Picture it: Your couch. Late afternoon. A rare occasion where you get to lie down… and no one bugs you.
You’d been chewing over a problem with your business. Maybe the perfect name for a new program. Maybe just the right way to invite customers to buy your new service.
But right now, that problem drifts away. The papers you were reading drop down to your chest. And you start breathing into that floating space between awakeness and sleep.
In a strange and perfect way, a set of words springs to your mind. A picture begins to swirl. Or the familiar sound of a song. Somewhere in that is your business answer. Somewhere…
Wake up. Grab your pen. Write it down. Sketch it, hum it, act it out with your body. Just do something – anything – to bring that idea to life.
Why? Because you’ve just had a Near-Sleep Experience, and everything you beheld for those few moments is potentially solid gold.
When the Near Sleep Experience comes, honor it, play with it, poke around under the hood. As you keep a spirit of lightness and play, the meaning will emerge.
Even if the meaning stays cloudy, write down what you can. Because you never know… until you really know. That’s the Way of Intuition. Everything comes clear when you’re ready. So your job is to get ready. Even if that involves a couch, an old novel, and a Sunday afternoon.
Never discount the value of a few hours of laziness. From it, intuitive awareness is born.
Intuition is what happens when I think I am walking from one place to another. That down time provides an opportunity that seldom comes when I am actually doing something. At the moment I stop thinking, there comes the answer.
Yep, the moment I stop thinking, the answer comes to me too… I get some of my best guidance when I’m outside walking with the dogs, tossing the tennis ball, looking up at the trees… I’ve created a space within myself for the answers to come through – and they do! Reliably so!