A recent LinkedIn thread began with the question: “Has Your Intuition Protected or Saved Your Life?” I always appreciate probing questions and this one definitely set my mind to musing as I began the search of memory files for specific experiences and circumstances that would fit the question. In the struggle to remember particulars, my mind presented its own question: When am I not being guided by intuition?
I’ve been a practicing metaphysician for more than twenty years. Even before that I was delving into the mysteries, asking unusual questions and sitting for quiet periods allowing my mind to travel etheric highways of information. All of these habits brought long stares and the brand ‘eccentric’ from family members. However, those habits have also guided me to a way of living that brings me happiness. Whenever I look back at the decisions made, I can see where choosing another route might not have brought as satisfying a result.
My years of counselingclients along with studies beside traditional elders have widened my understanding in patterns relating to health, relationships and lifestyles of people that live guided by intuition and those who do not. First world cultures value reliance on academic or scientific information over the internal promptings that are the preference of the less economically developed societies.
My belief is that there are four areas where human beings draw decision making information. I list them from the most base to highest guidance:
1.
Instincts (behavior
performed without prior experience or learning)
2.
Cultural training or condition (belief systems, perceived safety
and learned values)
3.
Gut reaction (an etheric DNA, sins of the fathers, attitudes or
behavior before applied reason.
4.
Intuitive (knowledge beyond understanding of how or where; never
harms another life form)
Intuition is an inner
voice available to all. It is a wordless language of the heart connection. Yet
in cultures that rely on mental programming over feelings, 10% of the decisions
are made instinctively, 50% from cultural training, 15% from gut reactions, and
only 5% from intuitive guidance. That leaves 20% of the decisions being made
from some chaotic distraction which often include influences from advertising.
In traditional or aboriginal peoples, around 5% of the actions are instinctive, 15% from cultural training, 35% from gut Impressions, and 45% from intuition and a deep connection with the Earth. The reduced influence from cultural training is because the teaching in these cultures is to connect with nature and Spirit to find answers.
Choosing to follow a more intuitive lifestyle helped me find my husband, guided us from Florida to Hawaii where I was accepted by Hawaiian teachers and family. It was through meditation and intuition that I received an invitation (and the funds) to travel on pilgrimage with Mayan elders through Guatemala. The same process of meditation and intuition led me to my beautiful home on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. I feel my life has been greatly blessed, and quite possibly saved from many painful lessons or uncomfortable situations in my choosing intuitive living. How have you followed your intuition?
