Intuition Week 1: The Practice That Unveiled My Intuition

One week has passed since I started my experiment where I would follow my intuition more. After the first day one thing became clear to me: there's something you must cultivate before intuition can appear – and that thing is awareness.

In hindsight, it makes perfect sense. How can you expect to hear your intuition if your awareness is caught in the fog of your thoughts from moment to moment? You might get these lightning rods of intuition from time to time, but you won't be able to fully see them through the clouds.

That's why a heightened awareness gives you access to more of your intuition.

Because we're overstimulated every second of the day, our inner voice gets drowned out. Yet it's exactly this inner voice that speaks the language of intuition. We can only listen in silence – otherwise the external stimuli are too loud. And one practice that helped me tremendously is meditation.

First, let's clear all western connotations that were put on meditation practices. It only made me levitate once (just kidding – twice). There is nothing supernatural about meditation. If you don't believe me, just listen to Sam Harris talk about the practice.

I practiced focus meditation. It's very simple, but not easy: focus on your breath. After about a split second, you'll realize that you got distracted by thought.

Not frustrating at all!

But every single time you realize you got distracted by thought, it's like a push-up for your brain: its ability to focus gets sharper. Think of our focus in the modern world as a diffused light: it shines everywhere a little. But this makes it feeble. It also doesn't shine on everything at once, it just switches from object to object in an instant. In other words: a light that shines everywhere shines nowhere. Thus, we must gain the ability to concentrate it into a single ray of light.

This trains your concentration. With greater focus, you can be more aware of the objects that appear in your awareness. And with a more capable awareness, your antennas for your intuition become stronger.

But before I was able to hear my intuition, something equally profound happened: my stress decreased tremendously.

Even though I have a lot of time to myself at the moment, there's this inner anxiety that doesn't seem to go away. Before I started this meditation practice, anxiety would whip me into submission when I allowed myself to relax even just for a little bit. But with a stronger awareness, the realization is possible that this is completely unnecessary.

Am I really in that much danger lying in my bed in Switzerland? Probably not.

Anxiety is an ugly liar and another veil that obscures intuition. Better concentration improved my awareness, which reduced my anxiety, which finally enabled intuition to step into the light of day.

Up until now, there wasn't a clear direction. But signals started to pop up which my inner compass can use.

Let's see how far we can push this.