Dear readers! Have you ever wondered what intuition is, what it is eaten with and how digestible it is in life. Of course they thought about it. We draw a conclusion just because you are holding our book in your hands. What, dear readers, higher education, life experience and the like still can not sometimes help to choose the right decision? You bite your elbows, having once again pierced, trusting “friends” or arguments of reason, and you no longer envy white, but black envy those who proudly boast: “I knew that it would be so! I have an innate intuition!”? Well, let's learn it. As they say, everything ingenious is simple and lies on the surface.

Types of intuition

Based on the initial data, experts divide intuition into several types.

Suppose that a person comes to the results by analyzing the initial data and revealing at the same time certain relationships that the subconscious was not aware of. That's an example analytical intuition. It can also be called objective because it has a direct connection with the world around us. Other types of intuition tend to take as a basis the phenomena of the real environment. An ordinary person, as a rule, does not notice the connection between them. It would be appropriate to mention that scientists are showing interest in these connections, and the paths of scientists and magicians of different stripes often intersect.

semantic called intuition, which is based on the clues of reality. This kind of intuitive ability is slightly different from the above. Under these circumstances, the average person finds it difficult to make connections between initial and final data. The reason for this lies in the use of objective reality when conducting a subjective analysis.

Some points need to be clarified. First of all, the work of objective intuition is aimed at finding solutions to your problems. She is unable to predict the outcome. On the contrary, semantic intuition does not depend on events. Consequently, even by radically changing his life, a person will not be able to harm his semantic intuition.

This kind of intuition is not subject to the control of human consciousness. People can only help it function, make its development more rapid, but they cannot stop this process.

Moreover, a person has the ability to consider intuitive clues that are intended for another. By the way, the indisputability of this statement is exaggerated. Therefore, everything that is considered by you as an intuitive hint is intended for you. And the fact that you notice hints intended for another person suggests that your intervention in this situation is simply necessary. If you have certain energy possibilities at your disposal, therefore, you have the opportunity to analyze hints from intuition that do not apply to you in any way.

The ability to interpret dreams is considered by many experts to be a separate type of intuitive abilities. This species is called dream intuition. It is considered as a subspecies of objective intuition.

Prophecies received as a result of magical actions can be attributed to a completely different type of intuitive abilities. magical intuition manifests itself as a result of the analysis by the subconscious of such circumstances that appear under the influence that the energy, information and event fields have on the human thinking organ.

The basis for this type of intuition are obstacles, the sources of which are the biocurrents of the human thinking organ and various parts of its nervous system. The above scheme of work is similar to the vision taking place in the energy world.

Magical intuition includes event. It allows you to find out the information located on the event field. This field has nothing to do with the energy and information fields and is created with the help of awareness.

So, how can intuition be described in two phrases?

In our opinion, intuition is the flight of the mind and heart in love with each other over the abyss of the unknown. Cleverly, of course, said. But you can't put it better. And their flight is not chaotic, but rather planned and attentive. It is attentive, we did not make a reservation. Intuition, that is, the ability to foresee the future and predict the result, depends primarily on how much a person wants to be attentive. It wants it. After all, how often we, losing sight of the obvious little things, then realize that they make up the overall mosaic of a person’s character or a problem.

There is a category of people who have developed the ability to feel other people at a distance, even without being well acquainted with them. Surrounding people often attribute the gift of providence to such extraordinary people from a philistine point of view and call them magicians and sorcerers. And in the Middle Ages, they generally lined up on the fire of the Inquisition in kilometer-long queues.

Imagine a fabulous and banal situation. A personal seer appeared to the shah, the emperor, or, at worst, the king and began to predict that the collapse of the empire was not far off, that the main enemy would come from the East, that hunger and destruction would soon befall the empire created and so powerful for centuries. The emperor smirks ironically and suggests, in his opinion, the magician, who is overtired at work, go to the sea to unwind, while he himself, continuing to sit on the throne, lazily eats grapes and gives the young dancers a voluptuous glance. The seer tears his hair and stamps his feet, calling on the wisdom of his master. And the master makes a careless gesture with his hand, and the guards lead the seer out under white hands, while he, in impotent anger, flails his legs in the air and with a loud cry calls on the emperor to come to his senses. Then the magician desecrates the royal thresholds with a spit and with a proudly raised head leaves, remembering that it would be nice to take sunblock to the sea.

And six months later, the empire disappears from the map of history, the ruins of cities smolder in fires, the people scatter to more prosperous countries, and now an oriental handsome man sits on the imperial throne, just like his predecessor, lazily eating grapes. The debunked emperor has no choice but to marry a wealthy widow and grow cabbages on his garden plot for the rest of his life. At the same time, weeding the beds, he also grumbles resentfully under his breath, “What an excellent intuition my former seer had.”

Not intuition, I want to exclaim, but observation, attentiveness and timely information collected bit by bit. It is these three qualities that can be safely called the whales of that very “sixth sense”.

It's just that this mythical seer was able to see what ordinary people do not want or cannot (until they have learned) see. He understood that the empire is a large-scale unit, but due to its scale it is too uncohesive, therefore, completely incapable of resisting the enemy. This happened due to the fact that years of stability and enrichment divided the people into tops, bottoms and other layers and layers, which are more concerned about saturating their own stomach and the brilliance of silver on the dinner table than about which army guards the state. This army, mentioned in our case, has long relaxed without valiant victories and conquests, the officers ate their belly, and the soldiers quietly settled down at home, to their beloved wives under a warm barrel. The magician understood that the emperor was too carried away by young ladies and gluttony, completely forgetting about the stability of the state and deleting a sense of self-preservation from the properties of his character. Even the magician, being a smart person, although not having graduated from the GRU school, understood well that timely collected and competently processed information is half the success. So he went to the people for this purpose. The people, or rather, visiting merchants, told the magician over a glass of tea that the great and mighty commander from the East intends to conquer some kingdom that tastes good, the troops are practically assembled, the horses are digging the ground with their hooves just opposite the border of this empire, and the commander is already makes holes in shoulder straps. That's the end of the fairy tale, and whoever listened carefully, he made the right conclusions.

So, what did we come to after listening to this tale? Who gained what and who lost what?

Emperor. His losses due to the fact that he just did not believe the gift of the seer. And the emperor lost a lot:

1) power;

2) the glory of the great sovereign and the prestige of the profession;

3) material goods;

4) love of mercantile and not very young ladies;

5) respect for the people.

Mag. Do you think he lost his job? And here it is not. Having heard about his grandiose providence, he was offered a place as a court magician and sorcerer in another, even stronger empire, and with an increase in wages.

The moral of this story is this. Never brush aside, like an annoying fly, your own "magician", or his Majesty's intuition, which, we repeat, consists of three things: observation, attentiveness and information gathering.

Skeptics will chuckle contemptuously: “We knew it even without you, we took into account every step and its consequences.” They knew something, we oppose, but did they use it competently? Have you achieved success at least once, relying only on this very feeling - intuition?

One of the best commanders of our Fatherland A V. Suvorov It was by no means accidental that he somehow remarked: “Peter the Great was given a great secret to choose people: he looked at the soldier Rumyantsev - and he was an officer, ambassador, nobleman; and he thanked Russia for this with his Transdanubian son.

So they sometimes say about some lucky people: "He is so lucky for good people."

Is it just luck?

The ability to “scan” a person after minimum quantity time from the moment of acquaintance, to calculate what he is capable of and what can be expected from him is one of the main qualities of a person who perceives life through intuition. Therefore, such a person will not fall into unpleasant situation because of his environment, knowing in advance the motives of his friends, associates and even enemies, their rules of conduct at critical moments, internal reserves (parameters of the soul and character). Much in life in general and in business in particular depends on the right team, on what kind of people are doing a common thing.

As the most characteristic example, the statement of A. V. Suvorov is given above. But can one simply say that Peter chose the future eagles of Russia, guessing on coffee grounds? What was guided in his choice of environment great emperor? “Intuition,” is the obvious answer. Of course. So let's imagine ourselves in the place of Peter, who selects a team of like-minded people. How to see the hidden internal reserves of a person from the first minutes of communication? Let's do a job interview. After all, if we talk about our time and the requirements of a successful business, then not only the retinue makes the king, but also the future millionaire - his subordinates. As a typical example, we offer the story of the director of a large store, who needed to recruit a team in a short time.

– The timing was really pressing. The store was ready to open, but there was clearly not enough staff. I had to act in emergency mode. There was no time to consider the criteria for selecting applicants for vacancies. I had to rely on my intuition.

Oksana came to the interview with her husband. Or rather, she stopped by to find out if her person would be suitable for working in our store. The fact that she came with her husband could have strained me a lot at another time, as the fact that a person is not able to make decisions on his own. But I decided to give her a chance. Now, to some extent, this even impresses me: a stable family, where the husband does not give a damn about the future work of his wife. Both spoke well enough. This, too, is worth considering. Sometimes an incorrectly placed accent speaks of a person's education better than any diploma. And since the work meant constant communication with people, this became one of the pluses. Oksana also openly accepted information about the irregular working hours and calmly stated that she was more interested in the proposed high wages than possible overloads, that is, she made it clear that she understood the future difficulties very well. These guys also spoke with a smile and even had a good joke.

Having worked with this person, I did not regret at all that I took her, relying only on 10 minutes of communication and my intuition. Oksana soon became a senior salesperson and the best worker in the store. She always made decisions promptly, calmly and honorably endured difficult moral and physical labor, and in especially difficult moments in her free time, her husband even came to help her.

Alexandra fell into the same stream of recruits. She did not ask as many questions as Oksana, agreed to work with an irregular work schedule, provided excellent references from her previous job. I didn't like just one detail. Sasha did not look into my eyes. I, having decided that this was just my quirk, that my intuition got tired of dozens of applicants during the day, took her to work.

Subsequently, it turned out that the girl competently faked the characteristics, and her “skills” soon confirmed the big shortages at the box office. We broke up with the thief. But with intuition, I now always consult.

Here is an excellent example of how a person knows how to understand people, how he uses his own powers of observation even when he possesses minimal information about people, relying only on the appearance, speech and behavior of the interlocutor.

Each person is able to learn to understand people (and they are our everything, like A. S. Pushkin) from the first minutes of a conversation.

Let's list criteria of an open, friendly and conscientious person.

1. An open person is, first of all, a person with an open face, that is, he calmly and confidently looks into the eyes of the interlocutor, is not embarrassed by his benevolent smile (namely, a benevolent and just a smile, not a smirk). The look of another person, such people withstand as long as possible. Although, looking into the eyes of another person, they do not create a situation of tension, they are able to convey emotions with just a reasonable and open look.

2. A confident person has confident, open gestures. He does not tend to sit or stand curled up like a crumpled piece of paper.

3. A successful person is always energetic. His gestures express readiness to help and give. It is he who, with his whole appearance, indicates to the circumstances what to do, and not they to him.

4. From such a person you will not hear characteristic remarks: "Wait a minute!", "I just assumed", "Trust me, I'm being honest." He’d better tell you directly: “I’m sorry, there is no time”, “I’m just sure of it”, “I’m ashamed, but I can confess ...”.

5. Sometimes both a loud voice and clear diction are clear signs of an authoritative and respected person. Intonation is also important. A self-confident person does not need to raise his voice and reduce everything only to emotions. He has such a wonderful command of intonation that he is able to resurrect and delight with just one voice.

6. This person knows how to ask in such a way that it does not sound humiliating, but, on the contrary, causes a desire to help.

7. A benevolent person never makes excuses. He just has nothing to justify. He can confess his mistakes without hurting his pride.

8. He can even tell a nasty story about himself without getting embarrassed or blushing. An open person openly (sorry for the tautology) reserves the right to make mistakes.

9. An active person always remembers the truth: "Water does not flow under a lying stone." He is always active, and therefore successful.

10. Finally, a good-natured person is not afraid of difficulties, treats them as stages in the life path that help to gain invaluable experience.

Let's list criteria for "reading" a person who is constrained, notorious, insincere.

1. From the first minutes of communication, you will notice his lethargy, weakness, lack of energy. He shows with his whole appearance that it is more convenient for him not to speak honestly and openly with you, but to hide in a corner and quietly reflect on his unfortunate fate.

2. A deceitful person can be overly active. His gestures are impulsive and jerky, he laughs too loudly, shifts from foot to foot when talking, tries to touch you, thereby showing once again: "I can be trusted." Is it necessary?

3. The movements of a deceitful interlocutor can be constrained, and gestures unnatural. He tries not to make eye contact, his arms are usually crossed over his chest (closed posture). Such a person, as it were, is physically closed from the world.

4. Speech can be either overly intrusive or inexpressive. He selects words with great difficulty, often makes unnecessary long pauses in conversation, mekat and bekat.

5. Stifled and unsuccessful people most often betray, oddly enough, the lack of a sense of humor. An insecure person rarely understands jokes, he is too vulnerable and touchy for this. The world seems hostile to him, and people - predators.

6. Lying people most often have low self-esteem, which they carefully hide. It is easy to reveal it, it is enough to ask some unexpected question about them.

7. Also, these people suffer from increased suspiciousness. Sometimes their constant fears and doubts develop into a real phobia. They seem to be waiting for a trick from everyone. One of the reasons for this behavior may be that these people themselves easily go to meanness in relations with others.

8. A deceitful person loves, as during an interrogation by an investigator of the prosecutor's office, to answer a question with a question. He does this both in order not to answer honestly, and in order to gain time for himself to invent lies that justify his behavior.

9. Oddly enough, you will sometimes really like people who are dishonest. Only from them you will hear what you want to hear. They will try to become your shadow and continuation, they will voice your own thoughts, which you are afraid of, but which are convenient for them to manipulate your consciousness. If open people sometimes openly go into conflict with you, directly declaring your mistakes and mistakes, then you will only hear well-veiled flattery from liars.

10. And the last. Liars and traitors can be excellent psychologists. Don't forget about it. They need this knowledge to make and install a screen in front of their deceitful intentions.

– I have been working in a team with Natalia for about a year now. As a subordinate, she suited me. She managed to become almost indispensable for me. Good memory and responsibility helped her to become a favorite in the team. Natalia was always ready to help in situations where everyone else gave in or was lazy. At first, this feature of her alarmed me. But I had no physical opportunity to check it at my previous place of work. She positioned herself as a person who managed to establish excellent relations with former colleagues. Once, during a conversation, she mentioned that her bosses loved her so much that they gave her a vacuum cleaner when she was fired. Then, being her guest, I praised the beauty and quality of the blanket lying on the sofa. Natalya said that it was presented by the former bosses. I brushed off my own memory and intuition like a pesky fly.

Also, this girl had an amazing ability to say what I thought about myself, but was afraid to admit it to myself. Tactfully and gradually, she prepared me for the idea that at this place of work, with my abilities and talent, there is simply nowhere to turn around. I quit, and Natalia took my place ...

The role of intuition in business is huge. It allows you to act promptly and wisely when all other seemingly healthy resources have been exhausted. At the same time, the use of intuition in hopeless cases implies not only efficiency, but also some internal detachment from the process. When we are emotionally oversaturated and connected to the problem like a bare wire, it is almost impossible to “turn on” intuition. That is why many successful people who use the "sixth sense" for their own good, have become millionaires thanks to this very ability - the ability to emotionally disconnect from the problem in time.

No matter how right a rational decision may seem, it is impossible to make the right one if you are emotionally involved in it. Here is a typical case with a subordinate Natalia. Why couldn't her manager see the obvious in time? Why was this girl deftly playing on the weaknesses of her boss? Because the latter allowed it to be done. She did not want to notice an important detail in their communication: the girl speaks and acts in such a way as to please and ingratiate herself. But she did not want this because she liked Natalya.

Feeling sympathy or antipathy, it is difficult for us to remain objective, it is difficult to make intuition our ally.

Now we are talking about familiar and understandable things, that intuition is, first of all, a person’s ability to think sensibly. What about things that cannot be explained from a logical point of view? Well, let's talk about that.

Let's imagine any financial exchange. Why do brokers sometimes make odd bets and succeed in seemingly hopeless cases?

- I have always hit a big jackpot on operations that seemed unacceptable to everyone around. A lot of people were playing around when I was buying up shares in a company that was unlikely to bring in any significant income. Yes, there is income! Investing in these stocks could be ruinous. I honestly want to say that I did not know and did not assume that the state would conclude a contract with this company and well finance its implementation. I did not and could not have such information, even veiled or pieced together. I, as ridiculous as it sounds, had an elementary nose for a deal. In another way, you can also say that my heart skipped a beat when I made this decision. I cannot explain this. Yes, and I didn’t really think about this ability, I just made myself a solid capital on it.

No matter how strange and crazy the idea may seem to us, we must always take into account the voice of our inner mind. We cannot discount the fact that we all belong to mammals, that is, to animals. It is unlikely that a cat or a dog will remain in the house, which in a few hours will be wiped off the face of the earth by a sudden hurricane. You will say that animals have a good sense of smell and instinct. And who or what prevents us from using our inner instinct? We will answer: our obsession with common sense and all the baggage of life experience that we received from the cradle.

So, we have defined one more concept of intuition. Intuition is a guide to action issued by our subconscious. This inclusion in ordinary life his animal nature (in the good sense of the word). This is following the voice of the heart, when the mind resists and says a loud “No!”. But how not to confuse the true impulses of your soul with imaginary and imposed fears of your own, how to competently develop intuition and how to use it for good in certain situations, we will talk further.

Intuition is important and needs to be developed. From the above examples, you can clearly see why. Using intuition in life helps to quickly and efficiently make decisions in critical situations, allows you not to make mistakes in relationships with people, and opens up concrete and tangible business opportunities.

Now we have another task before us.

How to develop intuition?

Recall all the elements of the "sixth sense" listed above. This is observation, attentiveness, collection and accounting of all information on the issue of interest, following the voice of the heart.

We go step by step. Let's start with what has already been stated. Learning to be internally detached.

– After the divorce, I began to analyze my former family life. I remember both good and not so good moments. Our scandals! It was a huge verbal battle. My wife and I found many arguments that perfectly prove the opponent's guilt.

Only now, when all emotions have subsided and the hatchet is buried under the verdict of the judge "Divorced", I understand my own mistakes. We became enemies only because we perceived each other as our property. We weren't strangers, but we didn't become close either. The other day I heard a wise phrase from a woman who has been happily married for over 60 years: “We have maintained a great relationship with our spouse for three reasons: we always respected each other’s opinions, slept under the same blanket and, oddly enough, kept each other at a distance ". This happy married couple did not have scandals, I think, precisely because of the last reason: they kept their distance, respected the inner space of their partner. Therefore, emotions were not allowed to overwhelm and exacerbate simple everyday problems. Now I am so smart and I understand that I lost and destroyed my bright feelings only because I did not see a separate person in my wife, however, like her ...

The moral of this sad story can be summarized in one sentence. If you want to hear the voice of your intuition, turn down the volume on other radio stations of your own feelings.

Try to step back. Try, for example, to see the problem through the eyes of your parents, through the eyes of your boss, through the eyes of yourself as a child. Now turn off all these links and bindings. They do not exist, and you are not a balding uncle or a funny girl, you are nobody, a subject that does not exist in this time and space.

Close your eyes. Take off your clothes if it bothers you, lie down if you're comfortable, and even cover yourself with a blanket if you're cold. Create all the conditions for yourself so that the body is comfortable, so that the mind does not need to take care of it. And now, when your physical condition is in complete comfort, create the same conditions for the mind. He does not need to think that the clock is ticking (it would be better if you isolate all extraneous sounds in advance), he does not need to think that there is not enough bread for dinner, and his son's boots are torn. Let's, like Scarlett O "Hara, you think about it later. Let your head be in a state of complete bliss and laziness for a few minutes. Let her (maybe for the first time in her life) have a 10-minute vacation. Switched off? Great.

Now start breathing properly. Through the nose. Fill your chest with air as much as possible. Breathe rhythmically. At the same time, ask your subconscious mind the question that interests you, to which you cannot find the answer in your mind. Let only this question settle in your head, heart, lungs, all organs and even on your fingertips. Are you still breathing rhythmically? Well done. At some stage, after 3-5 minutes, you will not want to breathe at all. It's okay, don't be scared, obey your desire, don't breathe. You can even at this moment fall into oblivion, lose consciousness for a few seconds. This is what we were striving for. And now, when everything is turned off and all attachments to your own "I" are removed, do you hear the answer? We are sure yes. Congratulations! Your inner voice answered you, your intuition, your subconsciousness, that is, the soul of the Universe itself answered you.

Use this training only if you wish. You don't have to force it on your body. Otherwise, you will get the wrong answer. After that, some people may open the so-called third Eye. This is fine. Don't be scared. Even, on the contrary, say “Thank you” to yourself and the Universe. You are an extraordinary person, so you have access to what many go to through asceticism, suffering or many years of difficult life experience, acquiring a huge store of knowledge. The "third eye" will be located in the place where Indian beauties usually draw a beautiful fat dot. It may even pulsate. And in dangerous situations for you, warn you with this pulsation. Again we warn you: do not be afraid and in no case do not use the acquired ability to the detriment of others or for the sake of self-interest. You will not only lose the gift, but you will also be severely punished. Another point is that after this class you can feel a huge surge of energy, you can even itch and radiate energy from your palm. Has this happened to you? It means that you are energetically a very strong person. So what's now? Try, for example, to sort out the rubbish that has accumulated in the house for years, wash all the windows, whitewash the walls or start creating - draw, write, sculpt. Do what you feel like doing. In this state, you can really move mountains. We warn you that you can even begin to "see" people's problems, their illnesses, you want to help them with treatment "by hands". God save you from this occupation. It's not necessary, believe me.

So, we have learned to open our heart and hear the voice of intuition, and we have learned this through a special technique. But what if you need an answer right away, but there is no way to lie down and relax? Remember what you did during the training. You internally and externally disconnected from the world, from all the bindings that bind you to life, you even stopped breathing. Do the same for now. Of course, you don't have to stop breathing. Just switch off internally, remove all barriers, remove all locks from the doors that close your intuition. Become an emotionally balanced person, a person who is not a boss, a millionaire, a policeman, a housewife and anything else, but simply a living being. Try to get away from your own emotions. Don't let their hurricane blow you off the ground. When you manage to do this (and each time it will get better and faster), you will achieve success, you will be able to freely and at any time connect your intuition, learn to think with your head and heart. And this tandem will give you the most amazing discoveries that you could not even dream of.

The world around is just an interesting movie. You can either play a major or minor role in it, or just be a spectator - a spectator who watches the process, rejoices or is upset, but does not participate in it. When you manage to treat life like an entertaining film, you will be able to retrain from the category of spectators to the highest category - you will be able to become the director of your life. Then events will develop as you need it, convenient, pleasant, acceptable. Learn to focus on the process without being emotionally involved.

– I had to leave for an internship in Germany. To get into the program that sends those who want to work in this country, it was necessary to know the language well. And I had problems with German since school. At the university, they barely pulled a four for me, they just didn’t want to spoil my red diploma with a legitimate triplet. There were 2 months left before the day of the preliminary exam. I was in a panic. I really wanted to get into this internship, which in the future provided an excellent job with high earnings. And panic is an understatement. I was in an excited, extremely nervous state. I hung up the whole house with stickers with complex German verbs, crammed the rules for constructing sentences with adverbial phrases until four in the morning, went to work with a German textbook. A week later, I did not move a single step from the dead point, but I had insomnia and severe headaches. I did not understand a word of German, only a few verbs (about twenty) managed to memorize. But what are these twenty verbs! I could not read and understand German. It was like a picture disassembled into thousands of separate fragments for me.

And then I waved my hand at the internship: well, it’s not given, it’s not given, so much to rape myself. And a couple of days later, on the Internet, I accidentally caught the eye of a text on German. I automatically began to read it and realized with bewilderment that I understood everything written there. I didn't trust myself. Why this happened, I still do not know. Perhaps, after all, the weekly cramming made itself felt? But how I learned to see the text as a whole, and not broken into thousands of fragments, I don’t understand ...

And we will answer this question. Everything worked out for the girl at the very moment when she emotionally distanced herself from the problem, gave up on her, did not make an idol out of her. After all, it is not by chance that they say that a dream comes true when you forget about it. It's the same with intuition. We will learn to use it only when we are not involved with all the fibers of the soul and body in the problem, when we internally distance ourselves from it, do not participate in it, become directors, not actors or spectators.

What happens to us when we paint our own lives in emotional colors?

1. We cannot think and act objectively, we constantly behave like a spoiled child, stamping our feet and demanding attention to our person. And attention is scattered on emotions.

2. We have problems communicating with people. Not realizing in time what the interlocutor really wants to tell us, we miss the necessary information from his speech, and remember only the tone of the person’s speech, what gestures he had at the time of the conversation, what facial expressions. Thus, we remain emotionally involved, passing the information exchange on deaf ears.

3. We lose inspiration. Indeed, for the flight of creative imagination, energy is also needed, and sometimes much more than for anything else. And we spend it... That's right, on emotions. We stop seeing the beauty and charm of the world around us, we see only ourselves and wonder why there are so many problems around. That is why we lose the ability to treat life as a creative process.

4. Physical labor and sports do not bring pleasure. We just don't have the energy for them.

5. Chronic fatigue syndrome becomes the most important and constant companion.

And these are just a few negative consequences of what gives us the inability to focus on the voice of our soul. Of course, we do not urge you to become insensitive idols. On the contrary, the ability to fall in love, rejoice, laugh, grieve and cry are great skills that are peculiar only to great people, those who do all of the above sincerely.

Tell us, dear readers, Who is the most sincere in a relationship? That's right, kids. Now we will learn to be children, those who speak with their intuition without any intermediaries.

You consider yourself a person who creates his own destiny on his own. This is not true. Throughout our lives, we behave as we were taught by our parents, teachers, society, loved ones and close people, and even our enemies. We live and act according to stereotypes and scenarios that are not written by our hand.

Think of any situation in your life. Why did you behave in one way or another? Because that is exactly what others expect from you. Even if you quarreled and argued with someone, you behaved as someone expected. Recall the brightest moments in your memory. Undoubtedly, all of them will confirm our assumption. There will be only one or two (and then fortunately) cases when you behaved the way you yourself wanted to. One happened to you at the age of 5, when you tore your pants on the fence, and your mother yelled at you and calmly answered: “I needed this fence.” And the second moment, perhaps, happened to you already at a more mature age, but then, when you felt like that 5-year-old boy. Again, let's make a reservation: probably, even this has never happened in your life.

We all live and act according to imposed scenarios, we play some roles assigned to us according to the plot. And such a life is quite convenient, because it is familiar. We are used to living and acting according to patterns, because they, like reliable shields, close our inner self from the dangers of the world around us. But these same shields do not let us into the world of the beautiful, sincere, extraordinary, into the world where the rainbow is not only in the sky, but also just in the room, where you want to run through the puddles on a warm spring day, where you want to give your loved one all of yourself without a trace, and not cautiously looking back “Will he appreciate my impulse?”. Did you like this world that you imagined by reading these lines? Then let's return to it, to the world of our childhood, together.

Of course, the fact that the desire to live according to stereotypes is based on the instinct of self-preservation is irrefutable. Habitual life in itself is already a guarantee of a prosperous existence. But how to be prosperous, being insincere, having forgotten your real dreams and desires?

What distinguishes a child from an adult the most? One, seemingly silly fact. As children, we deeply and sincerely believed that there is a magic wand, that if, like Dunno, we do three good deeds and forget about them, the wizard will definitely give us this wand. Admit it to yourself, most of us believed in miracles in childhood, and now we have lost faith in them. At the same time, they lost faith completely unreasonably.

Our next game will be a game that educates the ability to believe in a dream and its implementation.

To begin with, let's remember the famous phrase said by someone great: "Be afraid of your desires, because sometimes they come true." Even the Buddha, sitting under the sacred bo tree, was able to turn off his consciousness and talk with the soul of the universe itself. This conversation got a nice name - "state of nirvana". If we remember my training, we will be convinced that we have already been in this state.

So the Buddha came to four main conclusions.

1. Life is suffering.

2. Our suffering comes from our desires.

3. There is a way out of this suffering.

4. Everyone is worthy of this path.

So why is our life exactly suffering?

Why do we suffer from our desires? We think the answer lies on the surface. Because we don't want that or that. Because we trust the voice of our reason, not intuition. So let's have an interview with our subconscious.

Ask your "sixth sense" the main question. What do you really want out of life? We are sure that most romantically inclined young ladies will answer that they want to successfully marry their beloved. And it would be nice if this most beloved was also from the Rockefeller family.

– I married for nothing. Being myself from a poor family, I have always been burdened by our poverty. It was not so much the lack of beautiful clothes that killed me, but the fact that I was not free to choose my occupations. Therefore, I categorically rejected the proposal of a classmate I liked, the same simple guy, and accepted a marriage proposal from a wealthy and adult applicant for my hand, who took place in this life. My heart was silent. But I knew what I was doing and what I was paying for. I paid with my youth and freshness for the opportunity to drive a beautiful car, for the opportunity to travel, for a proud look at gatherings with less fortunate girlfriends.

Then my husband went bankrupt, and an abyss and a ringing emptiness appeared in my soul. It was at that moment that I met my former classmate. He did not become as successful as my husband once was. He just worked and earned money, even if he didn’t drive around Moscow in the coolest foreign car, but he could afford to relax on the Dead Sea. And I suddenly realized that because of that act my soul was dead.

Are you convinced that we sometimes do not know what we really want? How to help your intuition to choose the right and worth the effort in its implementation desire?

The most reliable way is to imagine that your dream has come true. Represented? In every detail. If you want to sit by the fireplace, even imagine its color and the candlesticks that will stand on it. Now feel with all your heart what emotions you are overcome. Are you happy and pleased by this fireplace? Do you want to spend many hours with a book in his rocking chair? Do you enjoy drinking coffee and looking at the flames? Then your dream actually comes from the very heart, and His Majesty's intuition helped you make the choice. Maybe, on the contrary, it became too hot for you by this very fireplace? Are you annoyed by the crackling of firewood, and the flying sparks only scare you? Did you get bored stupidly sitting by this notorious fireplace and watching your hopes burn out in it? Then this is not your true dream.

Being a child and following your dreams is easy, but becoming one is very, very difficult... Learn to think and ask your inner self questions, learn to find the right solutions, perceive the situation not only with reason, but also with intuition - the best adviser in resolving insoluble problems.

What other ways of dialogue with intuition and self-child exist? Let's think about which of the adults reminds us of children. That's right, old people and geniuses. The first - by their defenselessness, the second - by the fact that they look at the world without stereotypes. Let's try to be a genius, if only for a few minutes.

What does that require?

1. Stop being conservative. Of course, conservatism can be a blessing, but it is also able to chain us into the vise of stereotypes and desires imposed by someone. At least once in your life, do not go on Friday with friends to drink beer and celebrate the end of a hard working week. Instead, do something unusual and desirable. Let's remember the famous "Pretty Woman". I think main character fell in love with the heroine at the very moment when she took off his socks on the green lawn and put her bare feet on the grass. Run barefoot on this green lawn, go for a day in the mountains and be alone with the clouds, or go to the racetrack and feed your favorite horse with sugar from the palm of your hand.

2. Try to be unpredictable in your judgments and actions. Respond to your wife's scandal in the morning with a bouquet of roses in the evening. Try to draw classics on the kitchen floor with chalk and remember the rules of this children's game. Do an experiment at least once in your life and become someone else for a day. One woman, who held the rank of police major, once, at the request of a close friend, agreed to replace her in the market ... selling fruits. And the woman, taking off her shoulder straps in the evening, put on the apron of a market trader in the morning. This banal situation became a real adventure for her, to some extent changing her view of a number of previously stable ideas.

3. Try to treat the person who offended you or offended you as your own daughter or son. Did you immediately lose the desire to be offended or follow the lead of this person, who appeared in a new image? This is what genius is. Genius lies in treating life sincerely and without imposed patterns.

We have identified another aspect in an attempt to make friends with our intuition. This is the ability to be sometimes a brilliant child, easily fulfilling his desires.

In this regard, another wisdom opens up to us.

– I had a trip to another city. A very important trip for me. I wanted to get there with every fiber of my being. But all circumstances told me that it was not necessary to go.

My mother fell ill, I myself fell ill with a fever, there was not enough money for the journey, so the ticket for the return trip was not bought on time, the necessary documents were not issued. In a frantic pace, literally in 2 days, I solved the problems that had piled on me. The money was borrowed from a friend, there were no more tickets for the return trip, but I brushed it off: “I will decide on the spot, according to the circumstances.” The onset of bronchitis was killed in the bud with a lethal dose of antibiotics. Documents issued for a bribe. Mom just felt better, and I decided that she could handle it.

I was happy that everything was decided as if by itself. Only later did I realize what moral strength it cost me. At the same time, my friend warned me: “Does it seem to you that the Lord simply does not let you go there? Maybe you shouldn't go?" But I'm stubborn: what I've planned, I'll always do. And I explained the problems to myself quite simply: these are tests of fate.

And I left. So, it would be better not to go. The meeting in another city was extremely unsuccessful.

Now let's analyze what happened to this girl. There is no need to tailor the situation to your own desires. This girl did not hear the voice of her intuition and did not see the obvious for only one reason: she was emotionally involved in events. She did everything SPECIALLY. But it is a well-known fact, time-tested, that the best things happen in life by chance and unexpectedly. And here the unexpected was not at all, it was only imposed by the will of man.

Thinking games (comprehension) will bring a lot of benefits to both adults and children. With their help, thinking and ingenuity develop.

GO, UNDERSTAND ME

To start, form two teams with an equal number of players (three or more). A leader is also needed. It is necessary to arrange the teams in such a way that behind the back of one player there is another, moreover, from the same team. Then the leader needs to think of a word and write it somewhere in capital letters. On a signal, a member of each of the teams, standing on the edge, turns to the leader, reads the given word and explains it to his neighbor. There is only one condition: the explanation takes place not with the help of words, but with the help of gestures and facial expressions.

This explanation continues until the last player is reached. He, in turn, writes down the word and gives the sheet to the leader. The victory is awarded to the team that guessed the word correctly first.

SIGNAL INTERPRETATION

You can involve any number of participants in the game. To start the game, stock up on a tape recorder or player, but always with headphones, as well as disks or audio cassettes containing popular pop songs. The main thing is that the participants do not know the names of the songs in advance.

The "sign language interpreter" chosen by lot, sitting in headphones, using gestures and his facial expressions, must depict the text of the song heard in the headphones.

INSIDE OUT

The essence of the game is as follows. The facilitator must take any sentence from any printed matter and read all the words from the sentence backwards as quickly as possible. The task of the players is to try to correctly write down the proposal.

Entertaining tasks teach you to think consciously (answers are given below).

1. DIVISION

Divide five apples among five people in such a way that everyone gets an apple and another one lies in a vase.

2. HOW MANY CATS?

There is a room with four corners. A cat was placed in each of the corners. Opposite each cat are 3 cats. Each cat has 1 cat on its tail. Name the number of cats in the room.

3. TAILOR

The tailor has a piece of fabric, 16 meters long. Every day he cuts 2 meters from it. On what day will he cut the last piece?

4. CUT THE HORSESHOE

2 times hitting the horseshoe with an ax, divide it into 6 shares. Moreover, the shares after the blows should not move.

5. WHAT DID THE OLD MAN SAY?

Two young Cossacks, both dashing riders, often fought among themselves about a bet who would overtake whom. More than once, one or the other was the winner. Finally they got tired of it.

- That's what, - said Grigory, - let's argue the other way around. Let the bet go to the one whose horse comes to the appointed place second, and not first.

- Okay! Mikhail answered.

The Cossacks rode their horses into the steppe. A lot of spectators gathered: everyone wanted to look at such a curiosity. One old Cossack began to count, clapping his hands:

- One two Three!..

The debaters, of course, are out of place. The audience began to laugh, to judge and to dress.

And they decided that such a dispute was completely impossible and that the debaters would stand still until the end of time. Then a gray-haired old man, who had seen different views in his lifetime, approached the crowd.

- What's the matter? he asks.

He was told to.

- Ege! Now I’ll whisper such a word to them that they will jump like scalded ...

And indeed ... The old man approached the Cossacks, said something to them, and in half a minute the Cossacks were already rushing across the steppe at full speed, trying without fail to overtake each other, but the bet was still won by the one whose horse came second.

What did the old man say?

6. OLD CHALLENGE "TEAM OF SOLDIERS"

A detachment of soldiers approaches the river, through which it is necessary to cross. But the bridge is broken and the river is deep. How to be?

Suddenly, the commander notices two boys who are riding a boat near the shore. But the boat is so small that only one soldier or only two boys can cross it - no more! However, all the soldiers crossed the river on this boat. How was it done?

7. PUZZLE "WOLF, GOAT AND CABBAGE".

The peasant needs to be transported across the river wolf, goat and cabbage. But the boat is such that a peasant can fit in it, and with him either only a wolf, or only a goat, or only a cabbage. But if you leave the wolf with the goat, then the wolf will eat the goat, and if you leave the goat with the cabbage, then the goat will eat the cabbage. How to transport your cargo?

1. One person needs to pick up an apple along with a vase.

2. Someone will come up with the following calculations: 4 cats in the corners, 3 cats in front of each. This, therefore, is another 12 animals. Each cat has a cat on its tail. There are 16 more cats in total, and together there will be 32 cats. Perhaps, on the one hand, it is true. On the other hand, the one who realizes that only 4 cats are sitting in the room is right.

3. After 7 days.

5. The old man just whispered to the Cossacks: "Change places." Then each sat on the horse of his opponent and galloped. The one who will be the first on someone else's horse will lead his own to the finish line second.

6. The children crossed the river. One boy had to stay on the shore, while the other boy ferried the boat to the soldiers and got out. Now the soldier sat down and crossed to the other side. The child, who was already there, ferried the boat back to the soldiers, put his friend on, ferried him to the other side, and brought the boat back again. There he got out, a soldier took his place and crossed, etc.

7. First you need to transfer the goat, then the wolf. The wolf should be left on the shore, but the goat should be taken back. Then you need to land the goat on the right bank and, taking the cabbage, transport it to the wolf. The goat is transported last.

Someone said that intuition is just life experience, processed by the subconscious and issued into consciousness. Sometimes, perhaps, this is true, but there are cases when intuition (mine) acquires (in my own eyes) a really mystical character. Firstly, I can very well smell the troubles that concern me and my loved ones, and I can often say what exactly and where exactly will happen.

It all started when, in the 1st year of the university, I suddenly began to pull home during class (no one laughs, I'm serious). I served a couple to the end, broke home - and there the stove was overfed - there would be a fire. Since then, I obey my intuition (and when I don’t obey, I always regret it). The most striking example is when my intuition saved my life and a friend's life (at least health).

Spring, walking down the street. I feel - I need to go to the other side and go there, I tell a friend about it. He answers me that spring has finally come, and he wants to walk in the sun (the other side was in shadow). We walked, my anxiety grew stronger, I offered him two more times, he refused. When the feeling got really strong, I stopped. He too, see why I got up. At that moment, two meters away from us, right in the direction of our movement, a melted block of ice fell from the roof. Its mass, judging by the blow, would be enough to, if not kill us, then send us to intensive care for sure. A friend immediately, without a word, crossed to the other side.

There were many such cases (maybe a little less serious). Intuition does not always tell (maybe I don’t always hear it), but if she gave a signal, she was never mistaken.

Secondly, before it was very cool to feel who was calling whom on the phone. No AON was needed. Now the skill is gone.

Another funny incident from life - like some kind of mysticism. I walked with the dog at night, as luck would have it, I also watched "Children of the Corn" before that (I'm not impressionable in this regard - don't think, but it also left an imprint). The time is three o'clock, the beginning of the fourth. Winter, not a soul on the street, absolute silence. There is a dense layer of clouds in the sky, and only in the middle they turn into ripples, from where the pale moon is barely visible. I also thought that the picture is like in a classic horror movie. Suddenly the wind begins to blow, not much, but at the same time raising a light blizzard and creating an unpleasant hiss. The dog gets up, freezes, looks away. I can see her hair standing up on the back of her neck - a sign of her aggressiveness. She starts to bark, growl, I look - and there is no one at all, it is empty. Here is my dog, who was afraid of all the dogs in the area (no joke - there was a Caucasian shepherd dog, she perceived other dogs as wolves, with all the consequences), which itself was never afraid of anything (except for Masha and me, when angry), who loved to walk (I had to drag her home by force), turns to the house and starts tearing the leash with all his dope so that I run after her so as not to fall. That's when I became uncomfortable. He flew into the house, turned on the lights everywhere and took tea for a long time ...

Modern psychologists distinguish the following types of intuition (paths or channels for intuitive answers to come to us):

1. Body (or physical) intuition
People who have developed this kind of intuition receive intuitive clues through actual physical sensations - pain or pleasure, apathy or energization. Such people are in touch with the sensations of their body and draw conclusions about their potential success in this or that event based on their well-being.

2. Emotional intuition
Emotional intuition appeals to our feelings, and with the help of, for example, “inexplicable” anxiety, anxiety or fear, it signals to us: “something is wrong here.”
Emotions (anger, fear) from time immemorial have served us to quickly classify the degree of danger of the current situation (there is no time to think!), Therefore, this type of intuition does not give clear answers, but tries to warn us, using a sense of primal fear, of a danger that threatens our life or health .

3. Intelligent intuition
This kind of intuition is somewhat slower than the others. Intellectual intuition serves us as a source of new creative and scientific discoveries. Intellectual intuition, in turn, is divided into the following subspecies (not much different): professional, scientific and creative.

4. Professional intuition
This kind of intuitive subconscious cognition develops in people who have been engaged in a certain profession for a long time, such as medicine, politics, business, sports. It is based on the accumulation and holistic understanding of one's own professional experience. Thus, the experience accumulated by the subconscious helps professionals to make "non-standard" decisions in their field.
An example of professional intuition:

“The inventor of the sewing machine, Elias Hove, worked for a very long time on his first sewing device, which could make the work of seamstresses easier. Only one key element was missing. He was already desperate when he had a nightmare: Hove is on a desert island, and a crowd of cannibals is chasing him. And so, escaping from persecution Hove falls exhausted and the savages overtake him. They raise their spears over him, and then he clearly sees oblong holes in the tips of savage spears ... ”
This is how the sewing machine needle appeared, and its design made the process of machine sewing possible.

5. Scientific intuition
This kind of intuition is manifested in scientists, especially at those moments when the process of cognition is stalled. Such moments require from the scientist an enormous effort of all the moral, intellectual and physical forces of the organism.
One of the brightest and most curious practical discoveries is the discovery by the German chemist Friedrich August Kekule of the main component of gasoline. He invented the formula for the benzene ring.

This discovery was preceded by years of hard work that did not bring results. But at some point, tired of thinking, Kekule dozed off, and he had a very vivid and colorful dream. He looked at the flames of the fireplace, and they formed into chains of atoms. These chains turned into snakes that writhed, attacked the chemist, but did not bite him. One of these snakes grabbed its tail and started spinning wildly. The picture of a snake grabbing its tail and spinning so impressed the scientist that he immediately woke up and began to write down all his thoughts regarding the formula of the gasoline molecule. In 1865, Kekule reported to the scientific community of chemists that the benzene ring was made up of six carbon atoms (which connected to each other like a snake biting its own tail). His discovery helped to make a new breakthrough in the theory of aromatic hydrocarbons of the famous Alexandra M. Butlerova.

6. Creative intuition
Finally, we come to the kind of intuition that is considered the highest form of intuitive knowledge. It is usually attributed to artists, although it is often associated with scientific intuition.

Creative intuition is based on insight. A characteristic example of creative intuition is the activity of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who, according to the recorded testimonies of his contemporaries, heard his works already in finished form, and did not compose musical fragments and transitions between them...

Summing up, we note for ourselves that now we can turn our conscious attention to our individual channel of intuition, which is a priority for us when we make decisions.

Our world is very rich. You just need to feel it, to see with the help of intuition the life that you deserve.

* But how to determine what is most important for you, what you really want, why did you come to this world? Watch yourself. Is there really nothing in the world that you really like? And you dream that later, when there will be more free time, you will definitely do this? When - later? When there will be no more strength, health and desire will disappear, dissolving in the daily struggle with worries and problems, with yourself and your unwillingness to do what your soul does not lie to? Or maybe, if the thoughts to do something seriously have already appeared, then the moment has come? Just think about these questions.

One of the brightest signs that intuition gives us in connection with the type of activity is boredom. Take a closer look at yourself, listen: you began to say that you would be happy to grow beautiful flowers. You buy books on floriculture. You give people advice that helps them grow beautiful but difficult-to-care plants. Do you think that it will not bring income? Why not!

Or maybe your biggest dream right now is to study foreign languages even if you don't have time for it. All of these are intuition clues. In today's information world, languages ​​can be profitable, just like other knowledge and abilities.
Therefore, the first piece of advice: do not spare time and money for your interests and hobbies. First, these are signs of intuition about the possible paths on which success awaits you. Secondly, any knowledge not only can, but will bring you income. Learn and success will follow. By the way, by purchasing this book, you have already taken the first step on the path of learning and self-development. Knowledge is never redundant!

The second rule of a person who strives for success is optimism. Optimistic thoughts about money, about your future, imbue us with powerful positive energy that attracts success to us. These thoughts must take root in the soul, because no affirmations about welfare and success will not help you if deep down you continue to worry that nothing works because you are a failure in life.

But there is no need to dismiss negative emotions, especially if they appear suddenly, suddenly: your intuition talks to you through emotions! This is the most direct and accessible channel of communication with her. Negative emotions - fear, anxiety, etc. - warn of danger, warn against the wrong direction of movement. If you decide to invest in some profitable enterprise, but felt suddenly vague anxiety, this, of course, is not a reason to abandon what was planned. But maybe you should better check where exactly you are investing your money in order to avoid or reduce possible losses?

The path to business success

John Rockefeller III, one from representatives dynasty of American millionaires, explained how to achieve success: “The path to success is determined by two simple principles. Find a job that interests you and that you are good at, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it without a trace, all your energy, ambition and natural abilities.

There are many in history interesting facts when intuition helped to make discoveries, find solutions to complex problems. At the beginning of the book, we already spoke about the role of intuition in the work of great people. What techniques did the geniuses of art and science use when discovering new laws and looking for solutions? This will be discussed below.

About the benefits of classical music

Music is often a source of inspiration. For example, Walt Disney was very fond of the classics. He said that at the first sounds of his favorite works, associations arose in his head. Disney shared his experience in the animated film "Fantasy", in which the music is accompanied by a whole phantasmagoria of colors.

Listen to your favorite songs more often. For many artists, music creates pictures in their heads, which they then embody on canvases. It is quite possible that music will help you find the answer to your question.

Ask the right questions

Albert Einstein spoke more than once about the importance of the exact wording of the question. “Every question already has an answer,” said the scientist. “If you ask the right question, you can easily find the answer.”

The birth of associations

Associations can also arise under the influence of completely non-standard stimuli. For example, Leonardo da Vinci wrote in Notes: “It is not difficult. just stop along the way and look at the streaks on the wall, or the embers on fire, or the clouds, or the dirt. you can find absolutely amazing ideas there.”

The painter was also inspired by such things as the ringing of bells, in which "you can catch any name and any word that you can imagine."

Each person has their own source of inspiration. Therefore, listen carefully to your inner voice: sometimes the right thoughts come completely unexpectedly, and you will be surprised at the way they arose!

Fashion for diaries

Many people used to keep diaries. Now this tradition is gradually dying out or being transformed (electronic diaries appear). Keeping records is a great exercise for intuition! Rereading your notes, you can note a number of facts, accidents that no one paid attention to before. And yet later such trifles often play an important role.

Researcher Katerina Koks, analyzing many examples, noted that all famous people kept diaries. In their notes, they described their own lives in detail, as if foreseeing that they would become famous in the future. And Isaac Newton, and Thomas Jefferson, and Johann Sebastian Bach and many other personalities kept personal diaries in which they described their feelings and thoughts. In the future, many of the entries were published, and some became real works (for example, Leo Tolstoy used his diary to write a work). Why do all great people leave a legacy in the form of records and diaries? It is assumed that regular journaling contributes to the development of outstanding intelligence.

Sleep - the answer to the question

Of course, dreams are a mystery of our subconscious. Everything seems to be clear here: with the help of dreams, the subconscious communicates with us. However, the way in which this happens is surprising in itself. And it is even more amazing when in dreams we find the solution to a difficult problem!

This, in fact, happened to many scientists, among them the chemist August Kekule. Once he worked all day on a chemistry textbook and in the end felt that he had not done anything useful. The frustrated scientist thought that his thoughts were occupied with something else, and pushing his work aside, he sat down by the fireplace. Peering into the flame, he thought about the benzene molecule, the structure of which was a mystery. Gradually the chemist plunged into a state of drowsiness. And then. Then what is now called a miracle happened.

Half asleep, Kekule saw strange, fantastic shapes in the flames of the hearth. Atoms passed before his eyes, moving in long rows in the fire, writhing like snakes. Suddenly one of the snakes seized its tail and swirled rapidly and furiously. The scientist woke up as if from a flash of lightning.

Kekule realized that he had a solution to a problem that had been tormenting him. The subconscious itself prompted the answer, and the chemist spent the whole night working on the problem. In 1865, he stated that the benzene molecule was composed of six carbon atoms. Surprisingly, the combination of atoms strikingly resembled a snake that the scientist had dreamed of.

Nightmares and sewing machines

Another invention mankind owes to sleep.

Inventor Elias Hove thought about creating a sewing machine, but to no avail. He did absolutely nothing.

One night, Hove had a terrible dream: he was pursued by a gang of cannibals who intended to cook a delicious dinner out of him. The horde of cannibals had almost overtaken him, and death was inevitable. The inventor even saw the tips of the spears of the cannibals, sparkling with a cold sheen. Unexpectedly, subconsciously, Howe noted that each of the tips had a hole - the same as that of a sewing needle. At this point, the inventor woke up covered in a cold sweat.

Hove later realized that the nightmare was the answer to the problem he had set for himself. After all, in order for the sewing machine to work, you only need to move the eye of the needle down to the very tip. Howe followed the advice of his subconscious, and soon the first sewing machine appeared.

The relevance of the topic of the training.

It is difficult to list all the situations in which a person needs intuition to make a decision. We use intuition all the time: when choosing from several options, when looking for a job, to develop a project, to assess the reasons for the current situation, to make an investment decision, to hire employees and find partners, to negotiate, to create something new (discovery business, etc.). Life itself requires us to be able to be in the right place at the right time, to "automatically" choose the best option.

The goal of intuition training is to develop intuitive abilities, as well as mastering the skill of intuitive decision making. Intuition training is a product that is rarely found on the business education market, but there is every reason to believe that it is in demand by managers. This is due to the growth of such modern factors as stress, uncertainty in decision-making, an increase in information flows and a simultaneous increase in time deficit. For decision-making and effective activity in such conditions, it is necessary to turn to mental reserves, which are practically not used in the traditional rational approach to management. These reserves are in the realm of the unconscious. If managers discover and learn how to use such a cognitive tool as intuition, they will thereby receive an additional reserve for insuring risks when making decisions.

In 2002, an event occurred that surprised the whole world. For the first time, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded not to an economist, but to a psychologist -. In his books “Psychology of Forecasting”, “Decision Making under Uncertainty”, he experimentally proved that decisions in the field of economics are made by people not on a rational, but on an emotional and intuitive level.

II. Specific examples of the use of intuition.

A woman, the head of a trading firm, told the following story. One morning, as she was getting ready for work in the morning, the thought occurred to her that she needed to remind her store staff to increase their vigilance in order to prevent theft of goods. The leader decided to hold a small meeting of the team for this (at the same time to discuss a number of other accumulated issues). However, then the phone rang, and she was told that she needed to go to the partner's office. Thus, urgent business led to the fact that she got to the store only in the afternoon. And then her employees reported the theft, which had already occurred in the morning!

When she later thought about what had happened, she came to the conclusion that it was necessary to act immediately according to the received signal of intuition. If she had even called the store in the morning and simply reminded her to be vigilant, then it is likely that the theft could have been avoided.

One of the most ordinary examples of the use of intuition is the solution of such a problem as choosing a profession. Every person goes through this intuitive choice. When choosing a profession, a young person has no guarantees that the acquired qualifications will bring him success in the future. When applying for a job, the question of what influenced the choice of profession is one of the most informative. In the answers of the candidates, you can hear different answers: that it was the decision of the parents, that the sister successfully graduated from the same institute, that the decision was made “in company” with friends, that this profession promised guaranteed earnings or social prestige, etc. Such "external" choices in the vast majority of cases lead to the fact that a person does not like his profession and does not achieve success in it.

One of the most responsible examples of using intuition is goal setting. Each leader sets goals, which then turn into goals for many people, sometimes a few people, sometimes millions. It is by the power of the goal that the leader is able to unite and rally his team around him. Goal setting is an intuitive process. Along with rational information, when choosing a goal, the leader must be guided by his intuition, otherwise the goal set will not have a motivating force. Leaders have been known to "infect" other people with their own goals. The unifying power of the goal directly depends on the belief in it of the leader himself, the author of the idea or direction. This belief comes from the depths of his psyche, and if the goal does not find a deep response in his soul, it loses its ability to lead people.

III. The problem of modern business people is a lack of self-confidence

Modern business people have such a feature as distrust of themselves. Often a person receives useful information from his intuition, but does not consider it important, “relevant”. Managers and businessmen tend to listen to expert advice, request expert advice, read news reports on a topic of interest, rather than listen to the voice of their own I. However, without the voice of your own I, it is impossible to choose the right decision, find the true path, because only you yourself know the way to your own well-being .

Modern business education has succeeded in developing rational skills for analyzing and obtaining external information. However, we think that this is not enough. It is also necessary to form a culture, self-understanding, the ability to listen to internal signals.

A paradoxical situation is emerging. On the one hand, it is common knowledge that all successful businessmen have declared their intuition and its essential role in their success. Henry Mintzberg, a columnist for the Harvard Business Review, conducted a survey of high-ranking officials and businessmen, as a result of which it turned out that many of them “…constantly solving problems too complex for rational thinking with the help of intuition". But at the same time, most modern managers and leaders do not even know the basics of working with intuition.

IV. The ratio of intuition and rationality

Intuition is a tool of knowledge, known since ancient times. It does not preclude the use of rational tools, nor does it presuppose the neglect of rational knowledge. They have different tasks. The task of intuition is to show the direction and goals of the development of the individual, and the task of rational thinking is to select the means to achieve it. Rationality cannot specify what is good and what is bad for a given individual. For example, every mother wishes well for her child - this is a rational message. However, if the child follows the wishes of the mother in his choices, he has no chance of living his own life. He also cannot find out in which direction his realization is, from books (even the most intelligent ones), from professors or bosses. He can know it only from his intuition. When the intuitive vision - a fleeting flash-image - is given, it is necessary to involve all rational tools in order to build a strategy for achieving the goal indicated by the intuition.

When comparing intuitive and rational knowledge, the comparison between a manager and a leader made by F. Lutens in the book Organizational Behavior is quite suitable. Intuition is related to rational knowledge in the same way that the ability of a leader is related to the ability of a manager.

If you remember the famous saying A. Einstein that reason is a servant of intuition, then we can emphasize once again that the task of rationality is to tell a person how to do things right, and the task of intuition is to tell how to do the right things.

V. Intuition as a skill of successful people

Intuition is the finest tool of nature, designed to work for the benefit of man. Intuition has a number of limitations and strict rules for use, stimulation and development. All these rules are quite accessible to the modern leader. They can be mastered and successfully applied for the benefit of yourself and your business.

Intuition is an ability that most successful people have. Biographies of great businessmen and leaders often mention the importance of intuition in making the most important decisions. Intuition is a means of saving the energy and time of the leader, because it allows you to make decisions in the shortest possible time with a lack of information.

Intuition training is a tradition in many foreign companies such as Microsoft. Usually these are high-tech companies where there is a need for constant creative development and change. As for Russia, now the Forex company is showing systematic attention to this topic, since the field of exchange trading is one of those where the skill of intuition is used daily. Much work in terms of the practical application of intuitive solutions is carried out by Academician Norbekov.

VI. Intuition training in the thematic training grid

In the context of business education, intuition training sits between creativity training, self-regulation training, and decision-making training. One can also see a close relationship between intuition training and training "". Intuition as a cognitive ability has a source unconscious, which in psychology is associated with the emotional sphere of personality.

Intuitive abilities are close to creative abilities, because they have a common mechanism - figurative thinking. At the same time, intuition is directly related to physical and emotional self-regulation. Academician Norbekov considers health and emotional balance to be the most important condition for the development of intuition. Intuitive thinking involves high sensitivity to signals in the emotional and physiological systems (organismal sensitivity).

Finally, intuition finds practical application in business in the decision-making process. Thus, intuition training is at the intersection of emotional intelligence and management training.

VII. New achievements in the problem of studying intuition

Ontopsychology has made a significant contribution to the study of intuition. This direction of modern psychology was developed by Professor Antonio Meneghetti (Italy). In the Russian Federation, ontopsychology is taught as a second higher education in St. Petersburg State University in the department of ontopsychology. (The author of the report is a student of this department.)

Ontopsychology allows you to use the following new tools for the development of intuition.

1. Reading the semantic field.

Intuition must be distinguished from other signals, both external and internal. The semantic field is the impact of external influences on a person. These are emotions, images, thoughts, states that the subject experiences as his own, but they are brought into his consciousness from outside. To use intuition, it is necessary to recognize the information signals of the semantic field. At the training, participants are trained to recognize and meaningfully qualify the signals of the semantic field.

Consider an example of behavior that can lead to the development or, conversely, to the regression of intuitive ability. A modern young man may be faced with a difficult choice: friends invite him to take part in a general party, his mother demands that he come to her for a family dinner, a girlfriend asks to accompany her to a nightclub, and his own inner voice says that he needs to be in loneliness. Depending on whether the young man is ready not to betray himself in this situation, it will depend on whether he will be able to hear the voice of his intuition in the future.

Having obeyed "other voices": feelings of solidarity in the case of friends, feelings of duty in the case of mother, feelings of love in the case of a girl - he betrays himself and gradually loses the ability to hear the instructions of his own intuition. So, concession after concession, mistake after mistake, a person begins to get entangled in the chorus of other people's voices, but he no longer hears his own. Thus, in order to enjoy the benefits of intuition, inner maturity, autonomy, and strength of personality are necessary.

2. Visceral susceptibility.

In psychology, it is accepted that intuitive thinking is different from logical thinking, but the “organ” responsible for intuitive thinking remains debatable. Many authors believe that if logical thinking carried out by the brain, then intuitive thinking is carried out by the heart. However, it would be more accurate to say that intuitive thinking is carried out by the integrity of the human being. Within the framework of ontopsychology, it has been clinically proven that the localization of integral sensitivity in a person is the visceral zone. It includes the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, genital area. In the literature, this area is called the "second brain". The visceral zone analyzes information coming to the subject from the outside world, based on the combined reaction of the emotional and physiological spheres, i.e. holistically-organically.

To control intuition, the subject must have developed visceral sensitivity, since the reaction of the visceral zone is the primary undifferentiated reaction of the organism to the situation, in terms of favorable or dangerous for the subject.

In addition, the skill of synchronizing logical consciousness with visceral sensitivity is necessary, because. this provides an optimal state in which the subject is able to predict events before the onset of consequences.

3. Existential ethics and hygiene.

The development of intuition involves a certain lifestyle. Departing from one's own authenticity in favor of stereotypical choices dictated by complexes, fears, feelings of guilt, the desire to be like everyone else, etc., a person loses this gift. Conversely, by making authentic choices, a person increases his capacity for intuition.

Intuition refers to "subtle" abilities that are difficult to develop and easy to lose due to wrong actions. Therefore, an important element of the content of the training is the ethical (behavioral) component, which can be referred to as "Hygiene of intuition". As part of the training, a lifestyle is considered that allows you to build up intuitive abilities.

VIII. Conclusions.

As conclusions, I would like to give a general nomenclature that make up the ability to intuitive thinking.

Intuition as an ability and skill is divided into several components. These include:

• Imaginative thinking skills
• The ability to be aware of one's emotional and physical state,
• Emotional and physical self-regulation skills
• forecasting skill,
• Problem analysis skills
• Decision making skills under conditions of uncertainty
• Organic hygiene practice
• The skill of reading the semantic field,
• The skill of synchronizing logical consciousness with visceral sensitivity,
• Pattern recognition and interpretation skills.

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