When an experience can move through the body, through consciousness, and through the connection between the two without blockages, we access the faculty of intuition. Intuition offers the gestalt the mind is always seeking. It is the cure for anxiety, which is nothing more than the mind’s restless searching for information. We mistakenly direct the mind outward or upward when we want to be moving down and in. It requires consciousness to descend and offer itself to the body in order to see what is happening and know how to respond.
The sensing organ of consciousness, when it has no residue, will have untold, accurate sensitivity. Perception in situations will have little to no lag time, and, as a result, information will be gleaned and processed in real time. When our consciousness is connected to our body, our intuition awakens, and, if we are listening, information from the subtle realm is presented with precision and the utmost relevance. Intuition operates at the level of a whisper because that is the world it lives in, and we can only access it when our consciousness is available, unimpeded, and attuned. The answers we seek are literally all right here.
When we are congested, our energy tends to swing between two poles, beginning with a progressive buildup of anxiety and tension and ending with an involuntary discharge—a climax—that leaves us exhausted. If we are lucky, we experience a glimpse of electric current in the process. However, when the body is operating with optimal energetic digestion, it will be in a permanent state of charged relaxation.
That current will steadily move through, keeping the system both buzzing and humming. Both ends, the anxiety and the exhaustion, will be absorbed into the current until the body exists in a state of charged potential— relaxed awareness. This is the state the body needs to be in for intuition to turn on.
At present, most of us feel impact, then act. We must begin with a conscious choice to make the descent into the body; not by glamorizing it, nor with demands or control, nor to get the goodies or co-opt the powers, nor as a duty we must go through. It must be with a recognition that there is no other way, that what we want lies in the body, and that in order to access it we must listen with curious, open, and directed attention.
We must do this even when it is confusing, when it does not make any sense, when the information coming from the body seems circular and confused, when we feel like there is a problem we need to fix now, and when we are uncomfortable and just want to check out or do something quickly. The body is slow and wants to process thoroughly.
First, we must train our attention to truly feel a feeling. We sense for the area of discomfort. We rest our attention there. We will notice a whole series of experiences arise. We will become suddenly interested in something else. Our attention may bounce off, meaning we land in another location with thoughts, plans, or judgments. Or our attention may collapse, meaning we land in a place that has us feel like we are drowning, or almost as though we can’t think. We are looking for a dynamic tension between these two states. This is a two-part procedure and it is both delicate and slow.
We rest our attention gently and let it land on the feeling. As we do, we will experience two things—a slight jolt and a pull into the area. The jolt might feel like fear or repulsion. We do not let the mind interpret. The pull might feel like an emotion such as sadness, collapse, or defeat. We do not let it sink in. We remain where we are as the charge happens and usually we feel a tiny “aha.” This is the encoded information for consciousness and electricity for the body. There will be a feeling of relief beneath it all, almost a gratitude that we are there, like this feeling has been waiting for us.
The more we can hold the mind steady with gentle approval, the more the information will be received into consciousness and the charge will be absorbed into the body. From here we simply remain and the next layer will open. The charge will become more intense as we make our way down and in, but our power of attention will have increased as well. The key is to remain with it until it opens fully and to not act until it does.
A very distinct sensation occurs when a feeling has opened fully. If we imagine the end of a climax where we sense the tremors are complete and we land fully where we are and the ground feels solid, only now our body feels open—this is how it feels. At the center is a seed of insight. The insight is always an understanding that feels loving, and explains at a deeper level of understanding than we have known.
We have had to go through the layers, the ossifications of identity, to make it to the essence where the information has been waiting for us. More often than not, it is a difficult but universal truth. There is a surety to the message as it clicks into the body. Following the experience, there is a sense of liberation and sobriety. The body feels buoyant but the mind feels as if it is holding a precious lesson that will require care lest we forget.
Much of our work for many years is clearing out the house where we have been hoarding unprocessed sensations and emotions. It is difficult, but with each clearing, the weight gets lighter and what was weight is now converted to power. The process becomes exponentially easier the more we do. We gain more power and the load is less. The challenge is that we can become complacent with the “good enough” or the “how much better” we feel and stop the deliberate work, causing it all to begin to pile back up.
This is a good time to make digestion our life’s practice; to make the choice to deliberately go through this process daily. This is also where we can add OM into the equation. It abets and accelerates digestion because the power is turned up. In OM, attention moves into hyper-focus in the erotically charged environment in which consciousness is most awake— outside of life-or-death experiences. The key is there must be a period following the process where we allow our system to readjust—to settle and not act while we are stirred up. Otherwise, we will be acting with a charged consciousness, and this is where we get reactivity.
The environment with charge makes contact, and there is an explosion of sorts. In the time we give ourselves to readjust and settle, there will eventually be a moment when consciousness receives clear instruction on what to do and now has the power to do that. It may be to write, it may be to rest, it may be to create. It is important to take the time to listen and see. This is the process of digestion.