Greetings!
Welcome to the first of many more editions of my blog, or my glob if you’re a bit on the dyslexic side.
Got Intuition? Of course you do. You were born with it, and probably would never have survived to adulthood (or wherever-hood you are) without it.
You’re of the earth, and the earth is where all intuition is based. In fact, indigenous peoples often appear cool to us because they’re keenly attuned to the planet, and that triggers the part of us that knows who we are. There’s a reason why grounding (also called ‘earthing’) works and it’s all about plugging in.
But what are we plugging into? There’s an unknown there, isn’t it?
Actually not. The unknown is really just a place where we’ve separated from our sense of self, that’s all. And in that separation is where the fears of the unknown are born. But let’s say that you didn’t go to that place of separation, that you stayed grounded and unified. Wouldn’t your world be vastly different?
That part of you that speaks to you in this sudden moment knows something. But that knowledge isn’t stored in your head—it’s stored in your body, because intuition is a body experience. It’s really about knowing rather than knowledge. Knowing is alive, knowledge isn’t.
Intuition. Everyone has it, everyone was born with it, no one is lacking any of it. Thing is, from the time you first went off to pre-school (in whatever form that took), you began to exercise the left side of your brain. That was a good thing, because you needed to learn stuff in order to grow and participate in your culture. And most societies stop there, schooling pretty much exclusively through the left brain. When the budget gets crunched, the first thing that gets cut is the arts program, if you can still remember having one.
We’ve become so left brain-oriented, so concerned with data that we even have a new god in the last 20 years known as the personal computer. The ultimate data-cruncher. So powerful that it’s become the model for people rather than the other way around. It’s really an amazing tool that has given us an increasing amount of altitude on what’s going on in our world, especially when connected to the internet. More about the net another time.
Ever go to the beach or to the gym and see someone who obviously works out regularly, has an incredible upper body but skinny legs? Or great arms, but that’s all?
Well, that’s an analogy for what we look like from one energetic view when we’ve exercised the left brain only and have allowed the right side to atrophy. A similar analogy exists also for those who live only in a right brained world, but due to our societal constructs we have far more of the left-brainers than the right-brainers. Neither is quite fully balanced.
Interestingly enough, the evolution of mankind and the planet has provided us with our own spiritual gymnasium for flexing those intuitive muscles. It’s really always been here, but in our typical western culture we just haven’t really paid a whole lot of attention to it. Not our fault. We’ve just not been socialized to do so.
What it takes is –just for a moment – a suspension of disbelief. Which you could say is also an enabling of a different belief. Just for a moment. Try that with something you’ve always taken for granted, like gravity. Or being poor. Or powerless. Or stuck. Just for a moment, imagine what it would be like if ONLY the opposite were true. Entertain it, live in that for just a moment as fully as you can. Make it real. Vivify it. Feel it. Just for a moment in time. Go ahead – I’ll wait.
(Gee, I’m so accommodating)
OK, so that was interesting. Even if that moment is already fading, if you went there, you made it real, even if just for a moment. And you just expanded your world, at least in that moment, however briefly.
That was flexing. Keep doing that. With everything! Every chance you get.
Now that wasn’t hard to do, was it?
Michael
