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| Warrior Work Week 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Principle 6: Develop intuitive knowledge and understanding for everything. Now this is a true warrior's challenge! I used to teach a lot of women's self defense seminars and I originally developed the g.e.t.i.t. acronym for that reason. I used to speak about women's intuition and how I found even though women had great intuition, they often didn't apply it because their reason would get in the way. After not acting on our intuitions, we often say, "I knew I shouldn't have done that", or something along those lines. So the paradox here is to listen to our intuition and understand it as well and then act on it. The pictogram for harmony applies here - a grain stalk and a mouth. How does your gut feel about it's interaction with the events around it. Deepak Chopra talks about how the cells in your gut are the same as the cells in your brain but the cells in your gut can't doubt themselves so listening to your gut over your head is "good sense". In the Toltec warrior tradition they say that you ALWAYS know in your body when something bad is going to happen but if you don't act on that pressure and wait for your reason to see why then it is often too late. So it is important to understand that your intuition takes precedence over your reason but you can use the g.e.t.i.t. concepts to understand why from a bigger perspective. One of my favorite stories of applied intuition is told by Robert Ressler in his book, "Whoever Fights Monsters". In an interview with a serial killer, he tells how this killer picked up two girls planning to kill them but a woman who was with them, wrote down his license plate number as they drove off. He saw her do this and because of that small action, he took them to their destination. He told Ressler that the woman probably would never know that she had saved their lives by that simple act. Intuitively she knew it and she acted on it which is the highest level of understanding bypassing the reason. Make a point to listen to what your body is telling you and then act on it. The more you do, the stronger it will get and the more you will trust it. G.E.T.I.T. Together, one moment, one intuition, one action at a time. By Peter Hill, Copyright 2004 www.getittogether.net Week 7>> |