The HeArt of Intuition: Live from the Inside Out, Part II
It is Seeing or Listening with Your Heart
and not with Your Head.
It is “Going Within.”
This is Part II of an eight part blog.
I want to touch in on what it means to "go within," for when you “go within” you see/listen with your heart and not with your head. By “going within” you become one with your object of attention because you place it in your heart.
On the other hand, when you only use your head/mind, you are only seeing a small percentage of your object of attention because you are only using your logical mind to analyze, categorize and judge it, and, in effect, you are just scanning the surface of it. While, when you “go within” you learn how to “identify” with it – to “feel” it – to “embrace it.” And by doing this, you allow yourself to become “one with” it and see the whole picture from the Inside Out.
In other words, when you're looking at something from the outside, i.e. with your mind, you are only seeing a small part of it. You are truly just skimming the surface, but when you allow yourself to become a part of it internally, then you see the whole picture because you have become “one with” it.
you go without.
Neale Donald Walsch
What I am suggesting above is a very different way than most people use to gather information about a person or a “thing.” By interacting in this way, you gather information with your heart and not your head. The mind does not truly “understand” anything; it just analyzes and measures. It is the heart that really “knows.”
As Vine Deloria, a Native-American scholar wrote in this regard:
“For primitive people the presence of energy and power is the starting point of their analysis and understanding of the natural world...primitive people felt power, but did not measure it. Today we are able to measure power, but do not feel it.”
What do you think about what I have suggested? Do you think it is possible for you to use your heart as the primary way to gather information?
Close your eyes now and take a moment to focus on a person you care about. Instead of thinking about them, just softly focus on an image/feeling of them and see what you feel” about them rather than what you “think” about them. Then spontaneously jot down a few notes about what you “felt.”
Do the same as above with someone you recently met or don’t know that well.
You can do this exercise on your own now or go to my Podcast of March 21, 2008 where I lead you in this exercise.
This is Part II of an eight part blog.