Tune
In
“Become
a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and
intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see
that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.”
Larry
Dossey, M.D. (The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can
Shape Our Lives)
Dr. Larry Dossey, who has
written extensively about the relationship between prayer and
healing in his books, Healing Words, Reinventing Medicine, and
Prayer is Good Medicine, puts forward his case for the non-local
nature of mind. It makes sense that if you believe (and now there it
pretty good research to back it up) that the prayers of people who
may or may not know the person they are praying for, and are not in
the same room, or even in the same state or country, affect the
outcome of surgery and the speed of healing, that you would
understand that mind is not confined to the inside of our heads. That
somehow, our thoughts, our prayers connect with those of others to
maximize impact on the person being prayed for. There is an energetic
component—our thoughts, like everything else, are energy waves
which cannot be confined at all.
Dossey writes that the
non-local nature of mind means that we are connected at all times to
one great mind and therefore have access to thoughts and ideas that
do not originate with us. This understanding is gaining ground in a
variety of areas of human life. Writers, for instance, know that
ideas for stories seem to jump up out of nowhere, and that it's not
uncommon for two writers to have almost identical story lines come to
them at same time. Business innovators know the benefits of
“brainstorming” for new ideas. Most of the time, we filter out
the thoughts that come to us unbidden. “Where did that come from?”
we ask ourselves. If we have a hunch that seems out in left field, we
quickly flick it away as “ridiculous.” We do that to our own
detriment.
I have come to trust
feelings, hunches and what I call “random, incoming ideas.”
Intuition is a very real thing. I find it useful as a blogger to ask
no one in particular, the universal in general, “What shall we
write about today?” and more often than not, a thought comes, or a
name comes seemingly out of nowhere. This morning that name was Larry
Dossey, and the very first quote I found was the one above about
feelings, hunches and premonitions. You may think that is simply a
coincidence, but not I. Coincidences are meaningful, as are feelings
and hunches. Our minds exist both within and outside of our brains,
and much more information is flooding in every minute of every day
than we can possibly process consciously.
It's a good idea when a
thought drops out of the blue, or you get a strong impression to do
or not do something, to listen to that advice. Call it what you want,
think of it as “woo-woo” if you like, but take it seriously. We
are so much more that we imagine, and deeply embedded in the world,
its life, and its history. Our minds connect backwards and forwards
in time and space. We don't have to put all our eggs into the
intellect basket. We have a soul that lives in eternity to guide us.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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