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SFPNN Special Edition – 03/30/07 – Your Intuitive Intelligence

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— Thanks to author Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler for today's Special Edition

YOUR "INTUITIVE INTELLIGENCE"
By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
International Success Mentor

"You know more than you think you do."

-- Dr. Benjamin Spock

We come into life equipped with five basic senses -- touch, hearing, taste, sight and smell. But we also possess some more mysterious senses. One such little-understood sense - intuition - governs our ability to arrive at spontaneous "non-logical" decisions.

The word intuition comes from the Latin word intueri, meaning "look within." Webster defines it as "the power or facility of attaining direct knowledge …without evident rational thought."

In Japan, intuition is known as "stomach art" - an interesting turn on the Western "gut-level feeling."

Many feel intuition is a remnant of an ancient survival mechanism, as it allows us to sense danger without taking the time to analyze a situation.

But intuition can also be extraordinarily profound.

Intuition is a unique "whole brain" function. It draws upon both our higher mind, and our entire lifetime of experience stored in the subconscious mind. It's probably our most powerful method of integrating our conscious and subconscious thought processes.

*How Intuition Works in the Brain*

The two halves of your "grey matter" (your cerebral cortex) and the thick network of nerves connecting them (the corpus collusum) are your "thinking cap" -- the "higher thinking" portion of your brain.

This portion of your brain accounts for: (1) mental skills such as logic and analysis, and (2) interpreting input from your five physical senses (vision, smell, hearing, touch and taste.)

Here's an example of how intuition works: In the millisecond you enter a strange room or situation your brain integrates: (1) the input from all your higher thinking, (2) the input from all five senses, and (3) your entire lifetime of experience.

Your whole brain immediately analyzes the situation, compares it to your lifetime of experience, and gives you a spontaneous "gut level" feeling about that environment. Either it’s safe and you feel relaxed and comfortable, or its somehow threatening, and you feel nervous or "on edge."

All of this occurs on a non-rational level as an instant "ah ha" feeling.

*Intuition and Business Success*

In the latter half of the last century business decisions and results were defended using such rational, linear measures as rate of return, cost of capital, net income, etc.

But all the while the most successful leaders were using an additional tool -- intuition. And today intuition is being touted by management consultants as "essential."

In a study of 13,000 business executives by Harvard researcher Jagdish Parikh, the executives credited 80 percent of their business success to relying on their intuition.

And research conducted by Ashley Fields, a senior advisor to Shell Oil, concluded that among Fortune 500 companies, "intuitive information processing strategies are most often found at the highest levels of an organization."

*Powering-Up Your Intuitive Intelligence*

Intuition is not just valuable in the business world. It can often lead to powerful creative, personal and relationship insights and breakthroughs.

For most of us, intuition is most active just before sleep, upon awakening from a nap, during a dream, while meditating or contemplating, or while doing something we find very relaxing. All of these have something in common - the alpha-state brainwaves often associated with meditation and creative contemplation.

Here are some methods of "powering-up" your intuitive intelligence:

(1) A Kung Fu Exercise: Shut your eyes and ask someone to approach you as quietly as possible. Say "stop" when you think they are within an arm's length. You'll be surprised how rapidly you'll increase your skill and accuracy.

(2) A Sensory Intuition Exercise: Intuition draws heavily on our sensory intelligence. Strengthen your senses-brain connection, and you'll strengthen your intuition. Place several aromatic items on your desk. Look at and smell each one. Now close your eyes and by smelling each item, try to get a clear mental vision of what it looks like. Open your eyes to see how detailed your "mental vision" was. Continue this process until you can clearly "see" what the object looks like just from its scent.

(3) A "Now" Exercise: Here's an exercise management consultants are teaching top business executives: Remove any past or future concerns for a few minutes, and let yourself simply experience what is directly in front of and around you. Don't judge or comment, just notice.

*Put Intuition to Work*

The most powerful way to build your intuitive intelligence is to begin to act on your intuition. Simply allowing yourself to act on your intuition will gradually build your "intuitive intelligence."

Consider that study of 13,000 business executives who credited 80 percent of their business success to relying on their intuition.

Building your self awareness will not only increase your intuitive intelligence. It will increase your probability of success and achievement in your personal, business or professional life.

Dr Jill's neuro-science based training has enabled countless business and professional people to become exceptionally creative, extraordinary achievers and leaders. The better you know yourself -- the more powerful you become. Period! Put her insights to work in your life.

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