Feeling Intuitive?
11th August, 2016
Did you know that intuition is something you can develop?
Those who have already explored a variety of self-awareness and reflective practices will no doubt already have a sense that our ability to reach a balanced place of knowing is not something that solely sits in our heads… True insight is embodied.
mBraining uses neuroscience findings about multiple intelligence centres, the groups of neurons within your head, heart and gut for example to discover what they have to offer for increasing intuitive abilities.
We meet the world largely through our nervous system, so it stands to reason that it might be useful to pay attention to all the information it provides. Being able to access and interpret signals from your wider distributed nervous system enables you to immediately generate wiser decision-making in your daily life.
Have you ever considered exactly how you might have a feeling in your gut about a decision made? The gut has a far more complex role to play within cognition and emotion than may of us have previously recognised. Lets take the heart, how can it be that when we are saddened for example we physically feel pain in our heart, we have to acknowledge the role our body for processing perception.
Partly through a lack of awareness of our physiology, particularly how our autonomic nervous system is wired, those who might judge practices such as meditation as (in the words of my friend J) “a quest for Eastern vacancy” have perhaps dismissed much that wisdom traditions offer as “woo woo”.
Happily mindfulness is no longer seen as fringe activity and is now viewed as a core leadership practice within more enlightened organisations.
And there is even more good news… Science is catching up and we now know that we have “complex adaptive neural systems” (the term neuroscientists label as brains) in multiple places with our bodies.
Intuition it seems can be accessed through creating personal coherence – regardless of whether you label your mechanism for achieving this “applied neuroscience” or “esoteric practice.”
Imagine only using a small proportion of your thinking ability to orientate yourself within the world… This is exactly what happens when we rely solely on head based data. Sometimes it is useful to “get out of our head” and as a result get out of our own way. For many of us “coherence and embodied cognition” is something we can each benefit from developing. This does not mean ignoring information from our head… it is simply about creating balance, avoiding over reliance on head based decision making to establish alignment and flow.
Failure to acknowledge gut and heart signals as real and tangible information leads to having “mixed feelings”, experiencing dissonance and unease where we are not quite convinced that our choices are coming from a deeply integrated place. Most of use will have experienced this conflict between our thoughts, feelings and actions at times.
mBraining is all about aligned living, where wisdom becomes a foundation for all self expression – personal and professional. How we use our multiple brains to communicate and operate with each other is vital for congruence, success and happiness.
Due to scientific discoveries relating to neurogenesis we now know that even what we perceive as our hardwiring (some might describe this as conditioning) has plasticity / malleability. mBIT offers practical tools and approaches (software) and mBraining Training enables you to develop the ability to use that software wisely and instinctively.
So are you ready to dive deeper into mBraining, and to discover more about what it is and what else it offers… ?
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