(”Alone”; courtesy of *Gabisa Motonia)
Intuition, hunches, gut response, and instinct are different ways of referring to the ability to perceive information without relying solely on logic and on your five senses. In Intuition: The Path to Inner Wisdom
, Patricia Einstein defines intuition as “an inner awareness and a sense of knowing that is outside the realm of logical thought”. Rational, “linear” thought is incomplete and needs the support of intuition. The Greeks were great logical thinkers, but they consulted the Oracles. Einstein asserted that scientific truth is revealed first by intuition, and then verified by logic.
Laura Day, author of Practical Intuition
explains that she has been consulted by doctors, lawyers, politicians, CEO’s, and investors to predict things such as: finding lost objects, analyzing stock offerings, and developing courtroom strategies and anticipating the questions of opposing counsel. In fact, studies show that executives who rely on both logic and intuition surpass their colleagues who rely on logic alone. Everyone is intuitive, albeit to different degrees, and using your intuition can help you enhance every area of your daily life.
Developing your intuition can help make you more aware of how others feel and it can help you identify when others are lying. In addition, a well developed intuition can help you make better and quicker decisions, as well as help you to get in touch with what you really want.
Use Your Intuition to Check In With Yourself
Laura Day suggests that use your intuition to help you get more in touch with yourself by recording your first response to each of the following questions:
- In this moment, what do you want?
- In this moment, what do you need?
- In this moment, what is your greatest fear?
- In this moment, what is your greatest wish?
- In this moment, what would you need to be happy?
- In this moment, with what part of your life are you most satisfied?
- In this moment, in what part of your life would you most like to see change in the coming year?
Ask yourself one of these questions, turn on a tape recorder, and simply begin talking without censoring yourself, without worrying about grammar, and without stopping to ask whether what you’re saying makes any sense. If you slow down or pause, you’re rational mind will interfere in the process. Simply allow yourself to report what you’re picking up in response to the question. Afterward you can listen back to the tape and record anything that jumps out at you in a notebook.
Developing Your Intuition can Make You More Creative
“I shut my eyes in order to see.” — Paul Gaugin
Your intuition can lead to creative breakthroughs. Patricia Einstein explains that intuition and creativity are very much related since they’re both children of the right brain hemisphere. Both creativity and intuition encourage you to look at the familiar in a new, alternate way. By developing one quality you naturally develop the other. Andrei Ridgeway shares in his book, Psychic Living,
that when he’s writing stories he picks a Tarot card and then uses his intuition to interpret it in order to help him shape the plot of the story and invent new characters. Intuition can give you the extra input you need to work through creative blocks and envision new ideas and projects. In fact, what many people call their “muse”, is actually their intuition.
Other Uses of Intuition
In addition to helping you reconnect with yourself and make you more aware of what you truly want and need, as well as helping you solve problems in a creative way and come up with new ideas, Sonia Choquette explains in The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul
that intuition can help you with things such as:
- Finding a reliable baby sitter for your child.
- Deciding which job offer is a better fit and a better opportunity for you.
- Identifying the best activities on which to devote your time.
- Connecting with people who have the potential to become good friends.
- Choosing the best foods for you.
How to Develop Your Intuition
Patricia Einstein advices that you put yourself in the state of awareness Zen teachers call “beginner’s mind”, which is an open and receptive state of mind. She adds that when you’re performing any rote activity, such as going for a walk, ironing, doing the dishes, taking a shower, and so on, you say the following to yourself: “I’m opening to my intuition; insights and ideas are flowing to me now.” Then get into the rhythm of whatever you’re doing and flow with it. You may be amazed at the insights you receive.
Yet another method is to consult oracles, such as the I Ching, runes, or, as we’ve already mentioned, tarot cards. Some say that tarot cards
were created by Persian mystics to preserve esoteric teachings; instead of writing in books the mystics would conceal their insights in symbolic patterns and secret codes. The I Ching is one of the oldest books in the world. It consists of sixty-four small chapters—known as hexagrams—each of which prescribes a particular style of action. Runes
consist of 24 stones, each carrying a letter from the Runic alphabet, which has its origins in Latin and Etruscan culture. Using the Runes is very simple: you simply put your hand in the bag, select a stone, and then use your intuition to interpret it.
Meditation will help you to focus inwardly and better access your inner knowledge. In addition, the The Silva Life System can show you how to control and slow down your brain’s rhythm to the Alpha brain wave level. Slowing down your brain’s rhythm is conducive to creative thinking and intuition, and is excellent for problem solving, as well as for finding new ideas.
Conclusion
Learn to use your intuition as an information gathering process. By relying on your intuition you expand your awareness and you direct your subconscious to pick up on cues from the environment. It’s important to remember that, like anything else in life, you have to be willing to make mistakes. As you learn to trust your intuition you’ll become more effective at accurately interpreting the messages your subconscious is sending you. Instead of relying solely on logical analysis and data compilation, begin to integrate intuition into your decision making.
– Marelisa
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创造你梦想般的生活：实用直觉
直觉，预感，本能反应和天性是不同的方式指示你具有脱离逻辑和五官感受而具有的感知信息的能力。在《直觉：路径党内的智慧》一书中，帕特里夏·爱因斯坦把直觉定义为“一种内在意识，一种存在于逻辑思维外的感知。”合理的，线形的思维是不完全的，需要直觉来弥补。希腊人是逻辑严密的思想家，但他们却要参照神谕。帕特里夏·爱因斯坦坚持科学真理首先是被直觉所揭示，再被逻辑证实。
劳拉,《实际直觉》的作者解释到，医生，律师，政治家，执行总裁和投资者曾向她咨询去预测一些事，例如：寻找丢失物，分析储备物的提供，完善法庭以及预见到反方辩护的问题。事实上，研究表明运用逻辑和直觉的主管要优于那些只依靠逻辑的同事。尽管体现的程度不同，每个人都是有直觉力的，利用直觉可以帮助你在日常生活的各方面都有所加强。
发挥你的直觉会让你更多地意识到他人的感受，帮你辨别出别人正在撒谎。此外，敏锐的直觉会让你了解自己所需并做出更好更快的决定。
利用你的直觉自我剖析
劳拉建议，通过记录你对以下问题的第一反应，利用你的直觉帮助你更了解自己：
l 这一刻你想要什么？
l 这一刻你需要什么？
l 这一刻你最害怕什么？
l 这一刻你最希望什么？
l 这一刻什么会使你开心？
l 这一刻你对生活中的哪部分最满意？
用其中的一个问题询问你自己，打开录音机，仅仅是开始说话，不要删剪，不必担心语法，不要中断去怀疑所说的是否有意义。如果你放慢速度或停顿，就会被理性干扰。只让自己记述所捕捉到的对问题的反应。然后，回放录音并在笔记本中记录下任何即刻引起你注意的内容。
发挥直觉让你更具创造性
“我闭上眼睛是为了看见。”——保罗·高
你的直觉会带来创造性的突破。帕特里夏·爱因斯坦解释道，直觉和创造性联系密切，那时因为它们同属于孩子的右脑半球。创造性和直觉都促使你在新的，交替的方法里找到熟悉感。当你发挥一种品质时，自然会去发挥另一种品质。安德烈里韦奇在他的《心理生活》一书中分享到，在他写故事时，他拣起一张塔罗牌，然后凭直觉去解释它以帮助自己形成故事情节，创造新角色。直觉的附加输入能够使我们突破创造闭塞，想出新观点和方案，其实，人们所说的“创作灵感”就是直觉。
直觉的其他作用
索妮娅·肖凯特在《心理通路》一书中解释道，“除了帮助你，更好的意识到真正想要的和需要的，解决创造之路上的问题和提出新观点，直觉还可以在这些事上对你有所帮助：
l 为你的孩子找一个可靠的保姆
l 决定哪份工作适合你并拥有更好的机遇
l 辨别出值得让你投入时间的最好活动
l 与可能成为你挚友的人接触
l 为你选择最好的食物
如何发挥你的直觉
帕特里夏·爱因斯坦建议，让自己进入一种被曾子称为“初心“的意识状态，这是一种开放的，善于接受新思想的思想状态。她还提到，当你在做机械活动时，例如，散步，熨衣服，涮盘子，沐浴等等，你和自己说：“我正在开启我的直觉，将要获得顿悟和想法。”然后跟上节奏并投入其中。你会惊讶于你所得到的感悟。
另外还有参照神谕的方法，例如，《易经》，魔咒和我们提过的——塔罗牌。有人说是波斯人神秘主义者为了保护神秘的教义而创造了塔罗牌；神秘主义者并不写在书里，而是使用象征性的图案和密码来隐藏他们所领悟到的。《易经》是世界上最古老的书之一。其由六十四卦构成，因卦图著名，每卦规定一种特定的行为方式。魔咒由二十四块石头组成，没一块带有一个源自拉丁和埃特鲁思坎文化的如尼字母。运用魔咒的方发很简单：把手伸进袋子，挑出一块石头，然后凭直觉去解释它。
冥想会让你集中精神，更好地接触内心世界。此外，《席尔瓦生命系统》可以向你展示如何将你的大脑节奏控制和减弱到阿尔法脑波强度。减弱脑波节奏对你的创造性思维和直觉，问题的解决及产生新想法都大有帮助。
总结
学会将直觉当成信息整合过程来运用，依靠直觉来扩充你的知识面以及从环境中截取信息指导你的潜意识。记住这点很重要：像一生中的其他事一样，你要愿意犯错误。当你学着去相信直觉时，你会更有效的准确理解潜意识传达给你的信息。开始利用直觉来帮助你做决定，而不是单独依靠逻辑分析和数据收集。