What If You Were Intuitive?Written by Steve Gillman
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In which areas does your intuition work best? Are you always right about your intuitive stock picks? If so, give a little credence to them. If your hunches about people are always wrong, don't follow them. Just pay attention more, and you'll develope an intuition about your intuition. Intuition Doesn't Arise In A Vacuum Recognise that your skill, knowledge and experience determine potential effectiveness of your intuition. A weak chess player will never intuitively beat that computer. So learn enough about a subject, before you expect any good hunches about it - or before you trust hunches. Remember programmer's maxim: garbage in - garbage out. When enough information is in your mind, it will go to work for you with or without your conscious participation, so feed it well. Watch for your intuition and you'll have hunches and ideas more often. I bought a conversion van, and now I see them all over. Have you had a similar experience? The same process will happen if you watch for your intuition - you'll start to see more of it. Develope Your Intuition In Three Steps1. Look for it to encourage it. 2. Watch it to make it more trustworthy. 3. Give it good information to work with. Do these simple things, and you'll have better intuition more often. Doesn't your intuition tell you this is true? It will.
Steve Gillman has been studying brain improvement and related topics for years. You can find more on his website: http://www.IncreaseBrainPower.com as well as in his free Brain Power Newsletter : http://www.IncreaseBrainPower.com/Newsletter.html
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The fourth hindrance is aversion which is also a form of attachment, but in negative sense. The experiences or circumstances that one does not want to have, or is repulsed by, comprise aversions. Aversions are typically based on fear of unknown, unfamiliar, or years of subconscious mechanical thought. Fear plays a big role in issues of low self-esteem. Attachments and aversions are both relative in that what is a good/bad experience or feeling for one may not be so good/bad for another. Any attachment or aversion springs from imagination and can be construed as clinging, and therefore, in turn, suffering. By practicing detachment to either aversions or attachments, one can see a situation for what it is rather than what it is perceived to be. Clinging to life or fear of death is final hindrance. It is self-preservation and fundamental will to live in one’s body on this Earth. This affliction is said to be experienced even by very wise. It is ultimately understanding of this affliction that will set us free. Each individual would come to terms with this hindrance by their own accord in relation to their own belief system regarding death and what happens when we leave our physical body. It is my sense that we are eternal in spirit. The klesas are complex and interwoven. By increasing understanding of each affliction, one may begin to identify them when they surface in life. In knowing where reaction, situation, or behavior is derived, individual may be better able to experience true sense of moment in awareness and without judgment. By remaining open, one is able to receive perfection in every moment. It is a daily process to connect with oneself in understanding, but one that can create a life that is, for most part, joyous, peaceful, and full of love. With practice sense of self-esteem will continuously improve and feelings of a life connectedness will deepen. Try it for yourself as this all begins and ends with you. For, it’s what you think that really matters. “The mind is everything; what you think, you become.” (Buddha)
Deborah L. Shipley, RYT Deborah is a Registered Yoga Teacher and a writer of the free monthly e-zine Self Esteem: Shining from Within. If you would like to contact her please visit her website: www.quizforselfesteem.com, her blog hosted e-zine site: www.quizforselfesteem.blogspot.com, or e-mail her at dlshipley@comcast.net.
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