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Sunday, May 3, 2009

On Intuition, #2

[Here's another post from my dowsing journal.]

Medical intuitives are people who can diagnose ailments in trances ~ such as the renowned psychic Edgar Cayce and his thousands of medical readings ~ or even over the telephone as is sometimes done by people such as Mona Lisa Schultz, author of Awakening Intuition: Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing.

Aside from her psychic abilities, she’s a neuropsychiatrist with a degree from Brown University, and her M.D. and a Ph.D. from Boston University of Science and Medicine. I read Awakening Intuition earlier this year and a few days ago went back to it for her thoughts on intuition in general. (I should mention that the book title is a bit misleading ~ there's a lot about mind/body medicine, but very little on how to awaken one's intuitive abilities.) Here’s one thing she wrote:
Some people are visual intuitives, receiving mental visual images. Some people are auditory intuitives; they hear thoughts, sounds, or message that carry intuitive information. Some people are somatic intuitives, receiving somato-sensory input, or body feelings about themselves or others. When people say to me, “I’m not intuitive. I can’t see things,” I ask them, “Then what do you hear?” or “What do you feel?” It’s important to discover your own particular strength and to use the connections you do have instead of becoming blocked by the thought of the ones you don’t have.

In getting in touch with their intuition network, people have to understand how they’re already using intuition, perhaps in very subtle ways. Once you recognize what you’re already doing without being fully aware of it, you can work to build that muscle by exercising it more.
That's as good a reason as any to keep dowsing … something, anything … every few days or even daily. Got to build up that muscle!

2 comments:

christopher said...

The difference between people who want to do art and actually do art is probably a developed intuition. I once knew a musician who was called in our neighborhood the human metronome. He was technically proficient but no one wanted to play with him. He was not intuitive. That shows that a person can substitute technical mastery for intuitive spaciousness.

When I sit down and improvise at the keyboard, then only intuition can lead. You can't think it out fast enough.

As for the seven hundred poems plus that I have written in nine months, if they were not intuitive, they would not exist.

Gregory LeFever said...

Especially in the examples you cite, I think the word "soul" also applies.