“For intuition to grow as a force in your life, you gain the courage and learn to honor it. One form of neglect is not taking time to hear it; the other is ignoring what it is telling you to do.”— Rod Stryker
It’s powerful medicine to “know your gut” on a sankalpa journey. Unfortunately we don’t really have access to tools that will help us get a better understanding of our intuition. Dhi means “intrinsic awareness, what is sometimes called called a ‘gut feeling’ or ‘knowingness”’ (Stryker, 2011). It is the higher aspect of the mind, which guides with precision the inner guru or teacher, our own personal north star.
Having a relationship to intuition just takes practice. In today’s video tutorial I outline a simple yet powerful daily practice that can be part of your meditation ritual. It allows you to take time each day to interface with Dhi, therefore strengthening that intuitive muscle.
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Here are some other ways to connect with your inner teacher, gain mastery and be a better listener while you practice the daily mind map, or throughout your day.
-Quiet and Complete- To settle the mind you need quiet and inner silence. You want to feel complete before you ask your questions to dhi. I feel the more you do this work, the more complete you feel: the questions and answers come more fluidly or without much effort.
-Sensing the inner teacher, Dhi, as a flame- To feel the presence of the inner teacher, it is helpful to locate its place in the physical body, you may also experience it as a light or a flame.
-No Expectations- Be open to listening without expectations.
-Ask a Question- When starting you can make it simple with questions that you already know: “What should I have for breakfast?” The simplicity of the question allows the answer to come quickly and you begin to have a relationship with that voice of guidance, of Dhi.
-Listen- As the listener you want to be in a quiet, open space where you trust that for every question there is an answer (or for every answer a question). If you don’t hear anything or it’s not clear, then return to being quiet, sense the inner teacher, and ask again without any expectations.
-Honor Your Voice- Listen to the inner teacher, intuition, be grateful and respond by doing what it says! It can be helpful to write down answers to take action later if necessary. This could be seen as the instinctual part of ourselves, our animal nature. Like von Franz (1998) mentions in Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, when characters in fairy tales go directly against the advice of the animals they're screwed!
The following image will help support the ideas mentioned in the video. The tutorial gives you the step-by-step guidance on how to build your daily mind map.
The following pdf will help support those ideas mentioned in the video; the tutorial give you the step-by-step guidance on how to build your daily mind map.