Activating intuition always starts with a shift into softness and silence. You’ll never receive accurate information with a chattering “monkey mind,” clenched tight as a fist.
Do you remember how you feel when you’re concentrating on meeting a deadline and worrying about doing a good job? Your brow is furrowed, you’re bent to your task, and you’re probably “ahead of yourself,” anxious to achieve the intended goal.
This is what I call the “masculine mind,” the kind of awareness both men and women must use to achieve concrete results. We’re in our linear, left-brained masculine mind so often, we’ve come to identify it as normal.
We forget there is an equally powerful, complementary state of consciousness that is quiet, unhurried, and tension-free: the “feminine mind.” The feminine mind is not goal-oriented; it simply observes, includes, appreciates, and is present with whatever it notices.
Lao Tsu says, “Be aware of your masculine nature, but by keeping the feminine way, you shall be to the world like a canyon, where the Virtue eternal abides, and go back to become as a child.” Intuition starts when the masculine mind stops.
~Penney Peirce
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