Let Your Intuition Decide What To Do

A very warm welcome to all of you in this meditation stream live with me,

Tiaan Se,

From my home in Basel,

Switzerland.

For today's session,

I would like us to contemplate about how do we make decisions.

It's an important question to understand and to go into because,

Especially now,

When we are not in the normal circumstances,

When what we are experiencing has no past patterns or past references,

How do we make decisions?

Are we making decisions rationally?

Are we making decisions emotionally?

Or are we driven out of something else?

It is important and significant to reflect on how are we making decisions.

In these times,

From toilet paper to stock market,

Everywhere,

You have to make a decision.

How are you making those decisions is something which I would like you to reflect.

What I can share from my contemplations,

From my meditation with you is,

There are three centers of decision.

In all of us,

There are three centers of decision in our intelligence,

In our consciousness,

In our being.

The normal one,

Which we all know,

Is the rationality.

The center is driven by intellect.

The center is driven by all the knowledge that we have gathered from our culture,

From our education,

From the facts,

From whichever place,

And how we put them together with our intellect creates our rationality.

We,

As a human species,

Have been the superior human species than any other species on this planet,

Because we are rational,

Because we have found logic in putting together different sources of information together,

And forming a picture,

Forming a pattern,

And that pattern we repeat as we go along with our experiences,

Improving our rationality,

Improving our decision making.

But in these times,

Where there is no past reference,

Where there is no past pattern,

How can we act out of rationality?

And moreover,

If you see the fear that has kicked in,

In all of us,

That has thrown us down from rationality to instincts,

To survival instincts,

And these survival instincts are not good,

Not bad,

These are just survival instincts,

Where our mind shuts down,

Where the rationality shuts down completely.

And you can see this in the behavior in supermarket to stock market,

Or in anywhere else in your home,

Or people around you,

Even at a distance,

How everyone of us is behaving,

Are we acting out of fear?

Or can we act out of another center in us,

Center of decision making,

Center of our intelligence?

Let's very shortly look at this level of instinct that we are thrown back into.

This instinct,

As I said,

Is not good or bad,

It just means that our consciousness has no access to rationality.

And we are triggered with either the survival instinct,

Driven by fear,

Anxiety,

Uncertainty,

Or it could be other instincts,

Which we are not exploring in these times,

Which we could explore in these times,

Which is to act out of love.

Love is another instinct which is somewhat irrational,

You know this,

When you fall in love,

When anyone falls in love,

There is less rationality,

For all the good reasons.

So this means instincts are not as bad as we might think they are,

They have led to our survival,

They have led to also beautiful things in our life,

Like love.

So let's take a moment to really reflect on what are we acting out of,

How are we deciding various things of our life,

Wherever there is a decision point,

And there is no necessary guidance,

Mandatory guidance,

How are we deciding when the decision is in our hands?

So these three centers,

The middle center that we talked about,

Which is the rationality,

Somewhat lower center is the center of instinct,

I believe we right now are on this,

We are operating out of this center of instincts,

Where either we are driven by fear,

Or a surge of emotion comes in,

And we start acting out of love.

There is one more center of decision making,

Of intelligence,

Which I would like you to explore in this meditation session,

Which is the center higher than even rationality,

The center of intuition.

What is intuition?

It's not rational,

Intellectual decision making,

It's not even instinctive decision making,

Where emotion kicks in,

Where the entire body comes in and decides without you having to think about the decision that you are making.

What is intuition?

When you are rested,

When you are completely in your center,

Then your consciousness opens up,

And that opening of consciousness allows your vision to see through not just the intellect,

But through your wisdom,

Through consciousness directly experiencing what's happening,

Consciousness directly deciding what to do.

That state is the intuitive state.

In these times,

I encourage all of us to first of all come out of these negative emotions of fear,

Rise above our instincts,

Put the fight and flight mode behind us,

Gather our rationality once again,

In the new normal,

In the new pattern of things,

How we are going to act rationally in every situation,

And then further uplift ourselves to our intuition.

Because we are in uncharted territory,

In this uncharted territory,

Our intuition is what is going to help us decide where there is no backlog of knowledge,

Backlog of what should be done,

Apart from what is the general notion and the general guidance that we all receive through information,

Through media.

How are we going to do that?

We can see the emotions and the triggers that are putting us from the center of rationality of our decision making,

Down to the instincts or to the intuition in our breath.

Our breath is a wonderful indicator of our mind,

Of our state,

Of our consciousness,

Of our awareness.

It is a rock solid indicator of all these internal parameters which otherwise cannot be measured.

How do you measure and how do you find your breath to be indicative of your state of mind?

Just observe your breath right now.

Two things.

One,

How deep are you breathing?

Are you breathing shallow?

Are you breathing only until the half of your chest and the breath is not going down fully to your lungs,

And even down to,

So to say,

To your belly?

That would be one indicator.

When you are breathing relaxly,

You are breathing all the way down to your belly.

And that is something which we need to regain back.

If this is lost,

If we are breathing not rightly,

Let's take a moment to correct our breathing and elongate our breathing down to our belly,

That would put us in a deep relaxation,

Deep tranquility.

The second,

More subtle aspect of breath,

More physical but has implications on the psychology,

Is to see that when we are breathing,

When the breath flows in,

What is the flow pattern?

Are we experiencing jerks when the breath flows in?

Are there patterns which are somewhat like breath flows in and then suddenly there is a jerk,

And then breath flows further down and then there is a jerk,

Or you are breathing faster or slower?

There are irregularities in your pattern of breathing which you can notice if you just bring the awareness to your breath,

Even for a few moments.

So in this session what we are going to do is for the first ten minutes,

We are going to bring our awareness to our breath and allow the breath to settle naturally in such a way that both the flow of the breath and the depth of the breath is settling,

Is coming in its regularity.

When that happens,

You will see,

You will find yourself in a state which is once again allowing you to be rational,

Once again allowing you to be acting out of your intelligence and not out of your fight and flight mode.

And if you are in deep rest,

So much so that your consciousness is expanding,

Slowly you will see the sixth sense that is beyond the five senses of perception that you have,

Which are driving your rationality,

Which are driving your instincts.

There is an addition to those five senses which is the sixth sense of intuition,

Where beyond the sense perceptions,

Beyond the information,

You somehow feel,

You somehow know what to do,

And that knowledge,

That knowing of what to do comes directly out of your consciousness.

This is something to experiment,

Explore and experience yourself in your daily life,

Once you put yourself in a restful,

Aware state which is of meditativeness,

Which is learned in meditation through meditation.

With that,

I invite all of you to close your eyes and go into this wonderful meditation with me for the next 10 to 20 minutes.

Find yourself a posture,

A sitting posture,

Cross-legged like myself,

Or on a couch,

A chair with your legs straight as you like.

Make sure,

Howsoever you are sitting,

You are comfortable for the next minutes.

With your back straight,

Shoulders down,

Head straight,

And a gentle smile on your face.

Take a nice deep breath,

Inhale from the nose,

And exhale from the nose.

And for the next minutes,

Keep your awareness on your breath,

And allow your breath to settle in its natural flow,

In its natural rhythm.

In your awareness,

Notice these two factors,

How deep are you breathing,

And are there any jerks,

Irregularities in your breath pattern?

If so,

Allow your breath to relax.

Breath will find its own rhythm on its own.

Don't try to change your breath.

Rather,

Allow the breath to find its own pace.

Simply keep your awareness on your breath.

Allow your breath to flow down,

Flow down until your belly.

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Notice the flow of your breath.

Is it flowing regularly,

Or are there jerks,

Or any irregularities?

If so,

Let your breath relax,

Settle,

Find its natural flow.

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As your breath settles,

Your mind settles.

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Without trying to change the flow,

Or forcing your breath in any way,

Allow your breath to flow in and out naturally.

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Stay with your breath.

Stay with the flow of your breath.

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In these silent moments,

Take your awareness to your forehead,

In the middle of your forehead.

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Try to maintain the focus in the middle of your eyebrows on your forehead.

In the middle of your eyebrows on your forehead.

And leave the focus.

Simply remain silent and aware for another minute.

And very gently and slowly you may open your eyes,

Maintaining the silence,

Maintaining the awareness,

Maintaining the flow of your breath,

Flowing effortlessly,

Deeply,

Naturally.

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