You ll never receive accurate information with a chattering monkey mind, clenched tight as a fist. Your brow is furrowed, you re bent to your task, and you re probably ahead of yourself, anxious to achieve the intended goal. This is what I call the masculine mind, the kind of awareness both men and women must use to achieve concrete results. We re in our linear, left-brained masculine mind so often, we ve come to identify it as normal. Lao Tsu says, Be aware of your masculine nature, but by keeping the feminine way, you shall be to the world like a canyon, where the Virtue eternal abides, and go back to become as a child.
Intuition starts when the masculine mind stops.
Pretend your brain-mind is a muscle. Tense it and contract it, as though it were a fist. Squinch your eyes closed. Make your brain-mind feel hard and tight. Hold it until you feel like shaking.