Intuition is the gut feeling or insight that we all know, but too often
allow our intellect to overrule the ‘sotto voce’ in our heads.
Many emergency workers whose job it is to keep people safe, trust their intuition inexplicably and act upon it immediately without questioning. Like the story of the firefighter, who dousing a
seemingly easily managed fire, knows instantly at gut level that he has to get
out of the building. He makes it
out just in time to witness the building’s massive collapse and its eruption into
a blazing inferno.
Intuition can be an insight, an immediate knowing that this is the right
course to take, the decision to make, the person to trust .
Albert Einstein, a believer in the power of imagination and intuition
said “The intuitive
mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors
the servant and has forgotten the gift”.
This gift is ours for the taking when we acknowledge and choose to
become more aware, and in turn, it grows more audibly to guide our way.
In public speaking, intuition is your powerful tool that will unfailing
guide you to a greater speech and a more dynamic performance. Use your intuition to edit your speech
and to choose the right memory prompts to keep you on track at the
lectern. Use your intuition to
measure the response of the audience so that you can refine or add to your
words if needed. At question time
let it direct you safely and diplomatically in response to each of the
questions.
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Weddings have been on my mind just recently, having just spent four days training to be a Marriage Celebrant. To be honest I was a bit smug when I started the course, well I had written the book on public speaking and so I thought it would be a shoe in. Of course a Celebrant does stand up and speak to the wedding throng and so it is useful to be confident enough to do this but is this all there is to it? Each one of us had to write and conduct a mock wedding ceremony in front of our trainer and our peers. The folk that stood out were those who are really in love with ceremony and rituals but allowed their hearts to dictate their words. They were an inspiration and gave me a nudge in the right direction to read more, learn more and allow the passion to surface. It reminded me never to become complacent because passion will always beat proficiency. The connection between audience and speaker is always guaranteed when the words come from the heart. 
