Last week, you walked with me through the labyrinth at Ontario’s Grail Springs in a video I shot during my healing weekend at the holistic health resort. If you don’t want to know how the labyrinth helps you solve your problems, then read no further. For those of you who would like to understand how the labyrinth works, well, let’s start off with…
Intuition
Wikipedia defines intuition as having “many related meanings, usually connected to the meaning `ability to sense or know immediately without reasoning’, and is often regarded as a divine or prophetic power, including,..” And Wiki lists them. But the one that’s most relative to our discussion is the, “understanding without apparent effort, quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge.”
It’s that gut feeling or hunch we sometimes get. It also comes in the form of “Eureka!” moments or epiphanies. Some people trust it even more than their rational mind and regularly practice methods known to strengthen it as if it were a muscle. Meditation has been known to be mind building exercise for centuries and science is finally catching up.
Meditation & Brainwaves
Tons of studies on Tibetan Buddhist monks prove that meditation activates and builds certain areas of the brain, some of which are responsible for focus and states of happiness and well-being. Some of these studies seem to suggest that consistent meditation can permanently alter a person’s brain chemistry, structure and functioning.
