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PETER BURWASH

I spent six years studying leaders around the world, and 99.9 percent of them said intuition is more important than logic. Logic is what you’ve learned. Intuition is who you are. It doesn’t mean that you can’t be practical and use logic and common sense, but that first emotional feeling is very, very important.

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”

Steve Jobs

Cofounder of Apple Inc.

MASTIN KIPP

Intuition is the primary tool you need to make your dream a reality. Without trusting your intuition, you’re going to fall flat over and over again.

Intuition is a flash of knowledge that comes with a very strong and compelling feeling when we receive it. The feeling urges us to go a particular way with something happening in our lives, or sometimes to not go a particular way. While the feeling is always immediate and strong, people often second-guess the incredible communication they’ve received, and allow their conscious mind to talk themselves out of listening to it.

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH

I am a big believer in gut instinct. A lot of people see it as just mumbo jumbo and nonsense with no data to back it up, but I believe there must be something there because our subconscious picks up on so much more than our conscious brain, and the way the subconscious speaks to us is through our gut. When you have a feeling about someone or a situation, it is very, very important to listen to that. From my experience it’s paid off far more often than it hasn’t.

While science hasn’t yet discovered what our intuition is or where it comes from, in ancient teachings it’s revealed that intuition is knowledge that comes from a higher level of consciousness called the Universal Mind. The knowledge is transmitted through vibrations to our subconscious mind. The vibrations are then transmitted to the brain and to particular endocrine glands in our body, which interpret the knowledge in a way that we will understand. This explains why when we get an intuitive impulse it comes as an impression or a feeling in our stomach or around our heart.

Put simply, your intuition is communication from the Universe. From the perspective of the Universal Mind, what’s ahead can be seen exactly, and the Universe is inspiring you to follow a particular path. Don’t second-guess the communication when you receive it. No matter what evidence there is to the contrary, trust in your intuition, because the Universe knows the way.

JOHN PAUL DEJORIA

I hire people mainly off intuition – how I feel about them. If I’m in a business situation and I want to consider doing business with somebody I go for intuition, because the soul feels.

LAYNE BEACHLEY

We underestimate the value of our intuition. We fail to trust in our instincts. When I’ve made some of my biggest mistakes it’s because I haven’t listened to my intuition, or I’ve listened and I’ve questioned it. It’s important that you learn to trust in it.

You might have unknowingly shut down your intuition, as many of us have, but you can reawaken your intuitive abilities. It’s the very use of our intuition that strengthens it, which is the reason why you hear successful people place so much importance on it. They trusted in their intuition, followed it and acted on it, and by so doing their intuitive abilities expanded enormously. The majority of successful people use their intuition with almost every decision they make.

LAIRD HAMILTON

Whenever I have an instinct, I act on it. What’s interesting is that as you become conscious of acting on it, you become better at it. It’s actually a life skill that you can get better at.

Outside of just trusting in your intuition and following it more often, there’s an easy way to increase your intuitive abilities. Ask questions!

When you ask a question you “receive” the answer through your intuition. You can start with easy questions where you know you will see the confirmation of the answer quickly, like, “What time will a person arrive?” Or, “What color clothing is a particular person going to be wearing today?” When your phone rings, and it’s not in front of you, ask, “Who’s calling me?” Sometimes your own mind will try and give you the answer, but if you can keep your own mind still when you ask the question so your mind is in receiving mode, with practice the name of the person calling will flash into your mind.

Asking a question or for a solution uses the very same process as when the answer is transmitted to you, but in reverse; your question is transmitted outward to the Universal Mind. Perhaps you will now understand how it is that when entrepreneurs ask for the perfect idea that the world needs at that time they receive an idea that ends up being
exactly
what the world needs at that time!

As you improve your intuition, you’ll start to get more and more intuitive urges and inspirations to do particular things, and when they prove to be correct, like many successful people you will trust in your intuition and know it to be one of your most powerful abilities.

The Golden Rule

LAIRD HAMILTON

You could say to my mother, “I’m on the cover of this magazine, or I did this achievement,” and she’d say, “Great. But how are you treating people?”

PETER FOYO

Treat others as you wish for them to treat you. Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you.

If we didn’t experience the consequences of our actions, whether those consequences were positive or negative, we’d never learn anything and we’d never evolve. You understand there’s a consequence to touching a hot iron, to sleeping in on a workday, or to not paying your phone bill. But what many people don’t know is that the biggest consequences we experience are due to the way we treat other people.