21 Day Purge 6
21 day clean, purge, balance
8 April 2020 Day 13 (Purge 6) – Letting Go: Open to your Intuition
Welcome to Day 13 (Purge 6) – Letting Go – welcome your inner knowing as your guide and expert instead of external experts.
Our modern information age has created more confusion even though we have abundant access to information about anything we want to study. This is most apparent when we look at food recommendations. If we look at the multitude of conflicting recommendations we can find someone who tells us that any food we may wish to eat has a health risk. Dr. X promotes this approach and food, Dr. Y promotes a different food or practice, and Dr. Z contradicts saying we should never use these approaches. Is it any wonder why people are confused about what to eat? Whoever said “Information is Power,” a popular mantra of the seventies among businesses, got it wrong. What is reported in the media is often incomplete, the expert may not relate the whole story, may be biased, and make mistakes. Look at the “science” around saturated fats (like butter) that recommended the elimination of these fats from our diet for over forty years and the abrupt turnaround recently where it is “OK” again to eat saturated fats. As many of our patients ask, “How do I know what to eat?”
Knowledge is available in three forms according to Ayurveda, which struggled with this same question over 4000 years ago. They found: 1) It is transferred to us through authoritative knowledge from qualified and recognized experts in written, oral, or first person accounts, 2) is developed through direct perception which is knowledge obtained through correlation of soul, mind, sense organs, and sense objects with direct experience of the phenomenon, and 3) is arrived at through inference which is a conclusion based on sound reasoning. Ayurveda places great stock on direct perception and inference to determine the truth for a patient and more importantly for the individual to know what is right for them. This is similar to our concept of intuition where we have all had occasional glimpses at times in our life where we come to a cross roads and just knew what we want to do and what is best for us. This is one of the most important skills we can develop for ourselves – especially in an era of dueling “experts,” we must use our intuitive power, our authentic inner authority.
The key to remembering your innate sense of knowing is meditation. As Vivekananda said: “Turn thy gaze inward wherein the Supreme Self resides.” To develop this sense of inner knowing…
Click below to read how to develop your inner knowing.


