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Carolina Molse's avatar

Reclaiming intuition

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A Reversed World

The little body so complete in feeling and intuition

Knows how to act in every situation

The body has its own language, so close at hand

Wouldn’t know how to act if that communication were banned

Then you grow up and hear all about logic and lot

The way through life that you ought to be taught

A society that practices a different course

For you an incomprehensible path in comparison with the original source

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We Seek the Answer

That course, based on logic and fact

As if that were something to attract

Want you to provide me with solutions clear

So I can return to the simplicity I once held dear

I shall not fall into such a trap

Allow myself to forget what’s blessed in that gap

There is no manual for how I should live

The reverse would be what’s skewed and fugitive

The aid lies in feeling a sensation

In that way, create with deliberation

Strokes that become a painting’s revelation

Canvas and fabric, layers, the foundation for creation

The certainty that it will then be given to me

My unique path through life, set free

Anna Branten's avatar

Love it! Thank you.

Carolina Molse's avatar

Keep share your brilliant thoughts and we will see if we are matching in poems. I have written so much more! 🪶

The Sacred Lazy One's avatar

The signal arrived early.

The instruments were not yet built.

Some listened anyway.

The future noticed.

Janet Hannah's avatar

We are all learners here yet when it comes to defining intuitive potencies some how it all makes sense. As we are communicating with senses we rely on great article 🙏

Peter Almberg's avatar

One thought I’d add is that intuition becomes hopeful only when it meets responsibility.

When someone is willing to say, “I will carry this,” intuition crosses a threshold. It becomes work.

Hope doesn’t come from sensing more.

It comes from someone being willing to take responsibility for what is already sensed.

Owen Summerscales's avatar

Love this.

"Intuition is the kind of intellectual sympathy by which one places oneself within an object in order to coincide with what is unique in it and consequently inexpressible.” Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics, 1903.

Henri Bergson is *the* philosopher of the intuition, although many of his ideas resonate with ancient daoist thinkers like Zhuang Zhou, who I think was one of the first in written records to explicitly characterize the role of the intuition.

Frank Hoeft's avatar

Thanks Anna, a wonderful text that resonates exactly with how I feel.

In my work, I am interested in how people make decisions, and intuition was a huge part of the reasons mentioned by people I’ve talked to. We know how intuition emerges from a biological perspective. I see it as a hardwired function of our minds, but one that also comes from individual experience.

So when we see people today defining beliefs, starting conflicts, or doing other seemingly unexplainable things, I doubt that they are taking decisions backed by data. That’s my trouble. I feel that intuition can be manipulated by the environment we are living in, and this would also make sense from a biological standpoint, because our intuition should somehow address the context in which we live.

MITCHELL WEISBURGH's avatar

It's a fine line to trust our body and intuition while also knowing when and how to rise above our fear, anxiety, and anger. I find it's a lifetime project.

Ria Baeck's avatar

Hello Anna, wondering if you have come across the collective practice I compiled and wrote a book about: Collective Presencing; Here is the website, where you can also download the book: https://www.collectivepresencing.org/

with love,

Ria

Deb's avatar

I pulled an Oracle card this morning which spoke about the importance of deep listening. Your article emphasizes how important it is trust ourselves and our bodies.