By Dr. Caron Goode

The mindbody system has three functions:
 
1.    Fosters homeostasis

2.    Keep information flowing

3.    Regenerates the system
How homeostasis works?  Fostering homeostasis means that your body  tries to maintain balance and equilibrium. For example, if you are in pain or trauma, the body will flood you with stress hormones, screaming, “Alert! Alert!” The stress hormones heighten your awareness and give you strength. All of your senses are sharp, and your enhanced intuition guides you to necessary action. When the situation called for action, the mindbody responded.
           
Because prolonged fight or flight syndrome damages the immune system and weakens your ability to cope, the body will swing the other direction to maintain balance. When the crisis is over and it doesn’t need to pump adrenaline, the mindbody will flood you with relaxing endorphins. All systems return to normal.
           
Using intuition and homeostasis:  Our society has not honored the intuitive intelligence. Oriental and ingenious cultures pride themselves on intuition and gut instinct. In our culture intellect and mental training is what we have been taught to rely upon.  Our schools foster only rational logic. The problem is that it does not work in all situations because of the following differences.

Intellect                                                                                 

• is about thought
• is dualistic
• divides things into compartments
• works from past perspective or memory
• must protect you from pain
• must learn to ask for information

Intuition

• is about feeling
• is about wholeness
• flows like a stream of consciousness
• works from present moment reality
• has no investment, gives freely
• responds to the right question

Therefore when you foster intuition, you are growing into your sixth sense of intuitive adulthood. The adolescent, intellect, may rebel. It may perceive anything beyond the five external senses as a threat to balance. It is going to try to maintain homeostasis.  This is where you have to observe yourself: Where is your resistance? What comes up for you?  What does your mind do? Take a moment to list a few things that you have observed about how your mind responds.
Here is one person’s perspective:

A forty year old disabled woman describes: When I opened the door to my intuition through TransformBreathing, my feet cramped and I got a headache.  I felt pain, and my head was screaming, ‘It hurts. It hurts.’ Actually I was uncomfortable, but not in any intense pain. I had to tell my thoughts to quiet down, so I could listen to the pain in my body. When I heard what the cramping said to me, ‘Put your best foot forward.’ I was thrilled. That was just the information I needed. If I had responded to pain like I always had, I would have cried and sulked for days while wondering what was wrong with me.

For intuition to serve you in a positive way, make sure your intellect and body are in agreement that it is safe to open and now is the time. If you find that opening to deeper levels of intuition throws you out of balance in some way,  work with your mindbody system to restore homeostasis. Don’t fight it!

When you use intuition, the mind honestly may not understand the sixth sense if you haven’t had a lot of practice. Remember the mind only processes five senses. So show the mind how to ask intuition for the right  question.”