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Learning to Trust Inspiration*

Henry Reed

“For mercy has a human heart.” William Blake, Songs of Innocence

In the midst of her anger, Michelle noticed she was squeezing down on her breathing.  Her chest was constricted.  She drew a deep breath, and, slowly and carefully, she took in some complete, fulfilling breaths.  Then she sighed in relief.

  Eventually, Michelle forgot to think about how deeply she was breathing.  She just let it happen on its own.  She found herself watching it happen, felt her lungs draw in air, and felt a movement of energy throughout her body.  Then, the old air left her lungs, taking her tension and fatigue with it.  As she continued to watch, she noticed that, just for a moment between one breath leaving and another coming in, everything stopped, paused.  Then, miraculously, the next breath came, right on time, in its own time, of its own accord.

  “I have never felt so in touch in with my body,” Michelle said.  “It was tranquil and exhilirating at the same time, a very special moment for me, almost a peak experience.”

  Several thoughts went through Michelle’s mind.  She thought about the fight she had had with her husband that morning.  She realized she had gotten mad because he hadn’t done something for her that she had assumed he would.

  “I realized just how much I had come to take him for granted,” Michelle explained.  “I could feel just how unappreciated he was feeling.”

  What would happen, Michelle wondered, if she gave to her husband a little appreciation when he did something for her, even when it was something she expected him to do, like the appreciation she was feeling for her breath, something she also had taken for granted? It would prove to be a transforming thought for her and for her marriage.

The Secret of Flow

“Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit and the Muse, Nothing refuse.” Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing, Give All to Love, st.1

In her moment of inspiration, Michelle stumbled onto a secret of intuition.  Maybe sometimes you have taken a “breather” and gained a fresh new perspective.  Taking time out is an important step in dealing intuitively with a situation.  But there’s something else that Michelle stumbled upon that’s just as important.  In falling into the flow of her breathing, she also tapped into an intelligence larger than her own.

  If you’ve ever watched a champion tennis, basketball, or soccer player in action, you’ve probably noticed how quickly they respond to events.  What’s more, every move evolves rapidly, one move flowing into the next.  They are champions of instant improvisation.  Even with all their planning and practice, there is little they can do by rote; it’s all made up on the spot.  When they are at their best, these athletes play in a state of constant inspiration.  There is usually little time to think consciously about what to do next; they just respond intuitively.  When they experience peak moments of especially graceful play, when it seems to happen effortlessly, they say they are in “the zone,” where nothing goes wrong, or in the “flow,” where the play happens by itself.

  You may remember experiencing some moments of flow in your own life.  Maybe everything just fell into place.  Errands worked themself out as if choreographed by the city planner.  You found yourself in the right place at the right time as if everyone knew your schedule.  Obstacles melted away as if life were handing you the keys to the kingdom. 

  The term “flow” entered the academic and popular vocabulary as the result of research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a University of Chicago psychology professor, who has spent years studying this state of mind.  According to Csikszentmihalyi, we all experience states of flow in many aspects of our lives -- athletics, creative endeavors, relationships, our connectedness with the world around us.  When we are doing what comes naturally, we are usually doing it gracefully.  Even simple acts, simple moments, can have their natural grace as they ride along the flow of the experience.

  Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as a state of “optimal experience.” It is where you are completely focused, your concentration bringing you total absorption in the activity that has your attention.  It is a state of consciousness that focuses the energy and attention and seems to carry you along as if moved by an outside force.

  If you have ever been so absorbed in an activity -- music, reading, painting or a project at your job, perhaps -- that you were carried along by the spirit of that activity, losing all track of time and anything else going on around you, then you were in flow.  If you have ever found yourself, during a walk, suddenly shifting into a more intense connection with the physical world around you, then you were in flow.

  On the other hand, when we are outside the flow, life can be quite effort-filled.  It is almost as if we look about us, not quite sure what to do, what we want, what is expected of us.  It is like a sail boat caught in the “doldrums,” where there is no wind to fill the sails, and so the boat sits there, helplessly dead in the water.  If there is any pressure to perform, then even worse than the doldrums is the ensuing sense of stage fright, the anxiety of being caught short and lacking.  Here self-consciousness is a state of extreme painfulness. 

  The flow state is the opposite of the doldrums.  Self-consciousness becomes the joy of watching your experience unfold before you.  Everything moves along effortlessly; everything comes out right seemingly automatically. 

  According to Csikszentmihalyi’s research, flow seems to result from several things: focused attention, the ability to do something well, training and practice, letting yourself go into what you are doing, becoming one with it.  In a state of flow, you feel more like yourself, your natural self, more like you are doing what you are meant to be doing.

  Whatever the circumstances of your own experience with flow, you probably will agree that it was as if you somehow relaxed into the experience and let it take on a life of its own, as if you got out of your own way.  At the time, if you had stopped to think about it, it probably all would have seemed very natural.

  Flow is a natural state and, thus, it is no surprise that it has received recognition in older traditions than scientific psychology.  One of the earliest champions of the reality of flow was Taoism, a very ancient philosophy from China.  Taoism is founded on the “Tao,” meaning “The Way,” which is the path of flow.  Another way of describing the Tao is to say, “the way things are.”  When you are in harmony with the way things are, then things just work out for you, naturally, effortlessly.  In harmony with the Tao, you are connected to the larger intelligence of the universe.  When you are in harmony with the Tao, in the flow, your natural intuition is amplified beyond your own understanding.  Here you can, in the words of the song, “know everything without knowing why.”

  Csikszentmihalyi’s research confirms that during those moments of flow, people evidence greater intuition.  You probably often have seen for yourself that it is easier to be intuitive in the little things during your day, especially when you aren’t trying to be.  But as soon as you make an effort to be intuitive or feel that something important is at stake, you find yourself blocked, full of self-doubt.  When I ask people, almost everyone agrees that it is easier to be intuitive when they’re not thinking about it.  In fact, when we stop to think about it, we can’t be intuitive -- or so it seems.

  There is a way past this block.  Learning how to get past this negative feeling of self-consciousness will be very important, and enjoyable, too!  You can learn to enter the flow intentionally, and it’s your breath that’s going to show you the way.

The Breath Has a Natural Flow

“And the heart must pause to breath...” Lord Byron, So We’ll Go No More A-Roving

I’ve learned that the breath really can be a fine teacher in your study of intuition.  It has many lessons to teach you, and it can be a meaningful guide into some important intuitive realms that are hard to reach otherwise. 

  For one thing, the breath can teach you how to enter the flow state deliberately and with full awareness.  Through the breath, you can gain entrance to an intuitive mind space that usually is reserved for moments when you aren’t thinking about it.

  To begin learning the breath’s secrets about flow and intuition, the first thing to do is to explore what it’s like to pay attention to your breath while also letting it happen naturally.  You can do this even as you’re reading these pages.  There’s no need to stop reading, although it’s fine to stop if you wish to at any point in order to become even more absorbed in watching your breath.  Just be aware of your breathing, allowing it to happen naturally, spontaneously, doing whatever it will do, without your trying to affect it. 

  If you’re like most people, you’ll find that as soon as you begin to pay attention to the breath, you begin to affect it, worry about it, change it, make it different, evaluate it.  When I introduce people to observing their breath while letting it be, they usually find they feel a need to change their breathing in some way.  Once they begin to focus on their breath, they experience almost a compulsive need to control it.

  People sometimes tell me that when they focus on the breath, they suddenly feel that their breathing is too shallow and they want to breathe more deeply.  Others say they feel fear that the breath won’t happen if they don’t make it happen with their own effort, as if their usual ability to breath automatically freezes up.  People who have had yoga training often say that they find themselves guiding their breathing to a slow, rhythmic count.  Whatever their experience, most people initially find themselves imposing some influence on their breathing, stepping into the middle of it to affect it in some way.

  This tendency to interfere with the natural flow of the breath is certainly a curiosity.  Think about it.  You have been breathing for years without having to make it happen, just letting it happen by itself without paying much attention to it.  And yet, as soon as you focus your attention on the breath, you seem to feel a need to control it or fix it or influence it in some way.  Even though we all know that it really isn’t necessary, that the breath will happen by itself, we can’t help but try to control it.

  This dilemma is the same predicament that we’ve seen happen with intuition.  When you go with the “flow” of your daily life, acting improvisationally and doing what “feels” like the right thing to do, acting spontaneously without thinking about it, you are being intuitive, and it’s easy and natural.  It’s only when you start to focus on intuition, when you try to make it happen on call, that you begin to analyze it, try to control it, worry that it won’t happen on it’s own.  And then you get in intuition’s way.

  Yet, you will discover, the irony is that the secret to intuition is very simple.  The secret is hidden in your breathing.  But once you discover it, you will realize that it’s been there all along, in plain sight.  It’s hidden now because, even though you may look at it, you may not see it.  The secret to intuition is: Let yourself be.  Just let yourself be yourself.  Just act naturally.

  This secret may not sound like much of a revelation, but as we go through the Intuitive Heart Discovery Process, you will come to appreciate, as I have, what many people have told me.  As they come to accept and reclaim their own natural intuitive style or ability, it’s as if they come to accept and claim themselves at a newer and deeper level.  A well-respected professional intuitive, Caroline Myss, once remarked, “The only block to your natural intuition is low self-esteem.” My students have found that this statement has proven true for them.  It is an important idea that you would do well to keep in mind until the day you realize its truth: Being intuitive is being yourself in a very profound way.  Now, let’s go back to the breath.

  Keep in mind that you’ve been breathing without effort all your life.  It happens naturally.  Now you can learn to let it continue to be natural even when you are paying attention to it.  Nothing more, nothing less.  The goal simply is to be yourself, mindful of yourself.  What you’re going to do is use the process of learning to trust in the flow of the breath to see what it brings you.  It can bring you to your goal.

Your Breath Can Teach You to Relax

“A merry heart goes all the day” William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale.

The breath is a teacher.  Watch your breathing as you let it be.  Simply follow it without worrying about it or changing it.  Notice that on the exhalations, when your breath goes out, there is a very natural relaxation.  Let your breath show you how it relaxes.  Let it teach you about letting go.  Watch how the muscles in the chest and stomach area let go and relax on the exhalation.  Let your exhalations help you to let go.

  After doing this for a while, this feeling of relaxation may call something up for you.  When I ask people what this feeling is like for them, they often use words such as softening, a balloon that’s deflating, the wind going out of sails, or loosening.  Think about what feelings and images come for you during the letting go of the exhalations.

  What is letting go?  What actually happens in the exhalation? If you look at it closely, you will see that what the lungs do is exactly nothing.  That is, they collapse, and the air leaves.  Letting go is releasing.

  You can explore this same idea for yourself with your fist.  Squeeze your hand into a tight fist.  Now, just let it go.  What did you do to accomplish this letting go?  You stopped doing anything, right?  (Where does your fist go, by the way, when you relax your hand?  This is a good question to ask kids just to see the looks on their faces as they try to figure out the puzzle.)  Squeeze your hand into a fist again.  Let it go.  Tense, release.  This sequence of first squeezing and then letting go of muscles throughout the body is a basic relaxation training technique.  The same thing happens with the breath.

  By paying attention to your exhalations, you can let your breath teach you how to relax, to release, to let go.  And if you stumble over it at first, don’t worry.  You’ll soon get past any awkwardness, and then your breath can be your guide to other learning about being in the flow and about accepting natural intuition.

  As you become more comfortable letting yourself go as the breath exhales, you’ll probably notice further qualities of the experience. 

  When I ask people to tell me what comes to mind as they relax more deeply with the breath, they typically mention images such as drifting, falling asleep, dissolving, waves disappearing in the sand upon the beach, evaporating, or disappearing in peace.

  Some people have reported that letting go fully with the exhalations feels like a little death.  They have a sort of “near-death” experience while they watch it happen.  They find it very exciting to experiment with letting go that much.  It reminds them of times as a child when, on the playground swing, they experimented with taking risks and letting themselves go into the thrill of the swing.

  The breath can be a profound relaxer, helping you to find your own way to get out of our way and become one with the flow.

Your Breath Can Teach You to Trust

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.” Carl Jung

Exhaling isn’t the only thing going on in your breathing.  The breath also comes in on the inhalations.  Shift your attention, focusing on these inhalations.  Continue to allow your breathing to happen on its own.  Let it be as you wait for the inhalations.  Let them come on their own.

  As you watch your exhalations, you probably will notice that you relax a little more with each breath that goes out.  As that happens, you may notice as well that your increasing ability to let go also brings with it a certain trust, trust that another breath will come to replace what you just released.

  Let the inhalations show you how to accept them as they come.  Let the inhalations show you how to trust.  Let that next breath come to you, trusting that it will come as it is needed, accepting that it comes of its own accord.

  As you observe your inhalations, notice what comes to mind.  People tell me that their inhalations feel like a balloon filling up, like being lifted up or awakened.  Accepting fully the breath coming in on its own has its special pleasures.  Some people describe it in sexual terms, as bringing special delight. 

  It is surprising that something so common and close to you can bring such joy.  In combination with profound letting go, the experience of trusting that the next breath will come and of yielding to the breath when it does come, can create its own ecstasy.  You can feel as if life itself is taking you into its flow.  Such a deep encounter with trust can be very healing.  It also will help you reach deeper levels of your intuitive gifts.

You Can Meditate on Your Breath’s Wisdom

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.” Charlotte Bronte, Evening Solace, st.1

It may seem silly to make such a big deal out of something as natural as the breath, but there are great rewards to come from experiencing profound gratitude for the simple things.  It also affects the mood in a way that invites deep intuitive powers.

  So just practice watching your breath.  Relax more with each exhalation, letting it go.  Trust that the next breath will come, accepting it as it does.  As you become more comfortable and absorbed in the flow of your breathing, notice again what it feels like for you, what images or associations come to you. 

  People often tell me they think about being at the seashore, about the natural rhythm of the waves, with each wave following its own natural inclination.  Others speak of a feeling of being rocked, comforted, held, of being given sustenance through the breath’s gift of life.  Some talk about feeling at one with the breath, of merging with and becoming a part of everything.

  Following the breath into pleasurable states of consciousnes can be fun.  Seeing what mental pictures come to describe your experiences can be a great game.  But it’s more than just fun and games.  You are making three very important discoveries.

  First, with your exhalations, you are learning how your breath can help you relax.  In fact, you are learning about just how profound letting go can be, and how you can enjoy experiencing it. 

  Second, with your inhalations, you are learning how your breath can teach you to accept something happening spontaneously within you.  You are learning to tune into the state of natural flow.  In fact, as you continue to explore this experience, you will discover how the secrets of intuition are hidden within that flow.

  Third, by paying attention to the thoughts, feelings and images that come to mind, you are learning to tune into your intuition.  That’s what experiencing intuition is all about:  paying attention to the flow of your inner experience.  From within yourself arise visions of understanding about the mystery of breath.  Soon you will find that from within yourself there will arise flashes of insight about other aspects of life. 

  As you practice being mindful of your breath (and it’s something you can practice almost anywhere at any time), these types of images will become more familiar to you.  And they are instructive not only about the breath, but also about intuition.  In fact, these feelings of being at one with the universe, of merging with that which surrounds you, point you towards an explanation of why there can be such a thing as intuition in the first place.  It has to do -- and we will explore this further later -- with the fact that you and the universe are connected in some way and that, inside yourself, you can tap into understanding, wisdom, and knowledge about the world outside yourself.

  Don’t be surprised if you don’t have these experiences the very first time you try following your breath.  But these experiences, or something similar, will come with practice.  So let’s give you a chance to practice some more and talk about what the experience is like.  Go through the process again, and let’s explore it more thoroughly.  You’ll soon see that each time, your breath has new things to teach you.

Your Breath Teaches You Secrets of Intuition

“It is my heart that makes my songs...”  Sara Teasdale

Continue to practice being mindful of your breath and watching what comes to mind.  You will learn how to both tune in and let go at the same time.  You learn that lesson by relaxing control so that you can give the breath your attention without the need to make it happen through any consciousness effort.

  Let the exhalations teach you how to relax and let go.  Let the inhalations teach you to trust and accept.  You are learning the secret of trust, trust in your breath and its inspiration.

  You are learning to trust and receive inspiration by tuning in, letting go, and accepting what comes.

  This exploration is important practice in discovering your intuitive abilities.  As you become more accustomed to the idea that you can focus within, that you can tune in and concentrate inside, while at the same time allowing things to unfold naturally and spontaneously, you also are teaching yourself to be intentionally intuitive.

  Think about it:  Tune in, let go, accept intuition.  Perhaps you can see, or guess, that a formula is developing here.

  When you wish to be intuitive, you need to turn inward to look for your intuitions because that’s the place from which they come.  At the same time, you need to allow the flow of consciousness to happen spontaneously and naturally.  That’s what you’re doing in your practice with the breath.  As you practice and learn, enjoying the breath, remind yourself how the breath can be a teacher, can guide you into relaxing and letting go, can teach you about trust and acceptance.

  As you practice with the breath, notice the small pauses between the last of the air leaving your lungs and the next breath coming in.  In that moment, you might wonder, where does the breath come from?  When will it happen?  Somewhere in that split second, the new breath is born.  Isn’t that wonderful?  Isn’t it a magical moment?  Enjoy this gift of life that is creating and guiding your breathing.  It’s happening in everyone who breathes.  It’s right here, right now, for you.

  This practice with the breath can be a lot of fun and very relaxing.  It’s interesting to focus on the breath, to think about it’s mystery and magic, to ask these kinds of questions and see what answers your breath brings.  The breath has much in the way of wisdom to share with you.

  Now, I’m going to describe for you two really interesting ideas to explore with the help of your breath’s wisdom and its ability to facilitate your intuition.

The Mystery of Inspiration

“Who looks outside, dreams.  Who looks inside, awakens.” Carl Jung

Inspiration itself is a fun mystery to explore.  Here’s what I mean:  As you practice following your breath in trust and relaxation, let that word, inspiration, float around in your mind.  Let your breath think about what the word means.  It’s an interesting word because it means both the natural coming in of a breath and the creative arrival of new ideas.

  As the breath comes in by itself, meditate on the dual meaning of inspiration. 

  Let your breath bring you an image of what it means to you.  Why do we use the same word for breathing that we use for having creative ideas come to us? What does your intuition say?  When I ask people to report what comes to mind, some say they see it as a light bulb turning on from the electricity that is flowing through it, and that they, likewise, light up from an inspiration.  Inspiration, some say, is like being filled with ideas, like being filled with air:  It’s exciting, invigorating, and when it happens, its a surprise, but it happens all the time.  Other people tell me that an inspiration is something that comes into you from outside, an idea that seems to come to you from out of nowhere.  One person imagined it was like the sunlight shining on a plant, on all the plants, causing them to flower, each in their own way.  The common thread that runs through all the descriptions I hear is that, although inspirations happen within us, they come to us from beyond, on their own impulse, as if they are special gifts to us from afar, planted within us.

  Inspiration seems to comes from outside you, and yet it happens within you.  Do you realize that, in both senses of the word, you are experiencing inspiration constantly?  Inspiration is so natural that you may not have recognized it and appreciated it for the mystery and magic that it is.  It’s an idea you will meet again and again in your work with intuition.  It’s a fun mystery and also something of a paradox, a contradiction.  It can fill you with wonder and make you scratch your head at the same time.  How can something come from outside or beyond us, and yet happen within us?  You can scratch your head about it, or maybe meditate on your breath, to come up with your own answer to this paradox.  It’s something that is so natural and yet so mysterious and magic, so full of potential for exploration.  It’s from beyond you, yet it happens within you.  Just like intuition?

Discovering the Spirit in the Breath

“I feel my heart new open’d.” William Shakespeare, King Henry the Eighth

The second idea to explore in your meditation on the breath is spirit.

  In my teaching, I ask people to continue following their breathing with relaxation and acceptance, and to let their breath suggest to them ideas about spirit.  Simply ask your breath how it is like spirit, and let the breath deliver its inspirations.  It doesn’t matter if you don’t think you know the answer, just see what your intuition says.

  Although people puzzle over such deep questions, they are surprised that they find answers arising suddenly from within themselves, coming to them on their breath.  Breath has brought many creative answers to this question.  I’ve heard many fascinating, even poetic, “inspirations” about the connection between breath and spirit.

  Spirit, some tell me, is a life force that animates us, much as the breath, as the air does.  So like the air, the wind, when the breath comes in, we are filled with spirit.  Like the wind, this spirit is invisible, but it still has the power to bring life.  And some remind me that we all share the same air, the same spirit, because we are filled with breath, a oneness that connects us to each other.

  A few people report that they see a cloud in the sky in the shape of a face, like a god, blowing air into them.

  People’s inspirations, their own intuitions, seem to be connected to ideas from our deep history.  The words themselves, both inspiration and spirit, come from the Latin word spiritus, which means breath, soul, life.  In practically every religious and spiritual tradition, in fact, the breath is linked with spirit and with spirit’s role as the source of all life. 

  The Polynesian model of health, for example, is expressed in the Hawaiian greeting, “Aloha!”  This familiar word means “sharing the sacred breath given us by the Creator,” according to Paul Ka’ikena Pearsall, Ph.D., author of “A Healing Intimacy: The Power of Loving Connections.”

  You, too, can follow the paths by which the soul of humanity has placed on the breath an echo of the spirit.  As you continue to follow your breath, see what images and thoughts come to you.  You may make some interesting discoveries of your own about spirit in the breath, and these discoveries will help you to connect more fully with the spiritual dimension of intuition and the development of your Intuitive Heart.

Practice Inspirational Breathing to Improve Intuition

“Give your ears to hear the sayings, Give your heart to understand them...” Amenemope

Teaching people this technique of following the breath is one of my favorite things because, even before we’ve gotten to working directly with intuition, we already have been given some special gifts:  The good feelings of relaxation and learning to trust, and the ideas and connections that come to us as we watch the breath.  As you practice more and more you, too, will find that your breath has much to say to about that trust and those new ideas, and about new ways of experiencing your life, of being in the world.

  Best of all, these gifts can be yours almost any time.  You don’t need to set aside a special time to do this.  Practice whenever you like, when you’re stressed or worried, relaxed or happy.  As you make it a practice to trust in inspiration, you’ll find that your breath has much to say to you.  Riding along on the waves of the breath will come new ideas and insights, new ways of looking at things, new ways of feeling, new ways of expressing your life, new ways of being in the world.

  Practice inspirational breathing, but practice it as relaxation and as a pleasurable opening up, not as a mechanical exercise, or as work.  The more you explore it, the more you will discover for yourself, the more deeply you will be able to trust it, and the more easily you will be able to move into the flow state that assists intuition.

  In terms of the Intuitive Heart Discovery Process, following the breath is the first step because it enables you to shift gears.  If you are stumped by a problem, or if you need an answer but are hindered by concern and worry, by fatigue and stress, by feelings of alienation, by getting in your own way from trying too hard, learning to make this shift can help you become more relaxed and serene.  And you’ll begin to see that, as that happens, ideas will flow more easily, more readily, more smoothly, and the quality of your ideas will change.  As you saw with following your breath, you may feel uncertain at first, but over time that will change.  You will learn how to step back and let this shift happen naturally, how to call on it when you need it, how to experience this magical combination of paying attention inwardly and, at the same time, releasing and being able to watch the flow.  Or as Edgar Cayce, who was capable of bringing from within himself great knowledge and wisdom simply by relaxing and going inside himself, once said, “Learn how to watch yourself go by.”

  As you enter the flow, you are well on your way to understanding the secret of the Intuitive Heart, that something you have taken for granted, such as your breath, actually carries with it mystery and magic.  Yet, you’ve been breathing all this time without thinking about it.  You’ll also find that you’ve been intuitive all along without knowing it, and that you can be intuitive intentionally, once you come to understand it and appreciate its secrets.

  Trusting inspiration is a major accomplishment.  It is a milestone in your ability to learn to do intentionally something you usually do naturally and unconsciously.  It’s a lesson you probably didn’t learn in kindergarten, but it is something you can learn now from within yourself instead.  With your understanding, you can harvest such moments, bring them together into a more focused, intentional awareness.  Each time you practice this mindfulness and acceptance of breathing, you’ll learn a little more.  Your breath will bring to you ideas and notions that you’ll be able to flesh out into your own intuitive messages, your own understanding, of what it means to be in the flow and of your inner wisdom.

  There are a couple of ways you can practice this discovery process with the flow of your breath.  One is to reread this chapter, using it as a guide through the experience of the breath, a guide that will walk you through the various levels of learning how to trust in inspiration, how those levels feel, the higher wisdom they invoke.  The second is just to practice it on your own, allowing your breath to bring whatever it will, to trust what comes.  Either way, your practice will carry you naturally to intuition’s next lesson, the lesson of it’s higher, symbolic, spiritual significance.

  Now that you no longer are taking your breath -- and all that it brings -- for granted, you probably will realize that there is a lot for which to be grateful within a simple breath.  I’m going to show you how to follow that gratitude and how to watch it carry you along to the next level of the Intuitive Heart.

*This material is adapted from the book by Henry Reed, The Intuitive Heart, available from Amazon.com