posted November 14, 2009 08:26 AM         

I think most frequently we come from imagination and believe it is our wise internal guidance system when it is just our right brain conjuring up some creative stuff or drama.

our ego can trick us into thinking it is our wise intuitive voice when our ego is running the show.

Individuals with no consistent creative craft like painting or writing can easily confuse the zen like meditative state of creating art and other right brained stuff with a higher state of consciousness or even think that they are chanelling an entity while it is just the natural process of our brain at creative work.

Intuition is a knowing. If you reflect calmly there is no emotional charge, yet it is wise and takes into account your well being.

I have found intuition to be very brief flashes usually with no words, just a deep "feeling" or knowing.

Any flashes that have a feeling of fear or "don't do this" is our ego. In the case of danger, the "don't do this" is not intuition, but our natural fight or flight response.

posted November 14, 2009 09:10 AM         

You also said: With no emotional charge.

posted November 14, 2009 12:58 PM         

i have found that MANY doggedly creative people, musicians, artists, writers, etc who actually have taken the plunge and are making a life with their art, consider their inspiration to be LARGELY CHANNELLED or intuitive. the natural meditative state one enters when in creative mode is VERY conducive to intuitive "downloads". in fact most of the people whose work i admire take little credit for the "ideas" which they feel they "receive" because they are in that state on a regular basis...

and i think the classic example of people deciding against a trip, or missing a plane that crashes for some strange reason, is an example of intuition not imagination too.

so it is not always a "positive vibe", though i DO UNDERSTAND what you mean about the ego-tainted "premonitions" - and a lot of people who are deluded as to the "heavenly" source of their ideas!

posted November 14, 2009 01:03 PM         

In gut situations where you get a warning, the ego and our fight/flight response is still involved. We humans pick up alot of information that is not processed verbally. For instance, years ago I was in CA and needed directions, so I stopped at a gas station convenient mart. There was a man in front of me that looked like a wreck. My gut told me don't ask him. I said to myself "Don't be so judgmental." I asked him anyway and he flew off the handle and started screaming and running around the convenient mart. He was literally insane. A women behind me quickly pulled me out of the mart and offered for me to follow her to find my way.

posted November 14, 2009 01:31 PM         

i think it works out differently for different elements. i'm air (aqua) and i think the emotional impact of an intuition is what makes me notice it more. if u prefer, myself, i notice the red oor green lights if they come up with emotions.

posted November 15, 2009 04:17 PM         

I decided that I would win a prize from a city that has been giving away prizes like free hotel rooms, restaurants, etc. I've been entering on a regular basis for each prize. I wrote the goal down. A prize came up for $100 for an art workshop. My first reaction was that I surely would like to take a workshop (plein air or with this artist named Carol Marine) I could see myself there painting. Then I thought $100 is not alot. I hope they would have something that would cover the entire cost of the workshop especially since I would need to fly there, rent a car, stay in a hotel... would it be worth it. I'd rather have the free hotel room. Just like me, winning something I really don't need and will have to find someone else who will use it. So I entered and thought I will deal with this when I win. Yep! I received an email Friday that I won.(I'd be more specific, but my full name is now posted on their site as a winner.)

So how did I know I would win before I entered it????? I looked at the site offering the workshops and all the workshops I would want to attend are about $450 and no workshop by Carol Marine. I would gladly pay the extra money for a class with her. I'm thinking about contacting her and asking for her to have a workshop there. If that does not work, maybe I could ask the place to give the $100 to the next person that signs up or contact a local art teacher and have the $100 given to a talented student.

posted November 19, 2009 01:58 PM         

I don't know where it comes from, I only know that I've regretted not listening to that feeling. I can see the ego relation.. my warning was about something very personal, and very upsetting. it was no soft nudge, though... I felt as though I'd been hit in the solar plexus.

I used to be an artist, so I know the meditative feeling that comes with that sort of work - or immersing yourself in any type of work. Up until my mid-twenties, I immersed myself in drawing, painting and all things creative.

In either The Intention Experiment, or Living the Field, Lynne McTaggart wrote about the possibility of intuition being warnings that are somehow sent back from yourself in the future. She also put forward the idea that there is no such thing as reincarnation, but that children claiming to have had another life, are actually pulling memories/feelings from "the field". (at least, I think it was her. http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/ )

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i am very hesitant to say/think that there is a god with a plan for me that i can tap into.

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posted January 30, 2010 10:55 PM         

In any case, for me intuition is yourself telling yourself something (the tutor within), which can be in the form of imagination (images), or feelings, or throughts. It could be the spark that sets these things off. Whereas Imagination is the ability to contemplate things that don't exist or see things, etc. It's a tool to understand something on a higher level than physical. Hence, imagination (and intuition) may be tied into God. Without imagination, you may not contemplate God - everything is as it is. Einstein once said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" and he was a strong believer in God. Imagination can give you answers or questions that knowledge can't. You can learn through knowledge too, but how do you make the next leap? Perhaps intuition plays a part in that too?

Heaps of Love,
Dean.

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I realized it for the first time in my life:
there is nothing but mystery in the world,
how it hides behind the fabric of our poor,
browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

Sue Monk Kidd, "The Secret Life of Bees", p79

posted February 26, 2010 08:00 PM         

...Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines...

...over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

...I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.