Key insights

• 🔮 Innsaei - Icelandic concept of intuition
• 🌀 Tuning into intuition for change
• 💡 Intuition taps into vast information beyond the conscious mind
• 🔬 Research supports the significance of intuition for creativity, compassion, and mental agility
• 🌊 Enric Sala left academia to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a marine biologist
• 🌍 We are in the decisive decade for climate change, requiring a renewing of understanding and agency
• 🌈 Imagination grounded in innsaei's understanding of interconnectedness can guide us towards better futures
• ⚖️ It's important to align with innsaei and find balance between being and doing

Q&A

• How can 'innsaei' help during the decisive decade for climate change?

  Innsaei can help by providing a big picture perspective, grounding in the present, and enhancing creativity and focus. It enables individuals to navigate the constantly changing world, resembling an ocean that requires understanding, agency, and innovation. Imagination grounded in innsaei's understanding of interconnectedness can guide us towards better futures, especially during the decisive period for addressing climate change.

• Who is Enric Sala and what did he accomplish?

  Enric Sala left academia to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a marine biologist. He founded the National Geographic Pristine Seas Project to explore and protect the ocean, establishing 27 marine protected areas since 2008, covering an area more than twice the size of India. His story supports the idea that intuition deepens through ocean exploration and can lead to significant positive impact.

• What practices can help access 'innsaei'?

  Stress and financial pressures can block access to innsaei, but practices like meditation and attention journaling can help clear the way for intuition to guide us from within. Meditation and mindfulness practices regulate the nervous system, provide clarity, and help individuals align with innsaei to find balance between being and doing.

• How does intuition affect personal and systemic transformation?

  Intuition, or 'innsaei', is crucial for personal and systemic transformation, as it helps individuals tap into vast amounts of information beyond their conscious mind. Tuning into intuition is essential for change, creativity, compassion, and innovation, and it can guide actions and decisions in both personal and systemic contexts.

• What is 'innsaei'?

  Innsaei is an Icelandic concept of intuition, representing the ever-flowing unconscious mind and a fusion of scientific and spiritual aspects. It plays a crucial role in personal and systemic transformation, helping to drive change within individuals and within large systems.

• 00:08 Feeling overwhelmed while working for the United Nations, prioritizing work over personal well-being, experiencing a miscarriage and disconnection with body and emotions, leaving the UN due to feeling out of touch with purpose.
• 01:36 Our intuition, known as 'innsaei' in Icelandic, can help drive change within us and in large systems. Tuning into our intuition is crucial for personal and systemic transformation.
• 02:58 Intuition plays a crucial role in creativity, compassion, mental agility, and innovation, and it helps us tap into vast amounts of information that our conscious mind can't grasp. Research demonstrates its significance, and it's depicted as a catalyst for the discoveries of Nobel laureates. Innsaei, the Icelandic word for intuition, combines the scientific and spiritual aspects, representing the ever-flowing unconscious mind.
• 04:21 Stress and financial pressures can block access to innsaei, but practices like meditation and attention journaling can help clear the way for intuition to guide us from within.
• 05:42 Enric Sala left academia to help save the ocean by establishing the National Geographic Pristine Seas Project, resulting in the creation of 27 marine protected areas, covering an area twice the size of India.
• 07:07 The world is like an ocean, constantly changing, and we must navigate it during the decisive decade for climate change. Innsaei can help us see the big picture, be present, and improve creativity and focus.