Exercise 5: Learning Your Own Symbols
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Symbol dictionaries don't work because everyone has a different interpretation
of most symbols. There are common archetypical symbols that mean pretty
much the same thing to everyone, but these are only a few out of millions.
Learn your own inner language. For instance, what does a large body of water
mean to you, a kitten, or a car. What is the first sensation, the first
feeling that comes to you when you think of these images. These images speak
to you in more than their literal sense. A good place to begin discovering
your inner language is dreams. When you wake up from dreams right down the
symbols that were in your dreams and what they meant to you, what feelings
came up around these images, and what does your rational mind say that they
might mean in your life.
Your inner symbols will be the language that is spoken to you when someone
comes to you for a reading and asks a question. For instance, if a person
asks you a question about a possible business partner, and you see a sleazy
uncle that you have, you might tell this person that this business partner
might not be such a good idea. Your inner symbols are important to know.
Knowing your inner language of symbols helps you to translate more quickly
and immediately in your intuitive readings.
Getting In Touch With Your Intuitive Vocabulary
Report your responses to the following questions:
How do you feel when someone tells you no?
How do you feel when you're happy?
What do you feel when you see a positive visual image? A negative one?
What smell do you find distasteful? Which would you find pleasing?
What do feel when you see the ocean?
What do you think of when you see (pick a family member)?
Make up more questions on your own. Make a long list. This will become your dictionary of your inner language of symbols. Only you can interpret your symbols. You can get answers to questions by knowing how your system responds to particular vibrations and images.