Intuiting and Harnessing the Powers of Intuition

Intuition isn't guesswork.  It isn't following hunches.

Intuition is direct perception of an impending, distant, or "not evident" event without need for description or analysis by the mind.

Perhaps you've had the experience of thinking of someone and very soon the phone rings, and it's them:  intuition (in the form of precognition).

As you know, intuition, like imagination, is ephemeral.  It tends to vanish quickly, unless captured in memory.

To capture anything in memory, it has to make enough of an impression -- something that can come from the intensity of an experience or its repetition -- or both.

In both cases, attention has to rest stably in an intuitive perception -- which means sufficiently steadily and focussed for a memory impression to form -- without use of the thinking mind.

Although intuition doesn't come from the thinking mind, deliberately thinking of something and holding attention on it can direct enough free attention to that item to open the channel of intuition.  It's "think, then feel".

Fleeting attention can't capture intuition.  Scattered attention can't capture intuition.  Noisy mind can't capture intuition.

Attention has to be free enough, the mind quiet enough, to detect an intuitive impression, which generally occurs spontaneously, sometimes instantaneously and sometimes after a delay, "when we're not looking".  You need free attention to capture it.

That last sentence should have clarified, for you, the importance of cleaning up chronic stress patterns, which are background noise in the nervous system.

I started by saying what intuition isn't.  Now, I'll say some things about what it is.

Intuitive impressions of an event or item feel like that event or item in question.  It's like a coming attraction trailer for a film.  It's a mini-experience occurring in our incoming channel, which is imagination; all of the senses may be involved, but at the very least, the feeling (not necessarily emotional) sense is involved.

A good situation to get familiar with this kind of perception is when you are facing a choice between two options; put your attention on each option long enough to steady, focus and get a felt impression.  Alternate between the two options to detect the differences between them.

Though intuition may give us "yes or no" answers, more information than "yes" or "no" is available -- unless the two options are so close that it makes little difference, in which case I recommend that you wait a while until one of them is more prominent.

Why?

Timing.  It may just be too soon.

Our own biases and preferences may color intuition.  Sometimes, intuition says, "no" when we want it to say, "yes" -- or vice versa.  We're wiser to go with intuition than with preference -- to go for the feeling, rather than by knowledge or analysis.

Once in a while, following intuition leads to a surprise, a "what in the world was that about?" moment.  When that happens, take it in stride.  It's a wake-up call to learn to release your attention from fixed positions.

Intuitive perception requires the kind of openness that occurs when stress is low and the nervous system is relatively quiet.  The quieter, the more deep, vivid, and distinct the intuitive perception.

How to get stress low enough?

Balance your four core modes of intelligence:  attention, intention, memory, and imagination -- in every situation in which you feel stressed out -- and experience the peace that results, in each case.

That's all, for now.

In a few days, I'm going to make an announcement of a coming attraction.  Ready?