MASTERING INTUITION

Most people don’t know how to use their intuitive faculty deliberately.  They often confuse impulses driven by subconscious wishes or fears with authentic intuition.  Just as with logic and reasoning powers, if we don’t develop intuition and learn to use it effectively, we live at a great disadvantage.

Intuition does not replace logic and reasoning -- it complements them. Where logic and reasoning tend to narrow our field of focus, intuition expands it beyond our normal conscious mental operations. Intuition is the backbone of creativity, discovery and great life achievements.  Without its development -- no matter how intelligent or talented we may be -- we function only at a fraction of our potential; but how to develop it? 

Here’s a process that may help: First decide on what you’d like to intuitively reach for and know; then close your eyes, quiet your mind and sense a vast space within; next notice what significant seed word, phrase or image spontaneously arises; then focus further on this seed until a fully formed intuitive awareness comes. 

Accessing your intuition can take only a few seconds.  But if you lose focus or don’t focus deeply enough, you may need to keep trying and draw the process out.  However, if nothing comes in a few minutes, stop.  You need not work at it more than that.  Once the intention has been set, your mind will automatically keep working on it subconsciously.  Then later, when you least expect it, the knowledge you sought may suddenly appear. 

Keep using and developing your intuitive sense along with your logic and reasoning; together they allow you to be more consciously in control of creating your best life. 

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.

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THREE REALITY VIEWS

Our reality view determines how we think, feel and act, so depending what it is -- Materialistic, Humanistic or Spiritualistic – we’ll experience a different life.

In a Materialist’s view, life is by chance and all our efforts and successes inevitably lead to nonexistence, making life meaningless in the end. With a materialist’s view, gaining pleasure, possessions, comfort and control are the primary aims of life. And at the edge of death, a Materialist’s greatest satisfaction may be only to know that an escape from all pain and passing of possessions to kin is at hand.

In a Humanist’s view, life is a creative self-actualization process. And while he may still face all the challenges of physical existence as Materialist do, by recognizing a higher human nature and seeking to develop it, life can be richer, more meaningful and more fulfilling. As Humanist, we may attempt to improve our character and learn to act more ethically, justly, compassionately, kindly and creatively. And we may gain the fulfillment of developing good relationships and producing more good in the world for all to share. However, as a Humanist, life still ends and we’re left to face death just as we reach our peak. For the Humanist, life’s end can be bittersweet.

In a Spiritualist’s view, life’s possibilities are limitless and steadily unfolding a divine evolutionary process; we recognize ourselves as souls having a human experience and gain a new, more expansive and harmonious relationship to life, including the benefits of Materialism and Humanism. Then, all of life’s challenges may be taken as divine gifts for spurring soul development. Then, we may live more intuitively, lovingly and wisely, and freely draw upon the power of a greater creative intelligence that we’re all part of.  Then, we may dispel fear and find no futility or meaninglessness in living and dying. And then, we may see death as a life adventure just completed and a joyful return to our spiritual home.

Now ask yourself -- which reality view delivers the most for you?

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.

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