Intuition Hack #1

Tara* brought her 15-year-old son, Kelsen*, home from the hospital after he’d been there for many weeks. He’d had a severe injury from a snowboarding accident. She and her husband, a surgeon, and her other son, decided to watch a movie together this first night he was home.

Right in the middle of the movie, she knew she had to take her son back to the hospital. She later said it was a very physical experience: one minute her body was relaxed and she felt relieved to have her son home. The next minute her body was almost electrified: she felt as if a powerful instinct had taken over her body. She could only think of one thing: getting her son back to the hospital.

But Kelsen was 15 years old and NOT being in the hospital and instead, being home at last, was all he wanted.

“No, Mom! Not back to the hospital! Don’t I have a follow-up appointment? I can just have them check me out then.”

“Kelsen, I can feel it. We need to go and we need to go now.”

Still, he refused. She begged him. “If I’m wrong, we’ll stop and get ice cream. I promise!”

Her husband spoke up. “They wouldn’t have released him if they didn’t think he was fine. And he is fine! I looked at his chart. You’re being ridiculous!”

She begged some more and soon had Kelsen in the car, leaving her husband shaking his head, likely offended that his take on the situation, as a surgeon, wasn't commanding the respect it deserved.

Kelsen doubles over

Tara tried to stay calm as she drove but the physical feeling of urgency hadn’t left her. Kelsen, with his bandages and a walking cast on one leg, sat, sullen and angry in the passenger seat. About halfway to the hospital, he doubled over.

“Oh my God!” he said. He grabbed at the cast. She could hear the sound of VELCRO? releasing as he began undoing the straps on the walking cast.

“What’s the matter?”

“My leg! My leg hurts! Oh my God—it’s cramping!”

Within minutes they arrived at the hospital and he was immediately whisked into a treatment room. Within another few minutes the on call emergency physican had called in a surgeon. Kelsen had a blood clot, not an unusual occurrence after the multiple surgeries he’d had, but one that was life-threatening.

Later, the surgeon told her that they had mere minutes—at that—to prevent the blood clot from entering Kelsen’s lungs and becoming a pulmonary embolism.

Tara had saved her son’s life.

Physical intuition

Have you ever found yourself walking out of a room, feeling as if your feet knew something the rest of you didn’t know? And having that turn out to be the absolutely right thing to do?

Or beginning some task that you hadn’t planned to do that particular day, and discovering that the due date was actually that very day? And you got the task done just in time?

Or have you ever made a call, or showed up at a hospital room, or somehow found your body ensuring that you were at the right place at the right time—and your mind had little or nothing to do with it? As if your body had a mind of its own and some physical instinct took over?

Becoming more embodied

Tara (*not their real names) and I had worked together to have her become more embodied. She and her husband were intellectuals and, when she first came to see me, she seemed to me to be living from about the neck up. As she lived further into her physical body, she discovered that her body seemed to have its own wisdom. It was that wisdom that took over that night. It was that wisdom that more than likely saved her son’s life.

And it was that wisdom that led her to become more fully herself.?

After that experience with her son, she had a newfound confidence in her own instincts. She stopped seeing the world as some intellectual exercise that benefitted from endless analysis. And while her former intellectual stance didn’t disappear, it did take up a new position alongside her powerful, instinctual knowing. She felt more whole, somehow more solid and real. She opened her own business, and, once Kelsen was back to health and both of her sons were involved in their schooling, she felt more able to live her life with greater confidence and discovered, to her surprise, that her instincts really showed up in her business.

She began to have great success and her earnings shot up.

Her husband and sons also listened to her with a whole lot more respect.

What about you? Do you have that connection with your physical body that gives you access to your more instinctual nature? Yes? No? Sometimes?

Here’s my Intuition Hack #1:

Ask yourself, “What do I have energy for?” This is that physical, instinctual energy that propelled Tara out the door, sullen, reluctant son in tow.

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