How I Discovered the Hidden Language of Intuition
How I Discovered the Hidden Language of Intuition
Years ago, I was sitting in a classroom at Orange Coast College in Southern California. I had just finished my certification in Clinical Hypnotherapy, and on our final day of class, Dr. John Davis made a recommendation that would profoundly influence both my personal life and my work. He told us that if we wanted to continue our journey into personal development and deepen our ability to help other people transform, we should take a class taught by Dr. Chuck Leviton, a clinical social worker who taught psychosynthesis. So I signed up.
Psychosynthesis, very simply, is an approach to personal growth that helps us explore the different parts of ourselves and bring more of who we are into awareness and alignment. But this wasn't just a class where we sat around talking about theories. Chuck took us into interactive imagery.
And I have to tell you something: at first, I wasn't very good at it. I struggled to visualize, wondered if I was doing it correctly, and more than once, I remember thinking, I'm just making this up. I think that's important to share because it's exactly what many people experience when they first begin working with imagery or even developing their intuition. We expect intuitive information to somehow feel different from imagination. Often, it doesn't.
But then something started happening. I began paying attention to what I saw, what I heard, what I felt, and what I somehow just knew. Then I'd listen as other people in the class shared what they had experienced. Every week for ten weeks, Chuck guided us through a different imagery experience. We'd close our eyes and enter the imagery, interact with whatever appeared, then open our eyes, journal about what we'd experienced, and share it with the group.
Over those ten weeks, I discovered something that completely changed the way I understood the mind: behind the busy, analytical, thinking part of my mind was an entire other world I could access, a world of symbols, images, feelings, characters, places, and sensations. And most fascinating of all, I could interact with it.
I could ask my subconscious mind for a symbol, ask the symbol questions, and listen for an answer. I could enter into a dialogue with a part of myself that didn't communicate primarily through logic or words. And the more I practiced, the more extraordinary it became. My creativity skyrocketed, my intuition became stronger, my ability to sense and read other people improved, and I began developing a relationship with my own inner world that has continued for decades.
This is why I use interactive imagery in intuitive development today. Before we can confidently interpret intuitive information, we need to become familiar with our own internal language. What does your imagination feel like? What does a symbol from your subconscious feel like? What happens when you stop analyzing an image and become curious about it instead? What happens when you ask it a question? What happens when you allow something to arise before your logical mind has time to explain it away?
This is part of what I mean when I talk about Know Thyself. Knowing yourself becomes the baseline from which you learn to recognize everything else. And perhaps the most important thing Chuck's class taught me was this: Don't dismiss something simply because it feels like you made it up. What we call "imagination" may be one of the most powerful doorways we have into the deeper mind.
I walked into that classroom thinking I was learning another personal-development technique. I walked out having discovered an entirely new language: the hidden language of intuition.
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