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Plumb the Depths of Intuitive Perception (A Meditation Exercise)
by J. Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda)
from Awaken to Superconsciousness

Plumb the depths of intuitive perception within you, at the calm center of your own heart. If any restless or disturbing feelings arise there, withdraw deeper still—to the very center of feeling, as if to the calm eye of a storm. As any period on this page might be reduced indefinitely in size, even to the point of becoming invisible under the strongest microscope, without ever ceasing to exist, so there is no limit to how deeply you can withdraw into the center of your being.

Try to find the innermost center of intuitive perception in your heart. If you experience the slightest disturbance, go deeper still. Finally you will enter a vast hall of calmness.

That center is the center of everything, everywhere. This, not intellectual analysis, is the way to attain perfect insight into people and events—into any difficulty that you face in life. This is the way of intuitive understanding. Your intuition must be cultivated—not abstractly, but with kindness toward all, with acceptance of whatever happens, and with perfect love for all life.

This is also the way to banish pain, both physical and emotional. Focus with calm feeling on your inner center, then project that center into the pain; visualize yourself at its center, and concentrate there. If you can penetrate deeply enough to its center, it will cease to exist. You will find, then, an ability to cope with any trauma. When you can understand everything from its center, you will find that you can turn even major setbacks in your life to good advantage.

Similarly, when faced with any problem in life, or when undertaking creative projects, or to help you attune yourself to countless situations: Seek your own heart center; then from that center visualize the center of the matter at hand. You will know, suddenly, exactly what to do.

It is more difficult to visualize the center of an abstraction, such as a problem. Think of your definitions of it, then, as layers to be peeled off and cast away. When no layers remain, you will find yourself at its center. To clarify your intuitive awareness at that center, hold that awareness up to superconsciousness.

By this practice, you will find everything you do to be increasingly appropriate, uniquely so for that moment, and always different from anything else you've ever done.