Intuition and threats to global stability

If you’ve been reading my newsletter, you will know this by now, that I am on a mission to explore and keep us connected to the beautiful, magnificent but often neglected world within us. Because it is only from there, I believe, that we are able to make meaningful connections and change systems – because systems don’t change themselves, people change systems. And while we do it collectively, it matters a great deal how we show up with others.

Being aligned with our InnSæi – the Icelandic concept for intuition and ‘sea within’, brings many benefits, including more energy, better health, more innovative, smarter and wiser decisions.

The noise, the stress and the speed is familiar to all of us. Suffice it to say that it is making it harder for us to stay anchored in ourselves and in tune with our intuition.

This is serious, because intuition is fundamental to our intelligence. There’s so much to say about this but here are a few interesting facts about intuition:

• It is developed over time.

• It gets better with experience, knowledge and expertise.

• We need good intuition to reason well.

• And without intuition there wouldn’t be much innovation.

• Intuition is not the same as instinct.

  Your key to mental agility

When we are disconnected from our intuition we feel more insecure, drained, less confident and our health can deteriorate – I know this from experience – we exert our limitations again and again because we’re stuck in our heads, and disconnected from the rest of our bodies.

When this happens, it’s harder to access our inner compass. We start floating on the ocean of life, reacting to external stimuli, whatever comes our way, which is very draining and unproductive. When we’re anchored in our InnSæi, we are able to wayfind and navigate the ocean of life with a strong inner compass and an ability to regenerate, prioritise where we place our attention and maintain mental agility with more ease.  

“…Maintain mental agility with more ease.”

I find the need to repeat that sentence, because it is packed with wisdom and smart advise, which we’ll continue to explore in the newsletter, including in the one on ‘the two rhythms and a sharp inner compass’ coming soon.

Three reasons for why we need a well honed intuition

Through my work with leaders tackling some of our most challenging threats to global stability, the following three reasons have emerged for why aligning with, and honing our intuition is particularly important:

a)     We already use it a lot, but we are mostly unaware of it. Speed, noise and stress make it even harder to use it or be aware of it. Intuition helps you synthesise information and recognise patterns in information storms, to see the big picture and how everything is interconnected. When we innately get how everything is interconnected, it informs our approach to everything from people, society, consumption, the economy to climate and biodiversity.

b)    A well honed intuition helps you take smarter and wiser decisions.

c)     When you are aligned with your intuition or InnSæi, you are more present and more in charge of your own attention. This makes you more open to and better at dealing with uncertainty and the unknown. We become better prepared for the unexpected.

Try this for a week

Try this for a week, after work if you can, or before you go to sleep. These are small steps that help you clear the way to your intuition and InnSæi. If you skip a day, don’t worry, just continue the day after.

Notice the effects and make sure you jot down what you notice in your journal.

For 5 minutes:

a.     Write down in a few words only, the key take-aways from today. What did you learn and notice?

b.    Write down one word for a feeling you are feeling, or a thought you are thinking.

c.     Write down a sensation in your body that comes with this feeling or this thought.

d.    Write down the name of a music, film, artwork or a book you like.

For 5 minutes:

• Journal in a stream of consciousness for 5 minutes.

• Let whatever comes to your mind onto the paper, allow the paper, journal to keep it for you, so that you can clean up the space inside your mind. It helps recharge you. If you don’t know what to write, write: ‘I don’t know what to write’ as often as you need.

As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment below or send your thought to me directly.

Thanks for reading.

With love & respect

Hrund