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Dear Friends of Intuition,
We are offering the Intuition Intensive in the new year, Friday, January 18, 2013 from 6 PM - Saturday, January 19, 2013, at 3 PM. You are invited to spend the night with others who want to explore the intuitive heart in greater depth, particularly expansion and discernment.
There is limited enrollment, 10 – 12 people, due to small number of overnight accommodations. Three people have already registered.Attendance at a previous intuition retreat at Charlson Meadows is required for participation.
Together we will explore these areas through experiential exercises:
Our time together incorporates self-reflection, dyads, triads, and circle conversation. There will be many experiential exercises, so it is important that you are comfortable sharing with others. Although it is helpful if you have a practice such as regular meditation, prayer, chanting, tai chi, or yoga, it is not absolutely necessary. We will spend time together in silence with practices such as these.
If you can join us, welcome again to the peaceful views of Lake Zumbra in the comfortable homelike space of Charlson Meadows' living room. Several new Life Journey sites have been developed since you were on the property. They include a new labyrinth, the Chapel in the Woods, a seating area near the Elder Tree, and The Bridge to the isthmus.
Once again, overnight accommodations limit our group size to 10 to 12 people. Five people have already requested participation. Previous intuition offerings have filled quickly, so please register early by sending an email to: Sharon@lifesciencefoundation.org. More details will be provided at that time.
Charlson Meadows is happy to offer this exploration to participants for no fee. More information will be sent to registrants. If you can't make this program, but would like to come to Charlson Meadows, please see the information below about other programs.
Below are links to other Charlson Meadows' upcoming programs:
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Intuition, a capacity associated with expanded wisdom, knowledge, and creativity, has been traditionally associated with innovation, art, and science. However, with the exception of Dr. Jonas Salk, intuition is rarely identified as a helpmate for health care professionals and/or people monitoring their own health needs.
Yet, the health care setting with its potential for highly emotional exchanges about healing, life enhancing issues, or death is a natural environment for intuition. This is true for two reasons: (1) intuition’s central activity is communication and (2) psi research suggests that intuition’s presence and accuracy is enhanced when emotional connections are heightened. Rhine Reference see below.
Physicians are also starting to publish journal articles about intuition’s role in clinical settings. Tracy, Dantas, Upsher Reference, see below. Alternative and Complementary professionals often feel greater latitude in reporting these experiences and, in some cases, their modality integrates the use of intuition such as Rosen professionals sensing into the body, Indigenous healers ‘dialoguing’ inwardly with herbs to identify which is most applicable, or a massage therapist knowing exactly where a sore point is without the client saying anything.
Quiet Revolution in Health Care: Taking
Intuition is part of this ‘taking charge’ responsibility. People can train themselves to listen carefully to the messages and needs of their own bodies. For example, news reports, magazine articles, and TV commentators continue to let us know that too much stress is a major factor in creating poorer health. Try slowing down long enough to ask yourself:
When these simple questions are made part of your daily, weekly, or monthly routine, you establish an inner, intuitive conversation line with your body. You can think of it as a phone line or email: when your body is calling or emailing you about its condition, do you pick up the phone or answer the email? If not, how long do you let your phone ring or delete your body’s email? How many times and ways does your body have to alert you for you to respond?
In today’s fast paced world where many people face pressure at work, are snarled in traffic getting there, and eat nutritionally poor foods, it becomes more important to slow down and take time to check how the condition of your body.
It is commonly recognized that sometimes parents spot potential health problems in their children before there are obvious symptoms. An example is a mother who thought her son’s health wasn’t right. She took her child to several physicians and was repeatedly told there was nothing wrong. Within the year, however, her child was diagnosed with childhood leukemia, which was treatable. Although she had to wait for medical tests to ‘catch up’ to her intuition’s guidance, the mother remained true to her inner knowing. Her actions simultaneously taught her child, her family, and people acquainted with the story the importance of paying attention to health care intuitions as well as continually checking their validity with professionals. In this case, her persistence in seeking the truth was rewarded with her child’s diagnosis and treatment.
If you learn that your impressions are incorrect, you can relax. If you learn that you are facing a health challenge, you are equipped to begin handling it and recognize how your body cares for you. If, after seeking input from an expert you remain uncertain or your intuition persists, get an opinion from another health care expert. It is wise to confirm health care opinions whether or not you are motivated to get them by intuition or symptoms.
Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis opened its Institute for Health and Healing in 2004 with a new model that includes care teams composed of a nurse clinician, a massage therapist, and an acupuncturist. These care teams are available for consultation based on requests from the hospital’s healthcare professionals or the patients themselves.
Because of the positive research on the role of intuition in nursing, the teams received intuition training and today intuition is integrated into their daily activities. Team members meet every morning to set their intention to heal and help those they are scheduled to visit that day. They begin their day with this morning affirmation:
In addition, members of the team are encouraged to use their intuition to assess: What is needed, beyond what is required, by our patients today? By the healthcare professionals we will interact with? By family members we encounter? By the staff that serves our patients? And, by patients not on the list who we feel intuitively called to visit?
This openness to intuition allows the teams to act collaboratively on an intuitive level. They seek to be “in the zone,” knowing what to do and when to do it. The results are impressive. In 2004, when in-hospital care teams began their work, they received about 200 referrals from physicians and patients a month and in 2006, the referral number has soared to 1300 patient visits a month.
Lori Knutson, who directed the Institute of Health and Healing for many years, presented information about the use of intuition at Abbott Northwestern Hospital at the For a summary of her presentations: Link to Lori Knutson's Symposium Presentation
Getting More Information
In addition, the Taking Charge website, contains an entire section on Intuition and Health Care. For More Info: http://takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/therapies/intuition/what
Rhine, Louisa, Hidden Channels of the Mind, New York, William Morrow and Company, 1961
Ruth-Sahd, Lisa, ‘See Everything, Hear What Is Not Being Said”: A Phenomenological Investigation of Intuition in Novice Registered Nursing Practice,” (Dissertation 2004)
Smith, Anita (2006). Continued psychometric evaluation of an intuition instrument for nursing students. Journal of Holistic Nursing. 24 (2), 82-89
Tracy, S., Dantas, G., Upshur, R. (2003). Evidence-based medicine in primary care: qualitative study of family physicians. BMC Family Practice, 4:6, www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/4/6.