Tapping Into Your Intuition
This is not the first time I’ve written about intuition. The article, “Tapping Into Intuition” was first published in the September-October edition of Coast & Country Magazine, a north of Boston publication, in 1983.
The article began with a brief visualization exercise, like all my exercises designed to help people tap into their innate psychic ability to solve problems, stimulate creativity, reveal effective choices and generally speaking, help them to feel better.
Over thirty years later, this short exercise is still an effective way to enter a relaxed experience of trance and tap into intuitive knowing.
Picture yourself in perfect health, seeing yourself feeling and looking fine physically and mentally; functioning effectively in all your endeavors. Affirm for yourself that in this relaxed state you can access all the information and intuition needed to make the best possible decisions. Hold this image for a minute or two, allowing your mind to rest, and when ready re-orient, noting any thoughts that seem important.
Although exercises like this one are often categorized as visualizations, they typically involve a full panel of imagined sensory experiences that can guide you into the intuitive wisdom of the unconscious mind.
The article also contained an exercise for finding intuitive solutions to difficult dilemmas. Following is an updated version.
As you bring to mind a problem you would like to solve, take a gentle breath and relax comfortably. As you breathe normally let mental chatter pass through your mind as if on a conveyer belt. See thoughts and images come in and go out as you become more deeply attuned to the intuitive knowing inside.
When ready, review options for handling the problem; note the imagery and sensations that are the natural intuitive language of the body/mind. You might feel like you are talking to yourself inside. This is one of the ways intuition arises, so listen in.
Use your inner senses to “visualize” options, paying attention to thoughts, sensations and emotions connected to various possibilities and outcomes. You are gathering intuitive information and ‘gut reactions’ that you can think through consciously later.
When ready re-orient to your surroundings, affirming that you will be awake, relaxed and possessed of intuitive knowing to help guide your path.
If you are a therapist, you can use exercises like this one and others to help patients tap their intuitive resources while simultaneously enhancing your clinical effectiveness and therapeutic success. You might find it fun to make up your own exercises.
I would love to hear from you and hear how this exercise has assisted you in your life and your work.
