To live intuitively is the road I've been given to walk, and I am grateful. Which doesn't mean with no reasoning mind thought which would be impossible...or very unhealthy at any rate. But I have learned and am learning to lean more on my intuition than on my reasoning mind.
Living intuitively gifts us with the ability to stay open...without the resistance of victim anger or victim hurt. Open to the appearance of an oncoming or remembered ugly. We divorce ourselves from our own fast-forming opinions. Outwardly, we get no gold star, no reward, no glory. Inwardly, what we get is freedom. Freedom from self-centered fear, freedom to laugh at how seriously our reasoning mind takes life.
This is hard work, it takes time, and, most importantly, it takes the willingness to laugh at our own repeated failures.
When I was in my early forties, I lived in the self-centered fear of being thought of as an "old maid." I could bring myself to tears, picturing you picturing me as an old maid. "She's nothing but an old maid," I'd hear you thinking.
Then a friend of mine had a serious operation...I found a get well card that said "When first I heard you got laid up, I was happy for you." That cracked me up, and I sent it to her, signed "Old maid humor, Kath...Love, Stace."
My reasoning mind was not present for the decision to find that funny...nor for the reason (old maid humor) that I found it funny. It was that reason, the why I found it funny, that broke my fear. Tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor. Well, the God of my understanding does...and it's weird, warm and wonderful, and not available to me through my reasoning mind.
To me, living intuitively equals defenseless. Here's the surprise...there is perfect peace. It does not come through thinking about it, for the reasoning mind can only take one side, and then fight to win the other side over. Only intuition will...CAN...know both sides in a blinding flash...and show it. Only after that does the reasoning mind get on board...and claim it as its own.
Thank you.
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