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In our high technology world it is easy to become isolated from inner Self. It is almost impossible in our information overloaded society to stop, breath and listen. Listen to our intuition, that is. We are bombarded with ads everywhere suggesting how we should live, drive, eat, dress, play, work, dream, brush our teeth, shower, blah, blah, blah. The amount of stimuli that inundate us every hour of the day is itself overwhelming.
We get up in the morning and it begins. The coffee or tea (stimulate) is a special brand and requires a special pot and special filters and the news tells us how to drive to work and then we turn to the radio to listen to people tell us how to think and where to go and how sensational the world really is. Newspapers, Internet, or Mobile device feed our addiction to information. We spend the day with telephone calls, cell phone calls, email, voice mail messages and after we leave the office. Well we even have our off hours and recreation, in many cases, filled with stimuli such as online gaming or computer games.
We try to sort and filter this information pouring in so we can be selective about what occupies our conscious mind. We often lose this battle. There is a phenomenon know to psychologist called deleting. Where the mind selectively deletes information in order to capture what seems most important. We can store all the information that comes in and so we begin deleting. It is like reading this sentence with certain words deleted to save room. …like…sentence…words deleted.
All this overload is and we lose touch with our intuition and our self awareness becomes external awareness. Looking outside of ourselves we search for feedback that tells us something that makes us feel OK. Our mind is so full of thoughts that even in the middle of the night when we wake up we discover we have been thinking. Our mind doesn’t shut off. It continues running. Our intuition has trouble surfacing through this barge with thoughts stimulated by our senses streaming all the time.
Intuition is such a powerful tool. This is the ability to communicate with your soul. It is in the ability to know without reasoning.
Intuition will pop in or think you. But it needs space to do it. It needs attention or awareness to begin opening up to this magic all ability.
If you are one of those people saying they don’t have intuition then you have been feed nonsense. Everyone has it. But, not everyone has developed it. So, you have to spend time practicing intuition. Learning what it feels like. Noticing if you receive through verbal thought-auditory or through images. All are various modes of intuition. Usually, your most developed mode of operating (auditory, visual, kinetics) will be the mode through which intuition operates.
Almost all of our rational knowing is from experience and learning through memorization. Therefore, we process our world through our memories, sorting matches and filtering data until we arrive at the answer that appears to fit the data. If we have no match we begin the process of locating similar experiences or the experiences we know that others have had that is similar. If this fails we ask someone we think will know the answer.
Here is an exercise that will help you develop your intuition as a alternative resource to the rational mind. Although this exercise is contrived to give you an safe environment to focus your awareness to receive intuitive answers, you do not need any special environment or circumstance to use your intuition. In fact, having it available when you are in trouble is a great tool.
Exercise
1. find a place where you can sit comfortably and relaxed but not where you will most likely go to sleep. Therefore, don’t do this in bed or at night in your easy chair. If you can find a place where you won’t be interrupted it will keep you from feeling tense about someone walking in or bothering you.
2. With your eyes closed take a deep breath and focus your awareness on your feet. Notice if there is tension in your feet and where it is. Then consciously relax any spots that are tense. By focusing on any spots in your body and saying to yourself relax then your muscles will begin to loosen up.
3. Focus your awareness on your calf muscles and do the same thing as you did for your feet. Continue this until you reach your head. Once you are at the top of your head allow your awareness to wash over your whole body back to your feet.
4. Next sit and allow your mind to slow down. To do this allow your awareness to follow your breathing rather than your thoughts. As you notice your mind slowing down bring your awareness to the space between the thoughts.
5. Play with this exercise until you can create more space between your thoughts. You will not be able to force this. You have to allow it to work.
After going through this exercise several times you will find it easier and easier to do. In the space between your thoughts will come your intuitive insights. Although, this exercise is only one of many used to develop your insight try it for a week and then check your progress.
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