Instinct, intellect, intelligence, intuition🔗

All of us use a mix of instinct, intellect, intelligence and intuition to handle our external and internal environment.

Basically, all these refer to the same energy working at higher and higher levels of consciousness. When intellect is purified, it becomes intelligence. When intelligence is further purified, it becomes intuition.

Don't imagine that just because you are a human being with mental faculties, you are operating at the level of intellect or intelligence!

The more consciousness you are able to bring into your life, into your responses, your decisions, the higher the chance there is that you are operating at the level of intellect or intelligence.

When we looked at how the mind perceives the world, we saw that our process of perception is partly conscious and partly unconscious. If your unconscious perception (Tq) is greater than your conscious perception (Tp), you are operating at the level of instinct.

If your conscious and unconscious processes are more or less equal, you are operating at the level of intellect.

If your conscious process is faster than your unconscious process, you are using intelligence.

When you operate totally out of awareness, you make the leap to intuition.

Understand, all of us use all these processes at different times.

Not only that, they are not clearly demarcated , but flow into one another. It is simply a process of greater and greater refinement of the same energy, greater and greater awareness being brought in when handling the same energy.

Intellect is what you normally use when making your decisions! Intellect uses only logic to act. It does not know any other language.

Intelligence is more creative, more constructive. It knows how to respond to life moment to moment, how to be awake to the challenge of the moment. Intelligence is aware of the situation, it can alter the answers according to the demands of the moment.

Intuition is when the decision simply happens as a revelation! It happens from the energy of your being, not from the space of the mind. With meditation, you go beyond the mind, into the being. In the being, no rules exist! You are free to explore your full potential.