Our inner speech / self-talk what creates our outer reality. We often have a feeling or a sense of something, but very quickly, our logical mind kicks in to try to understand and comprehend what we feel. Like with anything in life, practice makes permanent. It takes time to grow and nurture your inner voice, especially if you’ve ignored it or pushed it to the side for some time now.
The more you listen and honest your skills, the better and faster you will become at hearing and listening to your intuition, your gut, your innate wisdom. Feelings usually have a strong emotional charge. And they are also very often selfish. Feelings are a function of the ego self. Intuition feels like a calm knowing, and there is very little of the self about it. You may even have to take unpleasant decisions on the basis of what it reveals.
Intuition is a quiet but sure knowing that comes from a deeper intelligence than that which we access through the conscious mind. It is a way to access information both from within and without. A sensory person picks up information by using their five senses. Very observant and in the moment, they piece together a very accurate picture of people, places, or whatever they are observing. Intuition, is composed of lightning-fast inner seeing, inner hearing, inner sensing and inner knowing.
The senses will only tell us of what lies on the surface, but the truth of things often lie deeper. How intuition works is made of innumerable cues that the mind sees but may not be conscious of, but it helps us to arrive at our conclusion. And we are all familiar with a mother’s intuition. The sudden knowing that the child who is at school has fallen ill.
आश्चर्यवत्पश्यति कश्चिदेन माश्चर्यवद्वदति तथैव चान्य: |
आश्चर्यवच्चैनमन्य: शृ्णोति श्रुत्वाप्येनं वेद न चैव कश्चित् || Gita 2:29
Some see this as a wonder, some talk of this as a wonder, and while others, even on hearing, cannot understand it at all. Some are wonder-struck upon realizing the truth and hence observe it as a great wonder. Absolute truth is not really a wonder, it is beyond all positive and negative attributes.
To an ignorant man who was oblivious to it all his life - it strikes as an overwhelming wonder when he understands. Such a man will also describe the truth as a wonder that transformed his life from a meager body-identified individual to the soul itself. There are those seekers whose heart fills with overwhelming wonder when they really hear and understand a master expound on the truth. If you have observed when you sit with a self-realized master and listen to his explanations of life and the nature of the mind, you are often left with a profound experience within yourself.
"Memory" was seen by the ancients as symptomatic of purity and spiritual advancement and one of its highest honors was that of a "Sruti Dhara" whose meaning is one who can "capture ( dhara ) what they hear ( sruti )" even after hearing once. This profound experience is nothing but your mind breaking down barriers it created for itself and reaching closer and closer to silence.
Everything in the universe has a vibrational frequency. We are hard-wired to have sound be part of us. In the brain, all our neurons fire at different frequencies based on the data they receive from things around us. These vibrations interact with every cell in your body. I wish to focus all my energies for anything that aids in relaxation, mindfulness and stress reduction. Sound therapy isn’t just about hearing sounds that are pleasant.
Science has proven you can use different sound frequencies to hack your brainwaves and heal your body. By using certain rhythms, you can take your brain from beta to theta and even into delta where healing exists. Another way to increase your intuition is to increase your awareness. You can do this by cultivating some spiritual practice such as pranayama, meditation, or anything else that will help you reduce the momentum of the thinking mind.
Authored by Dr Anadi Sahoo
