{"id":3640,"date":"2011-02-24T05:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T12:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonapollovoss.local\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2018-09-21T02:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:08:03","slug":"obstacles-to-accessing-your-intuition-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2011\/02\/24\/obstacles-to-accessing-your-intuition-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstacles to Accessing Your Intuition, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This is part two of a two part series about the principle obstacles standing in the way of you accessing your intuition.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web2011\/02\/17\/what-my-intuition-tells-me-now-obstacles-to-accessing-your-intuition-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obstacles to Accessing Your Intuition, part one<\/a> was published one week ago today.\u00a0 Combined, these two posts should become a part of your investor&#8217;s toolkit.\u00a0 If you are looking for a manual for how to access your intuition as applied to investment results I encourage you to purchase a copy of my book, <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/webbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Anxiety is not the same thing as fear<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The emotion most likely to trigger the ego is anxiety.\u00a0 But anxiety is not the same thing as <em>real<\/em> fear.\u00a0 When we experience real fear our lives are literally in jeopardy.\u00a0 Real fear actually triggers a heightened, meditative state of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Have you ever been driving on a wintry road and suddenly spun out of control?\u00a0 When this happens many of us experience a state of heightened awareness devoid of emotion where everything seems to move in slow motion.\u00a0 This is <em>real<\/em> fear, as opposed to anxiety.\u00a0 Real fear is a feeling state, a heightened, meditative-type state.\u00a0 Whereas anxiety is an emotional state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Anxiety happens when we encounter a situation that is similar to a past situation in which we experienced a threat to our quality of life or health.\u00a0 Here the egoic mind flies into operation to separate us from what it anticipates will be a painful situation for our feeling selves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So if in the winter\u2019s driving example above we had a bad car accident, now when we encounter similar conditions, or drive through the same location even in summertime, we experience nervousness, that is anxiety.\u00a0 Anxiety causes a tightening of the solar plexus, shortness of breath, and most importantly separation from the present moment and from the subtle feeling sensations the unique and current moment provides to our intuition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">For intuition to be more accessible then we need to begin to tell the difference between <em>real<\/em> fear and anxiety.\u00a0 So when we experience anxiety then we need to be able to trace the source of our emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Through a method, such as meditation or psychiatry, we can begin to dismantle our reflexive anxious responses to situations.\u00a0 In turn, that will unlock our ability to access our intuition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Being at war with our egos<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">To better access our intuition we need to not be at war with our egos.\u00a0 But many spiritual traditions have the elimination of the ego as a goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Unfortunately, opposition to anything, such as trying to eliminate the ego, creates separation from that thing.\u00a0 This is identical to egoic mind.\u00a0 That is, trying to eliminate our ego simply creates more ego \u2013 a vicious and unending circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Stated differently, putting effort into destroying our ego is like being at war with ourselves.\u00a0 Clearly this is unhealthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Instead of eliminating the ego, we need:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Consciousness of the purpose of our egos and acceptance of that purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Conscious choice of when to let our egos operate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This approach creates internal harmony.\u00a0 Furthermore, it actually helps make a practice that aims to diminish the ego more effective because there is no internal, vicious circle, conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Archetypal mind<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In part intuition works by letting yourself harmonize with something that you want insight about or that you want to understand.\u00a0 When you do this you receive pure information about the subject.\u00a0 But to understand fully \u2013 that is, to wrap your entire mind around it &#8211; you have to translate the signal into something that the left-brain can understand. Typically we translate our experiences into either images or words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In both the image and word realms there are many archetypes that we are all familiar with and that our left brains use to help our understanding and interpretation of the vast, multi-dimensional world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Archetypes are like structures for ways of being.\u00a0 Think: the successful middle-aged man with his Harley Davidson, or the suburban soccer mom.\u00a0 But archetypes can also be things that are deeply symbolic, like: gold, a labyrinth, a shark, the sun, and so forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">When we take the raw intuitive, right-brained signal and bring it into left-brained consciousness it is frequently filtered through archetypes.\u00a0 Unfortunately, archetypes are so generalized that they often obscure as much as they inform intuition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So if your intuitive insights are frequently couched in archetypes or symbolism this is an indication that your intuition needs some refinement \u2013 that is, it is too left brained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Confusion between inspiration and imagination<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Somewhat similar to archetypal mind, and too much expectation obstacles, the imagination can often stand in the way of really understanding intuitive signals.\u00a0 Pure intuition has the quality of inspiration about it.\u00a0 That is, it is charged with a profound sense of knowing and an electricity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">But often we prefer that the outcome conforms to an imagined outcome.\u00a0 The imagination is where our emotional, often subconscious, longings intersect the right brain\u2019s creativity function.\u00a0 In other words, interpreting imagination as inspiration is a form of psychological projection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So if you are looking for intuitive insight about which job offer to accept, there may be a job that your prefer.\u00a0 This job may more actively captivate your imagination.\u00a0 However, your intuition may be telling you that another job is the better choice for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">One of the defining qualities of the imagination is a dream-like quality; whereas intuition has the sense of definitive clarity.\u00a0 So if you are using your intuition to make a decision, make sure that you are actually tapping the inspiring intuitive source and not just your imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>The wrong environment or being uncomfortable<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Earlier I described that the emotion of anxiety is one of the primary obstacles to accessing our intuition more freely.\u00a0 Clearly then, being in the wrong environment, an environment that causes anxiety in ourselves, is to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Thus, if we need to access our intuition we need to be in an environment that is conducive to achieving a meditative state.\u00a0 Usually this means we need a quiet and relaxing space, insulated from distractions and negative stimuli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part two of a two part series about the principle obstacles standing in the way of you accessing your intuition.\u00a0 Obstacles to Accessing Your Intuition, part one was published one week ago today.\u00a0 Combined, these two posts should become a part of your investor&#8217;s toolkit.\u00a0 If you are looking for a manual for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}