What comes into your mind the first moment of the waking day? You are called on to decide something relating to your work, or children, or friends. What did you! eel about it this morning-—"Don't do it" "Accept," "Refuse," "Beware." Thus speaks the silent voice of intuition which knows unconsciously. what our everyday selves can never earn trough reason or the intel ect.
There is a period between sleep and waking when it may be that the mind is keyed to wave lengths perceptible to the thoroughly wakeful conscious ego, the you or I who "think." It is in those moments of Jwaking that.we are-receptive; and first thoughts are valuable. There fare no, distractions when, after sleep, for a. moment, consciousness much greater in knowledge and experience thought springs into the waking mind.
The sixth sense is not, in the scientific meaning, concerned with intuition as many people believe, but with our muscular sense, our a to appreciate degrees of strain of muscles. The eat and tiger who spring accurately on their prey have fine muscular sense. But those who fare gifted with intuition have unusual power of unconscious notice and of utilizing, as if they had a seventh sense their accumulated experiences and memories stored, the deeper-levels of the psychic. The life story of every one of us is repetition millions of times over of mental processes comprising emotion, thought, and effort of strain to accomplish. ""I feel, I know, I do," thus says the psychological part of us, but the trouble is that the dull, insensitive everyday self refuses to recognize the vast hinterworld of higher powers within our minds, If has been said that there are two "selves," the self we think we are and the real self. Is there not a third self greater than either—the self we may become?
We have, in the subconscious, vast reserves of feeling and power that we may glimpse in moments of inspiration and intuition. Try to realize this on waking to a new Give the "first thoughts" a chanee,-and'life may baeome a thing of new and higher values
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