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Spirituality
It's
All In The Gut!
Call it what you may. But, we all seem to
use it everyday.
Intuition, to most people, sounds much like a mystical force, even a
monumental gift. However, according to a new study, intuition is a sort of
background sense: a sense of how things should work, with its facts hidden
in the brain. Of logic. And, more than all that — a personal power. A
power, which every human being is endowed with, although not all of us are
aware of its immense possibilities, or uses.
Intuition, as a matter of fact, was once attributed to women more strongly
than men, because it isn’t a ‘rational’ process. Popular perception has it
that rational thought is the domain of male intellect. The idea gained
mileage because tasks, or jobs, traditionally assumed to be ‘women’s
work,’ required very little by way of intuition. Specialists now argue
that men and women are equally intuitive and equipped to use this powerful
tool — no more, no less — in their everyday lives.
All of us believe in meaningful coincidences. A telephone call, a tryst at
a restaurant with a loved one. And, the fact remains. You can use
intuition to enhance every area of your daily life, and to recover lost
information about the past, verify unknown information about the present,
or predict information about the future. You wouldn’t believe one word of
it. No problem. But, intuition can empower you to be productive and active
in any situation. With intuition, you’ll be able to reclaim some measure
of competence and control over your life. It will improve your
decision-making. Deduction: make it an integral part of your life, like
exercise and meditation.
Employing intuition will open you up, add to the quality of both your
thinking and your emotional selves. To begin with, you should establish
what is truly important to you; then, respond to your merits and
shortcomings. Once you have done that, you ought to ‘react.’ You have to
be brief and honest. You should act like a plumber — one who is plumbing
your unconscious. Don’t just peek ahead. Be patient.
You’d use a tape-recorder, or a notepad. To ‘articulate’ your own
thoughts, or write them. But, be careful. Because, what you may wish for —
you may get. To get into the ‘act,’ you should become better acquainted
with yourself. Allow your mind to relax and move back to the places within
— where you hold your memory. Have faith that your unconscious will
generate memories that provide the information you need to answer your
question. Allow yourself to get all the components of what’s meaningful
about the question. As you analyze, allow yourself a stop every time your
perceptions want to travel; or, permit them to run, until you hit another
memory. Don’t worry about whether it’s a ‘real’ memory, or that you’re
just making it up. Write down at least four recollections in your
intuition notepad.
– first, each question must be specific and unambiguous so that a precise
answer is possible – second, each question should be simple rather than compound
– third, each question should be directly relevant to the issue you want
to know about – fourth, be exact.
Intuition is, quite simply, a capacity — something that’s within us all,
like the capacity for language, or thinking, or appreciating music. It’s
not an acquired power. Rather, it’s an integral part of every human —
mental, emotional, and psychical — process. Each moment, all of us receive
information intuitively. Only thing is we’re simply unaware of the
process, although we use our intuition in all those practical, reasoned
decisions we make everyday: from choices as routine as to what we eat for
lunch to what we pursue by way of a career, or whom to marry. The trick is
using your intuition more effectively — to bringing the unconscious data.
It supplies us to a place where our conscious mind can interpret it.
–
Rajgopal Nidamboor
December 15, 2002
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