An Excerpt from First Intelligence by Simone Wright
Be calm in your heart. This is the most powerful understanding you must carry with you when developing your intuitive intelligence. A calm and peaceful heart creates a calm and peaceful mind, and a calm mind is the center of all creative power.
Peace is the single most potent foundational energy in a life of mastery, and it is the energetic source of all creation. Peace is the access point for all evolutionary information that we will ever need. Mystics and masters have known of this hidden place of power for centuries and have tried countless times to tell us about it. Most people, however, are too distracted to pay attention or too stressed-out to care.
To build a foundation of peace, we must understand the situations, ideas, and attitudes that shift us out of coherence and create distortion or static on our intuitive line. These situations are fields of energy that influence us every moment of our lives, and they exist both externally and internally. Externally they can be generated by the conversation we had with our boss, client, child, or spouse; the movie or television shows we watch; and the invisible transmission of our cell phones and wireless Internet devices.
Internally, they are generated from moment to moment by what we are thinking about, and by the beliefs, habits, patterns, worries, and ponderings we carry. And because we are all transmitters and receivers of information, we are not only putting our own patterns out into the environment but picking up everyone else’s as well.
We have little or no control over the energetic information that we are exposed to externally, but we do have control over our internal fields of information, if we know how to identify them. Once we identify the sources of our internal disruption, we can eliminate them and reopen the clear channel through which intuitive intelligence flows.
The five main causes of intuitive static are as follows.
Stress or Fear
When we experience stress and fear, the rhythms of the heart and brain shift into erratic patterns that make access to the higher mind impossible. We must be certain that our patterns of emotion are as neutral as possible, and that we do not invest too much in either positivity or negativity.
Preconceived Ideas
If you think you have all the answers, believing there is only one solution to a problem, or that there is no solution, then intuition’s pathway becomes constricted. People who know it all have little access to intuitive intelligence, because their minds tell them, “I know there is no other solution than mine, so why bother looking for it?” And people who believe there is no solution at all shut the same door.
The mind must be completely open to all possible solutions or ideas. We must also be willing to let go of the need to know how intuitive information will make itself known to us or what the successful outcome will be.
Alcohol or Drugs
Anything that distorts a person’s ability to function or focus on any level will create resistance on the intuitive channel; even extreme amounts of caffeine or sugar can cause static. Excessive exposure to computer games, loud music, violent media, the Internet, and cell phones is “artificial stimulation.” Anything that interferes with our natural coherence should be kept to a minimum to ensure that our intuitive instrument is as healthy as possible.
Wishful Thinking
Having a deep desire or wish for something to turn out a certain way amps up the incoherence of our heart and brain patterns. When we are strongly attached to how something is supposed to work out, or panicked about achieving a specific result, we stand a greater chance of misinterpreting messages from our lower mind as intuitive direction.
When we trust in the process of First Intelligence and have faith that our higher mind will present us with a more expanded view of the situation, we can let go of our need to control the outcome.
Not Believing You Are Already Intuitive
Everybody is intuitive; it is a natural, biological process. We need not be gifted to have access to this powerful tool. However, we live in a world that favors the logical, rational mind, so anything that falls outside this norm is perceived as supernatural or unrealistic. Fear of, and advance judgment of, what until now has been “the unknown” prevents us from even trying to access our intuitive intelligence. Believe that you already possess this intelligence, and that it is a completely normal part of your humanity.
Before you engage in any sort of intuitive inquiry, do a quick check of your coherence level. If you notice that you are feeling anything other than peaceful, take a few minutes to establish the necessary field of energy. The extra time you take to establish this foundation is a small price to pay to ensure your intuitive success and overall well-being.
Simone Wright, “the Evolutionary Mind Coach for Elite Performers and Visionary Leaders,” is the author of First Intelligence: Using the Science and Spirit of Intuition. She has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and uses her intuitive skills to assist in police investigations, missing children cases, and corporate business strategies. Visit her online at SimoneWright.com.
Adapted from the book First Intelligence ©2014 by Simone Wright. Printed with permission of New World Library, Novato, CA. www.newworldlibrary.com