“The ability to access knowledge and/or wisdom without recourse to conscious reasoning.”
We all have intuition, every single one of us. How do we access it? How do we build a relationship with it? How can we use it to improve our own physical health?
The answer is simpler than you expect. The conscious mind when asked a question or faced with a situation does not immediately turn to thought. There is a gap, a magical micro moment of a pause. It is perhaps only a microsecond of time. Yet, in that moment, there is a voice, an image or word that speaks its guidance.
This is our intuition, our soul speaking to us. The very first flutter of an answer that comes to our mind’s, that is our intuition. Yet, what happens? Our socially constructed, overlord of a conscious mind kicks in and reasons away and muffles the intuition. We have been conditioned in the western world to place intellect and reason above all. This is treason to the subtle soul.
As John Kehoe states in his mind power training, “The mind is the great trickster.” The enlightened Indian saint Ramana Maharshi said “After realisation, all intellectual loads are useless burdens and are to be thrown overboard.”
Let me give you a silly and simple example of intuition.
“The ability to access knowledge and/or wisdom without recourse to conscious reasoning.”
We all have intuition, every single one of us. How do we access it? How do we build a relationship with it? How can we use it to improve our own physical health?
The answer is simpler than you expect. The conscious mind when asked a question or faced with a situation does not immediately turn to thought. There is a gap, a magical micro moment of a pause. It is perhaps only a microsecond of time. Yet, in that moment, there is a voice, an image or word that speaks its guidance.
This is our intuition, our soul speaking to us. The very first flutter of an answer that comes to our mind’s, that is our intuition. Yet, what happens? Our socially constructed, overlord of a conscious mind kicks in and reasons away and muffles the intuition. We have been conditioned in the western world to place intellect and reason above all. This is treason to the subtle soul.
As John Kehoe states in his mind power training, “The mind is the great trickster.” The enlightened Indian saint Ramana Maharshi said “After realisation, all intellectual loads are useless burdens and are to be thrown overboard.”
Let me give you a silly and simple example of intuition.
This is the popular game Wordle, where you find the given word in as few a moves as possible. After typing the word ‘steak,’ the word ‘stead’ fluttered up from my chest into my head. Within a moment of this image appearing, my conscious mind roared into life and sensibly reasoned that ‘steal’ and ‘steam’ are far more commonly used words. Yet, the conscious mind was wrong. Somehow that little voice, fleeting, gentle and unpushy knew. How many times has this little voice of knowing been right for you? Many, many times yes? This is our intuition, our soul speaking to us, guiding us. It is our link, our communicative channel to our ancestors. It is the real ‘you,’ without the mentally constructed aberrations of fear, anxiety and doubt.
The way to utilise our intuition does not come via the mind, it comes through opening the heart. This is where ‘we’ live. It is through the heart that we connect with all life on earth. The great Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jin said “Feel, don’t think.” Simple yet powerful. Feeling, sensing is quicker than thought. A martial artist trains oneself to sense his opponent not think what strike is coming next. We feel compassionate, kind and somehow bigger, energetically when our heart is open. We can sense more, feel more. Yet, when our heart has been hurt and we close it, allowing the mind to run amok with thoughts of pain and worry, life does not feel good does it? Our world feels smaller. Our ability to sense anything but pain and fear diminishes. Allow the heart to rule the head, not the other way around. Enlightenment comes through the heart not the head.
Knowledge can guide us yet ultimately we must feel our own truth through practice. Reading about magic does not make us magicians. We must practice to become a magician.
Now we have arrived at yoga.
Take out your mat and lay it out in a space at home. Stand on your mat with an erect spine. Stand proud, yet relaxed, breathe deeply and slowly into your abdomen. There is no rush. Keeping feeling the breathe deepen and lengthen. Feel the breath in your body. Follow the breath. This simple process of feeling the breath takes our focus out of the mind and into the body. Now our Jedi training has begun. Feel, don’t think… Move! Follow that first impulse that flashes up from your heart to your head. Do it! Our intuition will guide us to what our body needs. Revel and relish in the areas you feel stiffness and tightness. Rest and breathe in these places. Trust your initial impulses, the flashes of guidance, they know what you need. Do not let the mind interfere. It matters not if we are doing orthodox yoga asana. It does not matter if it doesn’t flow or look aesthetically pleasing. Just keep feeling and following that initial flash of imagery of where to move to next and when. Now we are truly doing yoga. Your yoga. My yoga. This is the training of a Jedi. You will know when your practice has come to its conclusion. Always allow time in savasana. Always! This is when our practice uploads and upgrades our nervous system. In the quiet of savasana is where we may receive wisdom and direction through our now open hearts.
As often as possible, practice yoga this way. It will build and strengthen the relationship with your intuition and inevitably ‘you,’ the real you.
I cannot put into words how powerful this practice is, how much your yoga will ascend and how your ability to access more than the eye can see will expand. This home practice method is not a replacement for group classes. Group yoga has a unique power of its own. Yet, once you have an understanding of yoga asana and can practice safely, a home practice is a pivotal step to living a yogic life. A life as a yogi. A life as a sorcerer.
