Last night, I watched Morgan Freeman's "Through the Wormhole" on the Science channel. The episode focused on research supporting a 6th sense for humans. It was interesting, but I don't need research to know what I know to be true. Human beings and animals alike have a sixth sense.
My sixth sense, my intuition, my inner knowing has provided me with guidance throughout my life. While I didn't recognize it until I was in my thirties, in hindsight I've experienced it all my life. It wasn't until my 40's when I learned how to access it at will. Usually, what keeps me from following my intuition is both ambient clutter and the clutter in my own mind. When I quiet myself and allow myself to listen, then the answer will always come to me.
So often I choose not to listen to my intuition because I don't like what it is telling me. Sometimes we need to make difficult choices where no option is a good option. I was faced with one of these choices recently. I couldn't find a way to settle my mind around the issue - and I think that was because I didn't like the options I had. I had all the facts, but I felt like I was drowning from their weightiness. Eventually, I decided to take time to pull the facts together and allow my intuition to guide my decision. I thought about the linear pros- and cons- but that exercise felt too forced. Instead, I just followed my instinct and worked on a visualization of my choices.
I went to a local craft shop to get some supplies to help me visualize my path. I didn't know what I wanted when I went in there, I figured I would buy things that spoke to me. I found some pink ribbon stickers, and then I found large 12" paper-doll shaped blank tag board. Perfect. With my stickers and my paper doll form I went to my local Gilda's Club and set up shop in the craft room. I stared by making a little dress for my doll out of paper and ribbon. Then, the true creativity began. I started to write my thoughts and feelings, the facts, and the pros- and cons- around my decision on the body of the doll. I used bright colors, stickers, I used words and I drew shapes and arrows and connected the dots. I put everything I had into the body of the doll. I covered my artwork with the little dress and attached it with only paperclips. When I was all done, my path was clear. It was a difficult decision, and with it brought great sadness and grief, but in the end, my soul knows that it was the right decision for me.
Sometimes our intuition is so clear that it is easy to see our path. At other times, our own mind and body gets in the way of seeing what we need to see. It is so much easier to be the water than the rock.
