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Balancing Intuition and Rational Thinking

How can we balance rational thinking with intuition or gut feelings when making decisions and solving problems? How do these different approaches complement each other? Thom’s answer to the question is very brief but will leave you in no doubt about how these approaches complement each other, or how to balance them. Subscribe to find greater ease and bliss: https://www.youtube.com/thomknoles?su... Interested in learning how the Vedic Meditation can enhance your feelings of joy and well-being? Visit https://thomknoles.com/​ to learn more.   / thethomknoles​     / thethomknoles   In my book, they're the same thing. Rational thinking should come from super-subtle sensory perception, which is what intuition is. Intuition, separate from a gut feeling, separate from rational thinking, is making a mistake about the makeup of the mind. There's one mind and it uses everything that it has. Intuition is not the magical fairy dust that everybody thinks it is. When you have hyperacute super-sensitive sensory perception, you don't miss things. You can detect every microscopic little movement of everything that's relevant, and you can arrive at an accurate conclusion about what's about to occur because of all of that movement. It's still the rational mind that is being used to experience and assess the product of that super-sensitive sensory perception. Someone who truly is highly intuitive never has a conflict. They're not thinking, "Oh, there's my rational mind, but hang on, my intuition says this." People who are highly intuitive don't do that, they have one mind that's assessing everything at all times, and it's using the gift of the subtle that's going on in a logical format. To use the Upanishadic story of the little babysitting, watching a fire in the fireplace and seeing a red hot coal rolling out, and the adult sitting in the room watching the baby. Knowing everything about the baby and knowing everything about the nature of the red hot coal, two things are going to collide. “The baby's going to lean forward thinking that the red hot coal is a new toy, and is going to crawl forward and grab it and scream and have a scar on its hand for life, unless I intervene.” The ability to leap into action and avert the danger that has not yet come. Then afterwards you say to the parent, "Were you using your intuition there or were you using your rational thinking?" They're going to say, "I saw what was going to happen and I acted. I moved the baby over there, they got to play with the Galvatron Transformer and meanwhile I got the shovel and flicked the coal back into the fireplace again. No problems, let's have lunch." "No, hang on, I just wanna know, was that intuition or was that you using your rational mind?" Someone's just gonna look at you and say "What's wrong with you? Why are you asking me these questions? I saw what needed to be done and I did it." We need to stop separating these things, they're actually homogenized and merged if we simply allow them to be. We don't have to separate rational mind and fine level of feeling. People often come to me and say, "My fine level of feeling says 'Have the veggie burger for lunch,' but my rational mind says, 'No, I should really have the salad.' Which one do you think I should have?" My attitude is, "You know which one you should have, stop asking me. If you feel deeper inside you that the veggie burger is the better thing than the salad, then you already know. Why are you asking me?" Your whole life you know that that deeper quality of feeling is a deeper, more logical level of thinking, and the superficial thing that you read a book last week that said you should eat salads more is not really where your true knowledge is coming from. It's coming from deep inside you but it's not irrational, there's nothing irrational about the fine level of feeling. We learn to lean into that and then we get used to it, and then superficial thinking no longer is the thing that we rely upon for making decisions. Superficial thinking is laughable and true knowledge is coming from deep inside me, and I'm using it all the time. Someone might say to you, "Are you using your intuition?" And you just say, "I'm just using myself. I don't know about it being intuition or anything, it's just, I don't separate the two. There's no separation of them. It's just me. Aham Brahmasmi, I am Totality.” #thomknoles #vedicworldview #vedicmeditation #intuition #rationalthinking