GETTING TO KNOW YOUR INTUITIVE CENTER

Because Exercise One is so important, we’ll go over it point-by-point here:

  1.   Sit comfortably, relax and close your eyes.
  2. Picture a funnel on top of your head, right where the crown chakra is, picture its wide mouth aiming upward at the ceiling, as if to catch rainwater and funnel it down into your head. Picture the bottom end with its short tube structure poking into the top of your skull and aiming down toward the division between the two halves of the brain and the corpus callosum, that thick bundle of nerves connecting the two halves of the brain.
  3. Gently focus your awareness upward and out through that funnel. Be open to whatever you’re feeling up there. Don’t force your concentration up there, nor try too hard; just be open to whatever you’re feeling and to whatever falls into that funnel. It could be words, songs, symbols, physical items, or brief images.
  4. After a few minutes of this, refocus your awareness to the active part of your brain, the prefrontal cortex, and open your eyes. Notice how this state of mind feels different from the way you feel when centering your awareness upward to the crown chakra area.
  5. Close your eyes and return your awareness to the funnel at the top of your head, receiving whatever input it’s collecting from the wider universe.
  6. Spend some time (10 minutes will do) alternating between these two states of awareness, your normal eyes-open awareness and ‘thinking upward’ with your eyes closed. Notice how, when your eyes are closed and your awareness is focused upward, a multitude of different impressions seem to be tumbling down into your mind through the funnel. Notice the heightened sense of attunement you feel in that part of your head.
  7. If you picked up any impressions you can put into words, right them down. They may make sense later.

A personal tip I would share with those who want to strengthen their awareness of their Intuitive center and its receptivity is to search for ‘gong sounds’, ‘gong music’ or ‘gong meditation’ on YouTube or Spotify. I found gong sound very good for opening-up the crown chakra. It felt like all the flotsam in the universe was pouring in while I listened—kitchen sinks, used notebooks, pencil stubs, broken chairs, you name it. Almost disturbing, really, but it made me aware how accessible the crown chakra is to information. I have a recording from Michael Bettine, titled ‘Labyrinth’, which I find particularly good, but there are other gong musicians out there.

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