Intuition / instinct........ .Talent Development Resources

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely. Kim Basinger .. [imdb.com bio]

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You have to become very still and listen while your inner voice -- the very essence of you -- tells you who you are. You'll know you've found it when every cell in your body practically vibrates; when you're filled up by what you're doing instead of being drained by it. Oprah Winfrey quoted in Intuition Newsletter,  Aug 2004 - by Lynn A. Robinson / LynnRobinson.com ...author of  Divine Intuition and Compass of the Soul

 

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We must commit ourselves to peeling away the logical tangles, squeezing the most out of our rational, cognitive and verbal faculties.  But in the end, when we come to that point where intellect can take us no further, we must bow in silence before the mystery -- and participate with it on its own ineffable terms.  Back and forth, we must switch between intellect and intuition, between rational, objective knowledge and embodied paradox.  Achieving such a synthesis involves a shift to "participatory epistemology" -- a way of knowing that takes us into the heart of mystery, and invites the paradox of consciousness into our very being.

.. .. With such an opening, we are ready for a breakthrough, ready to step into a new way of knowing, ready to hear a new story of the cosmos. excerpt from author site: Deep Spirit ...from book: Radical Nature: Rediscovering  the Soul of Matter --  by Christian De Quincey, PhD

 

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You have to stop thinking too much and just use your heart and your gut and your instincts [when acting]. Any intellect just gets in the way. You just have to go with the feeling and not over-analyze. Rachel Weisz.....[imdb.com May 2003] related interview: Jennifer Lehman  film acting teacher and consultant

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.. .. It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe, expedient, and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway [quoted in newsletter of the National Asssociation  of Women Writers naww.org]

...The Little Locksmith: A Memoir  by Katharine Butler Hathaway As a child in Salem, Mass., Hathaway was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis and, in the most advanced treatment of the time, was strapped to a board from head to toe and kept immobile for 10 years.  During this period of enforced introversion, she developed astonishing inner resources and imagination, and a meticulous appreciation for life's details that would inform her work. When she regained mobility at age 15, she found her disability a forbidden topic and realized that a "deformed" girl was automatically expected to become a spinster aunt, forever dependent on her family for love and companionship.  Hathaway heartily rebelled, moving and buying herself a large clapboard house in Maine, where she proceeded with the business of living.  [republished from 1943 original] [Publishers Weekly review]

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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea...  It takes hours daily of blind instinctive moving and fumbling to find the revealing gesture, and the process goes on for weeks before I am ready to start composing. Nor can I think any of this out sitting down. My body does it for me. It happens. Dancer & choreographer Agnes De Mille - from her book Dance to the Piper photo from site Someone's Daughter Once Said...

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I definitely agree with a quote of Jean Houston when she says, "I think a lot of giftedness, though by no means all, has to do with having a broader palette of perceptual capacity, being highly sensitive to all the senses." But I think it goes beyond the senses, as we know it. It's our ability to intuit the mystery. And it's through our capacity to intuit the mystery that we know cosmic truths about ourselves.  And it's exactly the same thing as creativity. The psychic forces or the creative forces come through in exactly the same way, in that you have to be open and receptive to them if they come through, rather than effort or force anything. So it's a whole different way of perceiving than is simply through the analytic mind. Judith Orloff, MD - from interview

 

4 WAYS TO TAP INTO YOUR INTUITION Meditate:  By quieting your mind, meditation will train you to get in touch with your intuition. First, find a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Focus only on your breath. If thoughts arise - and they will - try not to dwell on them. ... Use active visualization:  This technique can help you learn to "read" people and situations. Close your eyes, quiet your mind and ask yourself a question about a problem you're facing. ... Listen to your body:  When faced with a choice, watch for your body's signals: Do you have a knot in your stomach? A lump in your throat? Does your heart ache? Or do you feel energized? At peace? Warm and glowing? Pay attention to the messages your body sends and take action based on what they tell you. Remember your dreams: The trick to recalling your dreams is to make it fun. Buy a special journal to keep by your bed. Before you go to sleep, pose a specific question regarding a problem you're facing. ...   from article: Trust Yourself: What Your Intuition is Telling You - by Judith Orloff MD - on her website ...books: Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing    [excerpt:] "The intuitive messages you receive can be life-changing. Please listen. Only good can come. Even so, I know how easy it is to fixate on what you're already pursuing, what you've come to feel is right for you. I have this struggle all the time. I'm asking you simply to allow for other possibilities, as I've learned to do." The Power of Intuition .. [audio] Second Sight   Dr. Orloff recounts her "journey to become whole" by first accepting and then embracing her extraordinary intuitive abilities. She tells of her childhood fear of her abilities, of her parents' efforts to ignore and even deny them, and of her slow awakening to the understanding that her intuition is truly a gift. [summary from author site]

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.. .. As the mushrooming mountain of evidence plainly indicates, we have two minds---two ways of knowing, two kinds of memory, two levels of attitudes. ... Recent cognitive science reveals a fascinating unconscious mind - another mind backstage - that Freud never told us about. More than we realized over a decade ago, thinking occurs not on stage, but off stage, out of sight.  Studies of "automatic processing," "subliminal priming," "implicit memory," "heuristics," "spontaneous trait inference," right-brain processing, instant emotions, nonverbal communication, and creativity unveil our intuitive capacities. ... We know more than we know we know. .. ....David G. Myers, PhD  [from site davidmyers.org]**

Myers systematically catalogs the countless ways our intuitions about the world lead us astray: We rewrite our past to fit present beliefs and moods, we badly misinterpret the source and meaning of our emotions, we are subject to the hindsight bias...  we succumb to the self-serving bias by which we think we are far more important than we really are... But as Myers demonstrates through countless well-documented experiments, our intuitions about intuition may be wrong. There is something else going on in the brain. ... Intuition is not subliminal perception; it is subtle perception and learning - knowing without knowing that you know. A full scientific explanation is still forthcoming... from review article [LA Times May 18, 2003] We know not why - by Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine *David G. Myers, PhD. Intuition: Its Powers & Perils**

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Over time artists become adept at sorting out which of their creations are true 'keepers' and which are mediocre 'also-rans'. This distinction comes from no place other than your gut, and can only be learned by experience.  These gut distinctions can be subtle at times, and take time to learn. After all, who really wants to admit the dark truth that the screenplay they've been writing for the past three months is actually a bore.  Better to let the marketplace tell you this truth ... and it will. Yet, you may also create something that you just know is a keeper -- and the marketplace won't give it a break. The way you can distinguish what's truly a keeper is simply intuitive. Learning to make that distinction comes with learning your craft. from article: Coaching Creativity: 7 Lessons from Artists - by Suzanne Falter-Barns her book: How Much Joy Can You Stand : A Creative Guide to Facing Your Fears and Making Your Dreams Come True

 

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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.   Shakti Gawain ... [quoted in newsletter of National Association of Women Writers naww.org] *Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain

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You can't rely on inspiration to always pull you through, say the experts. One only has to recall the disastrous attempt of nonactor Lamberto Maggiorani, star of "The Bicycle Thief," to have a film career in the wake of the pic's international acclaim to know where that kind of thinking can get you. "What separates actors from nonactors is their ability to understand intuitively what a scene is about and then be able to connect it to what's inside themselves to bring the material to life," says Howard Fine, a top Los Angeles-based teacher and acting coach to Brad Pitt, Kim Delaney and Sela Ward among others. "Not everyone can do that." And it's not something that happens overnight. "It takes at least a few years for a young actor to learn a way that works for them," Fine adds.***from article: Whatever Works Best by Christopher Grove [Variety]

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I know of no other way to find and follow your calling than to take the next visible step before you. ... We want a plan, a program, a blueprint. We want a double-decker bus, a schedule and a campy tour guide. We want order, control, and a telescope into the future, not some firm and feel-good step on a mushy, murky route into bewilderment.  We cannot demand a static definition for this ecstatic evolution. ... It's just one foot in front of the other on a road your intellect may never understand, and your hear will never doubt. The path of inspiration defies navigation. *from book:*This Time I Dance! Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love:  How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All! - by Tama J. Kieves

 

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*Lynn A. Robinson  Divine Intuition Intuition is part of your birthright, your instructions from a Higher Power, or whatever you choose to call God. You are constantly surrounded, filled, and informed by its wisdom, although you may not know how to access it.  [The book] is beautifully illustrated to help you tap into the myriad ways you can receive this invaluable insight and develop it for practical use in everyday life.  [Amazon.com review]

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[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now.  I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess. Mira Sorvino... [LA Times, April 20 2002]

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There's a private life that exists between the actor and [their] character, that really no one can come in on; at the end, you're doing the character and no one else is - it's just you. And that's my independence, as I think about me in that part, me in that story.  I have my instincts, that I want to utilize. Therefore, I have to learn to trust my own instincts, that they're good.  Holly Hunter  - accepting her Sundance independent-vision award, January, 2003

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Intuition is your internal information and feeling source. It is an inner library of physical and emotional cues that can direct you onto the right avenue. It is the composite of "gut feelings" and perceptions unique to you. It is an inner way of knowing.

Too often, we are trained to discount or repress that knowledge and therefore purposely neglect it, devalue it, or refuse to recognize its message. Intuition is a tool for insight and illumination. Can you recall a time when your intuition prompted you to follow a different course and connected you to a result you were looking for?  ...  The creative process demands.. that you're willing to step into the unknown and see what happens. from article: Spark Your Creativity Via Your Intuitions by Gail McMeekin / photo & quotes also from her site author of book: The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

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Being bound to one's intuition promotes a confident reliance on it, no matter what. It changes a woman's guiding attitude from 'What will be, will be' to 'Let me see all there is to see.' Clarissa Pinkola Estés - from her book Women Who Run With the Wolves   [also author of The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity]

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Today many of us live without access to the visionary part of our psyche. We tend to think of life as being unpredictable and random - a series of disconnected events, flowing like an arrow through time.  Living the Magical Life opens a doorway to a deeper vision of the world. A closer look has convinced me that life is more like an ecosystem than a linear equation. All the parts are interconnected.  This feeling for the relationship between things - seeing the world as a cat's cradle of interconnections rather than as a set of isolated fragments - is something I learned from being a collage artist: everything is related to everything else.  Nothing is isolated. Nothing exists separately from the rest. And synchronicities are the nodal points, magic moments where seemingly unrelated events are woven together to form a single, undivided world fabric. ....Suzi Gablik from press release for book signing at Appalachian's Turchin Center  for the Visual Arts, November 2002 **Living the Magical Life: An Oracular Adventure - by Suzi Gablik

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