Intuition can be taught

Intuition can be taught

University research shows that intuition can be taught

In a research study presented to the American Educational Research Association 1988 annual meeting, Dr. George Maycock of Appalachian University in Boone, North Carolina, demonstrated that college students who learned the Silva Method "showed a significant increase" in their intuition.

A group of 30 students who took the Silva Method Basic Lecture Series were asked to complete three test instruments before and after they completed the training, Maycock said.

The three tests were:

1. The HCP Profile Test which determines left- (logical) versus right-brain (intuitive) dominance.

2. The HCP-PSY Test which determines beliefs and experiences about intuition.

3. The Intuitive Potentials Test which measures an individual's current intuitive potentials.

The results of these tests were compared to a control group of 30 individuals who did not take the Silva Method training but were instead enrolled in an education course.

"The individuals who completed the Silva Method training," Maycock reported, "showed a significant increase in scores for all three tests.

"This showed that they tended to become more right-brain or intuitively oriented, their beliefs became more positive toward intuitive thinking, and their potential for intuitive thinking improved.

"Individuals in the control group who did not participate in the training showed no significant gains in scores on any of the tests."

Maycock said that 83 percent of the students showed gains in intuitive abilities.

Of the five students who did not show gains in intuitive abilities, four of them (13 percent of the test group) were already functioning in a high intuitive mode before the training, Maycock said.

"It was also found that those individuals who were left-brained or logic oriented prior to the training tended to benefit the most, since the Silva Method training enabled them to become more intuitively oriented or more balanced in their thinking styles," Maycock noted.

"One researcher," Maycock continued, "found that 70 percent of gifted or high IQ students were predominantly intuitive, while only 39 percent of students in regular classes were intuitive.

"If intuition has been shown to be useful for creativity and success, then both teachers and their students need to be trained to fully use their intuitive abilities.

"The present research study using the Silva Method shows that a training program does exist that can improve right-brain intuitive abilities," Maycock concluded.

(Reprinted with permission from Sales Power, the Silva Mind Method for Sales Professionals.)