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The last few weeks I have been blogging about Intuition. I will continue on this theme this and next week and will be offering you techniques on how to develop your Intuition.

Using your intuitive faculty is not something you do; rather it is something you allow to flow through you. By stepping aside, that is, by leaving the cognitive mind behind, we allow the Divine to flow through us. It is an effortless process, one in which there is no mental effort or striving, but rather a flow of the Divine.

It is a feminine, receptive process rather than a masculine, assertive process. It is a process of trust and love rather than one of force and will.

So, to get in touch with this part of yourself, just sit, quiet your mind and allow yourself to “feel” what is going on. And then, “speak before you think.” In this way, you will have engaged the intuitive/heart faculty within you and will have touched into a deep reservoir of information, love and wisdom that can never be accessed by the mind alone.

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"Knowing Your Self and Living Your Life from the Inside Out:
The Gift of Intuition! A Meditation."


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In order to fully and completely come to “know” ourselves and fully express ourselves in this life, we must go within. For within us is the storehouse or the treasure trove of our soul, that which is laden with an infinite number of gifts, love, power and wisdom.

There within, the richness and riches of who we are can be found. And once found will easily find a way to be expressed and manifested in our lives.

As we go within, we will be inspired to “right actions” and have revelations about who we really are. Again, only meditation can open this door to our inner treasure and inheritance and help reveal our true nature.

The mind masks this from us. Meditation reveals it! It’s all an inside job! Let your intuition lead your way!

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The mind is a lot less important than we think it is. In our Western rationalistic society we have given pre-eminence to the operations of the cognitive processes. Of course, the rational mind has its place and value in the scheme of things. But it is not meant to be the primary way we experience reality. Feeling or sensing is the primary way to “know” anything!

The mind judges, analyzes, and compartmentalizes and thus creates a sense of separation and duality. The heart or the intuitive faculty embraces or becomes one with its object of attention. It knows it from the inside out and not from surface, outside appearances.

So, to really get to know someone or something beyond the narrow confines of your mind’s judgments, learn to quiet your mind and become one with that which you are focused on and then you will “know. “

Meditation is the key to this process of opening up the intuitive faculty.

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"Intuition: The Key to Knowing Yourself!
A Meditation."


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In Buddhism reason or the mind is seen as limited and the knowledge derived from it is seen as fleeting and unreliable. Reason is therefore not considered a reliable source with which to ascertain the knowledge of reality. The Buddha taught that intuition, not reason, is the source of ultimate truth and wisdom.

In both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, intuitive knowledge is recognized as the highest form of truth. Western mystics and Eastern gurus agree that reason is limited and only intuition can apprehend ultimate reality. The state of enlightenment is an intuitive experience wherein one penetrates behind appearances to see things as they really are, to know them from within.

It is through the faculty of intuition that we are able to enter within and experience the depth of who we are and what life is all about. By learning how to “feel first” and think later, we access our intuitive faculty. When the mind is still, the heart “knows!”

Just experiment with thinking less and instead use your intuitive or ‘feeling” faculty more. “Feel first!” You’ll be amazed at how much more you will “know.”

Meditation is the key technique that will open you to this realm. It helps you perceive the world through your heart. By learning to quiet your mind, your heart or intuition comes to the forefront. So, learning to put your mind at rest can open you to a whole new reality!

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Stop trying so hard with your mind to find a purpose for your life. It will get you nowhere.

Instead, still your mind and go within and you will experience the inherent wholeness which is at your core. You will “know” that you are a god/goddess in finite form who has come forth to temporarily take on your present personality so that you can expand your ability to be a conduit for and a manifestation of Love.

As Carl Jung said, “All of reality is not thinking.” Actually most of it is not. Reality is a feeling or vibration. You can’t understand anything unless you become one with it, unless you get inside it, unless you “feel” it from the inside out. So go within and feel first. Use your intuition and not your cognitive mind to find out who you are.

The word intuition comes from a Latin word that means “to look or know from within.” So, learn how to go within and you will definitely “know” that your life and all of life is already whole. You no longer need to seek to find your purpose through a teaching, a teacher, a relationship, an experience, etc. It’s all there within you already. You are whole already and no longer need to look outside yourself for validation. Just quiet your mind, open your heart and look within!

I know that all the above may seem rather esoteric, but I can assure you that what awaits you when you go into the Silence is so much more than any words can express! And once you have experienced it you will know what it means to feel and be “whole!”

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"Meditation is Spiritual Food."


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Before we were indoctrinated to the rules of the word, with its entire do's and don'ts, we were actually very receptive. We were willing to try new things, go into forbidden places and take risks without hesitation. We did not believe in unhappiness, defeat, rejection or lack. We asked for what we wanted and were willing to demand that it be provided. We thought the world existed to respond to our needs. It might do us well to revert back to the ways of childhood if we want to bring some good into our lives. It's not the temper tantrums or childish outburst we want. It is the openness and freedom from limitation we need. We have been taught to accept fear, lack sorrow and restriction as a part of everyday life. We are afraid to make demands of life because we believe we can't have what we want. We no longer feel free to express what we feel, when we feel it. Now, we want to be everyone's friend. If only we would think like a child again, there's a good chance we would find the freedom we gave up to become adults.

Just read through these words a few times in a meditative state. They are food for your soul. Then just sit in meditation and see, sense or feel whatever impressions, thoughts, feelings or images arise for you about you. Be receptive, objective and open!

Reading an inspiring passage and then just sitting with it in meditation is another form of meditation you may want to put into practice.

Besides this passage, find any inspiring passage you resonate with, read it and then just sit and see what happens! There are many ways to meditate and connect with your Source. Meditating on an inspiring passage is one I love to practice regularly especially when my mind is overly active.

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Recently someone wrote me the following question about staying in balance. So, I thought I would share my response.

Yanni,
I really want to invest in what matters. I no longer want to be side-tracked by thoughts, projects, or people who are not on my path. I am a unique soul with a very unique focus and I really want to explore my interests to the fullest. How can we live in the 5th dimension or higher right here and now?

Meditation helps me to stay calm and peaceful and feel connected to God and others. When days pass and I have not had the chance to meditate I find my self rushing and getting crazy and upset with how fast life is moving and with how much there is to do.
Mary

My response:
You've answered your own question, Mary. Just as fish can not live out of water and a physical body can not live without air, a spirit (which is what you and I are in essence) cannot live without meditating or connecting with our Source on a consistent, regular basis. This connection or communion with our Source is our spirit’s food or air. Without it, we literally starve or die of asphyxiation. Yet many are living or should I say dieing in this way.

As well, by staying connected, you will find answers to all your questions regarding what to do next, where to do it, when to do it and with whom. By staying connected you act from a place of inspiration and newness rather than from your old place of stagnant default patterns. When you are in a place of connection, you open to allowing new thoughts, people and experiences into your life that are truly for your highest good.

Life can be new, fresh and joy filled moment to moment and day to day, if you keep yourself in a place of connection! So, do your best to slow down each day, take a few deep breaths and no matter what is going on get in touch with your Self. Then you will have found the key to living the “Good Life,” staying in balance, and making choices in all aspects of your life that are for your highest good.

Hope this helps! Blessings! Peace be with you!

Yanni

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"Believe in Your Self: You are an Emperor, not a Beggar!
A Meditation."


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You are an emperor, not a beggar. You possess the untold wealth of the universe, unimaginable riches
Don't beg for enlightenment, don't plead for it. You are the Self, don't assume that you are impoverished.
Give up that yearning and be quiet and the treasure will be self-evident as your very nature.

“We are all gods and goddesses in training,” as Deepak Chopra wrote.

We have come forth to explore and manifest the god/goddess potential within us.

We have come forth to be a god/goddess in finite form and to anchor and embody an aspect of that infinite Love that is our Source.

We are here to unravel the mystery of who we are.
We are here to discover the majesty of who we are.

We can never fail; we have success written all over us.
It is encoded in our DNA, in our eternal, hard wired template.

We are chips off the old holographic block, often called god/goddess, and are made in his/her Image.

When we enter the Silence, deep from within us rises up a feeling, a “knowing” of who we really are.

And in this place of clarity, we “know,” beyond any doubt, fear or limiting belief system who and why we are.

We know that we are of noble stock and heirs of all that is great and good!

Be still and ye shall know!

The strongest tree has the deepest roots. Dig deep, deep within and you will find and know thy Self!

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I find the above advice from the Buddha rather amazing given that it was written over 2,500 years ago. Nowadays with the advent of the internet and the incredible amount of information that is so readily available to us, his guidance is even more essential.

An old adage goes: “No shoe fits all sizes.” So, too, no teaching or teacher is the proper fit for everyone. I have learned over the years to practice discernment and really go within to make sure that whatever teacher or teaching I am studying really rings true for me.

I have found that the only way to know for sure is to initially, of course, take the time to study and research the teacher or teachings; but ultimately I have learned not to use my mind and not to do an intellectual analysis. What I have learned to do, instead, is to quiet my mind, go into the stillness and just “feel” what is right. And then if it “feels” right, I “accept it and live it.”

As well, I periodically go within and check again and again to see if it still “feels” right given that I am constantly evolving and changing.

What I am not saying here is to keep shopping around and never settle on anything. No, not at all! What I am saying here is to always go within to make sure you are still on the right path, namely your path and not anyone else’s!

A path is not a static experience. It is something you travel upon; it is a journey. Yes, at times you stop to rest, but then you get up and continue the journey moving through an ever changing landscape. Your life, your dreams are constantly evolving! So, too, are your belief systems!

Every teacher/teaching is a step up your mountain of mastery. But each step leads to another step. No step is an end in and of itself.

One of the things I love to repeat over and over in my classes is: “If you follow any one but your Self, you will surely get lost!” You must be “true to yourself.” And the only way to do that and to know your path and to come to “know thy Self” is to go within regularly and listen. Then you will stay on your path.

Meditation is the key that helps you to go within. It helps you to find and follow your Self and to truly know and believe in Your Self.

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