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Traditional stress management training hinges around controlling our sources
of stress, "reality testing" our perceptions of stressful events, positive
thinking and balancing stress with rest and relaxation.

Two aspects of stress management training that are woefully neglected are:

a) Transforming the energy of stress into creativity and healing.

and

b) Using our intuition or "gut feeling" to navigate potentially stressful
situations at home, in the workplace or in social situations. Intuition is
especially helpful in "novel" situations, where we lack experience or lack
appropriate training. It is also magnificent in those situations where other
people are seeking to exploit, manipulate, deceive, con or pressurise us
into falling in with their personal agenda rather than looking after our own
best interests.


Acquiring the Skills of "Energetic Alchemy" and "Intuitive Navigation"
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"Energetic Alchemy" will be the subject of the next Cambridge stress
management workshop, to be held this coming weekend (see
www.sunflower-health.com/workshops.htm)


"Intuitive Navigation" was the subject of last weekend's workshop and a
collection of pointers and resources are now available online for anyone
wishing to:

  * Developing their "sixth sense" power of Intuition

  * Practice the art of Intuitive Massage

Just go to webpage: www.sunflower-health.com/resources/intuition.htm


How Reliable is Your Intuition?
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It is well-known that some people are naturally more intuitive than others
and that, as a sweeping generalisation, women tend to be more intuitive than
men.

What is not quite so well known is that intuition or "gut feeling" is a
quality or power that we can learn to access more easily and learn to use
more reliably.

Unreliable experiences with intuition arise when we lack skill in
differentiating intuitive messages from "Wishful thinking", "Animal
cunning!" or our neurotic hang-ups, insecurities or emotional blocks.

Intuition in Healing and Medicine
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Like many subjective experiences, intuition has been, until recently,
neglected or even derided by evidence-based science. However the pioneering
work of Rupert Sheldrake and others has now gathered together an astonishing
catalogue of evidence from both people and animals which evidences their
remarkable "sixth sense" intuitive capacity.

Intuition can be a helpful guide in both our own self-healing and in our
healing work with others. However, like many powers it needs to be "grounded
and balanced" by our rational mind, especially the rational mind's capacity
for reality testing, discriminative evaluation and self-critical appraisal.

And Finally... Some Food for thought
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 * How good is your intuition?
 * How often do you use it?
 * Do you trust it implicitly or do you run the occasional "checks and
balances"?