posted October 23, 2010 03:38 PM         

Found this great book and wanted to share. It's definitely the best I've read on developing and your intuition. I've learned alot.

The Intuitive Way
The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness
by Penney Peirce

posted October 23, 2010 03:42 PM         

The Intuitive Way is considered by many to be the best book on the intuition devevlopment process. It is for people in all walks of life who want to trust their inner knowing to guide their actions, stay on purpose, and inspire them to new heights. With active intuition, life takes on a magical, effortless quality; your world is full of instantaneous answers, synchronicities, creative insights, and abundant knowledge—just for the asking. The Intuitive Way shows you how to enter this state of perceptual aliveness, access reliable intuition, and integrate it into daily life for greater success.

posted October 23, 2010 03:53 PM         

To avoid feeling fear and to cope with subliminal emotional pain, we create thousands of ingenious distractions. I'm sure you know someome who lives for romance or to be different or dramatic. On the path of the intuition, people can avoid the real world by becoming preoccupied with the details of psychology and metaphysics: who abused you in your childhood, your sacrifices and betrayals, past lives, dream realities, parallel worlds, messages from angels, gemstones and gadgets that affect subtle energy bodies, or even the idea of being abducted by aliens.

We need to watch for hidden agendas marked by ;longing for glamour and romance where we avoid the mundane - and thus miss the guidance coming from our bodies, which are firmly planted in daily reality. I have seen people change their personalities radically when they begin spiritual studies. A rambunctious, funny, outgoing young man suddenly becomes blissful, mellow, mild and humble, hardly talks, gives away all his money, and reverently raises his hands in prayer to everyone - after joining an ashram.

A practical businesswoman changes her name to Mary Lightning Bolt, Says "Ho"" after people speak, and starts wearing ethnic jewelry and fringed skirts, burning sage in her office, and drumming with her women's group - after she attends a Native American sweat lodge ceremony. These total immersions in specific forms of spiritual practice can be educational, yet at the same time they can stop the flow of our authentic expression.

Ironically, even the pursuit of healing and knowledge can be a distraction. "Maybe, if I keep taking workshops, reading the newest books, doing therapy, seeing the latest healers and psychics in town, I'll find the magic elixir!" Some people are addicted to seminars, and their social lives revolve entirely around the human potential movement. Other people are on a mission for perfect health of their bodies. They have had everything from candida to parasites to chronic fatigue syndrome and are experts on homeopathy, acupuncture, herbs, colonics, aromatherapy, chi kung, Bach flower remedies, and fasting on watermelon. One week it's no red meat, the next, only protein. Then it's no wheat or sugar, followed by no dairy products or spices. (lol )

If your attention is riveted on controlling the minutiae of your diet, there's not much time to feel deep emotions. Since it's not OK to be addicted to alcohol, drugs or cigarettes anymore, we've tricked ourselves into justifying our addiction to "good" things that are supposedly growth inducing.

posted October 23, 2010 03:53 PM         

I've also known people who got involved in disastrous relationships and adventures because they had a precognitive, though somewhat vague, dream that seemed to highlight some aspect of the subsequent real-world experience." But he was wearing a red shirt and his name was Dan - just like in my dream." Perhaps our subconscious mind is drawing attention to the man with the daughter with the house on the beach or to the man named Dan in the red shirt, not because they're our soul mates, but because they represent unfinished business in our subconscious or an example of what not to do.

Don't give more or less than is required by the situation at hand

The Essenes believed that it is just as much a sin to have too little as it is to have too much. At either polarity, the optimal flow of creativity gets jammed up. But if you have just what you need, life flows perfectly. The same thing applies when healing and teaching others or in communicating your new found knowledge to strangers, friends, relatives. In healing or counseling, if you give more energy and information than the client's body and mind can absorb, you may actually make things worse. In teaching we are told not to throw pearls before swine2 - in other words, not to waste precious resources in inappropriate situations.

posted October 23, 2010 04:11 PM         

I was so much better off, in ways, when I was more in the world - even just in my own home, but surrounded by family and kids that we babysat - drawing, painting, exercising, studying... this was mostly pre-internet. I wouldn't want to lose my connection here, because it's helped me in other ways (being here, with you and others), but is is so easy to get caught up in the avoidance, drama/romance of certain things, when it isn't where the real happiness comes from. (Most of the time.) Getting the mundane stuff done, may be a drag when you get no balance, but it provides a much-needed grounding and balance to the rest of it (especially when you spend too much time in your head).

I really could kick myself for the amount of time I let anxiety take from me. It finally hits you one day, that you aren't getting any younger, and you've let fear rule your life for too long. I hate the feeling that time is passing too fast.

posted October 23, 2010 04:54 PM         

And I agree about the mundane. It can help to ground you, brings you back down to earth I think. It's good to have these kinds of things to take care of and yes, be able to get out of your head every so often.