Developing Your Intuition: Daydreaming

  • Today our focus of Ways To Develop Your Intuition. Day dreaming

  • Day dreaming dissolves the hard boundary between the rational and the imaginal and enables us to truly understand ourselves, others, and situations. When we dream, we allow the contents of our unconscious mind to influence us, and it is from the Mind Palace of our unconscious that the clues and suggestions for understanding life’s mysteries will emerge.

  • When daydreaming becomes a practice—like yoga or mindful breathing—and is something we do regularly and intentionally, it can bring surprising benefits. We can experience feelings, inspirations, ideas, and insights that would not have occurred to us had we remained in our usual, rational, problem-solving, hyper-busy routines. And the practice of stimulating both hemispheres of our brain will mean that those feelings and insights arise "around the clock"—not just when we’re daydreaming
  • Some tips to strenghthening your skill:

  • - First, give yourself permission to daydream, and remind yourself that daydreaming is going to improve your relationships and even your performance at work.

  • - Once or twice a day, lie back and stare at the ceiling or out the window and practice the soft gaze. This is when we look into the distance but don’t focus on any one thing. Focusing stops our mind from wandering, which is what we want it to do when we dream.

  • - Once you have mastered the soft gaze, practice open attention by being interested in the comings and goings of your thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them. If you do get stuck, turn your attention to your breathing. The in-and-out rhythm of your breath is soothing and can help detach your thoughts from worries and over-thinking.

  • - Exercise your imagination by resting your gaze on an object—the tree outside or a coffee cup—and imagine yourself to be that object. What do you as a tree or coffee cup want to say? Engage in a conversation with the tree or cup.
  • Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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