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The rational analytical data that dominate our perceptions (if we let them) are hugely valuable. Yet in order to really see beneath the surface of life, we need to find a balance between the rational and the intuitive. The key to this balance is our perceptual intelligence.

Our perceptual intelligence is our awareness of what is happening through our senses – what we are seeing, what we are feeling, smelling, tasting and hearing. We also have other, more subtle senses that can enrich our sense of each moment – the way our skin is feeling, the powerful inner rhythms of our heartbeat and pulse, our sense of ourselves moving through time and space, and our sense of our inner selves.²

Unlike our rational intelligence, our perceptual intelligence is, by definition, based in the now. We see now, we hear now, we taste now. As we learn to focus on the information that is streaming in through our senses, we can balance the analytical with the perceptual and create a space for intuition to shine through.

This requires that we interrupt our internal dialogue, the incessant self-chatter that causes us to mistake what we think or feel for who we are. As we learn to control this and find that quiet still place within, we find a deeper source of happiness, a source which lights our luminous selves.