Tools to Enhance Intuitive Decision Making

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Tools to Enhance Intuitive Decision Making

This article also appears at www .22cplus.blogspot.com

By Marcus T. Anthony( PhD)Email: mindfutures at gmail dot com

I have a new book coming out soon which includes many of the articles andthemes addressed here. It's calledExtraordinary Mind: Integrated Intelligenceinto the Future. Here's one of the segments from the book. Those who have readSage of Synchronicitywill recognise these tools. If you are keen to develop someof the skills that I outline here regularly, these will get you started.

One of the reasons I developed the theory of Integrated Intelligence was because I felt that much of the writing on ideas like intuition and spiritualintelligence was too vague. So I came up with not only the core operations and
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end states of INI, I also developed some practical ways to develop and implementthe intelligence. Here I am going to outline the main ones in brief. For a moredetailed and compressive outline, see my bookSage of Synchronicity, which goesinto more detail about how to apply INI.The tools do require practice and commitment if you are serious about using

them. Remember, I learned much from other teachers. But I also innovated, andinvented things for myself. You can do the same. Because integrated intelligenceis everywhere, all the time, there are innumerable possibilities. Dont let my toolkit limit your thinking, and your practice.

Five Breaths. This is a presence technique, and it will help bring your mindfully into the present moment. In presence it is much easier to read energy, andthe ego quiets down. I recommend that you use these presence techniques beforedoing the divination methods such as the Quick Check and using The FeelingSense, because you will be more centered and present.

The Process is as follows. Simply stop whatever you are doing, take a deep breath,and bring your attention to your breath moving in and out. Take a second breath,this time just a normal one, but still paying careful but relaxed attention to thefeeling of the air moving through your respiratory system. As you notice yourthoughts, just gently acknowledge them, and return your attention to your breath(remember, you are not your thoughts). Do this for about five breaths. It willbring you into presence.

The Oneness Technique. This allows you to become present withsomething nearby. For example, you can allow yourself to silently connect with aflower, a tree, a baby, a cup and so on. Simply bring your mind into relaxed focuson the thing. If thoughts or judgments come into your mind, just observe them

and let them go. You can do the Oneness technique for a minute or so, or you canprolong it if you want to turn it into a meditation. The Field exercise, mentionedin section three of this book, is a special form of this technique.

Non-judgmental Re-framingThis is another process which will help centre you before you use the other INI

Tools. The goal here is to assign non-judgmental and positive meanings to events,people and things, with the aim of maintaining a relaxed, compassionate andloving relationship with the world.What happens to you is not as important as the meanings you assign to things,and the subsequent state of mind you create. Most suffering occurs not because of

what happens, but because of the judgments we assign to events. This includesthe meanings of what we thinkmighthappen.

At one time I was to travel by ferry to a nearby seaport near Hong Kong with afriend. As it happens, there was a great deal of congestion because it was a publicholiday, so we missed our boat. There was a two hour wait for the next ferry, andI was quite happy to chill out at Starbucks while waiting for it. However my friendbecame incredibly flustered, and began to go into blame and anger. He blamed


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me and said the whole day was a nightmare, and stormed off. The truth is thatthere was no nightmare. He turned it into one.A better way to deal with the same event would be to avoid judgment, blame orself-persecution. By relaxing for a few hours, the reasons for the undesiredoutcome could have been digested calmly, and all parties would have been wiser

for the error. Such a response would also affirm that one is an empowered humanbeing, not like a toy sailboat easily blown of course by the slightest wind ofmisfortune.The victim blames, while the empowered person takes responsibility for theactions, results and meanings he assigns, and for his emotions. When you findyourself in the victim state, you can also stop and bring yourself into the here andnow with either of the presence techniques. That will shut the inner victim upreal fast. As with any form of meditation, simply witness thoughts and let thempass. Dont struggle with them. Its about developing the right relationship withyour mind, and your ego.

Using an Intuitive DiaryThis is a diary where you record your intuitive feelings, images, prompts,synchronicities and so on. Keeping such a diary will help connect your left andright-brain thinking, and get you in touch with the subtleties of the intuitivemind.Use a good-sized hard-cover diary. If you use your computer, make sure you haveat least one backup file saved elsewhere.Use your Intuitive Diary to record your dreams, intuitions, synchronicities,impressions from meditations, and any auditory, visual or feeling impressionsthat come to you. Of course, you can write your interpretations of these also. Useit daily if possible.

Active Dreaming. This is where you record your dreams, and learn to decipherand intuit their meanings. Use your Intuitive Diary to record dreams. ActiveDreaming will help you to do a number of things.

1. Learning to distinguish the many voices of the psyche. The differenttypes of dreams are quite similar to the various sources of intuition.

2. It will help your learn the language of the psyche its symbols andintuitive prompts.

3. It will help you identify your Soul Issues. The narrative of many dreamsinvolves issues that are crucial to your spiritual journey.

4. It will improve the connection between the logical and intuitive partsof your mind.

5. It will get you in touch with your spiritual guidance.

Embracing Synchronicity.Some things which happen to you are the universes way of telling you

something, or just helping you along your way. These are synchronicities, ormeaningful coincidences. Life presents clues in the dance of creation. You canlearn to notice synchronicities as they occur, and intuit their meaning.


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Approaching life with a lighthearted, serendipitous and adventurous spiritfacilitates synchronicities. To appreciate their meaning, it is best that the mind befully present. The act of presence seems to imbue the world with mystical fervor.The deeper meaning and purpose of experience is revealed, as if the psyche andcosmos are in open dialogue.

Synchronicity is a little like water in the hand as soon as you try to grab at it,it falls away. You cant force meaning to make itself known, you can only allow it;embrace it.[1]

The Quick CheckThis is a simple tool, where you take a reading of the energy of an intended

decision. This is done by drawing a line across a page and quickly running yourfinger from left to right (or right to left- it doesnt make any difference) to take apercentage measurement. One end of the line represents zero percent, and theother end 100 percent. When I do this I feel an invisible wall at a certain point,and my finger wont go any further. You might also feel a tingling feeling in yourfinger.

You can also do a Quick Check by running the same finger across the palm ofyour dominant hand. Hold the non-dominant hand sideways in front of you (i.e.your fingers will be pointing sideways, not upwards). In this case the length of your palm replaces the line on the paper, with the tip of your index fingerrepresenting zero, and the other end of your hand representing 100 percent.

As with any form of divination, make sure the question is simple and clear. Agood way to phrase the question is, What is the energy on my? For example,What is the energy on my taking this job?; and What is the energy on my goingto the seaside for my holiday this year?

The Quick Check requires practice, and a little faith, as at first it may seem likeyou are wasting your time. Persist with it, as it takes time to begin to feel the

energy. Use the Quick Check every day for a month, testing the energy on smalldecisions you are making. After a while it will become second nature.

That does not mean that the readings will be perfect. This is an approximationprocess, and is open to distortion from the ego, external influences, and plain badexecution. Use it cautiously.

Free-form WritingThis is stream of consciousness writing used to enhance your creativity, insightand wisdom.

Free-form writing is sometimes called automatic writing. It involves taking a

theme, problem or question, writing it down, then just letting go and beginning towrite whatever comes to mind. It is a bit like jumping into a cars passenger seatand being driven off. You lose control, but you can just relax and enjoy the ride.Free-Form Wring can be used to address just about any issue or problem: forinspirational ideas, for personal business problems, for spiritual guidance and soon. It can also be used by researchers. I used Free-Form Writing extensivelythroughout the writing of my doctoral thesis, but particularly in the first twoyears of enrollment.
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One way to develop this channeling process is using it for writing, at least fiveminutes every day, no matter what.Free-form Writing involves asking a question, then writing whatever comes toyou, and without editing, proof-reading or censoring yourself. There is no goingback, not even for typos! Whatever idea comes into your mind about the topic

connections, distinctions, hypotheses, questions, guesses, confusions, whatever -you write it down during your daily writing time.minutes was just not enough. I adapted the system so that I set myself a goal ofwriting five hundred words a day, every day, first thing in the morning.

The Feeling SenseThis is the ability to feel the energy within people, things, and situations,

including the outcomes of intended actions.The Feeling Sense employs the subtle feelings of intuition. The Feeling Sense is

innate, and although it is latent in most of us, anybody can learn to use it.The more you become comfortable with looking within yourself, the easier it willbecome to distinguish amongst your many subtle feelings. You have to learn thedifference between a genuine intuitive pull and the other competing voices of thepsyche the ego, desire, wishful thinking, fear of the unknown, and so on. This issomething you learn by trial and error.You can use the Feeling Sense to pull data from people, objects, places, futuresand pasts. Here are a few possible applications.

People. Imagine reaching out with your hand and into the body of the personyou wish to read. Then just let go and allow that persons thoughts and feelingsto move through you. Alternatively you can imagine your body merging withtheirs, and repeating the same process. Always let go of the person as you finish.Otherwise you may find your energy entangled with theirs.

Objects. Pyschometry occurs when you reach out with your mind to touch anobject and feel the energy within it. Use the same process as for people, above.This is something that is relatively easy to do.

Places. Imagine moving out of your body and finding yourself in the place youwant to know more about. Here you are looking for any feelings about the place.Of course you may get images of words coming to you. If so, take note of them.Futures. The future is not set in stone, but you can get a sense of probablefutures. The further away in time, and smaller scale the event, the less predictableit is. For major events, such as economic shifts or ethnic conflicts, the results aremore reliable.To sense a possible future, feel yourself moving into the future choice you are

thinking of making (e.g. accepting that job). What does it feel like? You can usethis to imagine the futures of career choices, products you buy, places you visitand so on.Pasts. Generally speaking, the past is set, however the way that people relate totheir past can have a great effect of the energy of the past as it is representedinthe present. You can read another persons past, in precisely the same way youread another persons energy in the present (see above).


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As you move your energy outwards and into theirs, you will pick up the emotionalexperience of the past event, rather than the literal event itself. Any emotionalenergy that is trapped in the psyche of a person is relatively easy to read, asemotional energy is loud.

The more you honour your intuitive feelings, the more they will speak to you.

Light Trances. This iswhere you put yourself into a drowsy, dream-like state,pose questions, and allow the answers to come in feelings, visions, inner voicesetc. The sleepy state just before you sleep, and just after you wake up can also beharnessed for this same purpose. The process is to quiet the mind, put outquestions, and wait for the answers to come in any sensory modality.

It is well appreciated by mystics and many parapsychologists that cultivatingnon-ordinary states of consciousness is invaluable in accessing intuitive andspiritual knowledge. Throughout my life after my mid twenties I used these statesvery deliberately to glean data from transpersonal sources, and my subconscious.Trance States are an intimate part of the development of Integrated Intelligence.

You can familiarise yourself with Trance States through deliberate meditation,or by taking advantage of the drowsy state between sleeping and waking thehypnogogic state . This state occurs naturally when you are falling asleep andwaking up. But you can enter it deliberately through meditation also.To bring about the sleepy state, sit quietly in a chair (or wherever you feelcomfortable), and relax. Focus on your breath, and breathe deeply in and out. Asthoughts move into your mind, just allow them to pass. If you like, you canimagine them being placed inside balloons and floating away. A good time to dothis is when you are actually feeling tired, such as in the middle of the afternoonor just before bed. This way you will naturally tend to drift towards sleep whenyou sit and relax deeply. After some practice, you will be able to do it more readilyeven when you are feeling alert.

Trance States are a little different from some other forms of meditation, in thatyou are deliberately trying to begin to fall to sleep. As you relax, you may findyourself becoming too drowsy or nodding off. If so, simply persist in bringingyourself awake but not fully awake. When you find yourself just shy of sleep,put questions out to Spirit/the subconscious mind. Then observe what comesbefore your awareness.

Be patient. If you get no definite answers, simply repeat the questioningprocess every minute or so. Even if you get no answer during the entiremeditation, one may spring into your mind at a later date, or during a dream. Asynchronicity in your everyday life may answer the question for you. Regardless,your subconscious will go to work on the problem, and begin to pull information

and data together, both from mundane and spiritual sources. Just trust that theanswer is on its way.I recommend you employ Trance States in short bursts. These could be as shortas a minute or two for lighter questions, or could be ten to fifteen minutes formore in depth issues. When you finish the meditation, record what you haveexperienced in your Intuitive Diary. If you want, you can later analyse themeaning of what you have seen or experienced. You will not be able to do this


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during the meditation, because the analytical mind cannot operate effectivelywhile in deep states of relaxation, and vice versa.

Connecting with the SageThis process is similar to Free-form writing, except that you are voicing the

message, not writing it. Choose a private space where you are free to voicewhatever comes to mind. Imagine yourself as a wised old man or woman. Feelthat energy moving through you. You might ask Spirit for guidance if you like.Next, bring a problem or issue to mind, then pose a question. As soon as you havedone so, feel and embody the answer. Act out the answer as if you are the Sageaddressing you, the small self. Dont feel shy to move around, orate, sing, orwhatever you feel moved to do. The key is to let go and trust the process.

If you like, record the words, or write them down in your Intuitive Diary. Actupon the guidance the Sage brings to you, and observe the outcome.

All the tools and methods mentioned here are within ready grasp. Like allcognitive skills, practice is required. Use the ones that come naturally to you.

[1] See Rob and Trish MacGregors www.ofscarabs.blogspot.com for more onsynchronicity.

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