Growth & Meaning

In fact, the explanation is right on the surface. Intuition speaks to us in the language of sensations. To hear its voice, you need to be relaxed and attentive; otherwise it gets through the tension only in the most critical moments, when intuition is literally screaming. And even when intuition’s signal is heard, it still has to be translated into the language of logic and facts that the mind understands. And after that, you have to trust intuition, because it offers no proof and no arguments.

The voice of reason doesn’t need to break through into the mind; it’s already there from the start. You don’t need to listen for it, and you don’t need to translate it. And it never lacks arguments. The human mind is a master at finding arguments for just about anything.

Here’s the main thing: the language of the mind is the language of experience. It draws conclusions from the past, from what it knows.

The body’s patterns were formed on the basis of that same experience, the experience of situations you faced in the past. So the body always takes the mind’s side.

And this support from experience recorded in the body usually decides the dispute between mind and intuition in advance. Later, when the decision is made, the result is in, and nothing can be changed, in a calm setting, when the body’s tension doesn’t kick in, the mind can see quite soberly that the situation was different from the past and called for a different response. But such clear-headedness is only possible in hindsight. And until the decision is made, the importance and the responsibility don’t let you relax. So the body sends signals of habitual tension, the kind that helps you react not to what is, but to what used to be.

I can find these tensions in the body with my hands and ease them. And this gradually brings back the freedom of choice. The past, often a negative one, stops deciding for you. And past experience itself stops being a state you’re still reliving and becomes a lesson learned, one you can apply when it fits or ignore when it’s about something else.

Abilities commonly called paranormal have always exercised many minds. Most people regard the very possibility of their existence with skepticism, even prejudice. The scientific approach demands measurable results, repeatable experiments, objective criteria. So isolated reports of someone somewhere managing to demonstrate something have never convinced me. But some of my teachers did astonishing things.

Can I do everything I saw? No. Some abilities have to be trained from early childhood; later, the capacity of body and mind to adapt drops sharply. You won’t become a circus acrobat or a ballet dancer if the window has closed. But some things can be developed even if you start as an adult. The catch is that this training has to become your whole way of life. Half an hour of practice twice a week, without stepping out of the fast pace of a big city, won’t do it.

I chose to devote my life to therapy. It requires developing sensitivity to the body’s subtlest signals, and the skill of acting on it in a language the body understands. Whether that can be called a superpower, I don’t know. But I’ve achieved a few things in my field.

There’s no mysticism in it, only training, and giving up whatever might get in the way of that training.

To sum up: the human body, in all likelihood, really can do far more than is commonly believed. And the fact that some people succeed in certain circumstances and not in others doesn’t mean unusual abilities are fiction. It means they show up only under specific conditions.

There are several such conditions. And, contrary to popular belief, none of them involves faith.

They do involve muscle tensions, the kind that muffle subtle signals, shape habitual emotional reactions, and distract. And I can find those tensions and release them with my hands.

If you start this work as an adult, moving mountains with your gaze is off the table. But developing intuition, so that answers arise in your head as obvious solutions backed by certainty, is entirely possible. Intuition can speak to you not in random bursts of information that come spontaneously, when the right circumstances happen to align, but steadily and on demand. You ask a question, the answer comes. Instantly, or the next day, but it comes. And it comes in a form so clear and self-evident that there’s no confusing it with imagination or with analysis.

Over time you learn that intuition can be relied on, and that alone makes life much easier. But the main thing is that it answers questions no other method can answer at all. Any other answer would be pure fantasy. And then life doesn’t just get easier. It takes on an entirely different meaning.