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2007 Ways of Knowing Symposium Participant Quotes The following quotes were taken from participants’ Survey responses and were placed in groups of three on each of the World Café tables. Intuition is to a healthcare what time and space
are to physicists. Intuition’s use in…the
nursing process needs to be fostered in order to capture the many ways
of knowing that can contribute to patient care. Reflecting on my
practice as an educator, [I believe] that intuition is an innate
human way of knowing. I am impressed with the value of intuition in Tibetan healing practices. Intuition is at the heart
of creative writing. Aristotle taught that there are two kinds of intellectual reasoning…The
first is contemplative reasoning (meditation) through which we can develop
an “intuitive grasp of first principles.” I became passionate about intuition, other awareness, or whatever name
you want to give it, which I first felt energy in my hands and saw an
aura. I now consider intuition a gift of
knowledge…[before] I didn’t
trust my self-knowledge enough and seemed to make poor choices when I
gave my “power” of intuition away. As a health care practioner and teacher, experience has shown me how
important it is to balance good technique and knowledge with deep listening,
trusting the unknown, and communicating from a felt sense or direct experience. Intuition is another name for what I consider body awareness. Intuition in the clinical practice of psychotherapy is an incredible
asset. I am more and more interested in the role it plays in connecting
with patients, but also in helping them find more effective ways to learn
and change. It seems intuition is a sixth sense….It’s
a matter of developing that sense, paying attention to it, trusting
it, and learning how to interpret it. I believe this [intuition] is an under-explored
means for practitioners to gain understanding of their patients’ health. I believe that…intuition tells us when patients will do well
or not during their stay with us in a Healthcare facility—or that
which goes beyond acceptance of the nearness of death. For my entire professional life, I have been fascinated with how knowledge
presents through the body. I am interested in “intuition” because in our educational
setting we work with a concept called “learning field.” It
is based on the work of Michael Polanyi. All my important and significant life changes have
been made as a result of intuitive knowing. My intuition guides me on a daily
basis. It
is not something I do or use, it is just a way of walking through my
daily life. I [believe] that there is a realm
of knowing that is neither rational nor emotioal, a way of knowing
that is a powerful connection to something greater than the generally
accepted reality. [I have] practical knowledge from 25 years of experience as a practicing
physician that the realm of intuition is real. In nursing so much of care is putting together facts and pieces of information
and then acting on feelings and hunches. [In addition to use of intuition with clients in the role of psychotherapist],
intuitive processes have also played a role in my experiences as a stage
actor and a musician. Other ways of knowing is a critical piece of awareness for not only
medical students in training, but for my health coaching students. [Practicing Integrative/Interactive Imagery], I have witnessed countless
creative and unique ways people connect with their own wisdom and utilize
its power to assist them regain health, promote healing, and solve problems. [Intuition] informs my science and art. Teach students
how to recognize the voice of intuition and utilize in care giving, specifically
to apply intuition to existential advocacy approach to care. The most dramatic [experience] is
in counseling people in recovery…hearing
myself say exactly the right thing without having the ideas behind the
words pass through my mind. I have long held the belief that patients and their families have tremendous
insight into their own disease processes, particularly in the case of
chronic diseases. [My use of intuition] has taught me
to trust this experience, yet I am at times hesitant to discuss it
for fear of being "thought less of" I think health
care is breaking through barriers on the topic. [Sometimes I know what I am going
to do even before I have decided and know what is going to happen as
a result of that decision. [It
seems like I am ]just waiting for my conscious self to catch up with
my unconscious self. I am certain that much of the movement of humankind over the centuries
has been in response to intuition.
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