Unlocking Your Intuition. Carol Ann Liaros

exercise, here are a few tips. First, be sure that the person is relaxed. Tension and nervousness can be communicated through one’s voice and behavior. On the other hand, a calm and relaxed manner will be expressed quite naturally to others. Secondly, be sure to present the exercise in a slow, steady, gentle manner, pausing as indicated. Finally, allow plenty of time for the exercise. Those who are new to this may need more time than others. In the beginning, fifteen to twenty minutes may be appropriate in order to become truly relaxed. Later, with experience, you may find that five to seven minutes is quite long enough.

      At the close of the exercise, see how long you can recall or maintain this relaxed state of body and mind—an hour, a day, a week, or even longer. Whenever you feel yourself becoming tense or anxious, practice the relaxation experience again and feel its calming positive effects. When you’ve accomplished the relaxation technique, feel free to move onto the first intuitive experience, which is Energy Sensing.

       “Inner conflict between left and right Brain processes may reflect out into The world as prejudice.” Carol Ann Liaros

       Relaxation and Concentration

       (Long version)

      This exercise is important because it will encourage you to set aside a total reliance upon the left-brain logical thought processes and through the process of relaxation, facilitate the activities of your own imagination, creativity, and receptivity. In addition, relaxation helps to connect the left and right brains for more balanced functioning.

      This is an exercise to help you relax and concentrate. Sit comfortably, with your feet flat on the floor and your hands upon your lap; then close your eyes.

      Take a slow, deep, even breath, filling your abdomen to capacity, and hold it to a count of three. One . . . Two . . . Three . . .

      Breathe out very slowly through your mouth . . . and tell yourself to relax . . .

      Take another slow, deep, even breath, filling the abdomen to capacity, and hold it to a count of three. One . . . Two . . . Three . . .

      Very slowly, breathe out through your mouth. Gently telling yourself to relax, knowing that your body follows the commands of your mind . . .

      Take another slow, deep, even breath and hold it to a count of three . . . One . . . Two . . . Three . . .

      Breathe out through the mouth . . . very gently telling yourself to relax . . .

      Now tense up the muscles in your feet by curling your toes and making them as tight and taut as you can. For a moment, hold this tension . . .

      Now relax those muscles . . .

      And relax them even more . . .

      Tense up the muscles in your lower legs, making those muscles as tense and taut as you can . . .

      Tense them even more . . . and feel that tension with your body and mind . . .

      Now relax . . . and tell those muscles to relax even more. . . .

      Tense the muscles in your abdomen and lower back . . . tense them even more . . . and relax . . .

      Now tell yourself to relax those muscles even more . . . and feel the relaxation with your body and mind.

      Now, tense up the muscles in the upper part of your torso by hunching up both shoulders.

      Tense the muscles in the back and chest . . . and feel this tension with your body and your mind.

      Now relax those muscles . . . and relax them even more . . .

      Tense up the muscles in both arms by clenching your fists. Make hard, tight fists and feel all the muscles in your arms become very tense and taut . . .

      And slowly relax . . . relax them just a bit more . . .

      Now tense up every muscle in your face that you can, particularly around your eyes . . . Press your tongue against the roof of your mouth and crease your brow . . . make all the muscles in your face and head feel very tense and taut.

      Now relax . . . relax the eyes, the tongue, the jaw, the forehead, and relax those muscles even more . . . feel this relaxation with your body and your mind.

      Now tense every muscle in your body, beginning with the toes and going up through the legs . . . the abdomen and lower back . . . the chest and shoulders . . . the arms and hands . . . and the face . . .

      Now tense up all the muscles in your body even more, and feel this tension in every muscle . . .

      Now, very slowly, as though you were moving in slow motion, relax every muscle in your body . . . slowly and gently . . . relax every muscle . . .

      Now slowly, let your head fall forward and gently rotate your head and neck in one direction and then the other. Tell yourself to relax . . .

      Tell the muscles to let go . . . communicate to every cell in your body to relax even more. Feel the relaxation with your body and your mind. Be aware of the feeling of relaxation throughout your body . . .

      Now take your mind, or your imagination, to the top of your head and take your mind on a trip down through your physical body. When you come to a muscle that is not relaxed, tense up that muscle, hold it, making it as tight and tense as you can, and then finally relax that muscle. Do as many muscles as is necessary to release the stress from your body.

      Let your mind seek out those tense muscles . . . and relax them . . .

      Communicate to every cell, in every muscle of your entire body to relax even more . . .

      (Longer pause)

      Now, in your imagination, visualize a funnel coming out of the top of your head and reaching into infinity. If you cannot visualize it, feel it. Know it is there. Visualize or feel a cleansing, purifying, healing white light pouring down through the funnel and flowing into the top of your head . . .

      In your imagination, visualize this cleansing, purifying healing energy filling your head and flowing down into your neck . . . into your upper body . . . down your arms and into your hands and fingers . . . feel this energy flowing into your abdomen . . . into your legs and down into your feet and toes . . .

      In your imagination, visualize or feel this energy cleansing, purifying, and healing your entire body . . . experience yourself so filled with this energy that it is radiating out of every pore in your body . . . the energy is cleansing, purifying, and healing the outside of your body, and your energy field, and aura as well . . .

      In your imagination, visualize your aura. Feel the energy of your aura. Know that it is there . . .

      Now, in your mind or imagination, expand your aura so that it radiates three feet from your body. You might experience this as you would blow up a balloon. With each breath, the aura gets larger and larger. Experience your energy field expanding.

      Expand your aura even more so that it radiates eight feet from your body . . . visualize it, feel it, or simply know that it is there . . .

      And with your mind, expand your aura so that it fills the entire room. Experience your aura as completely as you can . . . feel it, visualize it, and know that it is there. . . .

      Now, let yourself relax, allowing the aura to return to its normal size . . .

      Take a slow, deep, even breath, filling your abdomen to capacity, and breathing out through your mouth . . . tell yourself that when you open your eyes, you will maintain a completely relaxed state of body and mind.

      Take another deep breath and open your eyes.

       Relaxation and Concentration

       (Short version)

      Tense up every muscle in your body, beginning with the toes and going up through the legs . . . the abdomen and lower back . . . the chest and shoulders . . . and the face . . .

      Now,