#1: Living the "Intuitive Way": Embodying Your Soul
We are hungering for a deeply real, authentic experience of self — and it comes via "direct knowing" not from defined characteristics.
mind stops trying
and knows
I pause in my rendition of Me
and am Us
in this moment, all time
here, a sphere of surprising awareness
linking every life on earth
when I know this way, no mistakes
when I act, just joy
when we meet, all heart
and when I stop again:
a tiny Buddha smile
I continue to deepen my understanding of how intuition, in its unitive function, can transform perception and reality, paying attention to as many of its subtle mechanics as I can observe and experience. I’ve become more aware of the shift we are all making, in our various ways and at our own speeds, from an older, linear way of perceiving that uses the logical “egomind,” to a more holographic, direct, inspired way of knowing that relies on intuition as its vehicle.
It’s clearer to me every day that we’re undergoing a profound change in our “inner perceptual geometry” — the way we conceptualize and pattern ourselves mentally and energetically. As we restructure our awareness this way, our understanding and the very rules of reality change.
And, too, in these past years, I’ve seen many new people drawn to the spiritual path, watched business executives and CEO’s open to how intuition can benefit their organizations, and observed that many longtime seekers are now approaching levels of enlightenment.
Evolution is more evident than it’s ever been and the study of intuition is perhaps even more timely.
Intuition and Your Authentic Self
One of the main trends I see is that we are hungering for a deeply real, authentic experience of self. We’re soul-searching as never before, coming closer to the possibility that we actually might become enlightened — and in our lifetime. Books on life purpose and finding ourselves are sailing off the shelves. Underneath it all — the key that makes it possible to have a personal experience of the soul — is intuition.
So much comes back to intuition. Intuition allows us — whether we are man or woman — to shift from our linear, busybody, “enterpriser mind” into the softer, more all-knowing, allowing, “feminine mind.” It is through this nongoal-oriented perception that we become saturated and convinced about our true inner nature and are able, not only to love ourselves, but to BE the love that we are.
Intuition is direct knowing. It is the incredibly effortless perception that connects us via our body to everything in the physical plane, and through our heart to our soul and all other souls — even to the core consciousness of trees, rocks, birds, and toaster ovens. Intuition is immensely useful in the world for practical purposes but where it becomes luminous and priceless is as the vehicle for knowing, becoming, and creating from the soul.
Living “the intuitive way” has had a profound impact on my own identity, as I am guided year by year through the process of soul embodiment by that master teacher consciousness that resides inside every one of us. I think I know who I am, then I’m tripped up and shown that I stopped and described the process too soon. There is always more.
And similarly, just when I think I’m clear, another layer of clutter rises from the depths, screaming for attention. It is, in fact, the clarity we achieve that magnetizes our remaining confusion, as well as the next layer of our truth — because above all, the soul wants a totally unobstructed path into and through matter. So I, like you, no doubt, am both more of myself, and less of myself, these days.
If I could talk to each one of you over a casual lunch, I’d want to share some of the insights I’ve received about living “the intuitive way” in today’s internally and externally accelerated times. So, my message now is that there do appear to be some real, effective methods for smoothing your opening process and allowing your soul to “have its way with you.” And then to allow the soul to flow through you into all your expressions, be they your work, spiritual practice, family life, or avocations.
So much of knowing ourselves as our soul comes down to simply letting go of what is false, dissolving old habits of perception, and the ideas we cling to for security’s sake. With a break from remembering and holding all these concepts, and aligning our behavior and creativity with them, there is a subtle experience of being present and that experience itself is you and that experience naturally radiates qualities and curiosities and talents. You discover “you” and how much you actually are, moment by moment.
Thank you Penney....I have read Frequency, Leap of Perception and Transparency, and loved all three. In fact I just reread Leap of Perception, and got so much more out of it this time...When will your next book be available?
Thank you Penney. I first read Intuitive Way 10 years ago. It changed my life! I want to keep evolving by discovering more about myself and connecting with others as “we.”