| AN INTUITIVE LEAP: FROM THE “TEA | | | | develop more of our consciousness potential—and |
| ROOM” TO THE BOARDROOM | | | | our potential intelligence—especially when combined |
| | | | with good left-brain skills. Since the Age of Reason |
| Intuition—a faculty most of us value, many of us | | | | and ascendance of science, we have |
| have developed, and some of us work with | | | | embraced—and our academic institutions have |
| professionally. Especially for those of us who work as | | | | emphasized—primarily our left-brain aptitude and |
| professional intuitives or use it in our healing work, | | | | skills—logic, analysis, deductive reasoning, etc. The |
| intuition’s value to us is so great that it’s woven | | | | “softer” right-brain skills, such as creativity, |
| into the daily fabric of our lives so seamlessly that we | | | | intuitive knowing, holistic perspectives, self-expression, |
| don’t even consciously notice at times that | | | | vision, among others, gradually came to be regarded |
| we’re using it. | | | | as somewhat inferior or, at the least, less important. |
| We’ve learned that intuition has many benefits | | | | Interestingly, this shift gradually led to “hemisphere |
| over and above the guidance it can give us when | | | | wars,” as some people picked sides and pledged |
| we’re looking for insight. It can strengthen our inner | | | | their allegiance to only one hemisphere and its |
| voice and thus our confidence. It can help us | | | | functions, to the detriment of the other. |
| “read” and understand others, so that our | | | | What we’re now starting to see, thankfully, is a |
| relationships can improve measurably and any conflict | | | | more holistic stance toward our mental faculties and a |
| be minimized. It can help us to perceive more clearly | | | | new emphasis on development of potential. Indeed |
| and objectively. It can give us insight for future | | | | businesses are starting to embrace creativity (a real |
| directions. | | | | necessity for innovation). For this reason, I sense more |
| It’s ironic that, with all its far-reaching benefits and | | | | and more an impending “mainstreaming” of |
| as much as we revere our inner voice, intuition | | | | intuition, including in the corporate world. |
| continues to be relatively hidden from the view of | | | | Intuition is, after all, a mental faculty. As much as many |
| most people and even ostracized. Indeed many of us | | | | of us incorporate the spiritual into the intuitive and see it |
| are tentative in mentioning it at times and may be | | | | as indispensable to intuition (and indeed there are so |
| comfortable discussing it only with those people we | | | | many resonances between the two), intuition can be |
| consider to be like-minded. The same could be said, of | | | | developed as a purely mental faculty. And it |
| course, for energy work and other forms of | | | | needn’t be off-putting. Certainly one major type of |
| alternative and complementary healing. | | | | intuition, in which we pull information from our |
| Why is this? | | | | subconscious into conscious awareness, fits easily into |
| For many years, metaphysical and new thought ideas | | | | our “normal” human consciousness and isn’t |
| have been marginalized, even regarded as fringe—to | | | | “supernatural.” And this type of intuition, in which |
| the extent that there’s a separation, even a | | | | we access information we had but didn’t know |
| perceptible antipathy, between “new agers” (or | | | | that we had, can be taught and should certainly not be |
| those into alternative spirituality and modalities) and the | | | | intimidating. |
| mainstream. One of the major reasons for this | | | | Even the more extra-sensory nature of intuitive |
| estrangement lies in the (so-called) “unproven” | | | | information that may seem to spring from nowhere |
| nature of many of the modalities we embrace. | | | | needn’t be a hindrance. There are theories that can |
| Another reason lies, quite simply, in the fact that | | | | explain how such seemingly supernatural phenomena |
| they’re not traditional, and many people primarily | | | | can exist, and there are methods to teach its employ. |
| embrace that which is traditional. | | | | When I’ve taught corporate seminars on intuition |
| And yet, just as intuition can have powerful benefits on | | | | and creativity, I have experienced a receptiveness that |
| the personal level, so too can it give us positive effects | | | | is encouraging. All that’s required is rational |
| in other areas of our lives. As a professional intuitive, I | | | | explanations and definitions and an applicability to |
| know that intuition can have many practical benefits | | | | business needs. Businesses can indeed benefit from its |
| that can be applied to pragmatic areas, such as | | | | usage, in areas such as morale, teamwork, productivity, |
| business. And I’m not talking about intuitives giving | | | | planning, marketing, R & D, etc. |
| business advice (even though I’ve looked at | | | | I increasingly feel that we’re at a point in our |
| business-related issues for many clients). I’m talking | | | | societal development where new thought faculties and |
| about teaching intuition and intuitive skills to | | | | modalities may be more widely embraced and used. |
| management and business personnel. | | | | Certainly yoga and meditation have evolved since the |
| What many of us are beginning to realize is that | | | | 60s from far-out “weird” practices to accepted |
| developing and mastering intuition is just the tip of the | | | | modalities that are known to have health benefits. The |
| iceberg insofar as its positive effects are concerned. | | | | same will be true of intuition and other modalities. |
| What developing and using this faculty does is help to | | | | |