Try this Mindfulness Practice to Expand Intuition
- Mindfulness is a 2500 year old practice of focusing on the moment. As a meditator, I’ve always been aware that mindfulness is not only the key to my mental and physical well-being, but also to expanding my intuition.
- In my last Mindful Intuition class students had one of the most mind expanding experiences ever when they engaged in mindful meditation, then turned their focus on a fellow student. Students were amazed that suddenly they could see the inner life of another person. With just a simple meditative practice, they’d achieved an extraordinary knowing.
- You begin by practicing total awareness of the moment using mindfulness meditation techniques. When you achieve this mind state, which takes practice, your awareness explodes. It’s as if you’d been living in a dark room and switched on the lights to find bursts of color and carnivals of activity.
- To try it, close your eyes, pay attention to your breathing, and relax your body while sitting up straight. By focusing on your breathing, you bring your attention inward to the present moment, rather than allowing your mind to wander off into the future or the past, where it gets entangled in problems and plans. By attending to your breathing, you are paying less attention to the mindless chatter that causes stress and confusion, and more attention to your current experience where life and intuitive guidance are actually happening. When your mind wanders away from your breathing, like a puppy you”re training, just bring it back. Meanwhile, note that your mind wandered, where it wandered, and the content of your thoughts and feelings. All of this is information you can use. Try either of my guided meditation tapes in the left column of my homepage to get into meditation.
- Next, if you want to read someone, just make the intention, and instantly your mind will receive the other”s world. Note visions, feelings, and sensations that arise. You have entered the inner life of another!
- Now that you know how to read others, know that the most important benefit of mastering intuitive awareness is reading yourself, although you can help someone who’s mired in their own thoughts when you read another. Learning to read yourself is how you can change your life, heal your stress and find peace. Ironically, it’s harder to read ourselves than others because thoughts and fears get in the way. On our own, we retract from our awareness and block it with defenses. With practice, however, we can use mindfulness to bring clarity where there was confusion, and open to the intuitive guidance that is our birthright.
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Jeanne Mayell is a professional intuitive and author who gives private life readings and offers tools to help people develop their psychic abilities. In 2015, Mayell was named by Coast to Coast AM radio as one of America’s most gifted Tarot readers. Holding Master Degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MA in Counseling Psychology from Framingham State University, and published in The Atlantic and other national journals, she is not only a gifted intuitive, but brings an academic and intellectual perspective to the world of psychic readings and intuition training.
Sensing that an era of profound and accelerated change is upon us, Mayell has been teaching people to expand the intuitive gifts we are all born with. In this way, we will be able to navigate the coming changes for ourselves, our families and others. She teaches classes in Tarot, Prophecy, Positive Psychology, and mindfulness — all ways to find inner guidance.
Mayell has also worked as a health writer (Atlantic Monthly, American Health Magazine, and EastWest Journal), and was the Massachusetts Medicaid Director, a policy analyst for the City of New York’s health and welfare programs, and a research consultant on national health and welfare programs. She has co-authored two books on health and welfare and is currently writing a book on intuition and the Tarot.
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