Intuition
“You don’t have to pay tuition to get intuition” is the phrase The Grasshopper opined this morning.
I had to wonder about it a little before some ideas started to surface.
We all have intuition. It’s difficult to define which is why many discard its existence.
Who hasn’t had an idea come from out of the blue to answer something you had been wrestling with or pondering?
Poof, there it was.
Intuition isn’t smarts, at least the way we define intelligence. Everybody has intuition no matter what the level of the IQ.
In fact, the amount of intuition one receives is proportional to the lack of thoughts going on in their head. You can’t think your way to intuition no matter how smart you are. Reminds me of a story . . .
My grandmother lived with us for a couple of years when I was in elementary school. I had this friend, Al who I had recently made friends with. One day my grandmother said, “Johnnie, I don’t like you hanging around with that boy. He’s bad news.” I went on to defend my new friend and asked why she didn’t like him. She just said she didn’t get a good feeling when he was around.
A couple of days later, Al and I were out and about and playing up near the railroad tracks. There was a place where they parked empty box cars near the tracks. We began to play inside the box car. Then all of a sudden Al gathered some straw that was on the floor of the train car and piled it in one corner. The next thing I knew he pulled a lighter out of his pocket and lit the straw on fire. We ran.
The good news is the fire must have burned itself out with no damage because when I went by the next day, the car was intact. I stopped hanging around with Al. A couple of years later we heard that Al was off at reform school.
Where did that piece of information my grandmother offered come from? It was intuition. She didn’t take a class at the local high school. It just showed up and she knew she could trust it.
Jerry Stocking is fond of saying that enlightenment is closer than your next thought. I think you can substitute the word intuition into his sentence and have the same level of accuracy. It seems that intuition is our first glimpse of enlightenment.
We have the tendency to dismiss it as coincidence. Dr. Wayne Dyer has a different definition of coincidence. He says, “The word coincidence does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly.”
Intuition is perfect. It’s raw and unrefined. In fact, it’s in the refinement process that we pollute it. Intuition doesn’t require thought. It requires recognition, which comes from a different place than our thoughts. Intuition is always a sensation. Begin to recognize that sensation and nurture it. Too much discussion about it waters it down. Just feel it and trust it.
Pay attention to what your body is communicating. It’s contains a separate intelligence known as intuition. It’s quite adept at putting out fires before they start.
All the best,
John
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