"Waves and Intuition" by James Wanless

Recently, I was doing some "intuitive thinking" at the beach where I get my best insights!  Why at the beach?  Because it alters regular, linear, left brain, conventional thinking, and induces creative intuition.

Brain neuroscientists now have evidence that most initial thoughts we have about any situation, person or decision is a projection of our past experience.  While experience is invaluable, it can lead to wrong perception.  New situations that come up are, in fact,  "new".... perhaps very different from what we have experienced in the past.

Intuitive thinking is thinking in the now and considers the newness of anything and everything.  Intuition factors in the unknown, the uncertain, the new.  Intuitive thinking is always open  to "I don't know."

Indeed, "Mystery Rules."  But we forget that, that "anything new can happen." I did that just yesterday while at the beach.  As I was thinking of this very subject, I noticed that the tide was high and the waves were big, but so what, I was sitting in a place for twenty years and have never gotten wet.

Surprise!!! A wave came in and consumed me, my backpack, the notes I was writing...everything.  I neglected to be open to the new, to any possibility, that history does not always repeat itself, that experience and expertise can be limiting.

So, synchronicity strikes again!  What a direct, immediate and physical emphasis of the very point I was making to myself, which proves to me the importance of just not going along with preconceived ideas and judgments from the past.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY....Watch out that predictions are not simply projections of the past.

And don't turn your back on the ocean!