Day 7 Interpreting Intuition

Greetings fellow travellers! How very blessed we are to share this sacred space! The sharing of internal dialogue in an emotionally safe space is quite unusual on the www in my experience. I am heartened to hear how you are all travelling and please bear in mind if I do not respond to your post on www.gratitudelog.com it is not because I do not care for what you have written, it is merely because I cannot keep up with them all! I am finding my blog easier to respond to everyone, even though the design remains a work in progress… Our son is still in Wakikki soaking up the surf and sun before heading up to Canada when he will have some more time to help me out with IT stuff.

I have read some very interesting info lately and am always open to more! Intuition is a fascinating topic and like most things, once we focus time and energy into, we see/hear/sense more and more of it. You might like to try this old ‘observation test’ of focusing on a colour for about five minutes in your mind’s eye – see the colour, taste food of that colour, smell things of that colour, touch things in that colour – all in your mind’s eye, then for the next 24 hours observe how many things you notice in that colour.

As you practice your meditations become more familiar way with techniques that work for you. Like Josh said, mediation can’t be forced. Some of the techniques that work for me can be as simple as listening to the birds, gazing at a sunset, watching bamboo sway in the breeze, observing steam rise from piping hot roasted lotus green tea, waves lapping the beach, stars twinkling at night, getting lost in wordless music, candle gazing, cloud painting, watching the breathe, alternate nostril breathing, yoga, or being carried away by guided meditations. Anything that stills the mind and allows the whole body to relax, be present and BE in the moment is meditation in my view. I had an old swami for years who would lecture me on how I needed to be more disciplined and needed to set aside an hour each morning and night to meditate. I never did pull that off in those early years, try as I might, I couldn’t get the kids, the dog, the neighbours, the world NOISE around me together with my energy to all be in synch for 60 moments in time. It was only when I stopped “trying” to meditate, that I realised that I had already been ‘doing meditation’ without being conscious of it. Being conscious takes it all to a new level!!!!

So if you are reawakening your body’s lust for more quiet, or if you are battling the ‘busy brain/body/burn syndrome’ please consider building into your day more of what truly, madly deeply works for your body mind and soul’s rest and replenishment. For it is in these moments that we create more space to turn up the volume on our intuition.

I am curious to know if you are fascinated with how ‘mundane moments’ no longer seem mundane? And how things you previously missed when on ‘auto pilot’ now have a different vibration or shape/definition? Being conscious and mindful in as many moments possible allows us to unpack and dissect our existence, to find the meaning and relevance that keeps our focus on the here and now. And to give thanks and praise for our past, present and future as it has shaped us into the divine beings we all are. There is true personal power in acknowledging what we have, where we have been and who we are and in doings so, creating the space for who we are yet to become.

Please keep up with your daily practices of:

1 5 minute meditations at least once a day

2 Be more mindful in ‘mundane moments’ and observe your intuition as intelligence

3 Observe your day to day activities and consider how much of your day to day interactions have a hint of intuition

4 Remember ~ self care ~ self pace ~ self love

~ Om ~

DAY 6 Interpreting Intuition

Well yesterday’s post has certainly cleared the air, and will now provide the space for us to continue as planned J I am determined to be faithful to my life purpose and values and would feel like a fraud if I didn’t ‘share’ my intuitive experiences along the way. I truly believe that the more we recall intuitive experiences and what we learned from them, together with paying attention to being more mindful and therefore being present, we pave the way to receive more intuitive intelligence.

In plumbing the depths of interpreting intuition as receiving intelligence we will also encounter opportunities to uncover hidden beliefs. I am acutely aware that we all come from various walks of life with “various and differing abilities, assorted agendas, kaleidoscopes of beliefs, and no two backgrounds the same” as Madeleine so eloquently put it in yesterday’s post.  It is essential that we all continue to be respectful and supportive of self discovery and what this means to each other.

In my previous life of ‘living with busy brain syndrome’ I experienced many many moments of anxiety due to physical and mental exhaustion holding hands with fear as the fraudster… There were many occasions when I wasn’t clear enough to pay attention to my intuition and ignored my deep need to rest and reset my core needs… Having paid a huge price, I now do things very differently, hence my mantra Self care ~ self pace ~ self love ~

In plumbing the depths of interpreting intuition as receiving intelligence and what that means to us, we are also subconsciously giving ourselves permission to nurture and honour our intuitive state. Being present in each and every moment is one of the simplest yet most demanding ways in which we can have greater access to our intuition. As a point of reflection I will continue throughout this Challenge to invite you to self reflect on the following: What is it fellow boot campers, that gets in the way for us to listen to our intuition knowing what we know of our intuitive experiences? Why do we turn down the volume on this inner knowingness? What could possibly stop us from using intuition as further intelligence/information????

The more we consciously explore these questions and discover our beliefs attached to our answers, the more we can examine their validity and unearth whether or not these beliefs continue to serve, support, nurture and challenge us. In doing so please consider using some positive personal statements

• “Even though I’m finding this challenge …………………… I deeply and completely love, forgive and accept myself anyway”
• I enjoy interpreting my intuition, knowing that I am transforming my worldviews at the same time.
• “I am beautiful and I LOVE ME Just the Way I AM”
• “I have nothing to prove and nothing to defend”

Or write your own personal statement:

1. 5 minute meditations at least once a day
2. Be more mindful in ‘mundane moments’ and observe your intuition as intelligence
3. Observe your day to day activities and consider how much of your day to day interactions have a hint of intuition
4. Remember ~ self care ~ self pace ~ self love

~Om~

Day 1 Interpreting Intuition

Good Morning Fellow Bootcampers Welcome to DAY 1 of our New Challenge.

How very cool to be back here with you all again!!! Let’s kick things off with a great up ~ turn up the volume and get ready to have some fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NHXH4I3kvw

Now, in kick starting this New Challenge, it is very important that everyone has read the background and has completed the self assessment checklist.  At every step of the way, you will be required to take 100% responsibility for your level of participation and to “TUNE IN” in to self. Of everything we do together sits on the foundation of self care ~ self pace ~ self love.

According to good old Wikipedia “Intuition is the apparent ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason.^[1] “The word ‘intuition’ comes from the Latin word ‘intueri’, which is often roughly translated as meaning ‘to look inside’ or ‘to contemplate’.”^[2] Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify…”

So what does that mean to us? Essentially, intuition is a part of our every day experience that can assist us in making great choices if we are attuned to it. So, in starting off this Challenge, I would like to invite you to rate your sense of being intuitive on a scale of 1-10 (1 being very low and 10 being very high). Make a note of this in your journal as we will return to this later… Next I would like to invite you to recall your earliest memory of ‘sensing’ something without necessarily having the words to describe ‘it’. I distinctly recall my first day of school and it didn’t matter how much anyone tried to convince me that school was a great place, I had a feeling that I was NOT going to like it. As the third youngest child of a very large family at that stage in my life (another sister came along two years later), my mother obviously had her hands full!  The rule of the day for working class families was for the kids to go to school as soon as they could. So I started school as a shy five year old who just wanted to stay at home and play with my little brothers and our dog . I cried all the way to school, cried at the school gate and pleaded with my mother to take me home! She didn’t of course, and interestingly enough, in general, school was one of my worst nightmares LOL. Intuitively I knew that the authoritarian environment I had entered was not going to be conducive to my learning, so over the next 11 years I did everything I could to be removed from that environment . I didn’t know that at the time of course, all I knew was that I had a deep down sense of things not being quite right… Fortunately, my learnings shaped the way I parented our three beautiful children and they all have incredible intuition and continue to learn to use it as intelligence!

We all have access to our intuition, so let’s evolve it more! Checklist for today is to self assess your:

1. commitment to this Challenge
2. perception of your level of intuition
3. Recall your earliest intuitive memory and see what you can interpret
4. Be more mindful and observe your intuition as intelligence
5. Remember self care ~ self pace ~ self love