Intuition is now considered an “intelligence” and like emotional intelligence, social intelligence, creative intelligence, intelligence for reading, writing, & rithmatic, and a string of others, we can now acknowledge, claim and explore intuition without being ridiculed, even in scientific circles.
Intuitive intelligence is being researched scientifically and HeartMath Institute has been immersed in exciting and heart intelligence affirming research since 1991. Their research is showing that the heart appears to be involved in the processing and decoding of intuitive information. It also presents evidence that females are more attuned to intuitive information from the heart.
I read that there is an “underlying nonconscious aspect of intuition which includes implicit learning, implicit knowledge.” It is being acknowledged more openly now that intuitive perception plays an important role in business decisions and entrepreneurship, in learning, research, medical diagnosis, and healing, in spiritual growth and overall well-being.
Several researchers have contended that intuition is:
– an innate ability that all humans possess in one form or another
– is arguably the most universal natural ability we possess
– could be regarded as an inherited unlearned gift.
Although intuition is often felt as a sensation in the body, that physical sense can come with a knowingness and recognition of information from any or all of our five senses, with a vision, colour or sound, even a taste or smell. We interpret the sensations we experience.
There are times our drive to produce a particular outcome can provide a rational direction or decision, yet … a “bad feeling” gnawing away at you is a sign that your intuition is telling you that, no matter how much you might want to talk yourself into this direction, it’s somehow not right, it’s not in sync with your “inner knowing”.
Research and experience at HeartMath Institute suggests that emotions are the primary language of intuition, and that intuition is a largely untapped resource. They teach how to engage heart felt emotions, like compassion and gratitude, with breathing, to entrain the brain frequency to be in sync with the heart and generate the calm experience we intuitively seek.
Implicit knowledge or implicit learning could be knowledge we gained in the past and either forgot or did not realize we had learned something unintentionally. Like the monkeys in the mirror neuron experiments, we watched, absorbed, integrated and stored, to later bring forward the knowledge or skill as the need arose. There was no logical or conscious need to understand, just integration of how to achieve a particular result, simply by watching and registering in our own body the same muscle and energy patterns of the person we are watching. We can learn by mirroring behaviour.
The brain has a highly efficient and effective pattern-matching ability. Your brain matches the patterns of new problems and challenges with implicit memories base on your prior exposure and experience. We are not conscious that the brain is pattern matching, we just find our body is moving as needed, an idea or a thought pops up, or a solution appears in our awareness. It’s not a conscious process.
Another type of intuition might be called energetic sensitivity. Our nervous system detects and responds to changes in the electromagnetic field around our body. A common experience is becoming aware that someone is watching or staring at us. Their attentive energy focused on us has penetrated our field and registered in our nervous system.
Walking in nature we can perceive change of the Earth’s field as we move through areas of trees and plants, rock formations, and flowing water. To be walking in the bush and come round a bend and suddenly find ourselves in a clearing can starkly highlight awareness. The atmosphere can be quite different, very palpable, as our skin sensors register the change.
That change is visual and also energetic. Close your eyes and you can still feel it. Walk back and again approach the bend, more slowly this time, and pay attention to when you become aware of the change. Native tribes have grown up being sensitive to their land and its special places, for healing, for peace, for recovery. Westerners may not have honed that awareness but by paying attention in different environments we can become more sensitive to environmental energy.
Albert Einstein has been widely quoted as saying, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
To enhance your awareness of your intuition do a Touch For Health Goal Balance on:
I easily and readily access and align with my intuitive intelligence for … (problem solving, inner guidance, clarity, next step, etc). Touch For Health kinesiology uses muscle response monitoring to communicate with your subconscious, and bring up to conscious awareness that which is usually hidden from our everyday awareness. It also shows which part of our energy system to stimulate to become more aware of our intuitive ability and direct it to a specific area in our life.
Touch For Health program builds sensitivity to energy change and increases your intuitive intelligence. Workshops are held regularly.
For more information on workshops email: anna@annamcrobert.com.au