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The Truth About Intuition And Prayer

In our very exterior oriented, high technology world it is easy to become isolated from your inner life. Information overloaded is no longer in question. We are barraged with TV radio and magazine ads suggesting how we should live, drive, eat, dress, play, work, dream, brush our teeth, shower, blah, blah, blah. The amount of information produced in the world is a staggering 250 terabytes per year. Over 100 million pages of text information per person are generated annually.

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To keep pace with this we get up in the morning and… we have our coffee or tea (stimulate) special blend, special pot and special filters. Then we check the morning TV news which tells us how to drive to work while drinking our special coffee/tea. We get into our cars turn to the radio station we always listen to tell us how more information and where to go and how sensational the world since you have to raise above the noise level to be heard. Newspapers, Internet, or Mobile devices feed our now caffeine style addiction to information. We spend the day with telephone calls, cell phone calls, email, text messaging and voice mail even after we leave the office. Our off hours and recreation, in many cases, are filled with mental stimuli such as online gamins, chat rooms and computer games. Our mind is so full of thoughts that even in the middle of the night when we barely wake up we discover our mind is still running. Our mind doesn’t shut off. It continues running.

We sort and filter this flood of information so we can be selective about what occupies our conscious mind. There is also a phenomenon known to psychologist as “deleting”. Not unlike spam filtering for email our mind selectively deletes information in order to capture what seems most important. We don’t want to store all the information that comes in and so we begin deleting. It is like reading this sentence with certain words deleted to save room …like…sentence …words…deleted.

With this entire overload we lose touch with our intuition and our self awareness becomes external awareness. Looking outside of ourselves we search for feedback that gives us another message that makes us feel OK. Our intuition has trouble surfacing through this barge of thought streaming all the time, stimulated by our senses.

Intuition is such a powerful tool. It is the ability to tap the flow. It is in the ability to know without reasoning. Intuition “pops in” or “thinks you.” But it needs “space” to do it: Space between thoughts that is. You need awareness of the space between your thoughts to begin opening up to this almost magical ability.

Perhaps, like many people, you don’t believe your have intuition. Then you have been feed nonsense. When you read books about intuition, and there are many, you discover everyone has it. But, not everyone has developed it. So, you have to spend time practicing intuition. Learning what it feels like. Noticing if you receive through verbal thought-auditory or through images. All are various modes of intuition. Usually, your most developed mode of operating (auditory, visual, kinetics) will be the mode through which intuition operates.

Almost all of our rational knowing is based on our experience, meaning memory, emotion and interpretation. Therefore, we process our world through our memories, sorting matches and filtering data until we arrive at the answer that appears to fit the data. If we have no match we begin the process of locating similar experiences or the experiences we know that others have had that are similar. If this fails we ask someone we think want is the answer

Here is an exercise that will help you develop your intuition as an alternative resource to the rational mind. Not a replacement, mind you. Although this exercise is contrived to give you a safe environment to focus your awareness in a quiet space to receive intuitive answers, you do not need any special environment or circumstance to use your intuition. In fact, having it available when you are in trouble is a great tool.

Exercise
1. Find a place where you can sit comfortably and relaxed but not where you will most likely go to sleep. Therefore, don’t do this in bed or at night in your easy chair. If you can find a place where you won’t be interrupted it will keep you from feeling tense about someone walking in or bothering you.
2. With your eyes closed take a deep breath and focus your awareness on your feet. Notice if there is tension in your feet and where it i

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