{"id":3086,"date":"2020-09-08T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:18:25","slug":"using-your-intuition-to-stay-safe-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/using-your-intuition-to-stay-safe-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Your Intuition to Stay Safe During the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>One of the challenges of the pandemic is the ongoing uncertainty. We know to wash our hands, mask our face and stay out of crowds. What can we do to take back some sense of control? Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing.<\/p>\r\n<p>For some of you, this may seem too &#8220;woo-woo&#8221; to digest. That&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s just an insight from my other studies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/444586429?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I\u2019m Jay Arthur, author of \u201cLean Six Sigma for Hospitals\u201d and QI Macros [software].<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know about you, but this whole pandemic thing&#8217;s getting a little old, but we know two things for certain: 1 &#8211; More people will get sick, and 2 &#8211; More people will die. (Hopefully not me,) But you know the things we can do: Wash our hands, wear our mask and stay out of crowds. I\u2019m using those three countermeasures, but since about the first of April I\u2019ve started using another countermeasure that i&#8217;d like to share with you.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I learned this technique from Jack Canfield many, many years ago and I started just to test it. One of the things you may not know about me is I studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I learned a lot about how we run our brains through pictures, sounds, things that we say to ourselves, and our feelings.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Out of that I started thinking about, \u201cWell, one of the things that bugs me is the uncertainty.\u201d You know, I don&#8217;t know if I go out, am I going to be in trouble or whatever. I thought, \u201cWell, most of the time, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice just to listen to our intuition?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Intuition&#8230; they don&#8217;t talk about, &#8220;You see your intuition,&#8221; or &#8220;You feel your intuition.&#8221; No, you listen to your intuition. I thought, \u201cWell, maybe it&#8217;s a voice,\u201d and I thought, \u201cOkay, so if I have a voice of intuition maybe I can talk to it.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a technique called muscle checking, and if you&#8217;ve ever been to a chiropractor they&#8217;ll get there and say &#8220;Strong,&#8221; and then they&#8217;ll test you to find out if you&#8217;re out of alignment somehow. That&#8217;s muscle checking. I learned that from Jack Canfield as well, but he had a simpler version.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Essentially, you put your index finger and your thumb together, and then put an index finger through there and I use my non-dominant hand for the circle and my dominant hand for the indicator, and so then I say, \u201cVoice of intuition, please show me a yes,\u201d and usually if it&#8217;s strong it&#8217;ll hold. Then I say, \u201cVoice of intuition, please show me a no,\u201d and my finger will go right through. \u201cPlease show me yes.\u201d \u201cPlease show me no.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So I have a clear yes and no question and answer, so I can ask it questions. \u201cVoice of intuition, is it safe to go to work today?\u201d \u201cVoice of intuition, is it safe to go pick up my prescriptions at the pharmacy?\u201d I started doing this. \u201cIs it safe to go eat at this restaurant?\u201d \u201cIs it safe to go to the post office?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I started doing that and I&#8217;ll never forget about two weeks into it, I was supposed to pick up some prescriptions. I said, \u201cVoice of intuition, please show me. Is it safe to go pick up my prescriptions?\u201d It said no, and I was surprised because I hadn&#8217;t gotten a no yet, but I said, \u201cVoice of intuition, please show me yes.&#8221; &#8220;Please show me no.&#8221; &#8220;Is it safe to go pick up my prescriptions?\u201d and no. So I just didn&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Over the last three or four months there&#8217;s been four or five times where it just said, \u201cNo, don&#8217;t go eat at this restaurant.&#8221; &#8220;No, don&#8217;t go to the post office.&#8221; &#8220;No, don&#8217;t go pick up a prescription.&#8221; &#8220;No, don&#8217;t go to the store,\u201d and so I&#8217;d wait and maybe do it the next day or later on in the day. Later on in the day I&#8217;d ask, \u201cIs it safe to go pick up my prescriptions?\u201d Yes. So this is a technique.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;One of the things that I\u2019ve studied over the years is Energy Medicine and Quantum Physics. If you&#8217;ve ever read Fred Allen Wolf, he is a noted quantum physicist, but he wrote a book called \u201cThe Eagle&#8217;s Quest\u201d which is about how Shamans might be Quantum Mechanics. They work at the level of energy at the quantum level. So if we think about it, it&#8217;s possible that we are all connected.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m sure you&#8217;ve had situations where your intuition just said, \u201cNo, don&#8217;t do something,\u201d right? It may have been a very strong one. Mine&#8217;s a very quiet voice, so I need a more aggressive answer than that. But if we&#8217;re all connected maybe our intuition can reach out there and touch the universe, feel what&#8217;s going on and give us some insight.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now, I don&#8217;t guarantee this, right? This is something I\u2019ve been experimenting with. But one of the things I\u2019ve found is in this pandemic is there&#8217;s so much uncertainty. You don&#8217;t know if you can go do anything, anywhere, anytime, and so this gives me a sense like I\u2019m in control of my own destiny. \u201cPlease show me yes.&#8221; &#8220;Please show me no.&#8221; &#8220;Is it safe to go for a walk with my wife this morning? &#8220;Yes.&#8221; Okay. So I\u2019ve been doing this routinely but a number of times it just said no, don&#8217;t go and I listen.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Here&#8217;s another countermeasure: Ask your intuition if it&#8217;s safe to go do what you&#8217;re going to do. If it says no, don&#8217;t go. All right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go and let&#8217;s create a hassle-free America. Let&#8217;s create a hassle-free world. Let&#8217;s go ahead and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the challenges of the pandemic is the ongoing uncertainty. 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