Playing with intuition in the way we’re taught with Darren Eden is an absolute delight. For the first time in my life I have a technique to access my intuition, my hearts wisdom, without my head getting in the way and asking those very annoying questions like, ‘how do you know that’s your intuition? How do you know you can trust this?’

The concept that most of the time we operate through our beliefs and identity, and that this isn’t a true representation of who we truly are, is not something new to me. I’ve done a number of great courses and trainings where I’ve learned that our beliefs create our reality and that we get stuck in a number of identities like daughter, sister, lover, business colleague, friend and anything else you can think of. If you haven’t noticed this before just take a step back and observe the way you respond to people – do you act in exactly the same manner with everyone? I don’t.

You may be wondering what the point of this is. Fair enough. Whats the problem of responding to people differently and how on earth does that affect us in any negative way? Good question. So I was pondering this, as thats what I do a lot of. If I could be paid  a pound for every ponder I’d be a very wealthy woman. And as I was pondering I got an image of a rubber glove - one of those yellow ones for washing up. As I watched the image I noticed it was on my hand and I was writing. I thought I’d see what it felt like to write with a yellow rubber glove on my hand - my writing hand of course…..

It’s a strange experience. First of all the glove is not a perfect fit so the task of simply holding the pen to write takes some doing. Most of the sensation of the skin is masked by the glove as you’d expect and makes it more of a challenging process than I anticipated. I’m perfectly capable of writing with it on and yet my mind was trying to work out how to do it effectively. It was much more arduous, took far more thought, and I realised that just like learning to drive for the first time I had to concentrate much harder than I usually do.

So whats my point? Imagine that being in your identity, or experiencing something through your beliefs is akin to writing with a thick yellow rubber glove on your hand. Most of the sensation is lost (condoms spring to mind) so the experience is a very much diluted version of the real thing, and the energy required to make it work interrupts the flow. There is more thought going into ‘how’ to do it, than simply allowing the words to flow. Eventually I am sure you’d get the hang of it and it would become like second nature but you’d stop recognising how much was being lost in the process. Now imagine, that later on, you take that insulating glove off. Whoah! What would it feel like now? Every cell on your skin would be in contact with the pen. The experience would be a full one, don’t you think?

So how does the ‘how’ affect us? I believe it insulates us from the experience. If our identities and beliefs work in the same way then we are potentially massively removed from a full experience of being alive. Now thats quite a thought in my book.

The next challenge is to find a way to slip off that rubber glove of life…..