Lesson 6: Intuition: Your Soul’s Navigation system
Forgive Yourself and Start Fresh
by Mary Hayes Grieco
Lesson 6: Intuition: Your Soul’s Navigation system
As you take the journey of this course, experiencing a significant self healing process, you are being watched and supported, 24/7, by your soul. It is guiding you into the most useful experiences to bring you wholeness and ease, and to connect you with your people and your purposes.
The soul guides us through our intuition, and if you do not think that your intuition is on line and firing away strongly in your life yet, I strongly suggest you wake it up right now, and let it know that you’re game for the adventure.
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Types of Intuition
Seeing – Clairvoyance. Visual acuity. Tuned in to color, light, design, placement of things. Vivid dreams. Clear mental plans and preference for orderly procedures. Sensitivity to symbols.
Hearing – Clairaudience. The inner voice. The inner dialogue with a Source of truth. Trust in rationality. Tuned in to words and the unspoken meaning behind words. You can hear truth and lies.
Sensing – Clair sentience. The gut feeling. A sense of comfort or discomfort with people and situations that guides and informs. Empathy, sensitivity, rapport with others. Radar for unspoken or unintegrated emotions around you. Protection from danger.
Touching – Kinetic. The wisdom of the hands to heal or soothe people.
Moving – A knack with fixing things. Showing up at the right moment. The experience of synchronicity. Athletic ability; skillful dancing.
Knowing – Pure intuition. It draws on all other abilities. The flash of understanding. Knowing something in your bones. Precognition of future events or events at a distance. Ability to act spontaneously and with the creative impulse. Holistic understanding of an idea or situation.
AWAKEN YOUR INTUITION
It’s easy! Visualize the soul light above your head, and that the pipeline to it is getting more clear and open, day by day. Speak out loud to your soul, in a confident voice, something like:
“Hello! I’m here, and you’re here. I’m open and ready to recognize and follow your guidance for my Highest Good. I’m ready to pay attention to your messages with my intuition–bring it on! Make it very clear please. Thanks very much”.
Do yesterday’s meditation again today, and this time, ask your soul to give you a message about something you want to know more about. You will see, hear, feel, sense, know, or discover a new insight as you move through your day.
Meditation
Sit quietly, in a relaxed, upright posture.
Check in with yourself: how are you today – Physically? Emotionally? Mentally?
Feel and notice your state of being on each level of the personality, with acceptance.
Say out loud, “I am (say your own name) here and now. But I am also more than (your own name.) I am my soul, eternal, loving, wise, and free”.
Imagine your soul shining like a sun with a steady light, about a foot above your head. It is radiating love, wisdom, eternity, and freedom, and it is also the source of your own best quality.
Feel and visualize the strength of that quality (faith, patience, compassion, joy, etc.) like it is part of that soul’s light. For example, see ‘faith’ or whatever, shining out from your soul with loving power, like rays from the sun, blessing the world around you.
Imagine that same soulful light shining down into your personality.
Visualize a clear open channel – the pipeline – and the light flowing down into you from above.
Ask your soul about a wise insight about something.
Breathe mindfully for a few moments and imagine the light of your soul seeping down through that channel and entering and blessing your whole personality –
Body, emotions, and mind – increasing the light and power of your whole self.
Note your intuitive insights in your journal:
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Remember to say “Thank You.”
Whenever you have a particular success with following your intuition, say “Thanks very much.” This gratitude will continue to open the channels between your personality and your soul and your skill with intuition.
further reading:
“Intuition”
from The New Kitchen Mystic by Mary Hayes Grieco
‘I don’t know, it’s just a gut-level feeling.’ ‘Just a hunch’. ‘Only woman’s intuition’. It’s funny how deprecating we sound about that quiet knowing that comes right out of our souls. That’s what intuition is — the prompting of our soul to go toward the paths that will bring us the highest good in our lives. It speaks to us in different ways. To some people it is the ‘still, small, voice within’. To others, it comes as a picture in the mind in either the waking state or the dream state. It can be a gut-level feeling, a sense of emotional comfort or discomfort. It flows through sensitive and skillful touch, and also the ability to move through the world with luck and good timing. It is the flash of full-blown knowing, that drops suddenly into our consciousness from out of the blue, bringing information or inspiration.
Most of us repress the strength of intuition, and insist that it be subordinate to the logical mind. We regard intuition as an unsettling, possibly embarrassing second cousin to the functions of logic, control, and linear thinking that we have been trained to rely on. We ignore intuition’s polite suggestions for so long that it either atrophies into total silence or it finds loud dramatic ways of getting through to us. Sometimes we don’t listen to what we know until our life goes off the road in some messy crisis that forces us to give up our reliance to the logical “shoulds” in our minds.
The biggest blocks to using intuition successfully are fear and doubt. This is a historical problem. Intuition, like other aspects of the feminine psyche, has been relegated to the basement by the two major belief-making machines in Western culture — religion and science. In its darkest days, the Christian Church waged a centuries-long campaign against the feminine. The Burning Times in Europe consumed the bodies of up to nine million women who were accused of the crime of witchcraft. A woman could be accused of being a witch if she was an herbalist, a midwife, or a psychic, careers that had long held honor in the prior Goddess-based religion. She was suspect if she was sexually attractive or a bit too ‘uppity’. People were now expected to be obedient to the Church hierarchy and go to priests for mediation with God. No more listening to your own inner voices — they were most likely evil, the prompting of Satan. The Church established a deep climate of fear that we still carry in our collective mind. On a subconscious level, we are afraid to listen to our inner voices because they might be evil. We are caught in our own doubt about our basic goodness, and our fear of getting in trouble if we seem abnormal in any way.
The culture of scientific materialism grew up in reaction to this crazed church. Early scientists saw the need for a discipline of knowledge that could not be polluted by superstition, politics, or ungrounded mysticism. Science will allow only what can be seen, measured, counted, predicted and proven. ‘Truth’ is what can be demonstrated in controlled, repeatable experiments. This is fine and necessary in certain spheres, but the scientific method can’t address all that makes a human life worth living. How could you prove a poem? Why should you measure a dance? Predict unconditional love? Ridiculous. And yet, somehow we let the religion of scientific materialism run our lives too. We are afraid of being thought ‘crazy’ if we make decisions that do not lie within the bulging bell curve of ‘normal’. We are afraid to step out of the linear march of our culture’s conditioning to follow the call of the heart into some different experiences. We remain caged in self-doubt.
Your intuition is trying to show you only one thing all of the time: how to be happy as you. It’s there to make life easier. Your intuition will help you understand and unfold your purpose here, and solve everyday problems. It needs to be reinstated on the throne next to the logical mind, where they can work as partners. Your intuition receives vision for a life direction that will make you happy and will use your unique nature to the fullest. Your planning mind makes a strategy. But it can’t make an airtight strategy, because there are always unknowns. Your intuition works through these unknowns, bringing ideas and resources into play right in the present moment.
Your logical mind organizes information; it balances your checkbook. Your intuition balances your life. It tells you about health needs, connects you with good friends, and helps you with timing. It leads you into situations that elicit joy. Together the intuition and the logical mind create a fulfilling and effective life.
Intuition operates in large and small ways. A number of years ago my intuition showed me in a dream that I needed to relocate to a different city as soon as possible. My logical mind was appalled and embarrassed — I had no reason to go there, and I had school to finish in my home town. I had a lot of friends and family who would be sad and mystified at my move. But it was a strong feeling, so I did it. I met my beloved husband in a grocery store on my first venture into town. We fell in love instantly. And my health improved dramatically. I had been sick with a variety of complaints for almost two years. Now I discovered that I had been a creature at odds with my old environment, and I was more relaxed and healthy in my new location.
My intuition helps me with smaller challenges too. While driving around on errands my little voice said, “Go home right now!”. My logical mind told me I needed to go to the store first. “Really, right now! Go home.”. My logical mind whined as I turned toward home, prematurely, as far as it was concerned. As I entered my front door, the phone was ringing. It was a person I had tried to get in touch with unsuccessfully for two weeks. We made a quick little transaction that eased my current work project, and I went back out, smiling.