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Using Intuition To Still The Mind
Intuition was a wonderful gift. It was also an awful curse. By
instantly recognizing patterns, intuition was nature's vital
tool for survival. Life ceaselessly faced a train of unlimited
choices and, often, baffling problems. These demanded instant
decisions. An animal could not remain undecided, whether to
drink water, or to eat grass. Should it be aggressive and fight,
run away, or relax and accept the situation? It was intuition,
which interpreted events to trigger emotions. Anger made them
aggressive. Fear made them retreat. And familiarity supported
relaxation. Each emotion eliminated groups of thoughts. If
fighting was the option, amicable thoughts did not fit. If the
decision was to cut and run, it was useless to marshal one's
militant strengths. The intuitive process eliminated mental
activity, which did not fit the chosen course of action. Sadly,
this elimination process was also the biggest weakness of the
system.
Each emotion set off a focused drive seeking solutions. Anger,
fear, or friendliness triggered competing drives. Intuition
focused each drive by eliminating views that did not fit its
compulsive focus. Anger eliminated amicable memories. Fear lost
sight of fighting strengths. As any situation evolved, the
emotional strengths of these partisan drives varied. Opposing
emotions competed for control. Intuition acted in the emotional
center, the limbic system, to select the most powerful emotion,
which then ruled. If it was anger, it pulled the trigger. When
the choice was made, the process inhibited competing drives,
with contrary feelings. Opposing views were largely lost to
consciousness.
Across species, fear dictated an escape drive, which sought
safety. A deer bounded away. A bird took flight. A fish swam
off. While the activities of running, flying and swimming
differed, it was the drive, which achieved the objective of
escaping. Each drive evaluated experience and the environment.
Escape was hardly possible by heading into the predator. Getting
away demanded evaluation of many escape routes, including
slipping into a safe sanctuary, inaccessible to the predator.
Like the underside of a rock. Drives involved a search of
multiple contexts to uncover the right answer. While intuitive
drives usually delivered the answer instantly, some drives
failed to uncover solutions.
Modern life offered few speedy answers. Senior positions had
added problems. The higher the position, more the solutions
needed for the myriad problems faced by a venture. Intuition,
driven by emotions, was the creative force, which delivered
answers. Hidden from view, drives constantly sought solutions.
While one problem was consciously evaluated, subconscious drives
continued search processes to solve other issues. Since, anger,
fear or jealousy powered such searches, they often sought to
achieve conflicting objectives. These hidden emotions troubled
the mind, creating distressing internal conflicts. Sadly, this
was the negative face of intuition, standing in the way of
achieving peace of mind.
Conflicting viewpoints surged in the subconscious. How could
they be integrated? In a harsh and unforgiving world, how could
a multitude of clashing drives be graciously focused? How could
the mind be stilled? Across the ages, many solutions were
offered to focus the mind and still conflicts. Meditation,
chanting and breathing routines were found to be beneficial.
But, those practices treated the symptom, not the problem. The
long term solution was to quiet the internal battles of these
competing drives. All knowledge
and experience lived within.
These same drives were powerful search processes, which could
delve deep, to deliver answers. Unique new insights and
solutions waited to be discovered.
Drives provided windows into the mind. It was a drive, which
assisted in the preparation of a simple shopping list. It
searched memory and current context to deliver, line by line, a
list of all the items you needed to buy. By contextually
searching the mind, drives could be made to play a valuable,
creative role. When particularly burdened by a problem, drives
could draw out a list of one's deepest concerns. With its sort
facility, a spreadsheet could be used to list and comprehend the
turmoils of the mind.
The routine could begin by listing, line by line, different
aspects of a problem, as it came to mind. Each, a short entry in
a single cell of the spread sheet. It may have just begun with,
say, "Feel awful" and gone on down. That was the first thought.
Many conflicting emotions surged in the background. Each line
would sum up a single feeling and its concern. It could be
"Negative departmental report" Or, it could be just a hunch.
"David will support me." The worst fears were noted down.
"Mortgage payments." And the common sense thoughts. "This too
will pass."
Writing a list was a calming process. The questioning drive
helped still the mind. Differing viewpoints were noted down.
These views would arrive in conspicuous sequence. Each entry
brought one viewpoint into consciousness - into the general view
of isolated and competing drives. Sensible viewpoints would
normally have been eliminated from view by angry emotions.
Typically, about 60 odd entries would empty the mind of every
related thought. Entering opposing viewpoints usually brought
balance. The inquiry process stilled background turmoil. The
most critical part of this process came next.
A label was entered for each line in an adjacent cell on the
spreadsheet. "Fear," "Opportunity", or even "Unlikely" could be
the labels. With every aspect already considered, it was easier
to label an entry. Each label fitted a few more entries. The
picture slowly cleared. Underground fears surfaced. Solutions
emerged. The closing of one door usually opened another. Those
60 entries would fit a dozen or so categories. A "sort" of the
labels column would arrange similar ones together, in alphabetic
order. Listing similarly labeled ideas together would bring
clarity. They became groups of consistent, allied thoughts. The
sorted spreadsheet list integrated the mind.
Isolated drives were forced into the open and a balanced view
emerged. Viewed together, "Unlikely" put a label on needless
worries. The less likely outcomes could be ignored. The
inevitable ones had to be accepted. That left you with the
actions you could take. "Opportunities" formed the basis for a
future plan. The rest of the list just climbed off your chest.
Another threatening issue would have been acknowledged, accepted
and foreseen. The spreadsheet evaluation balanced the mind and
stilled hidden anxieties and conflicts. Lifted burdens. Anger
and fear, love and altruism cooperated to search for solutions
which met all the concerns of the mind. With the power of
intuition, an integrated mind became the most creative force in
the world.
About the author:
Abraham Thomas is the author of The Intuitive Algorithm, a book,
which suggests that intuition is a pattern recognition
algorithm. The ebook version is available at
http://www.intuition.co.in The book may be purchased only in
India.
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