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What to Look
For
From Intuition
for Starters by J. Donald Walters
To recognize
the kind of feeling that indicates true guidance, look for three
qualities: calmness, clarity, and joy. Intuition is always based
in a deep sense of calmness and detachment. When you're trying to
tune in to the superconscious mind, ask yourself if the guidance
you've received makes you feel excited or restless. If so, then
it's safe to assume that you're just going along with your own desires.
Try to associate true guidance with a sense of calm acceptance.
When you've received an answer rather than thinking, "Yes,
YES, YESS!", your attitude should be, "Whatever is, is.
It doesn't touch me personally."
You'll experience
a certain power with inner calmness, but it's also very steady.
If you find yourself jumping up and down in an agitated state, thinking,
"Oh boy! I got this guidance. It's just great!!" then
it's probably worth questioning.
The second thing
to associate with true intuition is a sense of clarity. If you're
visualizing different alternatives, or if guidance comes to you
in a dream, it's important to distinguish between subconscious and
superconscious influences. Subconscious images tend to have a certain
obscurity or cloudiness to them, and the colors appear dim or muddy.
These signs indicate projections of the subconscious mind and shouldn't
be trusted. In superconscious experiences, the colors will be bright,
pure, and brilliant, and the images filled with clarity or radiance.
The clarity of colors and images are strong signs that you've tuned
in to true intuition.
Finally, look
for a sense of inner joy. The basis of this kind of joy should be
calmness and deep impartiality. If it makes you feel emotionally
excited, then it probably only reflects the temporary happiness
that comes when our desires are fulfilled. True guidance should
have a joy that takes you inside rather than outside of yourself.
Like a current of energy, this kind of joy should take your consciousness
inward and upward—not inward in the sense of self-congratulation,
but upward with a sense of soaring freedom.
In developing
your ability to recognize intuition, it's important to test your
guidance over a period of time. Unless you have no choice, don't
make big decisions on the strength of intuition. It's better to
begin with small decisions, and continually test your ability. You'll
begin noticing that when a certain feeling comes, and you follow
it, things work out well. Then there's a different feeling, less
calm or clear. At first you may think it's got to be right, but
over time you'll come to recognize this feeling as false guidance.
Gradually you'll come to understand the difference from your own
experience. You may not be able to explain to others how you know,
but when you learn to recognize true guidance, it cannot fail you.
Another way
to recognize intuition is to act it out and watch your reactions
as you go. If you're doing the right thing, your inner feeling will
gradually come stronger and clearer as you act. If you have no guidance
at all, sometimes it better just to start anyway, because often
any action is better than none at all. But don't presume—take
small steps. You'll find by doing a little, the energy starts to
flow. As this happens, the guidance gradually comes into focus.
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