it's never imagination

Elvira is 40 and a child abuse survivor who’s never married or had kids because of it She lives with friends in a large apartment and she's currently unemployed.

"I really think that being an only child made me more intuitive than the average woman," says Elvira. "I had to deal with very difficult parents, and knowing when to say something and when not to, became a way of survival for me."

"If you've sensed a few preliminary signs, yet everything on the surface seems fine, and nothing bad eventuates down the line," explains Elvira, "then you tend to put your initial feelings down to imagination. Intuition is supposed to be a true presage of what is going to happen, isn't it? So, if we intuit something bad is going to happen, and it doesn't, then we must have been imagining it. Right?"

"Wrong!"

According to Elvira, this is an error in logic we all make, and it’s one that we are conditioned to make by those who wish to subjugate and dominate us (ostensibly for our own good, of course).

"Intuition is not a true presage of what is going to happen - that's precognition," explains Elvira. "Intuition is all about our feelings, it’s about how the world affects us, it's about the signs that our inner guidance picks up."

Elvira got wise about her intuition after a sad childhood in which everything she heard and saw and felt was discounted as imagination.

"Many women remember being a little girl scared of a noise in the middle of the night that our parents told us was just our imagination," explains Elvira. "I believe we all sensed quite rightly at the time that the noise we heard was very real and something bad was happening - but we were in no position to press the point."

"It was the same when we innocently told our kindergarten teachers that daddy did something to us, and when daddy was called into school to explain the situation he told the teacher that we were highly imaginative children. And daddy and the teacher would wink, make a joke of it, and the incident was dismissed."

"When enough people have called you highly imaginative," explains Elvira, "it’s easy to believe that you are. But I'm not buying that."

"I'm all grown up now and I'm not only in a position to press the point but also to trust in my intuition. No matter what people tell me, I trust my inner guidance and follow it."

Elvira explains that preliminary signs do not necessarily lead to obvious signs of trouble, but they do mean that something was wrong.

Things can either blow up or blow over.

"When preliminary signs do not lead to trouble eventuating - and they often don't, things do have a habit of blowing over rather than blowing up - we tend to lull ourselves into a false sense of security by rationalizing or ignoring these signs, pretending it was just our imagination," explains Elvira.

"If things don't blow up it is simply because someone, somewhere, made a conscious decision not to go ahead with what we sensed was happening," explains Elvira. "The same person could have decided to go ahead and then things would have blown up!"

"When things blow over this does not mean that we were never in danger. We were," says Elvira. "We sensed something was wrong, and our intuition does not deceive us. It's our survival sense. It's far more important than sight, smell, hearing and touch."

Elvira insists that Nature did not endow us with powerful intuition to deceive us - it is a survival instinct and if we want to survive and prosper we must heed what it tells us, no matter how silly.

"Never, ever, confuse intuition with imagination," says Elvira. "Imagination is a conscious decision to make something up, like writing a fairy story. Intuition, on the other hand, is something that you feel, like a bolt of lightning."

"In child abuse cases, little children are often accused of making things up, being highly imaginative," says Elvira, "and that I survived an unhappy childhood and used my experiences to sharpen my intuition is proof that any woman can overcome adversity and take charge of her life."