We enter this world in a state of oneness, with ourselves and with the universe. At this time we have a profound connection with our intuition. Recent research from a Yale University team has discovered that babies have a sense of morality, which is an instinct rather than a learned behaviour. The study, which was published in the journal Nature, demonstrated that infants of 6 and 10 months old can distinguish between helpful and unhelpful individuals. Already at this tender age we have an understanding of our external environment, which I would predict is the product of our intuition, a strong and powerful connection with our souls that has not yet been tainted or modified by human interaction, our upbringing, environment and the pressures of socialisation. Babies have a wonderful sense of innocence about them. The world has not corrupted their sense of self.
It is not long before babies mimic the traits of their parents and as they grow older into children, teenagers and then adults, their sense of self and purpose is derived, not from the strong intuitive connection they possessed at birth, but from processing external information, from parents, friends, work colleagues, the media and other walks of society.
Children are rarely encouraged to embrace their intuition and are instead persuaded to shirk inner knowledge in favour of external answers. We find it hard when someone presents us with insight that is devoid of physical evidence. Have you ever spoken to someone about a matter that you were sure about but could not explain? When they question you, asking, “How do you know this?” the only answer you can provide is, “Because I just do.” We are not programmed to compute that response, longing for the answer to be backed up with solid proof, but science has not yet caught up with our intuition.
Of course, it would be unfair to say that science has discovered nothing about our intuition. Researchers at Washington University in 2005, found that the anterior cingulate (ACC) part of the brain is more active when an individual is about to experience something potentially harmful. It is believed to serve as an early warning system, helping the individual to avoid hazardous situations on a subconscious level. It is also recognised that the brain generates its own electromagnetic (EM) field. Professor Johnjoe McFadden at the University of Reading has suggested that this field might be “the seat of consciousness.” I would call it our intuition.
Albert Einstein once said “the only real valuable thing is intuition.” In my view his statement is absolutely right. Indeed, Einstein believed in God, not a God that served as a moral guiding compass for society but a creator. The word God strikes abject terror into many people who associate God with the dogmatic and punishing God of religion. For me God is a creative intelligent and loving energy.
Rather than dismissing spirituality and perceiving intuition as the product of evolution, I think we should be looking to something much more ethereal. Personally, I feel that it is impossible to look up at the stars, to see the intricate and complex nature of the universe and believe that this just happened by itself.
Losing Our Connection
As we traverse through this life, we very often allow our physical desires and our emotional longings to control us. It is hard not to, the society we live in is geared towards the pursuit of our physical desires. In the current climate it is so hard for people to be intuitive. The wonderfully strong intuition we have at birth is quickly shattered and replaced with a confused combination of physical desire and emotional yearning. In energetic terms I believe that we have three bodies, which I compare to three circles, a physical body, an emotional body and a spiritual body. When we are born these circles are as one and our intuition guides our physical and emotional bodies. As our lifestyles, interactions and society impinge upon us, these three bodies drift apart.
Our physical bodies direct us towards fulfilling our physical desires. They want money, power, possessions, sex, drugs, alcohol, and so on. Our emotional bodies long to be loved, but in the absence of our spiritual guidance they latch onto conditional love, but it never quite meets our expectations and we very often feel that something is missing. We look for love in the wrong places and feel that we need certain things that are deemed to be social ‘norms,’ such as marriage, having children, being with a partner. Sometimes our emotional bodies become attached to our physical desires and we convince ourselves that we need to have a big house, a big car, a myriad of possessions and personal power and glory.
The happiness we derive from any of these things is fleeting and so we accumulate more and more, we become desensitised to certain pursuits because they rapidly move from being a taboo to normal modes of behaviour. We are swimming without a paddle because we don’t have that intuitive connection; we instead rely on the inherently flawed guidance of our physical and emotional bodies.
Our spiritual bodies desperately try to pull us in the right direction, but their guidance falls on deaf ears. We are utterly oblivious. Perhaps there are fleeting moments where we hear our intuition and think, “should I listen,” but it isn’t long before we reject its guidance and pursue a different path. Our lives take a turn for the worst because we ignore our intuition. All the pain and suffering on this earth is bred by humanity and we chose to endure that pain and suffering. It can end if we make different choices, ones that are based on intuition.
Find Yourself
There is a way out, even if not for everyone, then for some. You need to discover who you are, why you are here and learn to distinguish your physical and emotional desires from your intuition. We can all do this if we choose to. George Eliot said that “the strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.” Choose your destiny. Search until you find the answer. Look beyond the words that are presented to you and see the real message, the real person and the real world.
I have written several books and my current book, Toxic Beauty, exposes the dangers of certain cosmetic constituents. When I think about the beauty industry, I don’t see beauty but an industry that is out to make a profit by fostering anxiety about our physical appearance. Think about what you see when you consider what is happening around you. Forget the charm that powerful figures present and look for the truth. It’s not a secret. It is there for the taking.
By opening your eyes and your mind to the wisdom of your intuition you can come to have all the spiritual answers you need, you can bring those three disparate circles into a united trinity of wholeness. If science has no answer for your knowledge, it doesn’t matter; have faith in what you know.
The founder of the Japanese healing therapy I practice, Mikao Usui, said in the 1920s that science had no explanation for energy healing, but that one day it would, and sure enough science has explored healing and found answers. Many studies have shown the healing effects of electromagnetic energy, whether from a machine or from a healer. There are even some very good theories as to how it actually works at a cellular level. Perhaps one day there will be answers to explain your inner wisdom, but don’t wait for them to appear, trust in yourself enough to not need that physical form of validation. Be more like an infant and see the world with untainted and intuitive eyes.
