"Intuition," according to James Wanless, a popular seminar leader and author of Little Stone, "is the great synthesizer of all that we know. It carries the sum total of what our mind thinks and imagines, how our heart feels, and what our body senses. It even recalls the experiences from our subconscious memories." Albert Einstein called it "the only truly valuable thing," and Buckminster Fuller once referred to it as "cosmic fishing."
We all have intuition but we still undervalue it. Wanless believes it is more important than ever in the realm of business. Intutitive abilities can be tapped in response to incoming phone calls, e-mail, meetings and new assignments. Leaders and executives can sharpen their interpersonal skills by being engaging, empathetic, educated, and able to inspire others to enlist.
Wanless presents a few creative techniques that require inner visioning: intentional loafing, the wait-a-minute approach to problem-solving, intuitive storying, and truth humming (getting the body involved in decision-making). The author is firmly convinced that intuition is the intelligence of the twenty-first century and it can be developed through constant practice.
We were happy to see Wanless put meditation, silence, mystery, fluidity, and the Divine Feminine under the umbrella of intuition. The first sentence in the book reveals the full force of the author's message: "All good things come from living intuitively." Well said and true as can be.
