The 5 Best Podcasts on Intuition

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“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.”

–  Albert Einstein

We all have choices to make, be it toward relationships, career, child-rearing or even simply our wardrobe. It is often a matter of a pro/con list that helps us make a decision we are contemplating, however, there is something that helps us receive information in a way that we can hear and feel what the best choice is for ourselves. This is called our intuition. If one can allow themselves to live with a ‘receptive’ energy as opposed to being a ‘forcing’ energy, we can operate from what is true and which decision resonates with us on a deeper level.

  1. Marie Manuchehri is what one calls an ‘energy intuitive’, who works in the field of energy medicine. The belief is that holistic healing works with the human energy system to help heal disease. In her radio segment podcats, she touches on several subjects through the readings of callers asking for her help.

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  1. This podcast asks, as an intuitive how do you know when to trust your gut? It is both interesting and difficult – how and when one can trust their fundamental wiring? You are a speculative thinker (a sensor) if you look for patterns, and make connections between disparate things. However you are an intuitive if you are driven to make speculative leaps (a tendency to focus only on one thing).

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  1. Jess Lively’s blog focuses on how to know you’re listening to your intuition and not your ego. A very common question that is very difficult to define, she sheds light on how to glean the wisdom we all carry with us inside. Often intuitions lead us to uncertain feelings, if we are going through something very challenging, try to discover both voices (the ego and the intuitive voice) – there are 3 markers to intuitive decisions, it will feel peaceful, it will be present focused and it will be fine with the uncertainty. Wait for the answer to come to you form your body and not the first thing that comes into your ear, which is trying to control something.

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  1. This is about inner guidance, a concept that defines what it means to follow ‘that voice’ within us, which is intuition. It is choosing to go in for answers instead of going outside of yourself, as there is a part of you that knows more than your mind can think of itself. First one must acknowledge you have an intuition, to develop a relationship with it and begin to practice how to cultivate and recognize it.

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  1. In Lana Simmons’ podcast, she muses with her guest, Ivy Felicia, on this time of the year which is the holidays and how it can be a stressful, especially for those of us who are sensitive or keyed into our intuition. We can define our own experience, by recognizing that the ability to connect with intuition is always there. We tend to put everything in a box, and our intuition may urge us to rip that box apart. However we experience fear of making choices that can subject us to failure in order to avoid being uncomfortable, so we may suppress the intuitive voice.

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The only way to trust your intuition is view it as a friend, by building a relationship with it as you practice and develop the skill of being instinctive. See what is there to begin with, collect all the information, don’t hesitate and then you can make a leap as to what is considered a decision based on trusting your intuition. We think too often with our reason and rationale versus a deeper and emotive level of thought, there is some guidance one can follow to clarify your intuition. Intuition is subtle and it is based on vibration. It simply feels often like a ‘knowing’, the concept that our own soul communicates and exists as real and tangible when we live in our own intuition.

 

Do you read a great blog about intuition that’s not on the list? Leave a comment on FB!

 


 

 Larissa Gomes is a breast cancer survivor and single mom to her spirited baby boy! Originally from Toronto turned Angeleno, she has worked in roles from writer, actor and producer for well over a decade. In that time, she’s developed concepts, film and television screenplays, short stories, along with freelance articles, blogging and editing work

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Skilpod #150 Zero Energy / Skilpod + UAU Collectiv


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From the architect. Skilpod, founded in 2013, is a fast growing prefab construction company located in Geel, Belgium, specialized in the production of 3D prefab houses in CLT(Cross Laminated Timber).


© Geert Van Hertum

© Geert Van Hertum

Skilpod offers solutions for all types of living possibilities ranging from houses of 30m² up to 150m². The focus is on small size houses (+- 50m² in one module) for social housing or group living projects. Main focus groups are single parent families, older people and first time renters/buyers. Modules can be connected or stacked on top off each other to form apartment blocks.


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© Geert Van Hertum

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© Geert Van Hertum

The #150 – zero energy Skilpod is one of the larger models Skilpod produces. The design is done by UAU Collectiv who composed the complete Skilpod style. It is completely build up in the factories in Geel, Belgium and transported in 3 pieces to it’s final location. 


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© Geert Van Hertum

Skilpod installed the house about 3 months after receiving the building permit. The actual building period took about 4 weeks to complete the house.


First Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Skilpod modules are insulated up to passive standards with a special new system from Rockwool, called Redair (high density Rockwool), especially designed for CLT. Skilpod used an open and ventilated façade system with FSC labeled Padouk (tropical hardwood), a very durable material said to last longer than stone facades.


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© Geert Van Hertum

The massive wood construction is ideal to keep the warmth out in summer, the rockwool to keep the warmth in, in winter.


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© Geert Van Hertum

The foundations/cellar are made from concrete. They started foundation work at the same time as they started producing the modules, everything started simultaneously and thus optimizing production times.


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© Geert Van Hertum

The backside of the house is completely faced south, so in order to keep the summer sun out they used a special new type of glass with solar filter to keep the sun out, but not the light (AGC’s Stopray). This way sunscreens where not necessary.


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© Geert Van Hertum

The house is heated with floor heating with an air to water electrical heat pump from Mitsubishi (Ecodan) which also covers hot water. The ventilation system is also from Mitsubishi (Lossnay), and has a heat recovery system (system D). Due to high airtightness and insulation values the house could have been heated with an electrical heater of about 1 kw.  In combination with solar panels the house will be energy neutral.


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© Geert Van Hertum

Because the living area is about 3m higher than the street level the inhabitants have a great view on the ranch, fields and forest across the plot, but also view from the street is blocked due to fact that the living area is on the first floor. In the back the garden is at the same level as the interior floor.


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The garden is also completed with large prefab concrete elements in the same philosophy as the house was build, with special attention to fast installation and low maintenance.


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© Geert Van Hertum

One of the main features of the interior are the curtains, which run completely around the living area. When opened, a large living space is created with wide views on the garden and area around the house, but when closed they are separating living/dining/playing room in different cozy areas. For instance, when the children make a mess in the playing room they just close the curtains and the mess is gone for the evening…


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Product Description: The structure of the modules is completely made of CLT or Cross Laminated Timber. The largest boards that were used have dimensions of 12m by 4m and 14cm in thickness. They were transported from Germany with police escort. 

We used different types of thickness in order off length of the span of the roof, walls and floor, ranging from 100mm (5 layers) to 140mm (7 layers)

The main reasons to use CLT are the following:

  • Strength during transport and lifting 
  • Airtightness: CLT is from a thickness of 10cm considered to be airtight (N50 of the house is 0,55)
  • Insulating values of wood (no cold bridges)
  • Internal moist regulation
  • Fire resistance
  • Wood consumes CO2, it doesn’t produce it

Because the floors are included in the modules and the special shape of the modules we can make bigger spans than comparable structures made in classical building construction.

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Sequoia National Forest, Californiaphoto via caligraphia

Sequoia National Forest, California

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Lighted Zebra Crossing is Lighting the Way to Safer Streets

Pedestrians, the most vulnerable users of road space, will now be more visible to drivers in the Netherlands with the inauguration of a new luminous pedestrian crossing this past November in Brummen, west of Amsterdam.

Designed by the Dutch firm Lighted Zebra Crossing, and installed free of charge for the municipality, this crossing makes pedestrians more visible at night or during bad weather. Each of the lines has two plates of lights that at night remain illuminated at all times and not only when there are people on them.

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The placement of the lights assures less distraction to the motorist than light pillars as it helps drivers keep their visual attention on the road. 

Trial tests were performed for 12 months, however the idea was born years ago with the intention of making the roads safer for pedestrians. According to company director Henk Peters, the crossings that should be given priority for potential installation are the so-called “risk zones” that correspond to schools, hospitals, and sectors with a large population of elderly people.

The design of the crossing is intended for two types of roadways, using either pavers or asphalt. In the case of the first, the lights are protected by a steel structure, while in the second, they can be installed directly on the road surface.

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San Francisco – California – USA (by Ali Eminov)

San Francisco – California – USA (by Ali Eminov)

Container / Rodrigo Kirck Arquitetura


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© Alexandre Zelinski

  • Team: Rodrigo Kirck, Syndi Bastos, Bruno Bianchini

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© Alexandre Zelinski

The project Container, located in the port city of Itajaí (SC) aims to intervene on a conceptual model, interact with sustainability issues, propose an industrialized modular construction and at the same time make possible, through architecture and creativity, the approximation with the Nature and art. 


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© Alexandre Zelinski

The project has two monolithic warehouse volumes, each using two overlapping containers, by a zenith opening system that “distances” the volumes and houses the vertical circulations. This system is designed to reduce the use of artificial lighting. On the containers are installed two large garden roofs that fulfill several functions: reduce the impact of solar radiation, capture rainwater for reuse and be a reservoir of rainwater, reducing the impact on the public collection system. They also propose to neighbors as an “urban gentleness”, bringing colors and visual comfort to the residents of the neighboring buildings. 


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Container is a laboratory, so to speak. In this space full of meanings, were shared memories with a team of architects and add experiences with other creative professionals in design, photography and art through a Coworking. The result of this account is a true multiplication of inspirations translated into projects. Everything in the Container has a raison d’être, from the logo that mentions the architect’s indigenous origin, the affective ties that he maintains with the city of Itajaí and its connection with the naval industry, represented by the Container itself.


© Alexandre Zelinski

© Alexandre Zelinski

In the interior design, everything is very simple and at the same time of great refinement. Warmth, thermal comfort, visual and integration are priorities that receive special treatment through decoration. Luminaires with their own design, functional parts, recycled materials, colors in harmony and art, a lot of art printed in all environments. No paintings, the paintings are eternalized on the walls and doors, each work integrates the scenario that leaves no doubts: Container is a creative office and from it come different projects, out of the common place, where being is more important than having.


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© Alexandre Zelinski

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Gottlieb Paludan Architects Win Pavilion Competition in Ringsted Square Denmark


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Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects

A panel of judges including Mayor Henrik Hvidesten has chosen Gottlieb Paludan Architects’ proposal as the winning entry for a new pavilion to be completed in Ringsted Square, Denmark in 2018.

There is so much history in and around Ringsted Square, said Hvidesten. I am therefore delighted that the winning project gives us a pavilion that will not just integrate with the overall architecture of the square; it will also forge a link with history, retain a clear view of St. Bendt’s Church, and provide a new focal point of the square and its many functions, which will appeal to both young and old.


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Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects


Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects


Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects


Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects

Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects

Indeed, according to the architects, one of the most important challenges embedded within this competition was conceptualizing a design that both accommodates a modern sensibility and honors the architectural tradition of Ringsted’s city center. The pavilion is therefore conceived as an expressive and distinct character whose structure and texture is reminiscent of the town hall’s pergola.


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Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects

The elongated structure simultaneously separates and connects, designating adjacent spaces for the town square and church lawn with individual material qualities. The square’s hard surfaces sips into the pavilion; this continuity is reinforced by a visual connection between the square and the church that results from the orientation of the pavilion’s bronze-coated siding panels.

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A Contemporary Attic Apartment in the Neustadt District of Strasbourg, France

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The Attic is a private residence renovated by f+f architectes. It is located in Strasbourg, France and was completed in 2015. The Attic by f+f architectes: “The project is located in an old jugenstil building from 1901, in the Neustadt area in Strasbourg. This large duplex apartment occupies the former attic of the building. It has been created through the conversion of old maid rooms and the above loft that..

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