{"id":2716,"date":"2024-05-23T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intuitivethinking.com\/the-sensing-method\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:27:15","slug":"the-sensing-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intuitivethinking.com\/it\/the-sensing-method\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sensing\u00ae Method"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Sensing\u00ae Method<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cIntuition \u2018senses\u2019\u201d
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Sensing\u00ae<\/sup> is the simple, fast and powerful knowledge innovation method for teaching how to apply intuition to organizations. Intuition training will impact crucial skills such as creative problem solving, decision making and self-reconnection. In this article you will discover the Sensing\u00ae<\/sup> technique: its rationale, advantages and applications.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Scholars have come to the conclusion that we have two minds in one brain: an \u2018analytical mind’ and an ‘intuitive mind’ 1<\/sup>. From the practical standpoint, the actionable part of this discovery is that \u2018sensing\u2019 is the language of the intuitive mind.[2]<\/sup> Intuitions, in fact, come in the form of cognitive sensations. As leading intuition researcher Eugene Sadler-Smith puts it: \u201cintuition \u2018senses\u2019. In order to understand what he means by this, all we have to do is realize that when we come up with an intuition, it won\u2019t come in the form of reasoning but as a feeling. So, the Sensing method is based on the breakthrough discovery that:<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cSensing is the language of the intuitive mind.\u201d<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In reality, intuitions and feelings are two ends of the same thread. But while we cannot evoke intuitions on command, we can all ask ourselves what we sense with respect to a problem we want to solve. And by moving up the channel of feelings we can access the information of the intuitive mind. In a sense, we can consider feelings as the ATM machine for unconscious intuitions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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It is possible to artificially separate the act of Sensing into two parts: the act of sheer perception and the act of assigning a meaning to what emerges. Intuition scientist Viktor D\u00f6rfler and intuition practitioner Alina Bas, point out that \u201clooking at the process of intuiting<\/em>, the product of which is intuition<\/em>, the process of intuiting is divided into sensing<\/em> and sensemaking. <\/em>(\u2026) On the input side of \u2018sensing\u2019, there are sensory signals, which in the process of sensing are transformed into sensations<\/em>. These sensations, tacit or explicit, are the inputs of the \u2018sensemaking\u2019 process, the output of which is meaning<\/em>. Thus, the process of intuiting, described by \u2018sensing + sensemaking\u2019 produces \u2018sensations with meaning\u2019, that is intuition. (\u2026) Sensemaking is the aspect of intuiting concerned with revealing the meaning<\/em> of signals perceived through sensing<\/em>. (\u2026).\u201d 3<\/sup> . As Sadler-Smith puts it: \u201cIn the process of sense-making, intuition acquires new properties: it transitions from being tacit, ineffable, and nebulous to explicit, detectable and solid\u2019.\u201d 4<\/sup> Steps 1 to 4 of the Sensing technique are purely about the reception of signals, while steps 5 to 6 are about the \u2018sensemaking\u2019 process.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Knowing what we don\u2019t know we know
<\/strong>In the course of our life experiences our unconscious mind has stored millions of pieces of information. We possess a huge database of knowledge without even knowing it (\u2018implicit knowledge\u2019). Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman tells an illuminating story that helps us better understand what we are talking about. 5<\/sup><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cA good friend, a physician, was once offered a business proposition: If he would leave his practice to become medical director of a fledgling condominium health resort and invest $100,000 of his own capital in the venture, his projected share of the business would amount to $4 million within three years. Or so the business plan promised. My friend liked the vision of a resort where people could improve their health as they vacationed; coupled with the lure of a possibly fantastic payoff, he couldn\u2019t resist. He sold his medical practice, invested in the resort, and became its medical director. But during that start-up year he found that there was no medical program to direct yet\u2014he ended up spending his days essentially as a salesman, trying to interest people in buying time-share condos at the resort. One day, as he was driving to work at his new job, he found himself\u2014to his astonishment\u2014pounding the dashboard of his car and yelling, \u201cI can\u2019t do this! I can\u2019t do this!\u201d Pulling over, my friend took a few moments to get a grip on his tumultuous feelings, calmed down, and drove on to work. A year later the resort was bankrupt\u2014and so was he. He admits now that he had a gut feeling from the outset that there was something wrong with the proposition, that the projections in the business plan were too rosy, and that the scheme was really about real estate development, not preventive medicine. But at the time he had been craving a change. And the financial incentives looked so promising that he buried his misgivings\u2014much to his later regret.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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At the intuitive level, the doctor knew how things stood. And not only in general terms, but he also had a clear idea of the criticalities. Firstly, Goleman reported that he sensed that \u201cthere was something wrong with the proposition\u201d. Secondly, he sensed that \u201cthe pr ojections in the business plan were too rosy\u201d. Thirdly, he sensed that \u201cthe scheme was really about real estate development, not preventive medicine\u201d. The problem is that this information was in the form of gut feelings. And no one had taught him how to interpret sensations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Intuitions emerge to consciousness in form of feelings. If feelings are the channel of intuition, by moving up the channel of feelings you can access the information of the intuitive mind.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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