Intuition @ Work by James Wanless

Author:James Wanless
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: intuition, intuition in business, intuition and guidance, intuition development, intuition and imagination
Publisher: ETC Publishing

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Intuitive Vision

Foresight Equals Fortune

"Action without planning is a nightmare." — Ancient Japanese Proverb

In this world of continuous change, we must look ahead to stay ahead. While the intuitive feeling is our pilot of the present, intuitive vision is our forecaster and navigator of the future. Inside the human forebrain is the human genius to foresee. Inside our mind's eye we have the power of imagining the future.

Inner visioning is an intuitive precursor to thinking in words. Prediction is pre-diction--before words. Even the great Greek thinker and logician Aristotle knew that "The soul never thinks without a picture first."

In our prescience by this act of previewing, we are prepared. We have the option to prevent and preempt. What we see does not have to be. If we like what we see, however, we have the motivation and knowledge to help produce that possible reality into actuality. A forecast is thus not cast in stone but is subject to alteration by our perception and action.

Bruce Pandolfini, one of the world's great chess teachers, on teaching students how to preview and play the game in their heads, says, "We can all do it. We all have amazing capabilities. At first, playing the game in your head feels like work. Eventually it becomes intuition." (9)

Looking into the future from different perceptual viewpoints, we can see a variety of potential realities. We can see the probable future, what we view as most likely to happen, and we can imagine different possible futures. We can even look at the paranoid future, that which we have to fear--this is a favorite of Andy Grove, successful CEO of high-tech giant Intel. Finally, we can look at the preferred passionate future, that which we would love to see.

This preferred future is the most important one to picture. It is what keeps us competitive and on the leading edge because it gives us the power to create the future. To clearly see what we want gives us the impetus to live out our core intentions and tap our inherent talents and gifts. We cannot live and succeed without following the vision of our heart's desire. It says in the Bible, "The people shall perish without a vision." I believe that.

Making the future is accomplished by creating self-fulfilling prophecies. My most graphic personal experience of a big self-fulfilling prophecy was when I was stricken with hepatitis in Nepal. For a month, I sat in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery and visualized my liver getting better. Without any medication other than the power of positive picturing, I walked out of the monastery cured.

The prophecies most attainable are, paradoxically, those which are big and far-ranging, those that compel us again and again. They must be heartfelt, full of passion and desire. It's your dream. Remember, only dreamers got to the moon.

To make that passionate future come true, we need a plan and strategy. But always remember the adage, "The best way to make God laugh is to tell him/her your plans." Physicists have a theory for that.

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