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Is everything happening perfectly?

4th October, 2009 - Posted by Editor - No Comments

12 ways to improve the odds

One thing of which we are all certain is that the future is uncertain. But what if there was a way to increase the odds of it all happening perfectly. The author of Embracing Uncertainty, Dr Susan Jeffers believes there is: by learning how to use the infinite wisdom of your intuitive mind.

“Intuition is an incredibly powerful and underutilised part of us that is able to “see” things that our eyes cannot see and to “know” things that our thinking mind cannot know,” says Jeffers.

Some believe that the intuitive mind contains information that simply has been collected, consciously or unconsciously, and stored subliminally by the individual to be brought into consciousness at an appropriate time. Others, including Jeffers, believe it is something more cosmic than that.

In her book Embracing Uncertainty, Jeffers gives examples of how her own life was amazingly transformed when she listened to the voice of her intuitive mind.

Intuition, as she experiences it, seems to be an inner wisdom that has an inside “scoop” on what is happening in the outer world.

As a result, intuition can lead us to where we need to go for a richer, fuller, more meaningful and exciting life.

Regardless of whether you believe in intuition or not, “be a bit adventurous; give it a try,” she says. “You never know where it will lead you. That is the magic of the intuitive mind.”

Jeffers offers 12 tips to get you started in what she calls “tuning into the world”:

1) Focus on your highest good

Notice that your intuition doesn’t necessarily lead you where your conscious mind thinks it “should” go; it leads you to what is for your highest good; to what will serve you best in your journey through life.

Keep reminding yourself, “It’s all happening perfectly”.

2) Create “intention”

Intention is a powerful tool in creating a meaningful and beautiful life.

Like a “radio wave” it sets energy in motion, sends it out into the universe and makes incredible connections.

3) Ask “wide” questions

As proposed in A Course in Miracles, ask your intuitive mind:

• “Where would you have me go?”
• “What would you have me do?”
• “What would you have me say and to whom?”

Turn these questions over to your subconscious mind. Then you can relax and stop thinking about the situation and simply “allow” the answers to appear.

4) Get out of your own way

Jeffers says when she knows she will be faced with having to make any decision, instead of lamenting, “What should I do?” she asks herself a much more peaceful question, “I wonder what Susan is going to do?” She relaxes and trusts that she will be led by the wisdom within her and puts the issue out of her mind. Later, she watches herself “living into” the answer.

5) Listen to the whispers

Catch the thoughts that whisper in your brain. People make many amazing connections when they listen to the whispers in their brains, even if they do not logically make any sense.

Jeffers says she would never have written her first book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, had she not listened to these “illogical” whispers.

Also, it is important to listen to cues you are given – a book mentioned by a friend, something said on a television broadcast. Years ago, an airline commercial that simply said, “Get into this world!” changed my life. I needed to hear these powerful words.”

6) Take action on your intuitive thoughts

Sometimes you may just get the “urge” to call a friend or a business contact, or buy a book that falls off the shelf, or whatever. That urge is your intuition speaking. Take action.

7) Learn the value of procrastination

When you don’t really know what to do, it may be wise to do nothing for a while. Wait for your intuition to make the decision for you.

Don’t try too hard to find the answers

If we try too hard to do anything, we get in our own way. “Trying too hard” and “flow” simply don’t go together. Instead, turn your trust over to your subconscious mind with the “knowing” that the answer will come.

9) Don’t analyse

It is important not to analyse the messages we get. Act purely on an inner trust. If you are a bit sceptical as to whether intuition actually exists, then act simply out of curiosity; out of wonder. “I wonder where this thought is leading me.”

While our rational mind may not have accurate information, there seems to be a part of us that does. That’s the part that is in touch with higher and wider aspects of the world that are much higher and wider than the analytical mind can go.

10) We can tune into all we need to know

One way I love to do this is to close my eyes and imagine myself breathing in the light from the universe until I am totally filled with light. I perceive this as my connection with a higher energy. I then practice transmitting this loving light to the world around me so that I can, in some way, be a healing force in the world.

11) Be flexible and fluid

Getting rid of your rigidity helps you see wider and higher. If you are obsessed that things have to be a certain way, you don’t see the doors opening up all around you.

12) Practice. Practice. Practice

Experiment with little things. It requires some patience in the beginning. Also, you have to get beyond your habitual way of thinking in order to enter the world of intuition. And habits are hard to change. So practice, practice, practice and have fun with that wonderful intuitive mind of yours.

Many people believe “if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.” Jeffers encourages even the sceptics to experiment with it. It will serve them well.

You will “discover that the rational mind is important, but in the end, the “gut” has to have the final say. To be sure, our intuition has a much greater, more intelligent and certainly more enlightened view of the world…and beyond,” she explains.

“We just have to psychically plug ourselves into the infinite amount of energy that exists within and around us. “I have discovered it is so staggeringly large that it sometimes takes my breath away,” says Jeffers.