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Intuition as Spiritual Practice

Intuition means something different to each of us; it’s a personal experience. Let’s just say that intuition is messages from The Universe.

Messages show themselves is many ways. We feel them in our gut, get goosebumps on our skin, and experience sudden tension in our neck and shoulders. We receive messages in our body.

We also receive messages through our senses. We may directly hear or see a message – one connected to a specific neural network in our brain.

We’re aware of a second set of senses – seeing without sight; hearing where there is no sound; feeling without touch; knowing. Messages fill this mysterious space.

Where do messages come from? This is an important question because it leads directly to the first stumbling block to developing intuition: trust. We’re not sure we can trust what we’re getting in messages because we cannot see who or what is sending them.

Let’s say that all messages come from God. For you, God may be Source, or The Universe, or The Field, or Nature. This is where the spiritual practice of intuition finds its root. By developing our intuition we’re developing our connection with God. Essentially, we’re improving our listening skills.

Why do messages come? The idea that messages guide us to move in precise directions suggests there’s a grand plan – that we are being nudged to follow a particular path. Understanding The Universe’s plan for us and staying on track is a second aspect of this spiritual practice.

Our bodies are senders and receivers of messages. Physics and biology agree on this. If we’re developing our ability to receive messages we probably want to pay attention to our body as a receiver – to make sure it’s clear and clean. This attention is healing – the third element of spiritual practice.

As we improve our ability to receive messages, we naturally pay more attention to the messages we send. This opens the fourth element of spiritual practice: relationships. And the fifth: intention.

So, the five elements of intuition as a spiritual practice are:

  1. Connection with God
  2. Understanding the plan for our life and living it fully
  3. Healing
  4. Relationships
  5. Intention

Ultimately, the purpose of developing intuition is to live by faith alone – to trust every decision to Source.

If you’re interested in developing your intuition, please contact Roger Wyer at rog@bizworksstudio.com.

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Healing Beliefs

Healing Beliefs

  • Our single goal in healing is to realize the natural perfect health and harmony we are given
  • Both healer and patient are assisted by all heaven and earth
  • If you can REALIZE the Presence of God where previously you were thinking of a damaged organ, the organ in question will heal.” Emmet Fox
  • The body is designed to be self-healing if we allow it
  • All disease is caused by the belief in disease – this is an error
  • “The healer throws off the beliefs of the sick and imparts to them his own, which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their belief and their disease.” Phineas Quimby
  • Healing is an education process – healing of the body is healing of thought
  • “A human soul may be thought of as an opening through which Infinite Energy is seeking a creative outlet. If that outlet be a clear, open channel, all is well. If, on the other hand, it would become obstructed by any means, then the Infinite Energy, the Life Force, is frustrated, dammed back – and all sorts of local stresses are set up in that soul; and these we see as sickness, poverty, fear, anger, sin, and every kind of difficulty. Not we are in position to understand what the real art of living must be. It must be to make this channel clea, and to keep it clear; and if only we will do this, we shall find that health, prosperity, full self-expression – true happiness, in short – will then follow automatically.” Emmet Fox
  • Belief precedes and filters all perception
  • Challenging beliefs raises awareness
  • There is no disease – a disease is a name for a cluster of symptoms
  • Symptoms provide evidence of false beliefs
  • Forgiveness heals our soul
  • The body cannot resist healing because it is not intelligent – only the mind can resist healing
  • “There is nothing animate in the body, so when the body is injured by what we call disease, it is an error of the mind, the body being subject to the mind, so when the mind is corrected of its error, the truth is established which is its health.” Phineas Quimby
  • At least 19 persons out of 20 are injured by taking medicine. A large portion of surgical operations are wicked and useless torture.” J.R. Newton
  • It is not necessary to understand the whys and wherefores
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New Dawn

New Dawn

Whoosh
That was a Big Change!

I'm a little uneasy about the details
What's coming
What's going

And tired of striving to know everthing
To protect myself against what?

Where's my trust? Where's my faith?
In whom or what? Regarding what?

And what of the sabateur
The one who wrecks my peace
And messes with my advance?

Gone now I hope
Living a quiet retirement
With no work to do
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Change Makes You Give Up Stuff

Change looms ahead. Big Change. The trouble with change is that we believe we’re going to have to give up stuff.

Really, we Know we’re going to have to give up stuff. Secretly, we suspect what that stuff might be. Secretly, we don’t want to go there.

We imagine loosing loved ones, ideas, things, money. We imagine being unable to hold our space or our beliefs.

Very uncomfortable!! We have no idea what we’re going to get in return when give stuff up. We can’t even get past imagining what we may have to give up.

Back up. Look again. This is a trade. What is given? What is received? And most importantly, what’s motivating us to makes this change? What’s our why?

The world around you and me is dying. Stuff is going away. Every kind of stuff. Ripped away. That’s what comes before a breakthrough. Before a rebirth. Before a new life in a new world. Has to be this way.

The faster we give up stuff the faster we open a space for our new life. Our new world. Let’s give up stuff quickly. Willingly. Thoroughly. And let’s heal our losses quickly. Gently. Lovingly.

So we don’t have to be afraid of giving up stuff. We shift our energy from defending old stuff to creating new stuff. We don’t have energy for both. Let’s let our stuff go.

A wise man asked us to see a conveyonr belt moving in front of us, object after object passing our attention. And say to each, “I loved you once. You were golden to me. I picked you up. Now I see you bring mostly trouble. I set you down. Be on your way.”

In ancient Hawaiian tradition we begin life at the base of a high mountain with an empty bowl. As we move toward our goal at the top of the mountain, we pick up rocks and put them in our bowl. As we age and grow tired we see we cannot make it to the top unless we drop each stone in our bowl. This is our task today. Take out a few stones, bless them, and put them down.

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Infinite Intelligence

Winning the game of life requires a strategy that transcends ordinary culture. We don’t learn in school how to succeed. We have to figure it out ourselves. Faith opens a sixth sense allowing communication with sources of power and information far surpassing any available through the five physical senses.

But business seems to operate in the domain of culture. How can we bring a transcendent strategy to our business?

Connecting with the unseen world seems strange, especially in the beginning, when we first confront notions about a vast world existing beyond what we perceive with our five senses. It’s difficult to explain encounters with this other world to those who have not experienced it – or at least been exposed to its existence.

Here are some words that lay it out clearly:

“The state of mind known as faith apparently opens to one the medium of a sixth sense through which one may communicate with sources of power and information far surpassing any available through the five physical senses. There comes to your aid, and to do your bidding, with the development of the sixth sense, a strange power which, let us assume, is a guardian angel who can open to you at all times the door to the Temple of Wisdom. The “sixth sense” comes as near to being a miracle as anything I have every experienced, and it appears to perhaps because I do not understand the method by which this principle is operated.

This much I do know – that there is a power or a first cause, or an Intelligence which permeates every atom of matter, and embraces every unit of energy perceptible to man…”

Napoleon Hill – Outwitting the Devil

You have to try it – experience it directly – to get a sense of what these words mean and how this idea might effect you life. Accessing the spirit realm for information, guidance, and healing is an ancient art.

Developing your sixth sense takes practice. It’s an interesting practice because it’s a way of living. Once you find Infinite Intelligence it’s doesn’t make sense to live your life the old way – the I’ll-do-it-myself way.

I’d like to show you how this works as applied directly to your life and your business. If you’re interested, please shoot me an email.

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glide in

glide in

once upon a time
beginnings
light
feelings
in a body
traveling
many lands
many seas
stars and galaxies
across time
freely
roaming
in search of home
traveling traveling
near the end
almost there
relax and glide in
dock safely
good work
that's all

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The Energy Signature of a Plant Touches Us Emotionally

Each plant has a unique energy signature. Not surprisingly, the energy signature of a plant touches us emotionally when we connect with it.

Let me say that a different way. If you are in touch with a particular plant, you will feel its energy in your body.

This feeling is important for many reasons. How a plant is used by humans has much to do with the kinds of feelings it brings up in people.

It’s no accident that a yellow rose signals friendship, or that a red one is given to express love. There’s no surprise in chamomile showing up in a bedtime tea, or finding mint enlivening a julep. You don’t have to think too hard about a willow being weeping, or a prickly pear cactus being prickly.

The idea of this little exercise is to see if you can name the feelings you get from individual plants in your garden, your home, or your neighborhood park.

Get in touch with each plant through your senses. Then see if you can connect even deeper. Try to feel its energy. Notice what’s showing up in your body. Be with that a moment and experience it fully.

The energy signature of a plant touches us emotionally. It may take some practice, but it’s well worth the effort. You’ll be developing your relationship with Nature. That way, when you ask for guidance about a certain plant – what you can do for it or what it can do for you – at least you’ll know who you’re talking with!

If you want help connecting with plants or validation about the messages you’re receiving, shoot me an email.

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When You Can’t Grow

Grow or die. That’s Nature’s way. And the way of business. But here’s the rub: today’s ideas of lean, cost cutting, belt tightening, and downsizing staff all trim the excess capacity necessary to fuel growth. That’s right, businesses need excess capacity to grow. Growth requires resources.

My father – an efficiency expert, methods engineer, and finally systems analyst – taught me about the three systems operating in every change. He spent his career working in an unusual department of a large utility. His unit was charged with what we now call continuous improvement. Members of the team rotated around the company, each assigned to one department at a time, charged with finding out what was working, what was not working, and what was next, designing new procedures, and implementing them with the department.

He taught me that these three systems inherent in change operated simultaneously in his world – in each change experience he facilitated. The first is The Way We Do It Now. In this system things are sometimes working, but always breaking down. The second system is Design The New System. In this system staff have to drop the work they’re struggling to do in the existing system and devote attention and energy to figuring out the new way. This creates a strain on the existing system. Lots of meetings for example.

People, he told me, forget the third system – the most difficult one – the transition from the old system to the new system. This middle system requires substantial energy and creates big strain on the old system as resources are used to run the old system and implement the new one. This is one reason why change is so difficult for businesses. Growth requires resources.

Growing your business requires this kind of change. And this kind of energy. It also requires this kind of resources – enough to run these systems simultaneously. When your existing systems have been leaned and pushed to the max and are breaking down, growth can feel like an impossible burden. It is.

Years ago I learned that, in bringing continuous improvement to a business, as we began opening doors of possibility and doors of trouble, we were really opening Pandora’s Box. Although the idea was to fix each trouble in a way that moved us toward the best possible outcome, we kept uncovering doors behind the doors. More possibilities – more trouble – more things to fix. It became apparent there was not enough capacity to correct everything that turned up. We would have to focus on the critical few.

That didn’t work either. Systems are complicated. And one rule of a system is that if we touch one part, we touch them all. Sweeping change is just not possible for most businesses unless they’re totally failing. The word for that kind of sweeping change is “turnaround,” and it’s usually extremely ugly.

So I began looking for leverage. Small changes that would ripple through the company to bring change organically. These small changes have to do with the deep structures that characterize our work, our communication, our ways of thinking, and our organization. Effecting these small, leveraged changes works. It’s more about people and training than about installing new processes and systems – although that’s part of it.

Even so, capacity remains an issue. Growth requires resources. I am a resource. In addition to identifying and nurturing organic change, I work with you and your organization when you need me to help move action forward and you don’t have anyone with the knowledge or time to devote to growth. I’m often called upon to take on projects that no one has done – not even me. These projects are not always something I enjoy, but over the years I’ve gotten good at taking on this role. I’m a kind of a wildcard for businesses short on capacity to grow.

PS: there’s good news. About 40% of most businesses is waste. I’m always in waste recovery mode so I will generally save businesses a lot more than I cost. And paying me for project work is less expensive than retraining your staff or hiring a specialist.

Shoot me an email if you want to talk about your situation.

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Connect with Energies

Everything is energy, including thoughts. Energy is conserved. The energy of everything that ever happened, every thought that ever was thought, is here now. That means everything we need to know—can know—is available to us in the form of energy. We can connect with energies.

The question is: how do we tap into this energy to access information we seek?

Basically, we ask.

Here’s how. Imagine talking on your phone. You’re sending and receiving information as you speak and listen. Information moves between you and the other person in the form of energy – a complex set of frequencies exchanged between the two of you through the technology you hold. You don’t know how it works. You just know you’re talking with your friend.

The phone is helpful in aiming the information and making it accessible. It turns a bunch of something-we-can’t-see into the voice of your friend. That’s the kind of help we need in accessing the information-in-energy we’re seeking from Nature.

In the beginning, I used a simple pendulum to help amplify my communication with Nature. I’d ask to be connected to the spirit of Nature, ask yes-or-no questions about stuff I wanted to know, and watch the swing of my pendulum to get my answers. It works very well.

I’ve also worked with a German dowsing tool and kinesiology aka “muscle testing.” As I practiced, I learned to “hear” and “see” messages in energy frequencies beyond those detectable by my physical senses. Through the ages, seekers have developed very interesting, very creative, and very effective methods for knowing the truth. You can too.

If you’d like help to connect with energies, shoot me an email.

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Creating: Come from the future in asking about what to do today.

Here’s why creating is important. If we’re reacting or responding – like we do most of the time – we’re doomed to walk a path dictated by our past. Creating brings something new.

But here’s the rub: creating also springs from the past. Or does it?

I recently got wind of a new way to look at creating. As I work with it, it feels powerful. And wonderful.

Here’s what’s not new: creating begins with a dissatisfaction. There’s an urge toward a new possibility. It can look like a want or desire, but I think it’s better to frame it as a possibility.

My guides say to avoid laying on whys, whats, and hows. Just a movement towards a new possibility.

The next step is to check for alignment. Alignment with every aspect of self – higher self, mind, unconscious, body – even ego. Alignment with the Universe – guides, spirits, Source. It is here that the possibility gets tweaked until the words – or the expression of the possibility – feels pleasing to all concerned and accurately represents the highest good for all concerned. This is important because the Universe always works for the highest good of all. If I’m aligned with that, then I know my possibility must manifest.

Now we project ourself into the future – to a space and time where this new possibility fully exists. Spend some attention living in that place and allowing some details to show up. It’s just important to feel like you’re grounded there – in the unfoldment of the new possibility. It’s important to connect with it.

Here’s the new part: see the Now from this new place. Look back from the aligned future at the Now. Ask this simple question: What did I do Now that moved me directly toward this future? Come from the future in asking about what to do today.

Apparently this is a key to Neville’s writings. I somehow missed it when I glanced through his work. I’m sure we can learn more from him.

The point is that this way of seeing has us creating From the desired future – having the aligned result inform today’s actions. I find it’s a great way to focus on what’s important in the Now.

And it’s a great way to make sure that I’m not stuck creating my future only from the trouble of my past.

If you’d like to talk about what you’re creating and how to bring it into existence, please shoot me an email.

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Awakening in Nature

Let’s go home. Forward. To The Garden. Together. Now.

Whether you realize it or not, you and I are part of Nature. We are, in every sense, spirits living in a body alongside trillions of creatures of every shape and size imaginable. We are dependent on the whole just as the whole is dependent on us.

You’ve always been connected with Nature – fully connected. It’s time to become conscious of this connection so we can use it to awaken.

You have already experienced this connection strongly. Perhaps it was lying on the grass, looking up at the clouds – or the stars. Or walking through the forest. Or sitting quietly on the beach. Magnificent places you’ve visited. Encounters with beautiful plants. The unconditional love of your pet.

Let’s be clear about this. In moments like these, you feel ONE with Nature – with all life. We humans absolutely CRAVE this connection. It’s like coming home. Into the gentle, mighty arms of the love of God.

Why connect with Nature? Because we HAVE to. Life without this connection is not life. It’s merely existence. Awakening in Nature is a gift from our Creator.

If you’d like help awakening in Nature, shoot me an email.

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