• 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.