides us with visual information and connection.

Traditionally the sixth sense has been defined as intuition, the ability to immediately sense things, and considered to be a form of one-way communication. But in order for something to be received, it must first be transmitted. I think our sixth sense can also be used in two-way communication. Haven't you and another person ever known what each other was feeling before a single word was spoken?

We can transmit our feelings so that others feel them without the need for words. Some people believe they can communicate with one another over great distances. We can all sense feelings in others. Sometimes we're accurate, sometimes not.

I believe honesty is the magic tool required for making the most of our sixth sense. The more honest we become in our lives, the more open we become to others, to our own reality, and to our ability to communicate through our sixth sense. The most honest and compassionate person I know can sense others' feelings more accurately than anyone else I've met, and she is liked by many.

We learn and grow through intelligence, our seventh sense. Our intelligence is manifested through thought. The discovery of new ideas is made possible through our connection to infinite intelligence - all the knowledge of the divine - by asking questions.

When we share ideas with and ask questions of others, we learn in another way - through accessing previously discovered information. There are many ways for our intelligence to grow. There is much to learn, too much for one person to know it all. Sharing what we do know and asking questions of others enables all of us to expand our intelligence.

If our sixth sense is our feelings and our seventh sense is our thoughts, and our thoughts and feelings are the electromagnetic energy of our spirit, then it follows that our sixth and seventh senses stay with us as our spirit moves from one body to another in the cycle of death and rebirth. The sixth and seventh senses are the common links between each of our lives.

Plugging into Ourselves and Others

Chakras are sensing points in the human body for the sixth and seventh senses. They are like magnetic and electric plug-ins with invisible extension cords. We use them to plug into the divine and infinite love and intelligence, but also to plug into other people. With our significant other, for example, we plug in at our heart chakra, at our sacral chakra, and beyond.

Any kind of interaction with another person involves plugging in at one or more chakras. In this diagram, the cords illustrate how we connect with another person. The first cord, between the throat chakras, signifies our shared desire for self-expression.

The second cord, between the solar plexus chakras - where desire is housed - is the connection that enables us to learn from each other. It's shown as not completely connected because we have, as humans, the choice of whether or not to plug into other humans. When we choose not to connect we attract different circumstances, as does the person we choose not to connect with.

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The third cord is plugged in at one person's root chakra - where gratitude is housed - and at the other person's solar plexus chakra. This indicates that one person's expression of gratitude could trigger another person's desire, or vice versa. Releasing an emotion through words and actions will sometimes trigger a different emotion in the person we are connecting with.

Whenever I'm interacting with another person I try to be aware of what I trigger in them. When it doesn't appear to be a healthy emotion that is triggered, I attempt to shift how I affect that person's feelings by using different words.

Whenever we plug into another human and express ourselves, we take on the karma of the feeling we trigger in him or her as well. It's helpful to know effective communication techniques so that we are able to communicate well enough to know what emotions we trigger in others during an interaction. The law of attraction rewards the emotions we release in ourselves as well as those we trigger in others.

The swirl illustrations shown here represent the temporary attachment that occurs between two people in any interaction. Each of us takes on the karma of the feelings we trigger in the other as we interact.

This doesn't mean I am responsible for another person's feelings. There is a reason why the two of us have been brought together, a purpose behind our having attracted each other into our lives. That purpose is to enable the situation created by our interaction to trigger a particular emotion in each of us. He or she has the opportunity to shift emotions and attract something different, just as I do. If neither of us change, we will both continue to attract situations that trigger in each of us the same emotion that led to this interaction.

If I were to steal from someone, I would release a feeling of power over another person. The person I had stolen from would feel invaded. As a result, the law of attraction would eventually pull me into two circumstances: one in which I would feel invaded and another in which I would again feel the power over another.

The other person would also be affected, although not necessarily at the same time. That person would attract similar circumstances so that he or she would have the opportunity to feel both spectrums as well. But both of us have an opportunity to shift at any time.

In each circumstance we have the opportunity to shift our emotions so we don't continue to attract the same type of circumstances. When I again feel the urge to exert power over another, I have the choice of shifting that feeling so I won't trigger the feeling of invasion in another person.

The more we invade others, the bigger the invasion we attract to ourselves. Stealing is a type of invasion. Being attuned to our sixth sense enables us to choose more wisely. We can choose to connect and interact differently and as we do so we attract different things.

Being aware of what we trigger in others is very important, so it is equally important to learn how we can alter the way we express things and what we attract. In order to become aware of what we trigger in others, we need to learn and practice effective one-on-one communication skills.

When we practice living as much of our day as we can in positive emotions - like love and gratitude - and are aware of what we're triggering in others, we begin to attract positive circumstances into our lives and we begin to trigger positive emotions in others. The law of attraction brings back all of those positive things threefold or more.

Being honest about what we are feeling plugs in our sixth sense and enables us to sense other people's feelings more readily. Honesty brings us honesty in return and we are able to sense the truth more quickly using our feelings. Ignoring our feelings disables the sixth sense. Suppressing our feelings can cause an overload. Not feeling at all unplugs our sixth sense and diminishes our ability to connect at a significant level.

Prompting Change

Some people use their feelings to sense the energy when they walk into a room. People who speak well publicly are not only able to read the feelings in a room, but also to prompt a change in those feelings. When they do this they are using their sixth sense: that is, they are using their own feelings to tap into what others are feeling.

They prompt a change by first internally acknowledging their own feelings, and then by sharing them in some form. Exchanging words is often unnecessary. Sometimes this is even done unconsciously, because for them the process has become automatic. Their uplifting feelings are in a sense transmitted. They flow and are often picked up on before any words are spoken. Feelings connect us and affect us whether we like it or not. When we ask questions, we get connected in another way. We connect to intelligence.

Question + Answer = Question

Asking questions plugs in our seventh sense and our intuition, setting the law of intelligence in motion. When we stop asking questions, our seventh sense is unplugged, and we lessen our capacity for learning and growing.

Intelligence is open-ended and infinite, hence the equation question + answer = question. Intelligence never stops flowing when we use this formula. Sometimes thoughts aren't easy to remember because they move very quickly.

Feelings are easy to remember when we become aware of them. Actually, intense feelings are very hard to forget, whether they're good or bad. It's like they're stored in our bodies. What makes them so hard to forget is that they keep coming back. But intense feelings are what give us the connection between our earthly bodies, the earth itself, and the divine. We can enhance a memory or thought simply by associating it with a feeling.

Exploring Our Sixth and Seventh Senses

Our sixth and seventh senses stay with us as we move from body to body, where we connect with the other five senses. Each one of us has an individually unique combination of thoughts and feelings that is part of our spirit and the common link between each of our many lives. Asking questions and being honest with ourselves about what we are feeling allows us to fully explore our sixth and seventh senses, and to use them to our benefit in our own evolution.

Throughout history, certain people have been acknowledged as having had a sixth sense about things: Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and Mahatma Gandhi, to name just a few. These men used that sense to achieve great feats.

But we all have a sixth and seventh sense, although the seventh sense has never before been defined, to my knowledge. It is through the sixth and seventh senses that we access our brilliance, our creativity, and whatever it is that we want to achieve in this life. With the aid of these senses we journey toward wholeness and we access our spirit, which is eternal and evolving. Having belief or faith enables us to connect with our spirit.