[Gra-ach]

[Художник]

good topic,Ira!
thank you for starting it.
Every one of us have this thin voice in our heads.i'm one of them
but not every time i'm agree with it,and listen what it said and doing this.
Sifu,Sihings and instructors tought us "we thinking to much".More action,less thoughts - that's what we got to do.
Sifu said "while you thinking - you're not acting.Thinking is one of to be in past or in future.not in present.action - is a present"
And i 100500% agree with it.i try this on my own.it was a sad experience...but it helps me to undrestand this.   

[Gra-ach]

Well, the rule "do more, think less" shouldn't be taken at its face value. It doesn't mean that you should cease thinking at all! If you do that there will be no logic in any of your actions. But if you can make the process of decision making very short based on your intuition, experience, beliefs etc that will do the trick. In this case you're acting, but not just blindly doing something. You can support your decision with some reasoning.

I do believe that this intuition thing has something to do with our experience which we may have long forgotten, but it's still there in our head - waiting for the time to emerge and help us.   

[Haveunique]

Good one, indeed! Thanks! It's easier to trust your gut once the priorities for heart and brain are already set straight. In other words, when you know who you are, where and for what. Then you just listen to your gut, and it tells you everything... But in order to have the priorities set - one needs to do both thinking and gaining new experiences. It's good to act fast, but sometimes one just needs to sit down and process things, spend some time with oneself.

When the action time and processing time is balanced and feels right, usually this is also the time when life direction is becoming a lot clearer than before.   

[Сифу Юрий Марченко]

The intuition is an amazing state of our consiounse, when we act or take decision without general doubts or fears, and achievr the results with easiness and reflexion. As for me, sometimes it is difficult to separate my emotions, the desire to accept things which are not real in this case, so, there my intuition is under my emotional pressure and cannot give me the best feedback. The conclusion is that it is necessary to balance our psychological state, to work to see and accept the things such as they are, without our emotional evaluation. The wing chun practice is developing the intuition and strengthen the pshyco equilibrium of the person, that is a very important point, which the practitioner can get from his trainings.   

[Gra-ach]

Well, are you saying that we should purge all emotions and become some kind of machines that have just logic as a source of information form outer world? How can one live without emotions? It's what makes us human. It gives us an opportunity to admire music, or architecture or other things which are created as a result of emotional outbursts of creative people.

On the other hand, balancing your emotional responce and logical estimation of what's going on is a good approach to life. Sometimes when your emotions go off-scale it's essential to control yourself - otherwise some things may be said which are better left unuttered. Or things may be done which shouldn't have been. Besides, it's my understanding that when you're calm and unemotional - it doesn't mean that you will follow your intuition - maybe in this case logic will prevail

The general idea of the gut feeling (as I see it) is that you stop thinking (or freaking out) and follow your instinct - human species have survived somehow for several thousand years so there should be something ingrained in our DNA that bursts our survival mechanisms   

[Haveunique]

If you already started thinking, that's not the gut feeling any more It works when you just feel and do how you feel it's right. However, in order not to have second thoughts, one needs to have his or her priorities clear and trust his or herself.   

[Gra-ach]

I guess you're talking about more or less major decisions. But if we think about something as mundane as going shopping and before leaving the house you have a feeling that it's not a good idea and you go anyway and end up mugged? What then? You can't foresee something like that, not really... And it has nothing to do with your priorities being straight or curvy   

[Haveunique]

This is exactly what is called - not trusting your inner feeling And whatever the decision is - it's all ours.   

[Gra-ach]

Yep, whatever reasoning you had to do something (if there was any reasoning at all and you didn't do what you've been told without thinking it over) the decision is all yours and the results are yours as well. The question is not whether you put blame on someone or something else, but whether your gut just tells you something based on what's surrounding you which you may not really comprehend or you have some ability to foresee the future. Like in the example with my earring - it could have happened in any other day, but I felt it the day it happened.

I remember once I had a dream about me wandering around the city, looking for some place and I remember I kicked a little stone. I don't remember how much time passed since I had it. But one day my friend, my teacher and me were trying to find a school where a competition was held and we were late and I kicked this little stone and the same instant my foot touched the stone I recalled the dream and I could tell what would happen in next few minutes - because I'd already seen it in my dream.   

[Gra-ach]

[Gra-ach]

As it was said before, you need to get your mind and heart to work together, to be in unison in order for intuition to work. But we've forgot about one tiny thing, which can actually grow out of all proportion - Its Majesty Ego It's hard to say definitively, whether it's good or bad. Because of it people dream of things and if they act accordingly, they can achieve their goals. As SiFu says, because of his Ego he got acquainted with GrandMaster William Cheung, because of it we have our Academy. If not for that very few people would know about the Traditional Wing Chun kung fu, or about Wing Chun at all. On the other hand, it can be a major force of destruction! Because of our ego, we don't like to hear telling criticism, which may actually help us grow...

So one more thing to get straight is our ego, together with our heart and mind.

[Gra-ach]

Came across one more nice saying:

There is a voice inside of you that whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me or I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend or wise man can decide
what’s right for you. Just listen to the voice that speaks inside.

- Shel Silverstein   

[Иван]

Learning ourselfs helps us to learn the Universe.   

[Procyona]

Gra-ach, don't you think that it may be just a coinsidence that you lost your earrings on the day that you thought about taking them of? I'm not saying that I know any better how the universe works; there is so much people don't yet know about, but can you really train a gut feeling based on things that only seem to connect?

About emotions, I don't think we should not stop listening them altogether, as they are the sings of our inner states. Of cource it's totally different to get aggressive and frustrated, but it's also good to know what those feelings mean and why they arise. Anger is a good tool to defend yourself when treathened. At least for me it's useful to notice my own personal borders, as I have been neglecting myself and doing too much to please others. But I do understand the point of doing rather than thinking, or living in the trumoil of the emotions. Emotions can be good when you have time to observe them, but once you know how to act according to them, it's time to let them go. ;)