The Death of Intuition.
‘If you don’t use it, you lose it’. We understand this quote when it comes to our physical bodies. Many of us take the time to keep fit, look after our skin, even our minds. You can buy games to keep your mind active. Anyone who has learnt a foreign language knows that it fades if you don’t get the opportunity to speak it.
Any talent must be used for it to stay sharp.
Most of us didn’t notice when our intuition arrived, let alone when it started to leave.
Some people don’t even believe they have intuition. Often when we have a bad feeling about something, it’s our intuition telling us to pay attention much in the same way as having a good feeling about a job offer.
I doubt anyone would notice when it arrived as it is our birthright. However, would we notice if we didn’t have it any more? Would mothers still be able to understand their babies, and babies to get their needs met? It starts to fade as soon as we learn to talk and the left brain starts to become more developed than the right brain. We no longer need to read a person’s emotions; we only need to ask how they are feeling.
Our intuitions go much deeper as it is our awareness of the world around us, such as our judgment of whether a Dog is going to allow us to pet it and still leave us with all five fingers. We judge our safety in many ways by our intuition. How many times have we heard people say that they had a bad feeling about a route home just before they got mugged?
In so many ways we need it, but could we ever live without it?
But as they saying goes, if you don’t use it, you lose it, so is our intuition dying? And if so, what is killing it?
When I was a teenager I was always aware of when my mother was tuning into me to see where I was and if I was ok. As parents we tune into our children all the time. Now, with mobile phones, a mother can just call. Instead of tuning into our loved ones, we just call them or send a text which, depending on the relative, can be annoying! We no longer have to sit at home by the phone waiting for the new boyfriend to call, we can be out looking for the next one in case he doesn’t ring!
The internet helps us with our connection to people all over the world without the need to tune in to the sound of a person’s voice to sense if they really are ok.
But by far one of the most interesting wonders of new technology is the GPS navigation. You might wonder what this has to do with intuition, but if you have ever sat at a junction and wondered which way to go and then just allowed yourself to follow your feeling, you would have just used intuition.
Before ‘Sat Nav’ came along I sat consulting the map before I set out on a new journey, would still get lost and have to ‘use the force’ to work out in which direction I should be heading. There is no need for this kind of connection with ‘the force’ of universal energy, we simply are told to take the second exit at the next roundabout.
I have found so many new and treasured places by taking the ‘wrong’ route home.
Could we find that when we cosmically order something that it takes longer to arrive if we fail to follow our intuition and be in the wrong place at the right time?
Being lost makes us all feel vulnerable, and whilst Sat Nav is a wonderful thing, we are, unfortunately, more vulnerable in the world using systems that will kill intuition.
I wouldn’t say to anyone not to use these amazing devices, especially as I for one would become a hypocrite if I did. What I would say is take a moment everyday to: guess who is on the phone before the phone tells you with caller I.D; to take a different route home without being sure it will get you there quicker; to listen to what is being said by a person without them opening their mouth to speak; tune into your pet and see what they have to tell you.
If we lose our intuition then we lose that part of ourselves which makes us good lovers, friends, parents, and we open the door to becoming less aware of our world around us.
All the time saving and communication devices in the world, don’t give us the sense of self.
By Becky Walsh © 2007