Embodied Intuition – Re-activating intuition for change

“Cracked open. A bursting fire. An awakened moment. A body free. A spoken voice. Nothing left unspoken. An uncontrollable force expressed. A hot mass located underneath the Earth’s surface erupts. Anger, power, love. A true presence ascends. Captured in the ongoing eruption of a fearless speech: a soul cracks open.”

The project Embodied Intuition creates change by showing people opportunities to enter into a closer relationship with themselves, others and eventually the earth by the development of an (oracle) card deck that focusses on ‘inner care’ and the use of visual communication/ design as a ‘healer’ to enhance someone’s personal ‘internal sustainability’. The concepts of intuition, inside-out sustainability and interconnectivity lay at the foundation of this. The Embodied Intuition Card Deck is a tool to deepen the intuitive connection within the self, by acting like a mirror for inner reflection, contemplation and insight through abstract visual artworks and contemplative texts for guidance.

The Embodied Intuition Card Deck has the potential to invite the individual to connect, feel, map, assess and learn about the nudges of their intuition and the interconnectivity of empowerment within us, as nature. Every card in the deck holds a unique ‘channelled’ message that helps the user navigate through and re-aligning with their intuition. Through this ignition of intuitive knowledge within the receiver, decision making from the soul can occur, where the planet at large can benefit from.

Conscious Intuition

Over the past years I have spent a lot of my time in silence. Listening. Standing still by listening what guidance wanted to be heard to proceed in life with less struggle. I felt stuck -just like many others -reflecting on why life unfolded the way it did… I felt that a life with less struggle could be possible but knew that for this to happen I had to tap deeply into my own grounded foundation, myself, my inner wisdom, a place I could get to by taking space to listen to the immediate insights or perceptions that wanted to come through. Insights and perceptions that felt challenging and sometimes difficult to listen to, since they mostly were in contrast with my conscious reasoning. However, deep down it felt pure. The pure truth that I was seeking to experience. A truth I couldn’t hear before and ‘struggled’ to get to, but a truth that would set me free. It was about becoming conscious of my intuition.

“Intuitions have been characterized alternatively as quasi-mystical experiences or as the products of instinct, feeling, minimal sense impressions, or unconscious forces” (American Psychological Association, 2022).

Change in visuals

To me, change is an embodiment of continuity, though it moves, every evolves and is fluid and elusive like ocean water. It can show up in patterns but always finds a way to disrupt the expected. Change has many layers of understanding and as much as we want to look for its meaning, it mostly reveals itself in its diversity and formless identity. Without its constant form, change can still wrap itself in a costume of visuals that echoe its voice or the gestures of its intention. In my artworks I explore this fluidity, formless identity, and movement of change through a visual language that is led by my intuition. I call this a practice of channelling my ‘Embodied Intuition’.

My process

In my project I use the method of ‘channelling’ to create the visual artwork and texts that come with every card. “Channelling is the process of revealing information and energy not limited by our conventional notions of space and time that can appear receptive or expressive” – Helané Wahbeh (author of the science of Channelling) (Wahbeh, 2021).”  ‘Channelling’ on a personal level means to me, sitting still in meditation and letting the words and guidance come to me for creation in the form of words, visuals, sensations, or feelings. As a visual communicator, this practice of channelling means experiencing a process of surrender where complete freedom and openness are the core values to create whatever wants to be created, without using my mind to direct myself in limiting directions.

Creating becomes a contemplative practice, where I am not the main character in the creation of the artwork, but the vessel for pure intentional creativity to flow through. This brings a depth to the work that cannot just be understood in the blink of an eye but invites the viewer to interact with the cards in multiple ways to see and understand the deeper layers of its meaning.

The Embodied Intuition Card Deck can be used as a modality for better decision making from the soul to occur, where the planet at large can benefit from. As within, so without, we thrive through change.

Our intuition will lead the way.

References

American Psychological Association. (2022, 10 11). dictionary.apa.org. Retrieved from –https://dictionary.apa.org/intuition

Wahbeh, H. (2021). The Science of Channeling: Why You Should Trust Your Intuition and Embrace the Force That Connects Us All. Reaveal Press.