Month: September 2026

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The Value of Intuitive Thinking

Intuitive thinking is a natural ability that we have, it is part of us. It is as if a very smart part of us, or a higher power is offering us information. This information can be to do with our everyday lives. It can be to do on issues that we are dealing with and focusing on in our work. If a person is involved in business and focusing on a business deal, it can be information about that. If the person is a scientist or mathematician the information can be something that moves the research or work further on; it advances the work. A musician can find an idea or music or words coming into their head. An artist might have an image appear. A writer might be on the receiving end of a storyline or a character. The opportunities are endless. Intuitive thinking offers original, creative and timely information. The products of intuitive thinking can sometimes be literally world-changing.

Remember intuitive thinking is a natural process, but it is also one you can become better and better at, which enriches your life and work, and can feel very fulfilling.

Intuitive thinking is not helped by having continual stimulation of continual visuals or continual sounds or noises or voices from phones, videos or TV. These things mask and blot out intuitive thinking.

Intuitive thinking happens when you are not trying to achieve something. It happens when you let go, when you let go of your thoughts, feelings and worries of the mind. Basically it happens when you relax and are having a quiet moment, or at least several minutes worth of quiet moments. That means no phones is best. It is time for you rather than for other people to have priority over your time.

Some people find their mind switches off when they do gardening, or go for a walk in Nature, or knit, or relax in a hot tub, or go for a swim, take time to look at the stars, or simply breathe and lie there and relax.

When people relax their breathing can become easier and their heart rate decreases. Their brain wave state alters. The busy, stressed beta brainwaves decrease, and the slower alpha brain waves become more prevalent. Perhaps the relaxation can go deeper into slow theta brainwaves.

A simple way of achieving more alpha brainwaves is to breathe, and slow and deepen the breathing. A popular form of breathing at the moment is box breathing and this helps massively. I read about it in the early 1980’s and found it great. People these days go for 4 seconds in, hold for 4, breathe out for 4, and stay empty for 4, then again breathe for 4 and so on. In the 80’s we would start with 4 seconds for a minute or so, then go for 5 seconds, then 6, then 7 though that felt difficult. 4 seconds is likely just fine.

Or you can really explore the various forms of yoga breathing which have been tried and tested for a few thousand years. Breathing exercises show up in various old spiritual traditions and have been known about for ages.

If you are not keen on the breathing exercises, try out gardening and so on, so long as it is doing something that suits you, and gives you the relaxation and the mental space for your intuitive thinking to happen.

If you can, make sure to create space in your day for relaxation and your mind to have quiet and switch off.

You don’t need to meditate to achieve intuitive thinking, quiet time will be enough. If you do want to meditate, then this will have an effect of quieting your mind in a way that builds, which is beneficial.

You don’t need to deliberately practice ways of using your intuition on issues for intuitive thinking to happen, as it happens in times when you are mentally quiet. That is when you can notice the information coming to you.

Intuitive thinking can really enrich your life, and end up enriching the lives of others through your creativity.

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Why Meditate?

Meditation: quiet serenity, a feeling of joyful contentment, knowing all is OK.

Meditation is like mental and emotional decluttering for the modern world, with some awesome energy as well, to shift one’s perspective about oneself and life.

Modern life is different to how it was. People used to experience worry, thought this didn’t stop them from getting on with their lives. Now people experience anxiety, which can sometimes bring life to a halt. I used to get people asking me for meditation to help them deal with stress, and recently I have been asked to help turn down and turn off anxiety using meditation.

There are factors these days affecting people’s mental wellbeing that played a smaller role before.

There are so-called “smart” phones, they can have some positive uses but they have had an awful effect on some people. As people used smart phones they have become susceptible to relying on them, on the internet and on social media, for their artificial and growing dopamine addiction. Then there are the emotional and mental effects of social media, through which others can cause upset and harm.

In life, people have always looked for answers. But the scrolling on phones will never feed the need for the really satisfying answers that people deep down want.

“Smart” phones will never give people what they want, emotionally and mentally. As one gets older you learn it isn’t that others like you that is really important, it’s that you like yourself, and are true to yourself, and not others.

Meditation can at least take you part way along your journey, and help you find your centre. Meditation helps you claim your power, and reclaim your sovereignty over yourself and your life making you freer.

Meditation weans people off the need to chase external stimulation to gain a dopamine hit, as plenty of dopamine (and serotonin) is created in the brain with meditation. Meditation is a way to connect with some wonderful and naturally available energy that has a good effect on the brain and nervous system, quite deeply as you will see later. The effect on the brain is passed on to the body through the body-mind link.

The internet and social media have the effect where we can end up judging ourselves against others and against unrealistic “values”. This can be very harmful and affect our emotions negatively.

Meditation can help us empower ourselves, taking away from others the power we might have given them. Meditation can help us build a good awareness of our own body and improve our self-image.

There is a lot of change happening in the world. Over-thinking about it can pull you away from your centre. Also, humanity is now more susceptible to the astral levels, and the lower levels can negatively influence, feelings, thoughts and moods. Decluttering this kind of energy and lifting yourself back up happens with meditation, then it is very useful to learn to button up your aura and chakras for protection.

Regular, ideally daily meditation helps to keep your system clear and tuned in to the higher energies that are beneficial to your spirit, mind and physical body.

Meditation is a wonderful way of looking after yourself, and helping you with your daily life. It helps you connect more and more with your true nature.

If you are interested in the body and brain, auras and chakras, read on.

The effects of meditation on the body and brain

People in the East have meditated very a very long time, and meditation has long been an accepted part of life. In the West, years ago, there were few meditators, and meditation was seen as a slightly weird and fringe activity. There wasn’t any scientific interest in studying the effects of meditation.

Nowadays though, meditation in the West is seen as a good thing. Also, there are scientific studies of the effect of meditation on the body and brain. There are available some useful techniques for doing this. For instance, MRI scans of meditators brains provide very convincing reasons why a person should meditate.

Scientific studies have shown that meditators have less oxidative stress in their bodies. (Source: pubmed.ncbi.nih.gov/21280542/) This means that chemicals useful for the body (such as glutathione, a major antioxidant) are not used up dealing with the free radicals that cause oxidative stress. Instead, they are available for other functions in the body, such as the alleviation or prevention of conditions leading to disease. Simply put, meditation boosts the immune system and health.

In the brain, levels of dopamine, serotonin and GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) all increase with meditation (Source: standfordmag.org) The brainwave state is improved, with less beta waves which are associated with stress, and more alpha brainwaves instead. These are linked to better calm and focus, and creativity.

Meditation has been scientifically found to increase grey matter (brain cells) in several areas including the hippocampus (important for learning, memory and emotions). Grey matter is reduced in the amygdala which is to do with fear, stress and anxiety, which are reduced.

These changes are not all that surprising as it is known that the brain does physically alter depending on what we habitually do, and how we use our brain.

(Extremely helpful to think about diet and gut health, as chemicals from the gut reach the brain and have a profound effect. Also, a healthy gut produces 90% of our dopamine and serotonin! Important to sort out diet as well as meditate.)

I should say that in modern life, meditation is best considered as a very useful part of one’s life. A happy, healthy and balanced life, from an energy point of view. Also important is exercise, as it shifts old, stagnant energy from accumulated thoughts and feelings out of your body. Exercise is like a reset.

Being out in Nature also gives us a reset as old energy drops away and our energy is nourished and balanced by Nature. If you were into T’ai Chi and could appreciate the chi energy, you will know there is chi energy all around us, and particularly out in Nature rather than in artificial environments. That energy out in Nature has a good effect on us.

Also, check what you are thinking about yourself, others and life in general. Positive thoughts take you up, while negative thoughts take you down.

Aim to think positively about everything. (This doesn’t mean accepting situations that are not acceptable. Positive thinking can be a start to offering situations up, and so that light and love can be injected into them to bring about change.)

The most noticeable impact of meditation on chakras and the aura is to clean them up a bit, recharge and uplift them. The aura improves in shape and brightness, and the chakras lighten up and brighten up. Better energy and positive thinking will also influence the possibilities on your future timeline.

As previously mentioned, there is a lot going on in the world, and the astral levels have more access to humanity. At the same time, there is a huge amount of Light and Love flowing into the planet and the rest of creation. Meditation helps with accessing and absorbing this lovely energy, and at the same time, clears out the astral, and helps one to become less affected by changes in the world. Remember there are positive changes happening as well though; they don’t get reported on so much.

For some people, the intense Light and Love flowing in is difficult for them to handle, so they will use drugs in an attempt to numb out or try to escape the energy. Drugs just put holes in people’s auras, and introduces low level energy. The holes make it easy for what is in the astral levels to get inside people’s auras. Often this will stimulate the need for more drugs and the energy that goes with them. The astral energy promotes addiction. The situation is not good. Meditation over time greatly improves matters.

(Substance addiction in some people though can be a response to trauma at some point in life, so dealing with the underlying cause of the addiction is also very necessary as well as the repairing of the energy system. I have seen many cases of this successfully happening.)

There are different meditations on this blog. For best results try out the one for rooting yourself into the ground, as this prevents you from being floaty, and it means you can absorb more Light. It is good also to practise buttoning up your aura for after the main meditation as you can then look after the lovely energy you have gained, and protect your own energy. Happy meditating.