Four Ways to Use Intuitive Intel on the Job
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Judith Orloff
Judith Orloff MD is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. As a board-certified psychiatrist, Dr. Orloff blends her traditional medical skills with intuition to enhance patient care. A new edition of her book "Second Sight" (Three Rivers Press, 2010) chronicles her challenges and triumphs embracing her own intuition and integrating it into medicine. Emotional Freedom (Harmony Books, March, 2009) helps readers liberate themselves from negative emotions and develop hope, compassion, and courage. It is a roadmap for those who are stressed, discouraged, or overwhelmed--and for those who are in a good emotional place but want to feel better. As Dr. Orloff shows, each day presents opportunities for us to be heroes in our own lives: to turn away from negativity, react constructively, and seize command of any situation. Her other bestsellers include Positive Energy, Guide to Intuitive Healing, and Second Sight, a trilogy of books exploring new breakthroughs in intuition, energy, and how to combat an epidemic of exhaustion overtaking our world. Positive Energy is a national and Los Angeles Times bestseller which has been translated into 24 languages. Visit her website for additional information - http://www.judithorloff.com/By Judith Orloff
Published on 02/14/2010
Did you ever consider that a stiff neck might be your body's way of telling you that someone or something in your office is a being "pain in the neck"? Or that the dream you had about the vacant corner office might be a foretelling of a management position opening up? We all possess intuitive intelligence, yet many of us don't how to consult our "inner coach." As a psychiatrist who incorporates intuition in my practice, I have learned that our body's wisdom is rarely wrong. Best of all, I've found that when employees learn to consult their intuition at work, great things begin to happen to their career.
Adapted from her new book, Second Sight
Did you ever consider that a stiff neck might be your body's way of telling you that someone or something in your office is a being "pain in the neck"? Or that the dream you had about the vacant corner office might be a foretelling of a management position opening up?
We all possess intuitive intelligence, yet many of us don't how to consult our "inner coach." As a psychiatrist who incorporates intuition in my practice, I have learned that our body's wisdom is rarely wrong. Best of all, I've found that when employees learn to consult their intuition at work, great things begin to happen to their career.
Here are four tips from Second Sight on how to do that.
Obey body signals.
Perhaps you find that your stomach clenches up when a certain coworker leans into your cubicle. Or you feel a skip in your step whenever you're asked to be the designated scribe at the regular department meeting. These are your body's way of telling you something important. Listen to these subtle urges and hints. You may find out that the coworker has been bad-mouthing you, or that you have a sought-after talent for writing.
Ask your dreams to provide answers.
Our dreams often tell us, usually in symbolic code, what's happening in our lives. Keep a journal and pen by your bed. Write a request on a piece of paper before you go to sleep and put it next to your bed or under your pillow. For example, "What's the best way for me to get the promotion?" In the morning, stay under the covers for a few minutes, luxuriating in a peaceful feeling between sleep and waking, what scientists call the hypnagogic state. Those initial moments provide a doorway to remembering your dream. Open your eyes and write down everything you can remember; otherwise it will evaporate. If you do this several days in a row, a surprising answer to your question will likely appear.
Pay attention to seeming coincidences.
Sometimes life itself will present moments of clarity in the form of coincidences. These can be powerful teaching moments. For example, you've been thinking about changing jobs when you bump into a long-lost friend who tells you about a dream job that's opening up. Don't let such precious opportunities pass you by. Such synchronous events are signals that you are in the right place at the right time, or that you need to stop and pay close attention to what's in front of you.
Tune in to your intuitive empathy.
This is when you "pick up a vibe" from another person. For no apparent reason, you suddenly feel hostility coming from a boss who is smiling at you, or you sense that a coworker is hiding something. This innate sense that we all have can be fine-tuned by becoming aware of it. It will alert you to danger--a bully boss who has decided to scapegoat you, or a coworker who made an accounting error and is now trying to cover her tracks.
We all possess intuitive intelligence, yet many of us don't how to consult our "inner coach." As a psychiatrist who incorporates intuition in my practice, I have learned that our body's wisdom is rarely wrong. Best of all, I've found that when employees learn to consult their intuition at work, great things begin to happen to their career.
Here are four tips from Second Sight on how to do that.
Obey body signals.
Perhaps you find that your stomach clenches up when a certain coworker leans into your cubicle. Or you feel a skip in your step whenever you're asked to be the designated scribe at the regular department meeting. These are your body's way of telling you something important. Listen to these subtle urges and hints. You may find out that the coworker has been bad-mouthing you, or that you have a sought-after talent for writing.
Ask your dreams to provide answers.
Our dreams often tell us, usually in symbolic code, what's happening in our lives. Keep a journal and pen by your bed. Write a request on a piece of paper before you go to sleep and put it next to your bed or under your pillow. For example, "What's the best way for me to get the promotion?" In the morning, stay under the covers for a few minutes, luxuriating in a peaceful feeling between sleep and waking, what scientists call the hypnagogic state. Those initial moments provide a doorway to remembering your dream. Open your eyes and write down everything you can remember; otherwise it will evaporate. If you do this several days in a row, a surprising answer to your question will likely appear.
Pay attention to seeming coincidences.
Sometimes life itself will present moments of clarity in the form of coincidences. These can be powerful teaching moments. For example, you've been thinking about changing jobs when you bump into a long-lost friend who tells you about a dream job that's opening up. Don't let such precious opportunities pass you by. Such synchronous events are signals that you are in the right place at the right time, or that you need to stop and pay close attention to what's in front of you.
Tune in to your intuitive empathy.
This is when you "pick up a vibe" from another person. For no apparent reason, you suddenly feel hostility coming from a boss who is smiling at you, or you sense that a coworker is hiding something. This innate sense that we all have can be fine-tuned by becoming aware of it. It will alert you to danger--a bully boss who has decided to scapegoat you, or a coworker who made an accounting error and is now trying to cover her tracks.