Power of Pretending

 

It is interesting that we have to cultivate a long-forgotten attitude of pretending and fantasizing we used to have in our childhood if we want to become intuitive. Remembering how to pretend is part of the intuitive learning process, to “make things up” in order to tell the truth by pretending to see it, to hear it, to smell it, or to feel it. We need to stop taking things too seriously and start laughing and fantasizing as we used to do as children. Growing up has made us to lose our power of pretending as we become more “realistic” and logical, when, with intellectual maturity, intuition is potentially most useful to us. But life is a miracle, if we don’t believe it pleasant surprises can hardly come our way. Many times, I have confessed, ‘I am being realistic’, not knowing that such words work against the power that are needed to become really intuitive.

We need to unlearn the habit of operating with the safety sense of logic and the attitude of dismissing impressions because “it doesn’t make sense.” After noticing something, we can pretend at first that the symbols are significant and allow the meaning to come because every symbol and intuitive information has meaning even if it doesn’t make sense to the logical mind at the moment.  

 When I was a child, I can remember it was easy for me to make things up. I acted like actors with passion, boldness and happiness. I derived pleasure in playing the make–believe game because I knew very little about the world around me, and it was easy for me to use pretend-play as a way to experiment with knowing. As a grown up today, I assume that I know so much such that it is difficult for me to act or play like a child. I have lost the fun, natural passion and boldness or ability to make things up because of the social pressures to be logical and sensible. I had submitted my life like a robot to be controlled from outside, the reason why I can no longer easily smile, or see the funny side of life; technology and pressure of life are affecting my natural abilities and senses- there are too much “noises” to contend with. Now, I have realized that I have the power to pretend that I can see, hear, taste, touch and smell things that my logical mind does not want me to perceive. Animals are intuitive because they are not bothered with experience of the world making sense to them to deprive them of valuable intuitive data; we can remember Paul the Octopus that successfully predicted all the 2010 World Cup matches.

 

 

HOW TO DEVELOP INTUITION

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Power of Noticing

In continuation of my post on how to develop intuition, let us consider the power of noticing next. The inner eye is one of the organs being used to notice the information sent to the inner senses. What we notice is symbolic; hence it is has to be recognized. The symbol is a messenger talking intuitively to us through the body based on what we see in our mind; by giving it the needed notice, the information it is trying to pass across comes to us.

The Power of Noticing makes us understand the importance of the body as an interface with the world, to become intuitive we need to get familiar with it, not just from our neck up but from our neck down. Usually the noise or distractions around us is so much that we may not notice the symbols talking to us. To enhance our ability to notice, we need to spend a few minutes each day to listen to the voice which may appear as body signals, gut–feeling, a hunch, an image, a sound, a memory, an instant knowing or goose bumps.

Sometimes something sparks my memory of a place I have already been, a person I have already seen, or an act I have already done. Now I can understand it is a signal to pay special attention to what is taking place; perhaps to receive a specific lesson in a certain area or complete what is not yet finished. It is good to note that I can execute my projects with less mistakes and excuses by taking great notice of every signal and signs, and noticing what I notice. Everything I notice has reason and meaning, there are no coincidences. Everything is a sign which can be interpreted. Every moment – past, present, and future – has a meaning. Every sign, every act, every deed, and everything I notice can be traced to the past and is being noticed in the present through the filter I am using in the moment. And everything I notice has an application and a meaning in the future.

Our subconscious mind tells us what to notice, it knows what is important to us. Our decisions are an amalgam of diverse, and often conflicting, facts, feelings, thoughts, and memories arising from what we have unconsciously noticed. Personally I have a lot to learn from the example of George Soros who used the Power of Noticing effectively. In his book Soros on Soros, the multi-millionaire mentioned how he had noticed certain signals. He said, “When I was running the Fund, I suffered from backache. I used the onset of acute pain as a signal that there was something wrong in my portfolio.” When others were using logic to analyze the market, he used the position of his backache to take positions and cut his losses in the market. I found it noteworthy that the power of noticing is helpful in improving my health, my relationships, my finances, and my personality.

HOW TO DEVELOP INTUITION

We can learn how to rediscover and develop our natural intuitive abilities, to enhance our mental and emotional balance in order to enhance our professional life, to create more of what we want in our lives and to help those we know create more in theirs. Each of us needs to develop conscious control over the ability to get any hidden information in the past, in the present and in the future so as to make good decisions. To rediscover the lost power, we have to learn how to actively observe and record our impressions, interpreting them, and finally integrating them with our other mental processes.

  POWER OF OPENING:

The first step towards intuitive development is to open dialogue with the universe. The reason why we don’t have all the answers is because we don’t know how to ask all the questions. Intuition is not limited by space and time hence we know the answer to any question. We can know anything as long as we know the right questions to ask.

We dwell on challenges because we have not individually and collectively known how to open up the passage way to the resources of our mind and listen to the universe to create solution. We are doing things the same way and expect a different result. Usually all that is missing in our lives is a question – the right question that will open our mind to see the interconnectedness of things. To see the part of us that transcends race, nationality, religion, political system, and ideology. Recently, I heard the news that the burning of forests by farmers in Indonesia is affecting the weather and health of people in Singapore. The universe talks to us, but we must learn how to open our minds and listen to the right things we are being asked to do, otherwise our technological and natural resources may end up not being a blessing. We have to open our minds and search our conscience for answers to how we can harmonize our materialism and spirituality.

We need to open our minds to become intuitive. We were born intuitive but we lost the natural ability due to environmental influences. As our heart opens, so does our intuition. A closed hand cannot receive anything, so also a closed mind cannot receive information that is useful for the well–being of the person and the people around him or her. An open mind is not hard but listens to every message being relayed to it. The beginning of the intuitive journey is learning to be in a relaxed and receptive frame of mind. When our minds are opened, there is no more resistance but surrendering and giving, we begin to recognize the different signs begging us for attention to make us become conscious.  A leader anywhere in the world cannot see, or hear, or feel the pain of his followers, because his inner senses are not open.

It is the little questions that make up life. To open our inner senses up or the door to intuition, we begin to give intuitive answers to questions being asked by our minds that no one could think to ask us other than our own self. Each individual’s life boils down to the ultimate question: What is most important to me in life?

Next time other ideas will be discussed on how to develop intuition.