ppendages i-vii, seven tails

Exercise #7: Intuitive Enhancement

Guessing details about what someone describes, and using that guess to have the other person guess about some other detail allows us to see where the tail of the guess wags. Indirectly we let our self into our conscious associations. We can also call this reactive imagery. Start by telling a story to a partner or group. Then ask questions about how they imagined details that we imply but do not state in the story.

As an example I say I went to bed early on the floor of the sunroom. Describe the room imagined. As the details elaborate the story, I could ask a question about something in this description that I imagined. Like asking what arrangement of windows filled the imagined sunroom. Then I could describe the three walls and the view of the trees twenty feet off the ground or the slanting metal roof toward the back. I could inquire about the imagined leafy view.

Keep in mind that we all use our imaginations in slightly different ways and that the activity might include other types of associations, other than images. Consider any sense as a fair field. This exercise gives us a chance to reveal assumptions or intuitive leaps we make. See what happens. How does intuition conducts itself?




As a totem of these appendages make a drawing, collage, or a visual reminder of a guess that an intuition created that remained unspoken.




Exercise the other aspect of temperament that we access less easily. Try this:

IIII; Leave something unfinished that almost always gets completed and complete something that usually gets left undone and notice the shift in perspective. Though please don’t use that horrible expression of agreeing to disagree. That one gets inappropriately used to end a negotiation midstream rather than leave the closure open or carrying it a step toward further clarity. We want to decide not to return to something and see if we can hold that as our intent. We want to discover a new perspective.



IIIII; I
imagine
playful humor
slipping
in after
acknowledgement
of
frustration.
Use these
shifts to
explore
the social
world.