Uncover Your Career Path.

COMMUNICATION WITH THE INTUITIVE SELF TO UNCOVER YOUR CAREER PATH.

 The intuitive self has to resort to extreme measures in order to communicate because it can’t talk.  Not in the usual way, at any rate.  The language centre of your brain, the part that processes, analyses, and communicates verbally, is overwhelmingly dominated by the logical self – the left-brain. In one sense this is good otherwise you would not get through your day.

 But this is not to say that the intuitive self never uses words.  It does.  But when it speaks, you – that is, your logical self – are usually surprised by what it says.  Creative writers and others who express their intuitive selves through language often describe the process as occurring in a kind of dream state, during which they’re not fully conscious of the words they’re about to use.  The logical self does its best to interfere with this process.  It peers over the poet’s shoulder, making comments like “Not exactly Shakespeare, are we? Or “What will your mother think? Or “‘Darkness visible? What the hell does that mean, ‘darkness visible’?”  This IS why so many writers drink excessively!!

 Even for us normal people who are not artistic, the intuitive self will occasionally verbalize its opinions.  The classic Freudian slip is good example:  The speaker says what he means, but did not want to, without even realizing it.  Other verbal cues are more direct, like the comment that “popped out like a burp “during a person’s interview.  Something similar happened to a friend, Bruce, with much happier results.  After a comfortable but unspectacular first date, Bruce gave his companion a chaste peck on the cheek, then heard himself say, “Goodbye, Terry I love you.”  He was absolutely horrified.  “I thought I would explode like the Hindenburg from sheer embarrassment,” he told me I barely knew her!”  Apparently, Bruce’s intuitive self was on the right track, because he and Terry have been happily married for years. Now, what has your Intuitive self been saying to you all your life about your job, career or starting your own business?

Your intuition-self knows what you need to do to be happy and flourishing but your logical-self wants the power and does not want interference from other potential threats to its power base.

 The fascinating thing about incidents and “light-Bulb” moments are that although the conscious, verbal self is completely blindsided, the words that come out of your sub-conscious are true in the deepest real sense.  Pay attention if your own words begin to surprise you.  You probably don’t have brain damage or multiple-personality disorder; on the contrary, you’re getting crucial information from your real self to take you onto your new career path.

 Most intuitive-self guidance, however, isn't so obvious.  Because it takes enormous energy to shove the logical self out of its command centre in the rational, verbal part of your brain, the intuitive self usually “speaks” through parts of your being that aren't under conscious control.  These are commanded by the deeper, more primary layers of the brain, the parts that manage your emotional responses and basic body-maintenance functions like aspiration, sleep and waking, sexual desire and higher communications with your Soul through your sub-conscious and Spirit energy. That’s one of the reasons I developed my TLC Online Workshop. I’ve developed ways of occupying the logical-self while we encourage the Intuitive self to communicate more easily. I give the logical-self credit for doing what it does well and I ensure it also has work to do in the TLC Workshop.

 When you leave your true path and start heading away from your intended life path, your intuitive self will use any or all of its skills and tools to stop you.  If your logical self won’t pay attention to mild warnings, the intuitive self has to get more and more dramatic.  As a last resort, your core self will simply hijack the controls you use to direct your own behaviour or immune system.  You may be oblivious to your own discontent until the very moment you find yourself weeping at a business luncheon, punching your child’s first-grade teacher or crying in a hilariously funny movie.  Fortunately, you can avoid such unpleasant situations if you learn just one “word” in your intuitive self’s nonverbal vocab:  NO. It took me most of my life to realize and act on this important. NO.