Using the Power of Intuition in the New Business World
“With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn’t likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market.” – 1968, Business Week
(on the failure of Japanese cars in the U.S.)
Having an idea that no one’s had before marks you out in the field of energy, the emotional thought shows itself as a ripple in an otherwise calm state of energy. Visually, you can imagine it as a light suddenly appearing and flashing in a foggy sea. Flashing lights attract attention. Flashing lights get noticed…by the whole universe…back in time and also, into the future.
‘Don’t hide your light under a bushel,’ the religious texts say. So, we don’t. We get a moment of insight and we immediately react forward on it. We take swift action.
In quantum physics, we know that everything is always in a state of vibration and an ‘ah-ha’ moment is a connection at a higher frequency.
In reality, what does that feel like?
Well, the only way I can describe it is with how I feel when I have those moments. My reaction is not, ‘what a lovely idea.’ My reaction is ‘Holy **** where did that come from, why the **** haven’t I come up with that before?’
These ideas are not just brief flashes, they are whole blueprints that feel as if they have been beamed directly into my head. It’s not possible to sit or stand still after a moment of insight. We have to react and we react forward.
How do we react forward?
Here’s what I have to say about it in Chapter 2 of my book, Secrets to a Successful Startup, A recession-proof guide to starting, surviving and, thriving in your own venture:
Turn a Winning Idea into a Winning Company
“Don’t keep your dreams in your eyes, they may fall as tears. Keep them in your heart so that every heartbeat may remind you to convert them into reality.” -Nishan Panwar
When people have a winning idea and do nothing about it, the idea soon fades until it is forgotten. That is, until one day they encounter someone who has turned a very similar idea into a great company. Then follows that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach: That person could have been living a successful entrepreneurial life, if only . . . they had done something about their idea. What stopped them? Why didn’t they follow through?
People talk themselves out of great business ideas all the time and for many reasons, but fear, negative thoughts, and a lack of self-confidence are the prime culprits. Like a kid touching a hot stove, people will convince themselves that any bad economic news, like a dip in the stock market, means that it’s the wrong time to start a new business. But running a business is never risk-free, the economy will never be perfect, and waiting for the ideal conditions only risks letting your idea die from neglect.
Don’t do that. Instead, immediately take action to make your business a reality, which builds momentum in the opposite direction. Once you discover your winning idea, incorporate it as a company. Online companies make the process simple and inexpensive (replacing the need for expensive attorney fees), and I consider this is to be one of the simplest, least costly, and most effective things an entrepreneur can do. In fact, according to the Small Business Administration in 2018, 70% of all businesses in the USA are sole proprietors and 99 percent never register their business, which is crazy given all the benefits. The financial protection alone is worth the small cost, but where it really pays off is psychologically and emotionally.
The benefit of reacting forward cannot be overstated. Once you incorporate your company, you have set your idea in motion. You have established a business, one that you own. You are the boss, and you have the paperwork to prove it.
Doesn’t that feel exciting? Doesn’t that build self-confidence? Doesn’t that add to awe?
As three dimensional beings, we communicate with our five senses in very deliberate and constructed ways. With signs, language, and expressions. The Higgs field, however, communicates everything in a hyperdimensional flash, blasting all our senses and catapulting us into new ones. It can be a little overwhelming – I find it to be mostly visual.
As a small but pertinent example, when I had the idea for my first company it did not dribble from my mind or pen. It was overwhelming, like someone just threw me into a deep river and shouted, “swim if you can.” The ideas for my second and third companies were so blindingly obvious, I had no choice but to accept that life was laying out a new course for me. All I had to do was set it into action.
My books and movies arrived in my head complete and the only thing that delayed their publication was the time it took me to type it out. Yes, I type solely with my two index fingers.
To have those moments of insight means developing better interaction with – and connection through – the field of energy. Simple, but all too rare because we are taught to value complicated over simple.
The secret is in simplicity. Meditate. Walk in nature. Connect. React forward.
In the regular world, before The Transformation Experience (see www.trevorgblake.com) no one suggested that the answer to your problems is, ” take a walk, touch some trees.” “Feeling out of your depth? Then go watch the night sky for 15 minutes.” “Want to get out of the rut and make something of your life, then sit in a chair and do nothing for 20 minutes.”
These concepts and tools are contrary to what we learn at home and school. The science, however, is very clear.
Meditation and connecting through nature are the practical ways to gain Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). It’s not new age or quackery, ESP is nothing more than stretching the senses. Why should we want to stretch our senses? Everything is connected through a single field of energy.
The farther we can hear, the more we can see, the better we can feel, the more connections we make, the more knowledge we gain access to, the more brilliant ideas we get, the more fun we have, the more power we get, the happier we feel. There is no downside to ESP and suddenly getting moments of insight.
Jess, my wife, has moments when she knows something will come to fruition. She does not ask how. She will see something she wants and just decides that it will be added to her experience. When the intention is achieved and I ask her how she feels about it, she will say, “I just knew it would happen.” For many years, I incorrectly called that ability ‘women’s intuition’ because most men have long lost touch with this capacity for knowing. We men are in awe of it.
Psychologists suggest that women’s intuition is nothing more than a heightened ability to interpret facial expressions and body language accurately. That hardly explains how people can know without doubt about the future of a person or thing that has not yet shown up in their lives. It is not fatalism or psychic powers because we create our experiences as we go according to our thoughts and reactions. I think it’s more because history and cultural influences have re-wired male and female neural pathways differently. This has caused men to lose touch with their creative power. Deep down, some women still know they are alchemists. Most men today prefer to think of themselves as warriors.
Alchemists vs. Warriors
Many books compare achievement to a warrior’s journey. Being male and ex-military, I have always liked that analogy. I can easily imagine a castle with my sacks of treasure lying behind its walls. All I have to do is kill the dragon or two defending the castle, bring down the walls of resistance that hide my treasure, and claim my reward. The warrior expects those sorts of challenges along his path. Because the journey involves conquest and battle, the emotion of the warrior is often against something. So, for every successful warrior, dozens lie face down along the path, having not made it.
Alchemists, however, are those who can transform any object at will within nature’s laws. They rarely have to journey anywhere in order to get what is desired. They live in a state of knowing that whatever they want can be attracted or created in response to their free will. No dragons have to die. No walls must be torn down. Alchemists can simply create a new bag of treasure.
The way of the alchemist is more in tune with nature’s laws. While the warrior smashes his way through a castle wall to steal a baked cake from the kitchen, the alchemist simply throws some ingredients together in a bowl and bakes his own cake. The latter is far easier and, so long as you have the right recipe and skills, more likely to result in fulfillment.
Another challenge with the warrior image today is that it is wrongly considered a masculine persona, one that includes hunting and fighting as skills to be revered. The analogy ignores the equally important weapons of intuition, compassion, and healing that are associated, also incorrectly, with the feminine.
Popular psychology suggests men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Certainly, we use different methods of mental processing, but at one time there was an equal balance of male–female energy in everyone. To survive, we all needed fine-tuned hunting skills to eat and powerful instincts to sense danger.
A shallow dive into anthropology provides ample evidence that men were once more praised for their powerful intuitions than for their fighting skills.
In many societies, they were the source of shamanism, working intuitively with the spirit world to impact the physical experience and heal the sick.
Proof also exists that women were not the scantily clad “pot-stirrers” we see in Hollywood movies set in historic times. Semiramis from Nineveh shaped the Assyrian Empire. Boadicea, queen of the Brittonic-Iceni tribe in England, led an uprising against the better-equipped occupying forces of the Roman Empire. She took no prisoners and had no compassion for the invaders. In one battle alone, her tribe killed eighty thousand people. Queen Myrina led an army of thirty-three thousand female soldiers to defeat several male armies in Egypt and Syria. Rejecting marriage as oppression, they were free to mate with whomever they pleased. They were not women I would dare call pot-stirrers to their faces without risking becoming an ingredient in the pot!
Even in more recent times, there is plenty of evidence of women who have been as successful as men when it came to displays of fighting skills.
It is estimated that 750 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the American Civil War.
Tito’s Resistance Army in Yugoslavia included more than one hundred thousand women, of whom two thousand were promoted to officer ranks.
The Israeli Army included twelve thousand women who were combatants in the 1948 War of Independence.
The farther back in time we look, the more the evidence shows that in any society, male and female shared all tasks equally. Since men took control of education and especially the written word, a split in roles occurred. Men stopped relying on their intuition as they took their guidance from philosophical and religious texts, and then feared it in the women they tried to suppress with their new education. History books are filled with graphic details of what became of all that male insecurity.
Healers were accused of witchcraft, and women were forced into a subservient lifestyle, which still exists in most societies today. Education was withheld and religious instructions given to serve a male elitist agenda.
In western society, things are changing toward a better balance but far too slowly . . . especially in America. When I arrived at my first management meeting in the United States in 1994, I was shocked to find that among fifty managers, only three were female. It is, therefore, no surprise that of the 1,011 billionaires in the world in 2010, men accounted for 665 of those with self-made fortunes (as opposed to inheritance). In stark contrast, only 14 women on that year’s Forbes World’s Billionaires list have amassed a personal fortune of their own. It is time to address that imbalance.
The warrior’s tool for success is goal setting via small steps that increase belief. The alchemist’s way to success is setting Intentions. The art of creating thought energy out of nothingness and turning it into something requires creativity rather than conquest.
This is great news for women who may already be more in tune with their creative side. Perhaps most don’t have as much remedial work to do to see the benefits of the three simple steps. Men need to eradicate many centuries of having their brains rewired the warrior way. By utilizing the three simple steps men can create new neurons, rewired appropriately so that it now becomes more natural to create via the alchemist’s way. Those new neurons have none of the learned behaviors. Getting to a state of knowing can become a more common experience.
The skill uses natural laws like the law of attraction and the law of allowing. Those laws exist and work all around you, whether you believe in them or not. Belief is not a requirement for alchemy success.
Believing Is Not Necessary
Now hold onto your hats for what I am about to say. Every inspirational book I have ever read speaks to the power of belief. According to even the most well-known books, it is necessary to believe in something before it can be achieved. The three simple steps is based on a different fundamental philosophy.
The laws of nature exist whether you believe in them or not.
Trust in the physical laws of the universe that have no choice but to turn your thoughts into real experiences and let life take care of the details. When you were in the quicksand, the negative thoughts you had every day became your entire life. At no point did you believe you would get more of what you didn’t want just because you thought about not wanting it. It happened to you because you didn’t understand the way it worked. The same is true in reverse. Positive thinking returns good things to your life whether you believe it or not. It just happens.
Homework time:
This is another fun assignment, and its purpose is to continue reprogramming your R.A.S. to start shooting winning ideas your way. Winning ideas cannot be created by analysis. They are created by inspiration and imagination.
The starting point is to decide the answer to a three part question:
If there are no impediments to my success with balance lifestyle (money floods in, people love my ideas, I get recognized, seen, and praised etc.)
What do I want to have in my life? Who do I really, really want to be? How do I want to feel?
Now, go find a quiet place (preferably out in nature where it is far easier to connect with the energy of the universe through all the jiggling strings that make up our world) and answer that question. It is not as easy as it seems. Remember there are no impediments, no limits. Make a not of how you feel when you imagine it all.
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