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Intuition

Updated: Jan 30

What is intuition and where does it come from?


In the 12 step Big Book pages 86-87 it states:


“In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.”


Albert Einstein said that "The only real valuable thing is intuition"


Meditation is the key to unlocking intuition. I would say that meditation is not just beneficial, but that it is an essential part of our mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. It's the road to Self-Mastery, the path to your highest Self, Truth, wisdom, creativity, and is your conscious contact with, or direct line to, the Universal Intelligence that is far greater than our human intelligence alone. It's the way out of the 'catastrophising' negative repetitive thoughts that we are so addicted to, but that ruin our lives by incessantly screaming our Self-limiting beliefs into our minds. We have 60,000 of these negative thoughts per day - no wonder that we are all struggling. Meditation is the ticket out of our ego. The silence in silent meditation dials the smartphone to your higher consciousness.


Prayer is when you speak to God. Silent meditation is when God replies. It’s when you get intuitive information about who you are BEing. Lao Tzu wrote "The Way to do is to BE." Immanuel Kant, the greatest of the Western philosophers wrote that "To BE is to do."


I am focusing on conscious contact with God through prayer and meditation. Every morning and evening my Prayers are - the serenity prayer, the Lord’s prayer, the step 3 prayer and the prayer of Saint Francis. I have memorised them. After that I meditate for 20-30 minutes.This is allowing me to access my subconscious and my intuitive thoughts. I think the intuitive thoughts come from our Higher Power and our subconscious. I love the equation "Man minus mind equals God". My intuitive thoughts come from my subconscious waking up.


The message from the spiritual Masters and philosophical geniuses over the millenia is that the goal of awakening, or Enlightenment, is for awareness to take over from thinking. In other words, for intuition to take over from fear-based thinking. Or the heart to take over from the mind. Or feeling emotions and letting go of negative catastrophising thoughts. It’s the same as switching from asking 'What would fear do?' to 'What would love do?' Or 'What would my real Self (Higher Power) do instead of my fake self (ego)?' These are all metaphors for the same internal shift. Never leave the seat of your soul. Just rest in awareness.


Dr Wayne Dyer wrote "Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your Highest Self." Meditation reduces brain chatter so that you can hear the intuitive still quiet voice inside you that is your guide to your life. This literally transforms your mind. You develop your concentration, clarity, emotional positivity, and a calm seeing of the true nature of things.


When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our BEing. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us. It gives us access to our own soul, our true Self, our highest Self and the Universal Consciousness or Intelligence that is available to us. J. Krishnamurti wrote “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”


Meditation is a direct phone line to a higher intelligence. There is no charge. The line is always open. Yet we do not use it. Why not? The Holy Spirit is like a smartphone to God.


You will start to hear your inner intuition: The still inner voice of your true Self. Carl Jung wrote "Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations."


Presence always creates miracles. Malcom Gladwell wrote a book called 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.' This is also called intuition - and gives access to a far greater intelligence than we have otherwise access to. The source of this is a subject for endless philosophical debate, yet intuition is real, just like consciousness, real love, or the soul. Dr Wayne Dyer wrote "There's no substitute for the practice of meditation."


When you become present you feel like you are falling into a deep pool or the sea. The thoughts stop completely. You feel spiritual bliss. You feel oneness and a deeper connection with others afterwards. Ideas and solutions then pour into your mind.


During the day, between meditations, just keep saying to your Self "I AM". Or you can say the mantra from Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God," While you are walking or sitting just keep thinking this thought. Just return to this thought. It’s your mantra for life. This exercise in itself can reach Enlightenment. You become continuous pure consciousness. You simply are. "I am what I am." This is the most radical change in your life. It’s the only solution to lasting peace and joy. This will help you to be present and allow life to unfold naturally including all the things you want to happen to happen. You are getting out of your own way. Let go of any identification apart from I AM. That’s it. It’s very powerful if you persist. It's very simple.


Albert Einstein, who formulated the theory of relativity, wrote “I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the Truth comes to me.” Isaac Newton, who formulated gravitational theory, wrote "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." It's hard to argue with those two scientists. It is in silent meditation that we feel the most powerful shifts. For me deep meditative presence feels like an energised stillness and bliss. There are no more thoughts, just serenity and peace. It is from this place of BEing that we enter again into the world, gently and full of clarity. Fear is the language of the ego. Stillness is the language that God speaks. Everything else is a poor translation. Patanjali wrote "Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind."


Ramana Maharshi wrote “Silence is also a conversation.” This conversation is formless, a feeling of Truth. You are aware of your BEing - your presence. There is a conscious presence. You are Enlightened. The light is consciousness. This is the real you. There is no story. You become the Universe: The Universe becoming aware of itself. This is your foundation. It underlies everything. This is where you get divine guidance: All the time. There is no longer doubt. Your life becomes a dream. These are the words of eternal life, right now, which express the true way you are to live. They say to you in the stillness of your heart and mind and soul: "Do this and live." It's an exquisite solitude and stillness. That connects you to all things. As a Course in Miracles says "I will be still, and let the Earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God." Euripides wrote "Silence is true wisdom's best reply." As Eckhart Tolle said "Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions... All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness... Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found." Claude Debussy wrote "Music is the silence between the notes."


Beth Bridges wrote "You can't hear your soul when the noise of your world is too loud. In stillness you find your own wisdom, which truly, is all you ever need." When we can learn to bear stillness, when we begin to foster presence, we access a miraculous space, a space where we can sit in the eye of the storm. You flow in stillness. As Rumi wrote “Leave thinking to the one who gave intelligence. In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves... Listen to silence. It has so much to say.” Listen to the silence; it is volcanic in its power. Wisdom is beyond the mind. Love is wordless. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross said “Learn to get in touch with the silence within your Self, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.” As Einstein wrote "God does not play dice."


Meditation is called a practice as it must be practiced for its effects to be deepened. Paramahansa Yogananda said "To get a response from God, you must meditate deeply. Each day's meditation must be deeper than the previous day's. Then you will find that as soon as your attention becomes focused, it burns out all deficiency from your mind, and you feel the power of God come over you. That power can destroy all seeds of failure.


Madeleine L'Engle wrote "Then through the thunderous silence, we may be able to hear a still small voice, and words will be born anew." And so will worlds. Lao Tzu wrote “To the mind that is still, the whole Universe surrenders.” Herman Hesse, the author of 'Siddhartha',which is in my 'Suggested Reading' list, wrote "Within your Self is a stillness, a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be your Self.” Your choice of going there or not is the difference between experiencing 'Heaven' or 'Hell' in your daily life. Mahatma Gandhi wrote "It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” Amen.


Namaste.


Sending you love, light, and blessings brothers.


Olly

Dr Olly Alexander Branford MBBS, MA(Cantab), PhD.

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