Are You Feeling It?

Imagine you bought a new car and after sixthey were able to get in touch with their intuition.
months it starts to get very sluggish. You take itMany people have had an experience similar to
to the mechanic and he recommends a goodthis. They say "I don't know why, I just felt I had
wash and wax. "What? Are you crazy? There'sto call my mother or my brother, etc." and the
an internal problem," you say. "Okay," he says,phone call was needed at that moment.
"how about putting on some of those fancyThere is a spiritual world all around us that is
rims?"complex. There are thousands of spiritual beings
Believe it or not, this is what we do withon your left and on your right. And there's a good
something even more precious than a new car.reason why we are unaware of the spiritual world.
When people are feeling negative, sad, orIt's too much for us to handle. But many
unresourceful, they often opt for an easygenerations held onto sensitivity to spirituality and
superficial solution that is more of a distractiondidn't leave it completely. For the past one
than a cure. Go to a movie, have a drink, eathundred years people have gone away from the
some ice cream. Sleep. These bandaids don'tunseen and the mystical. They wanted facts and
address the core issue. The reason why we optscience, not religion and superstition. But they
for them is because we really aren't used tothrew the baby out with the bathwater.
delving into our insides. If you are able to get inThe truth is that you are not required to get in
touch with what's on the inside, it's a very usefultouch with your intuition. But if you do, it can be
thing to do.an extremely powerful tool.
One of the elusive things in life is surprisingly veryIntuition
close to your beating heart. It's called intuition andGraphology is the study of handwriting and is
for most people it has a life of its own. Do youused by psychologists, criminologists, and job
want to have more of a handle on it?application analysts. A good graphologist can tell
Actually, your mind and heart are in cahoots toyou many things about your personality. They can
form an inner sense called intuition. This elusivedescribe your relationship with your parents; they
part of us can be a powerful tool, if wecan assess your general level of honesty, tell if
understand it. Since you're more familiar with youryou're happy or depressed. But it takes time to
mind, let's start with that.learn this skill, and you have to have an intuitive
Mental Intuitionability also. They studied children's ability to assess
In Hebrew the word Binah sometimes refers tohandwriting based purely on intuition. It turns out
intuition, and is one of the main spiritualthe children were extremely accurate until they
connections to the Almighty, as explained inreached puberty. After that, as pre-teens they
Kabbalah. Binah can mean knowledge that comesbegan to rely more on intellect or visual factors
to a person without an intellectual process. A flashand less on their intuition. Children are naturally
of insight or an uncomfortable feeling about aintuitive. If you want to relearn your intuition, you
person or situation can come to us for a varietyneed to get in touch with your "inner child." You
of reasons. But usually we think of this as intuition.have to choose a time and a place to feel childlike.
Technically, binah is a word that grammaticallyNot immature, but more like going with the flow,
implies making connections between two differenthaving unstructured fun. Sometimes spending time
things. (Similarly the word "bein" in Hebrew meanswith a child and letting the child dictate the flow of
- between.) Sometimes it refers to the type ofactivities and conversation can help. Sometimes
analysis that takes an idea and compares andbeing around other people who are intuitive like
contrasts it to everything else we know to beartists and musicians can help too. When was the
true. We can do this naturally, or we can do thislast time you sat on the floor with a child and
intentionally. If I say "I'm not really 47 but I'mplayed?
actually 35," you will automatically, not necessarilyFeelings
intentionally, start matching that statement withPeople tend to think of "feelings" as emotions like
internal knowledge in a split second. Does he lookanger or jealousy, but there are various feelings
47 or 35? Why would he have said he was 47 ifthat aren't emotions. You can feel tired, hungry or
he isn't? Does he have an expression on his facethirsty. You can feel "funny". You can feel out of
that shows he's joking?sorts, awkward, uncomfortable, upbeat, or "on
On the other hand, a process of comparing ayour game". You can feel like something isn't quite
statement with everything else you know to beright. Feelings can be synonymous with intuition.
true can also be done intentionally. The BibleFeelings come and go all day long. An exercise
states God said to love your fellow man. Here areyou can do to get control of the power inside
some analytical questions: Can I choose to love?you is to write down on a piece of paper
What if my fellow man is a moron and a jerknumbers one to ten. Carry the paper with you
that leaves his garbage cans in front of myand every once in a while write down exactly
driveway every week? Why isn't it enough forhow you are feeling. It may not be easy, but with
me to merely like my fellow man? Can I just loveeffort you can articulate what you are feeling.
my fellow man in my heart or is God asking meThis act puts your internal barometer more in the
to try to stop famine and war in the world also?palm of your hand.
You can develop, with practice, an analyticalInside
intellect that naturally breaks information down,Kabbalists describe the internal workings of the
clarifies, defines, and then compares andhuman being. We all recognize that we are not
contrasts. The ancient Talmud trains people to doour body. The physical masks the spiritual. Our
this, and learning this process is a large portion orbody is our "mortal coil" that we are enclothed
any "traditional" scholar's training.with while in this physical world. Some of us are
Premonitionalso aware that we are not our thoughts and
Have you ever had a premonition? Have youfeelings. If you can say, "I can't control my
ever felt like something was going to happenthoughts." then you are not your thoughts. If you
before it did? The heart knows when somethingcan say, "I can't stop feeling this way." then you
is about to happen. We all have intuitive feelings allare not your feelings.
the time, but we ignore them because they areBut the act of getting in touch with your
distractions. We have no idea, usually, whatthoughts, feelings, and intuition gets you one giant
information these feelings carry. Is it heartburn? Astep closer to understanding your true self. Some
headache? Or an inkling that something is about topeople say "ignorance is bliss", but I believe true
happen. Job, the quintessential sufferer of thehappiness comes from understanding yourself,
Bible, had three friends that sensed somethingGod, and spirituality. The tool described here, of
was wrong and all showed up at his door on thegetting in touch with your inner self, is a powerful
same day. Their friendship was so strong thatmeans to greater happiness.