Intuition, the key to effective decisions

THREE nuns were returning to their monastery in the evening through a lonely path. They heard footsteps behind them and a man’s voice shouting at them to stop. The nuns were sure that the person following them had bad intent. The nuns whispered to each other, and one nun veered off to the left, and another turned off to the right, leaving only one in the path. Later at night, the three met up at the gate of the monastery.

The two who had arrived first anxiously asked the third who had just reached, running and panting, whether she was all right. In response to their anxious query, she replied: “when the man was close to me, I said to him to take his pants down, while I lifted my skirt up.”

“Oh, my God!, then...” screamed the other two.

“It’s simple”, she continued, “a woman can run a lot faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down, so I escaped!”

To make effective decisions, all we have to do is to out-think our opponent. Our decision needs to be better than his, that’s all. There is no need for it to be perfect.

The mistake we make is to think through our intellect. If we ask any successful business leader or CEO these days about what has made them so successful, again and again they say that their success came from something beyond their intellect; something beyond logic and facts, something that gave them the intelligence and guts to take effective decisions. It is simply the intuitive power within them that has helped them make these effective decisions.

We can tune into intuition as part of our regular life. The question therefore is not whether we can all be intuitive, but merely how we can we make ourselves intuitive.

When we step into the Present we step out of time-bound awareness. We step beyond tension. Our body stops producing adrenaline. Timebound awareness is mass, which is solid. Non time-bound awareness is pure energy, liquid, dynamic, bubbling and creative. We step out of our boundaries. We become free. We become intuitive.

When our thoughts stop, our present vision extends into the past and future. We become free of time and space constraints. When we meditate deeply, we become intuitive, and can reach cosmic intelligence or enlightenment.