EVERYDAY INTUITION

One of the greatest misconceptions about intuition is the notion that you have to wait for an inspiration to decide come to you, that you can’t simply ask your inner voice for an intuition whenever you need it. Have you ever tried to simply ask for an intuition just when you needed it?

Before your mind starts to form a “no” answer to that question, think of a situation at work where you were presented with a problem that you didn’t immediately know how you were going to solve, but that you ultimately did solve. What did you do? Did you give up? Did you sweep the problem under the rug and move on to something easier? Likely not. Likely you have enough confidence in your ability to know that you will solve most problems that crop up in your work. So, how did you do it?

You likely went through four stages: Research, “Kick Back,” “Ah-ha,” and Manifestation. First, you examined the problem to understand why you couldn’t solve it quickly. Then you gathered the facts necessary to understand as much as you could about why the problem wasn’t susceptible to a quick solution. Perhaps you studied the problem visually, talked to a colleague, reviewed precedents in the files, or looked it up on the Internet. Perhaps you experimented with quick solutions to see if one would work. If none of those approaches worked immediately, what did you do then?

You probably set the problem aside for awhile and went on to something else. You “forgot” about the problem, or “kicked back,” or otherwise turned the focus of your conscious attention away from the problem.

What happened then? The solution likely suddenly “popped” into your mind in plenty of time to solve the problem, as answers had on many other occasions when, for example, you had forgotten something and said “give me moment, it’ll come to me.”

What happened then? If you’re like most, the excitement of solving a problem that had no apparent solution likely energized you to actually solve the problem, to make the solution exist in the world and to not just exist in your mind.

What went on here? You were presented with a problem that you didn’t know how to solve; you asked your intuition to work on the solution; your intuition delivered the solution in time to solve the problem; and you made it exist in the world. So, have you ever tried to simply ask for an intuition just when you needed it? Think back: you likely have. So, why not try asking for intuition on other issues, not just work problems? Everyday intuition works.