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The Rich Roll Podcast

Guru Singh On Intuition Over Impulse

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Last week we dipped our toes into sacred waters both spiritual and metaphysical. This week we are diving off the deep end. In other words, welcome to another incarnation of Guru Multiverse, the latest in my ongoing series of communions with Guru Singh, my treasured friend and favorite sparring partner when it comes to matters heart and soul. Aside from being a modern-day Gandalf, Guru Singh is a master of the Kundalini arts, a celebrated spiritual teacher, a third-generation Sikh yogi, an author, accomplished musician, father, grandfather, and an overall gift to humanity who has been teaching and studying Kundalini yoga for the past 40-plus years who now holds virtual court at kundaliniuniversity.com. The Guru joins me in the studio to offer a dissertation on divining and discerning the delicate and detailed differences that differentiate: instinct, impulse, intuition, and intelligence—the four “I’s” if you will. This is a conversation about perspective, accountability, the willingness to solicit and receive feedback, and why growth depends upon the ability to truly understand and appreciate the nuances that distinguish these “I” words. To read more click here. You can also watch listen to our exchange on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Make sure to stick around until the end. As has become his custom, Guru Singh closes things out with a song. This might be one of my favorite Vulcan mind-melds to date. So let us not waste another moment. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:30.7

Impulse doesn't control the show, but impulse gets to contribute to the show.

0:38.0

And instinct doesn't control the show, but instinct also contributes.

0:44.0

And so then all of a sudden you have impulse contributing, instinct contributing,

0:49.4

body intelligence contributing, and larger pictures contributing.

0:56.4

Then this sounds like a complexity, but it can happen ultimately very rapidly.

1:02.9

Then you can base a decision on all of this input, and then intuition is a little bit like a pilot's license.

1:12.9

You know, there's a lot of ground skill that you have to go through reading and trying things before you actually end up up in an airplane.

1:21.4

And so intuition is very, very real, but the skill set needs to be developed.

1:29.4

And oftentimes you said people mistakenly equate instinct for intuition.

1:36.6

I think that a lot of people on a spiritual path will be mistaken in the opposite direction.

1:43.3

They'll think that they're intuitively feeling something, and all they're actually feeling is just a really strong emotion.

1:50.1

And so they're disguising what would be impulse by holding an emotional impulse at bay long enough so it feels like it's qualified to make the decision.

2:13.6

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2:17.1

What is up, all you beautiful, earth dwelling creatures and creators?

2:20.9

Welcome to another incarnation of Guru Multiverse, where we wade into the sacred waters, the waters that are both metaphysical, and of course practical.

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