by Nancy Wesson
Reprinted from The Austin Homesteader, 2003
When folks ask what I do, I tell them I’m a Feng Shui Consultant, Intuition trainer, and Professional Organizer. It’s always interesting to watch and hear their responses, which range from barely disguised rolling-of-the-eyes to fascination. The first question is usually: “You mean you can TEACH INTUITION?” and closely followed by: “What’s it got to do with Feng Shui and Organization?” Nearly everyone has a story about some time in their life that they knew something without knowing why they knew it. Some will even admit it!
We All Have It
First the answers. Yes, you can teach intuition, but it’s a little more like training than teaching. Teaching implies an “it” that is outside of us, knowledge we don’t already have. Training, on the other hand, seems more about learning to use something we have access to or we have the option to access, if we only had the tools.
That’s INTUITION: we all have it, have had it since birth – but in varying degrees have been:
- trained out of relying on it
- learned to distrust (because it’s not visible or “scientific”)
- scoffed at
- told it’s only our imagination
- told it’s only a “dream”
Westerners , as a society have a certain amount of pride in more left-brained/linear pursuits. We are only now – in the last 10 years – beginning to publicly acknowledge our curiosity with and need for more right-brained, creative, non-linear approaches to life, health, and problem solving.
To the second question, “What Intuition got to do with it?” I would say first, that Feng Shui is about being aware of our environments, the symbolism that surrounds us, and how to use that awareness to our best advantage. That awareness includes not only what we can see with our literal eyes, but what we can “see and feel” with the other senses.