STEP SEVEN-INTUITION Knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. Gut instinct Psychic Ability Pattern Recognition The only real valuable thing is intuition. Einstein The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift Einstein
Richard Branson: I think intuition is important and perhaps intuition comes from experience and experience of falling flat on the face and experience at sometimes exceeding and if I m deciding to do something I don t get accountants in advance, I do it based on, based on my intuition. My gut feeling was you know if we could make sure that peoples mobile phones didn t get cut off all the time, we could you know give them good access to the internet, get the staff motivated, that we could make a success of it. So you know a lot of it is you know based on almost common sense and intuition. Larry Dossey: If you Google business sense and business intuition you come up with hundreds of thousands of hits. This is the term that CEO s seem to prefer to premonition. I don t think you can separate it. I think it amounts to the same thing, whether you call it premonitions or intuitions or creativity or something else. David Hamilton: We re only using a small part of our brains. We consciously think about things, but the brain is actually taking in so much information from the surroundings, from, from people, from media, from many, many other sources. So when we think of intuition we normally think of, we are making a decision based on a small amount of information, but actually we have taken in vast amounts of information, so if you re going in a direction you want to be going in life, then you are actually taking in vast amounts of information from that, that pattern you, you re part of. So the decisions that you make based on these intuitions are actually very, much more informed than you think they are. Bill Drayton: Most of our capacity is not in the cerebral cortex but in the earlier parts of the brain. When you walk into the room, my brain goes to work and says, do I trust this person? Yes. Then, I can have a conversation; all of us do that. We would have been kaput on the Velda scale if we didn t have that skill. Every day; am I going to get the car with this person? Is this person OK to be a babysitter for my daughter? Am I going to make a deal? We have that skill; we know we have that skill. So most of it is intuitive, it s feel, but like anything else being aware of it, developing it consciously, practicing it, is totally key.
Larry Dossey: There are experiments called presentiment, which is a word which means the feeling that comes before. And in these experiments which have been replicated in laboratories all over the earth by now, at least a score of them we can see that we know unconsciously what s going to play out in these computer based experiments before the computer even makes a choice. So it appears that in these experiments the future is affecting the present. Alison Pothier: I needed to understand and pay more attention to what I was thinking at a certain time, seeing, feeling, hearing. When it was changing, who it was coming from. So I took a view that there was more to me than met the eye and probably everyone else. And I needed to study more of my toolkit. And in order to be perceiving more around me. So I didn t go so much down the path of fortune telling, so much as we are all psychic, sensory individuals. And if we are seeing things now that are happening tomorrow, there is time, space dimensions and all sorts of things that can provide that. So we are capable and I needed to know more about that. Peter Fraser: You think of somebody for no particular reason, the phone rings: oh hello! I was just thinking about you! This isn t me, this is everybody and I think as you get more intuitive this happens more and more. So people notice funny structure in reality and they can t quite understand why. So they tend to disbelieve it, they tend to be told in our culture that this isn t good. Well I m saying it is good, go for it, this is how you can make your life a bit more interesting. Intuition: your inner guidance system. Robert Quinn: And if I m increasing my integrity, I will do the right thing at the right moment because my intuition will function in such a way as I can make a difference
Alison Pothier: In the middle of my career I changed almost entirely to instinct over logic. I would come in on, having, having dreams and all sorts of insights coming to me in the evenings that I would bring into work and say, okay based on, based on what I m seeing here and feeling here I feel that beyond all of what you are saying, there is this possibility over here that we should go that way. And they always listened to the possibility over here that we should go that way. And we were always right. Ian Stewart: Circumstances will dictate which, but there is a kind of preview of the choice where you re veering one way and then veering the other way. And you are still roughly in the middle, but you are beginning to act as if there are some alternatives coming up. And so I think you can perhaps learn to spot when your life is in the situation where you may have to be rather careful what choice you make and a choice is going to be needed. I think humans intuitively actually know a lot of this. And so we have this intuition for when the circumstances mean we need to think rather more carefully what we do. Peter Buffet: Try and remove as much ego as possible, and think how am I going to work in this world? Pay attention to the signs, again, your gut, your heart, the outside world and how you are interfacing with it. Brett Moran: An example of not having trust in my life was not listening to myself and maybe not listening to my intuition and instead listening to my ego, listening to the negative thoughts about not being good, not being loved and being untrustworthy and lying.
Scilla Elworthy: What I had to learn to do was to rebalance myself so that I was more in touch with the other side of me which is the intuitive, the, the more creative, the responsive, to be more inclusive, to work with other people instead of trying to be better than them. And to follow my instinct and my gut feel rather than what my head figured out. That is the important one I think, to learn to listen to our bodies as much as our minds. Because our whole existence right now is governed by mental calculation rather than what our gut feel is, what our, what our inner voice would say. Peter Buffet: how do you get the noise out of your life and the noise comes from everywhere, how do you really reinforce and strengthen your own voice and your own authenticity, what is that really drives you and makes you feel good in a holistic way, not just a hedonistic, how can I feel better, but how can I feel whole, how can I feel connected and how can I feel that I am making a difference and having meaning in my life. It s mostly just finding your own particular way of hearing that voice and it doesn t have to be that complicated. Alison Pothier: The industries in the world are defined by logic, reason, numbers, analysis and bottom line. That is all coming from the masculine side of the brain. And the feminine side of the brain is instinct, intuition, insight, perception, non logical, but inspired direction. We are so gifted, we are so very gifted. David Hamilton: If you are going in a direction you want to be going in life then you are actually taking in vast amounts of information from that pattern you are part of, so the decisions that you make based on these intuitions are actually much more informed than you think they are. So it s a very good idea when you are moving in that direction to trust your instincts. Vlatko Vedral: I think rather than talking about, about the state of your system, as being the key entity if you like, in the universe, what you should really talk about is the mutual information between different objects that really is at the route of everything. And people like Max Planck who was really the founding father of quantum mechanics, when he said that there is a spirit permeating the universe if you like. I think in the modern version of that statement we would say that there is this
mutual information that objects change all the time that in a way defines reality and I would call it quantum entanglement. Scilla Elworthy: Many people today are anxious about the future, about the challenges that are faced by the planet. And it is easy to go into frightened position. The key is to move out of the fear, to liberate first of all ourselves from that fear by really experiencing the, the beauty that surrounds us and the huge capacity of the universe working with humanity. In a way we may be given these challenges of human survival. It could be that in two generations there are no humans on this planet. That s possible. And so this huge challenge is coming our way in order to wake us up to enable humanity to make that jump from being pretty mechanical beings capable of doing obvious things, to developing our 6 th, 7 th and 8 th senses. In other words developing our consciousness in extraordinary ways. Gregg Braden: I acknowledge that, and I also acknowledge that we are at a pivotal moment, this evolutionary opportunity for a leap in the way we think of ourselves and the way we address the problems in our world. The best minds of our time tell us that we have about 8-10 years to figure out some of the great crisis such as war, poverty, economics and ecological disasters that are pending. If we don t figure it out nothing else is going to make much difference. And they also tell us that to come to new understandings we must think differently than we have ever thought in the past about ourselves and our relationship to the world. And I can t help but believe that a large part of that difference will be the understanding that first of all everything is connected and second that our inner experiences, thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs are the language that speak to the stuff that that connection is made of and when we embrace these understandings in our lives today we arm ourselves with the tools that set us apart from generations in the past and this is the evolutionary edge that tips the scales of life and peace in our favor where perhaps we did not have that in the past. Listening to our inner voice helps guide us through life. We understand the importance of the next step: Signs