The Weather Forecast in our Hearts
" Trusting our instincts in the 21st century.
In 2004, Asia got surprised by a Tsunami. A lot of animals, even some fishes, had felt the Tsunami coming and went to safer places, while many people passed away. Human beings are the most evolved organism. Our intuition should be better than other animals. How is this possible? Where did it all go wrong?
What happened to us?
Now, humans are being born with the same instinct to keep us safe and help us survive, only our modern way of living led to that we usually make decisions based on logical reasoning. Our hearts simply have lost the battle with our programmed mind.
But, after ages of training our minds, we are not even there yet. This is where technology becomes close friends with the mind. Technology makes our life convenient and we trust all sorts of different apps to guide us through our everyday life, but we don’t look inside of ourselves anymore. We seek validation from external sources, whilst there is a rich world of knowledge inside of ourselves.
Introducing… the Weather Forecast
My name is Lisa Sibbing and I have the weather forecast in my heart. This means that I can look inside myself to make decisions purely based on what my weather forecast tells me. These emotions, that feel like a sun if it is positive or a big pressing storm when it is not — are so strong, that I simply can’t ignore them.
I believe that this is what intuition is all about: an inner voice beneath all those layers of logic that gives us a strong feeling about something. This voice is not coming from nowhere. In fact, science has shown, that our body saves every interaction, happy or sad, in our memory. Basically, throughout your life, you are creating your own internal set of big data. Intuition looks closely at that deep memory, to guide you through your life.
The 21st-century human being
So what does this gut feeling means for 21st-century human beings? I do not expect us to be able to sense a Tsunami arriving in our countries in a few hours, but working with our intuition can help us a lot in our everyday life.
For example in making the right decisions. What do I mean with right? With right I mean that they are exactly the decisions that fit you. My weather forecast is not your weather forecast and your weather forecast is not mine. Your big data talks directly to your heart. If you listen to what your intuition has to tell you and constantly move in that direction, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be longing for something else or somebody else’s things. Instead, you will be overwhelmed by what comes back.
Listening to this voice inside of my heart helped me especially in shaping my professional life. Although I took off with a false start. I was around 16 years old and thought that I wanted to study medicines — I wanted to become a midwife, helping baby’s to arrive on the earth. I would describe to parents how I wanted to create a studio where everybody feels at home and aside I could also design the birth cards. “But what is it in there that you actually like, where does the sun shine?” Of course, I said designing the birth cards. I believe that this conversation was the start of my creative career.
Intuition can also help in creativity. I believe that creativity is the art of thinking with our hearts instead of our minds. The best ideas are the sparks that come to us all of a sudden. This is also the reason why the best ideas arise under the shower or while riding your bike.
Being aware of your intuition and your weather forecast is not only practical now, but incredibly important in the future too. Because in a future full of technology, human intuition and creativity might be the only human quality that robots don’t have.
What can humanity do to become more intuitive?
But there is good news! It is not only me having the weather forecast in my heart, but all human beings have one. So how could people start making better use of their weather forecast today?
- Feel, don’t think. Shut down that mind that speaks so loud that you can’t hear what you feel.
- Train reading your emotions by writing them down as detailed as possible.
- And do you know this feeling “this just seems so right” and you have the opportunity to talk with other people? DON’T do it. Just go for it!
I encourage you to trust your weather forecast and to not let anything stand in the way of acting upon it. We might not exactly find out what temperature it will be next year spring, but our weather forecasts do lead us to the places where we will find our biggest treasures."
