Inborn responses are intuitive responses. You don’t need to think of them before they pop up in any communicative context. Intuition is seen as the inner teacher of everyone which serves as guide to understand inner wisdom. The good news is that there is no one who is not born with an intuition. It is located in the right hemisphere of the brain. In his description of the intuition, Tanaaz (2018) said, “Our intuition is in fact, the outcome of our heart and inner ear picking up on subtle vibrations in energy. These sensitive organs can apparently pick up on vibrations around us and in our higher consciousness in order to deliver us our intuition.” Before we can talk of intuitive responses, you must learn how to decipher between what an intuition is really is and logical thinking.
In order to work with your intuition, focus on the question you ask yourself or someone else asks you. Make sure the question is clear and succinct in order to enable you receive the clearest response. It also helps if you are open to the possible answers to your question rather than looking for a confirmation. In fact, for best results try to release any preconceived ideas or attachments to your questions (Tanaaz, 2018). Then connect with you logical mind. In order to do this, ask these two questions—what does my mind say? And what is my fear saying? If you like, you may jot the answers somewhere but what is most important is that you continue ask those questions until you purge yourself of all answers. Tanaaz advises that you should take as much time as you need to ensure that you are satisfied with all the possible answers from your mind and fear.
After you might have cleansed yourself of all those things going on in your mind, it will help you to switch over to your intuition. In order to do this you need to bring your attention to the present moment. In order to consciously align yourself to the present, you may look at your surroundings and spot out seven things that are unique to you. This will help you to bring your awareness into the here and the now, and will automatically ground you to hearing the messages of your intuition. Focusing on your breath is also a great way to tune into your soul and will help you to stay connected (Tanaaz, 2018).
The final step is to inquire from your intuition. The simple question to ask is—what does my spirit say? After asking this question, observe what you are feeling and try to stay out of “thinking mode”. If you don’t receive an answer straight away, or you unsure about your answer, try sitting with your question in stillness and wait for the answer to come. Don’t try to push it, but instead flow with the energy that is around you. You can keep returning to your breath if you get distracted or move into your logical/left brain energy. The more you engage in the exercise, the stronger your intuition will become. Our logical, left sided brain serves a higher purpose, as does our intuitive right sided brain. When you learn to listen to both as taught in this lesson, you will always be on the top of your life’s affairs (Tanaaz, 2018).
Intuitive responses can always be applied to body language reading. Lickerman (2013), writing on the Truth in Body Language states that “We all give ourselves away every minute of every day. That is, we broadcast our true intentions, feelings, and even thoughts without knowing it through our body language, tone, and facial expression. This happens whether those intentions, feelings, and thoughts match what we express through language or not.” This is the power of intuitive response at work. The scholar opines that as good as we all appear at reading people’s body language, it mostly happens through the use of our intuition. That is, we come to conclusions about what someone is thinking or feeling without being able to explain why. When asked to justify why we think someone is mad, for example, we’re often reduced to making inane-sounding statements like, “You just look mad.” And without being able to justify our impressions more concretely, we find ourselves far more likely to dismiss our intuition when it’s challenged. After all, who knows better what someone is feeling, the person himself or the people around him? Most probably, it is the people around him because there are many factors that affect a person’s feeling—connections with other emotions, how we are wired by other experiences and our intention to avoid those feelings (Lickerman, 2013).
In trying to read a person’s body language, do not allow them to hoodwink you into jettisoning your intuition. Doing that will lead into birthing fictions that cannot be defended and right in your heart, you also know that you are not convinced of the ground you shifted to. This will debar us from resolving issues that we intentionally set out to do. This has always been the Achilles heel of most law enforcement officers; they allow criminals to trick them into not believing their intuitions. Their response depicts you as a fool. This is a smart way to override your intellectual prowess. Most often than not, the first thought that drops into our mind concerning a person is usually truthful. Before you discard it, work with it and through it, engage your subject critically. Lickerman in his essay expertly and brilliantly concludes thus: “If there exists a discrepancy between what you think someone is feeling and what they say they’re feeling, more often than not there exists a second feeling that’s strongly influencing their willingness to admit their first—and it’s this second feeling that’s often the real problem.” When you surrender your precious intuitive thoughts on a platter of gold, that means you’ve lost battle before it began.
References
Cholle, F (2011). What is Intuition, and How Do We Use it? Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-intuitive-compass/201108/what-is-intuition-and-how-do-we-use-it
Lickerman, A (2013). Truth In Body Language. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-in-world/201305/truth-in-body-language
Tanaaz (2018).How to Tune into Your Intuition for an Immediate Answer. Retrieved from https://foreverconscious.com/tune-intuition-immediate-answer
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