It's
hard to let insights in, if we've dead bolted the doors. Sometimes we
are begging for clarity, just as long as it's a nice, tidy, respectable
answer and preferably one that doesn't really require us to change much
at all.
Secretly, I'm looking for guidance that tells me that
nothing has to change and I will get everything I want.
I really don't want to hear anything else.
I
certainly don't want to hear how I might have to grow or do something
different
or open my mind to a new possibility.
Really,
I'm not looking for guidance. I'm looking to give guidance, as in give
my script to the Universe.
Meanwhile,
my beloved Self is waiting for me to open my mind and heart so that it
can flood me with kindness, direction, and magic beyond compare. It's a
loving standoff.
In
my book This
Time I Dance! I said, "The heart speaks with
closure to the open mind." When we're ready for any answer, we'll
receive
the one jewel we know is ours.
Tama
J. Kieves - from her newsletter
Trusting the Journey Times, May/June 2004
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Follow
your instincts. If your gut is telling you one thing and corporate
policy
or tradition, perhaps, is dictating a different course of action, your
instincts are probably right.
But
you need to have all the information. Particularly in the corporate
setting,
you need to guard against the natural tendency to isolate
yourself.
Solicit
information and feedback without showing all of your cards. To go on
your
instincts without being fully informed is, to me, the definition of
folly.
Deborah
Norville
Working
Woman, April 1998 - posted on her site dnorville.com
/ photo from insideedition.com
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You
have within you all the potential for a special relationship that is
waiting to be realized right now. It is the relationship between your
everyday personality and a deep source of internal wisdom. ...
There
are many names for this deep source of wisdom. It is the mystic's
vision, the artist's muse, the scientist's intuition. ...
Dante,
in The Divine Comedy, his masterful poetic description of spiritual
seeking, personified inner wisdom as his female guide, Beatrice. Carl
Jung referred to it as "the Self."
And
our own teacher, Dr. Roberto Assagioli, called it the "higher self" and
founded a school of modern psychology, which he called
"psychosynthesis," to develop a human science of the higher self,
because it was his belief, as it is ours, that access to this higher
self could be studied and taught as a practical, scientific fact.
...from Introduction : Dante's
Path: A Practical Approach to Achieving Inner Wisdom
by
Bonney Gulino Schaub, RN, Richard Schaub, Ph.D.
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..
..
My
theory
of art is that it wells up from beneath the rational and verbal levels
and literally takes over the artist.
His
or her unconscious then communicates directly with the unconscious of
the
audience. There's not enough reliance on instinct in general these days
-- even actors are suffering from it.
In
all the arts, from fine arts to pop, there's an excessive
calculation.
..
..
A
stunning
performance like Catherine Deneuve's in Repulsion [1965, above] --
where
she plays a psychotic with eerie quietness -- seems impossible
today.
Artists
must dare to meet the audience without their masks.
83 percent of Nobel
Prize-winning
scientists claim frequent or occasional assistance
from unconscious intuitions,
but
only 7 percent say that such hunches were always
correct... Albert Einstein once
said
he lost two years on an erroneous intuition...
Dr. Felix Mantee.. an
eminent psychiatrist
[said] 'Being perceived as ahead of your times
means that you take conceptual
risks
all the time. Sometimes you take inference too far...
totally, inadvertently, you
lead
yourself, and sometimes others, into the proverbial cul-de-sac...
But if you're an innovative
thinker..
you move on.
intuition
\In`tu*i"tion\, n. [L. intuitus, p. p. of intueri to look on]
Direct
apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in
perception
or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate"
knowledge,
as in reasoning; quick or ready insight or apprehension.
-----
instinct
\In"stinct\, n. [L. instinctus instigation, impulse]
Natural
inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning
prompting
to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without
a
distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
Source:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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We have to learn our
innate
gifts. It's like what Dolly Parton said, "Find out
who we are, and do that on
purpose."
So you have to celebrate who you are,
the very thing that makes you you
- it's often called the pathology of superiority.
First off, you have to find
out how
you receive information. Are you prone to being
hypofrontal - like someone with
Attention
Deficit Disorder? ... Are you more
hyperfrontal - like someone who
is
compulsive?
If that is the case, then you
are
more likely to process information through
dreams, when your frontal lobe is
asleep...
There are many different types
of
intuitives, and the key is to find out what your unique
gifts are so that you can listen
to those intuitive signals more closely." Dr. Mona
Lisa
Schulz
All
actors are small warriors, small soldiers. They're obedient to the
general's
orders, they have little battles all the time. We are subjective to
cinema:
there are no fundamental marks on what is good or bad.
This
is your own intuition which guides you. As a consequence, we doubt
constantly,
but we have to impose our point of view as well.
Isabelle
Huppert ....
[TGV, October, 2002]
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"I have survived on trusting my
intuition and going with my instincts, but it is still so easy to allow
a lot of external garbage to get
in the way, to look for outside validation to reassure and comfort
ourselves
that we're doing the right thing,
instead of going inward to find whatever answer we're seeking." Demi
Moore
The
way I work best is when my instinct is alive, and when I give over to
that and don't try too hard. You have to relax, and you have to say,
"OK, I will find it, or it will find me, and it may not happen on the
first day of rehearsal, it may not happen until the last day of the
rehearsal, but it will happen.
And
if you just allow that to exist, the character arrives. You become so
absorbed in everything about the character and then suddenly it arrives.
Nicole
Kidman [Premiere
mag., Feb. 2002]
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But
I feel I owe it to the director to present my sensitivity, my
particular awareness, however odd it might seem - and I've had some
pretty strange instincts. I don't feel it's my job to refuse to do
anything, not that that hasn't happened. I can at least, somewhat
comfortably right now, say that some of my instincts, however
off-balance they felt at the time, to myself or to the director, were
worth following.
But
to come in and just agree with every single thing and only expect to do
what the director presents - I would be letting them down. I want so
badly to hold the truth close, theirs and mine. All the difficult
actors I admire may not be fun and games to be around, but they're
usually true sensitives who are interested in one particular truth.
.....Jeremy Davies.....[Interview Magazine,
August 1997]
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I'm
not eloquent talking about acting and I never intellectualize a script.
Sometimes I just know how to do a character, but I don't know why.
It's as
if you know what the spirit of the person is, though not consciously,
and everything else floats into you.
****Brittany Murphy****[Interview mag., May, 2000]
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Jeffrey
Tambor relies on his intuition when it comes to acting. "You do a lot
of work. You do your homework, but some of your best thoughts, you
don't know where they come from," he said.
"With
acting the whole thing is get out there and do it. On 'The Larry
Sanders Show' you didn't have time to think. You just went with it, and
some of the imperfections became perfections."
from article:
'Hey, Now!' Was Then -- This Is Now by Susan King, LA Times, July 7,
2002
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I
think a good actor mixes and matches from a wide range of tools in
approaching text. Training is merely about increasing that supply of
tools and thereby one's range; and then, of course, you should never
discount instinct, which I think is the foundation of acting.
Liev
Schreiber - from book:**On
Acting by Mary Luckhurst, Chloe Veltman
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When I was first
engaged, I
bought "Practical Intuition in Love" by Laura Day. I wanted to
understand
the contemporary male, but I ended up applying the lessons all aspects
of my life.
Day gives you
exercises to develop
your own intuition. I pick up so much more now. For instance, when I'm
acting with new people who seem very closed, I try to tune in to what's
going on. Are they distracted by something? Are they competitive? Day
helped
me see that intuition is working all the time -- you just have to
listen
to it.
A
Second Manifesto for Psychic Liberation: Extra-Sensory Perception,
Science and Education
by
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, President, Intuition Network
By
every normal, scientific standard, the case for the existence of a
scientific
anomaly called extra-sensory perception (ESP) -- i.e., telepathy,
clairvoyance
and precognition; or, conversely, synchronicity -- has been
established.
This
simple fact was acknowledged 100 years ago in the annals of the
Smithsonian
Institute -- based upon the careful case studies collected by psychical
researchers in the nineteenth century.
Intuition,
Creativity, Mind & Matter by T.Kun, President, Project Mind
Foundation
"The
prospect
of waking up to reality and taking full possession of our faculties has
always interested many of us. We feel somehow compelled to summon our
courage
and try to realize what we intuitively feel to be the potential of our
creative faculty."
Intuition or Intellect - by
David G.
Myers
For those disposed to follow their inner guide, today's pop psychology
offers books on "intuitive healing," "intuitive learning," "intuitive
managing," "intuitive trading" and much more. Should we follow
President Bush's example and tune down that analytical, linear,
left-brained mind? Should we stop obsessing over logic and data and
trust the force within? Intuition is important, but we often
underestimate its perils.
The
Intuitive Writer: Invoking the Muses by Kay Porterfield
Intuition
is
one of a writer's most useful tools. Unfortunately, it is one of the
most
overlooked, no doubt because
it is
usually
associated with fortune-tellers and crystal balls. In truth, intuition
means inner teaching. It is the "ah hah"
that marks
the illumination stage of the creative process. An essential stage, it
is right up there in importance with
preparation,
incubation and implementation. // This article is posted on
her site kporterfield.com
that features
many
articles
on journaling, memoir writing and creativity as a healing process.
Whatever
Works Best by Christopher Grove [Variety]
"With no
one way to hone their craft, actors often go with their instincts."
Your "Intuitive Intelligence" - By
Dr Jill
Ammon-Wexler
Intuition is a unique "whole brain" function. It draws upon both our
higher mind, and our entire lifetime of experience stored in the
subconscious mind. It's probably our most powerful method of
integrating our conscious and subconscious thought processes.
******sites:
Intuition
Network
"The purpose of the
Intuition
Network is to help create a world in which all people feel encouraged
to cultivate and use
their
inner, intuitive resources."
Use
Intuition - site of Sandra Brown-Crocker, Intuitive Reader
"Our intuition is our inner
compass. Our innate wisdom is guiding us in positive, easy and fun
ways."
Belleruth
Naparstek. Your
Sixth Sense: Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition
Dr.
Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing "Honesty is
required to flush out counter productive perceptions so ingrained you
may
not realize how pernicious they are. If we examine our beliefs, we
won't
be subject to subterranean undermining influences. Our beliefs trigger
biochemical responses. No organ system stands apart from our thoughts.
What you believe -- what you really believe -- programs your
neurochemicals.
I'm not suggesting that you be Pollyannaish or put on a happy face to
please,
but that you be absolutely true to yourself. This will liberate you
from
unconscious impulses that impede your healing."
Marsha
Sinetar Spiritual
Intelligence: What We Can Learn from the Early Awakening Child
"Children's
spirituality thrives on playfulness. It demands respect. And it
overflows
into the lives of others bringing gifts and abundant riches. In this
buoyant
book, Marsha Sinetar ("The Mentor's Spirit") celebrates the spiritual
intelligence
of children. She defines this quality as inspired thought and
"intuition,
a firm moral compass, power or inner authority, the ability to discern
right from wrong, and wisdom." Using illustrative material from her own
childhood and the youth of César Chávez, Louise Nevelson,
May Sarton, John Muir, Helen Keller, Malcolm X, Mahatma Gandhi, Georgia
O'Keeffe, and others, Sinetar demonstrates the various ways in which
"early
awakeners" flourish in the face of challenges and demonstrate an
ability
to transcend difficulty in order to "walk in truth." Many of these
gifted
children are little "old souls" who make the most of wholesome
autonomy,
positive rebellion, and intuitive prowess. Spiritual intelligence
enables
these boys and girls to move into life with brightness and virtue. Near
the end of this optimistic volume, Sinetar lists some of the character
traits of parents who serve as good facilitators for their offsprings'
spiritual intelligence." [review: Frederic Brussat, Values &
Visions
Reviews www.spiritualrx.com]
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It's
hard to let insights in, if we've dead bolted the doors. Sometimes we
are begging for clarity, just as long as it's a nice, tidy, respectable
answer and preferably one that doesn't really require us to change much
at all.
.....Rene
Magritte - "Voice Of Space"
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