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Just had to tell you about this press release from Hauntings.co.uk.

Instead of brides-to-be getting drunk and doing silly things in a group, why not do something useful like learning to dowse?

What a great idea! Have a load of women getting a spa and relaxing then, after a good meal in the evening, going ghost-hunting and learning to dowse!

Whether or not there’ s a queue for this, I don’ t know. But I do know that I think it’s great that such things as dowsing are making their way into the public consciousness more and more.

Only one thing I want to ask. What’s the point of ghost hunting? I’ve never worked that out. So, you find a ghost (or not). Then what do you do? Say ‘Hello’ and then go your separate ways? Doesn’t make any sense to me at all.

But then I’m not bothered about talking to ghosts, just dealing with those that bother our clients.

Still, anywhere that encourages people to learn dowsing gets my vote!

Go, girls!!

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Here’s a jolly piece about using your intuition. It’s to be found in The Republican newspaper. At first glance, it’s to the point, about artists unleashing their intuition.

Sounds great doesn’t it? The  article is all about how a professor of fine art is using radical techniques to get people to create art. Things like painting blindfolded, using string or smoke, splattering or other techniques.

And the point is….?

Well, according to the professor (Dean Nimmer, if you want to know), it is

“to instill is the idea that you don’t have to be thinking of the finished product but rather maximizing the pleasure.”

Wonderful! But, might I ask what this has to do with intuition? Maybe it’s this quote:

“The more self-conscious your thought, the more of an impediment it is. To me, it’s a lot more important to find your sources of creativity”

So, the question to be asked, is whether finding your creativity is what intuition is all about is is the use of the word ‘intuition’ just a fancy way of getting people to enroll in a class?

I have to say, it sounds more like the latter, for the whole article is simply about  how the students splatter stuff around and get to look at it at the end. How is that being intuitive? I’ve got nothing against splattering paint and calling it art, but I hesitate to call the process ‘intuition’.

Or am I just wrong?

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Silly things you can seem to do with your intuition….

• Tell who’s on the phone before you call
• Know which pet you should pick at at the store
• Avoid a really bad film rental
• Know when to change check-out lanes in the supermarket
• Know you’ve got the wrong burger before you unwrap it
• Know which phone booth / video game / cigarette machine / etc., has change left in it.
• Know you’re going to be on time for your flight even though you’re stuck in traffic.

Silly things you can’t seem to do with intuition…

• Actually put money on your hunch to win the race
• Not walk into that argument with your partner / boss / co-worker
• Avoid the really bad meal at the restaurant
• Buy the right lottery ticket
• Stop your cat throwing up on your new rug
• Find a parking space nearer than one mile to where you want to be
• Choose the right day for the right weather at the right time for the right place.

PS, I’m sure you can add some others to these…things you’ve done or things you haven’t done!

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Have you ever had that feeling as you’re going out of the door that you’ve forgotten something?

You know you should have remembered it but you can’t think what it is. So you rack your brain and decide that it’s just something probably small or not important at all and you’ll probably do without it.

So you relax. You’re in the car and you’re probably a little later than you would like to be so turning back is not an option. But you’ve given yourself permission to feel OK about that nagging feeling you had just before you left, because you’ve talked yourself into believing that it will be fine.

You arrive at the mall, on the way to the in-laws (or wherever) for that last bit of shopping you needed and THEN it hits you. The list with all the details, sizes, names or whatever it was is still on the kitchen table.

You have forgotten the list. The single most important thing you had for the day is miles away and you can’t remember what was on it, because you wrote it down, so why bother???

Any of this seem familiar?

Well, we all curse ourselves for forgetting things. But how many of us actually realize that that nagging feeling, that irritation scraping its fingernail down the blackboard of your mind is really your intuition?

After all, haven’t we agreed, you and I, in all these other posts here, that intuition is nothing more than gaining access to knowledge? Well, the knowledge in this example is the list on the table. You need it. Your brain knows it so your intuition kicks in and tries desperately to help in the only way it can, by making you feel different.

Instead of a funny feeling in your stomach, you get the brain tapping. ‘Excuse me, I’m your intuition talking here. I can’t actually spell it out, because then I wouldn’t be your intuition, but I’m trying to let you know that there’s something you should know about…..’

Now, all that’s left is to to actually KNOW what it is you’ve forgotten!!

Simple… and next week, how to mend a leaking pressurized nuclear reactor with some duct tape and toothbrush.

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In this article, there is an uncomfortable equation made. Intuition = fear.

The story concerns a young woman who was talked into letting a young man help her with her groceries and ended up raping her. She finally leaves when he goes for a drink of water and she had promised to remain where she was. It is at that point that the author says she listened to her fear and left. He says her fear was her intuition telling her that she was going to be killed (her attacker had killed before).

What seems strange to me is that there is no mention of any premonition before the incident. Only that her fear saved her. More worrying is the statement that her fear was the same thing as her intuition.

Is it always necessary that we feel fear before we do something?

Is it always the same thing; fear is the impetus for our actions?

Is fear really what motivates us?

Or, is it something else? Is it, in fact, something which alerts us, prods us, makes us aware but yet which is not fear? Could  this other thing possibly be something more gentle yet more insistent than fear?

Is it foreknowledge in some form? An awakening to information in some fashion not yet understood?

Premonitions are scattered items of knowledge we have not yet assembled into a coherent picture. In the situation described in the article, such premonitions should only be fearful.

But, to jump to the conclusion that fear is the only motivator, the only way in which we can have foreknowledge, is unwarranted and unnecessary.

Intuition is not always gentle, but it is not always fearful either.

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