Introduction to Intuition - Unleash the Power of Your Heart

Keywords: coaching, heart, intuition, intuitive, purpose, self-development, self-help, soul, spirituality, training

Categories: Self-help, Personal development & Spirituality

Published On: Jul 17, 2009

Last updated on:: Jul 17, 2009

What is intuition?
The dictionary definition of intuition is “immediate apprehension by the mind without reasoning.” That means: what you immediately receive or understand before your busy mind begins adding beliefs, thoughts, feelings and what it already knows, to the information you are receiving.

How? What? Where?
You are an infinite being connected to all things through all time and space, despite anything you may think. As an infinite being, you have access to extraordinary gifts, abilities and information, one of them is intuition – an ability that enables you to gather information on any topic you can come up with, without using your thinking brain.

Everyone has intuitive ability, including you! Who can say where intuition actually comes from. Personally, I imagine a layer of information somewhere out there in the ether, that I tap into when I am choosing to use my intuition – an intuitive realm.

Why use my intuition?
You have, like every other human, accumulated a collection of beliefs, thoughts and feelings that limit your potential. When you make decisions based on those beliefs, thoughts and feelings, you are limiting what's possible in your life, your relationships, your mind and your consciousness. When you act in favour of those limiting beliefs, thoughts and feelings, you are acting in favour of a limited reality,often a reality that is not as you would love it to be.

We call this limited self: your identity.

Your intuitive voice is the voice of your heart – your expanded, boundless self.

The intuitive voice is often quieter than the constant chattery noise of beliefs, thoughts and feelings. You will have experienced those times where a very little voice is quietly suggesting that you take a certain path of action, and your mind is loudly insisting that you take a different path. Some refer to this as “gut feeling”. This quieter voice is your intuitive voice –the voice of your limitless self.

When you listen to, and act on your intuitive voice,you are acting in favour of your highest potential, the limitless possibility of the extraordinary being that you are. You are outside your thoughts, feelings and beliefs, free to create and experience the true magic of life.

Using your intuition
Imagine your intuitive capacity as a muscle: the more you flex it, the stronger it gets. The more practice you have in using your intuitive ability, the stronger it becomes and the easier it is to hear your intuitive voice.

Getting started
In the beginning, find a time when you won't be disturbed. As your intuitive power grows, you will be able to access your intuition wherever you are.

Take a few deep breaths and relax.
Choose what you are going to “tune in” to.
Create a circle around yourself, imaginatively oractually draw it out with your hand. Define that circle as what you are tuning in to (e.g. If you are tuning into your true nature, define the circle as your true nature).
Close your eyes.
Now choose to be of service to your heart (if you are tuning in for someone else, choose to be of service to their heart).
Now empty out – let go of needing to know. Imagine yourself as a blank slate. Go into innocence. A great way to do this is to think of a picture of yourself as a child and then imaginatively step into that child.
Once you have embodied your child, ask for a symbol that will inform you about what you are tuning in to (e.g. your true nature). You can get anything. What you get is what you get. Just allow it in.
Interpret your symbol. This is very important. Don't describe the symbol, that will limit you. Start to talk about what is obvious about the symbol – interpret, don't describe. Keep going with what's obvious and make it up.
Keep talking, the more you talk, the more you get. Don't worry if it doesn't make sense ,just keep making it up, keep talking. Yes, you read that correctly, just make it up, use your imagination to interpret your symbol – make it up.

And then what?
Since you have this extraordinary ability, you may as well use it. Use your intuition to inform you about what you would love to create in your life, tune in to your limitless self's relationship to what you want to create. Receive your true nature and purpose using your intuition.

Then ACT. Acting on your intuition brings magic into your life. Acting on your intuition puts the power of your consciousness in your limitless, boundless self.It takes courage to follow your intuition – sometimes the information you receive may not make sense,sometimes you will have thoughts and feelings arising that tell you not to follow the intuition –follow it anyway.

Learn to trust your intuitive voice, develop the courage to follow it and watch the magic unfolding in your life!

For the most effective use of your intuitive powers ...
● Always choose to be of service
● Go into innocence, not needing to know
● Make it up and keep talking
● Interpret your symbol (don't describe it)
● Go with what's obvious, stay with what's obvious
● No thinking, no analysing, no thinking
● Don't judge what you get
● Don't worry about needing to be right or getting more structured information than you are getting
● Keep talking
● Wipe the slate clean and ask “what else?”
● Practice, practice, practice.

Happy intuiting!
Pollyanna x

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Abhijit Banerjee wrote at 04:05:13 PM on Jul 17, 2009

Hi Pollyana. Are we all born with the same intuitive capacity/power which can be developed or neglected? Or is it an evolutionary process which increases in power over each cycle of evolution?

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Pollyanna Darling wrote at 12:50:48 AM on Jul 18, 2009

Hey Abhijit - Great question. I'm sure (without ever really being able to know!) that we're all born with an innate capacity to use our intuition, however it's much neglected. I distinctly remember many occasions when I was a child when I "knew" things which were dismissed as nonsense. Our rational, linear modern mindset tends to reject all things that don't have empirical evidence, hence most people do not cultivate or listen to, their intuition.
The great news is that anyone can start using it right away. It takes time and persistence to really develop skill at interpreting and in getting your rational mind out of the way, but it's perfectly achievable for any person.
The only other thing that deserves a mention here is that: if you use your intuition to discover information, and then you don't act on that information, you are sending a powerful message to your subconscious mind (the ever-creating part of you) about what is important to you. Intuitive knowledge without action is worthless.
The more you act on information you have received intuitively, the more magical and wondrous your life becomes. I have personal experience of this and have witnessed it flowering in the lives of the people I coach.
I guess in answer to the final part of your question - like everything, the more attention you give your intuition, the more it expands and I see no reason why that shouldn't continue through the generations. My children naturally pay attention to their inner intuitive voice because it's a normal part of our household.
Thanks for reading my article. x

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Abhijit Banerjee wrote at 06:47:22 AM on Jul 18, 2009

Very interesting, Pollynna. I have one more question. Is there any maximum limit to which the intuitive mind can be developed.? And once that is done, what in your experience or wisdom, is the next stage of development?

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Pollyanna Darling wrote at 12:32:11 AM on Jul 20, 2009

Hey Abhijit - in response to your question: who knows? The universe is ever expanding, the intuitive realm is an endless universe in my experience. Intuitive ability is one of our many talents as humans, another sense, like taste, smell, hearing etc. There isn't really anywhere to get to as far as another stage of development goes. x

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ian russell wrote at 01:59:50 PM on Dec 03, 2009

I'm a practical kind of guy and I don't quite get this abstract concept. Have you a real-life anecdote or two to share? As it stands, I can visualise it as a neutral process which could have negative as well as positive consequences.

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Pollyanna Darling wrote at 04:23:29 AM on Dec 04, 2009

Hi Ian - thanks for the feedback. Am not quite sure what you mean by abstract concept, but will try to address your comment! Did you try it, by the way - there's practical instruction in the article towards the end - you learn by trying it and the method given gives you a structure to use your intuition in, rather than floundering about in gut feeling etc. If you consider yourself to be a rational human being, you may have trouble with the idea, but I have never known anyone to be unable to use their intuition.
Personally, I use my intuition daily. Using the method above, I tune into decisions I have to make, what I would love to do on the weekend, where I would love to live etc etc. You can use it for anything. You can use it to identify your limited perceptions of reality - to find out what crap is going on for you unconsciously that may be holding you back from creating what you would really love. All you have to do is create a definition, stand in the circle, receive the information and make up the interpretation.
My partner and I recently created our wedding entirely intuitively - we tuned in to where and when and what. We tuned into action steps to take and followed them. The whole thing flowed really easily, was absolutely magical and every single person who I've spoken to said it was the most beautiful wedding they had ever been to (and it was all very simple).
Give it a whirl, you may be pleasantly astonished. xx

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Joy B wrote at 10:12:08 AM on Dec 04, 2009

Ian - these aren't entirely irrational concepts but certainly esoteric in nature.

First of all intuiting seems to be a process of communication with your 'other' selves. You may know from quantum physics that every atomic & subatomic particle 'exists' in different states - as a photon or light, in various angular momentum, different polar orientations etc. And it pretty hard to observe the exact nature of the particle as very the process of observation changes its state. To extend the logic, we are composed of something that exists in various states, all at once - so must we. In fact, some smart folks are building quantum internet protocol based on the same concept.

The little i know from an eastern POV, the mystics almost have an 'exact' science about this process of intuiting. Here's a short list concepts:
1. We can only understand/communicate/access various channels/energy bands by going beyond our physical minds. Brain is just an instrument - it is not our real identity.
2. Broadly these states are categorized into physical, astral and mental planes... however, various schools subdivide or include higher planes. The best estimate i've had is 33 planes. And that is from a person who says that planes exist much the same as internet (very gross version), with access levels and passwords.
3. Intuiting like Pollyana describes is accessing inner self (which again subdivides into many planes). Here 'stilling' our mind (words like surrender, acceptance, stillness and awareness are used) helps us 'see' things better. The core point here is that our brain/mind/ego is our greatest illusion. It constantly puts a veil over a lot of our deeper knowledge since we work with logic and logic is a subset of what we know NOW (also called common sense).
4. There are well documented but concealed processed, instruments (called Yantra), chants (Mantras), and other esoteric practices that allow better access. Also there are innate potential in every human body to do so (e.g. ESP associated with pressing/meditating on certain glands like pineal gland)
5. Another core belief is to keep your 'self' as a remote observer when you begin to access deeper realms.
6. Consciousness is properly understood as planes in certain time and space. In fact, as we understand from astronomy, there would be planes where even these collapse. Pretty hard to imagine through a mind that cannot go beyond senses!!!
7. last of all the entire process is experiential and hence hard to explain logically (yet). I am sure there would be devices in future to properly interpret and observe our non-physical selves.

I would recommend reading Paul Brunton - he has documented a lot of Eastern mysticism with a probing but an open, western mind.

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