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Intuitions Decoded

Knowing without knowing. A gut feeling. Ability to make correct decisions without deliberate analysis. The sixth sense. All of us have that little voice in our heads called intuition, telling us, guiding us, and protecting us in life.

Stronger during childhood, as we grow old, to fit society’s norms, we stop listening to that voice in our head. As we stop listening to it, it faints somewhere in the backdrop of the life’s ruckus, still active somewhere, helping us to make the right choices on the spot.

The left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for logical reasoning, planning, facts, and calculations. The right part of the brain is responsible for emotional processing and creativity. There is a part of the brain, which exists on both the brain’s left and right sides. Neuroscientists believe that intuitive thinking emerges from this part of the brain.

There are four types of intuitive thinking.

Psychic Intuition: When you face a personal difficulty, splitting your choices without putting much mental effort, you choose a path, as if you can see yourself walking on that path, knowing the social and profession-related dynamics. This type of intuition is termed psychic intuition.

Intuitive thinking:

Even though a complex issue to scientists worldwide, we know that Intuitive thinking is the process happening in our subconscious, helping us understand the current reality without logic or analysis.

Emotional Intuition: Without having a conversation with a new person you just met, you can tell a lot about him. You can tell what his personality traits and emotional state are. This is called emotional intuition.  

Mental intuition: imagine you are facing a problem, and without reasoning, without making a pro-con list, without analyzing all the options, you are deciding on the spot, which turns out to be an accurate one. Sports players, firefighters, bomb technicians are not only just experts in their respective fields, but also they are someone with a solid mental intuition.

Spiritual Intuition:  When you develop a strong connection with the Guru, the Divine, or the universe, they let you feel, hear, see and experience the things, making your soul a medium. Call it an awakening, balanced chakras, awakened Kundalini or Siddhi. When you establish a strong connection with the universe’s celestial forces, they send you signals helping you choose or spiritual intuitions.

How to strengthen our intuitions?

If you take a stroll in history, you will find that irrational decisions have shaped humanity’s history more than rational decisions. But society tells us to be reasonable. Find logic. Adhere to conformity. While doing so, while amplifying the analytical sound in our brain, we mute our other voices. Once you accept that your brain has more than one way to feed you insights, it becomes easy to work on it.

Having faith, a belief in the process, in your gut, and yourself, that you have a brilliant intuition will give you a better shot and the confidence to achieve success.

Instead of overthinking, you should start feeling. Gut feeling creates an actual physical feeling within you. If you pay close attention to what your body is saying, you can listen better to your intuitions.

Trusting your gut feeling and being firm on the decision will only improve the process. Intuition works best when you avoid overanalyzing your sixth sense. If you make yourself busy dissecting a gut feeling, it’s a possibility that you may miss the true essence of it.

A calm mind and peaceful environment improve your ability to listen to yourself. Eating right, physical and mental exercises, and getting enough sleep keeps the channels of your subconscious clean and open to receive messages from the universal forces.

Quick response is critical, especially if you think something is not right. A swift, prompt response is all it takes to avoid danger. Many times, intuition comes to aid us in the form of survival instinct. An open mind, practice, and meditation will help you to differentiate between fear and intuition.

Meditation and Intuition:

Meditation acts as a whetstone, keeping the sword of intuition sharper. Meditation helps you quiet down your internal chatter to listen to your subconscious with clarity. Every day, as we make our way through life following logical reasoning and social norms, it creates layers of dust on our intuition. And soon, just like any microchip with a dust particle, our intuition stops working.

Meditation cleanses the subconscious, resetting your hormones, which improves your decision-making ability. It enhances your concentration, productivity, patience, and sleep, making you more receptive to your body signals. It makes you better at feeling the vibes of people and places, being in the present.

The root of intuition is trust. One should trust his body and his subconscious. One should be ready to accept the signals from his body, and one should understand those signals. During a crisis, one must be trained to pause the chain of thoughts and listen to his instincts. Mindfulness, meditation, self-confidence, and clear conscience help to create trust in intuition.

If you have more questions on intuition, if you are looking for guidance on practicing meditation, or for a specific mantra to improve your intuitiveness, please write to us at info@chamundaswamiji.com. We would love to hear from you.