Greater Intelligence Menu
Tap a group, then a category, then a subcategory to open it
▶Group 1 - Tending to Your Daily Living
▶Something or someone that needs my attention right now
Open-ended question: "What needs my attention right now?"
- A partner (a conversation needed, quality time, something they asked for, checking in)
- A friend (reaching out, following through on a plan, something unresolved between you)
- A family member (a parent, child, sibling - a call, a visit, something they need from you)
- Plants in the house (watering, repotting, moving to better light, noticing one that is struggling)
- Animals (feeding, attention, exercise, something off with their health or behavior)
- A routine (one that has slipped, one that needs adjusting, one that is no longer serving)
- A commitment set in motion that needs follow-up (something you started and have not circled back to, a promise made, a project mid-stream)
- Something left undone (a task postponed, a repair, an errand, a loose end)
- Your own thinking/looping (a thought pattern running in the background, a mental loop you have not paused on)
- A communication that needs to happen (a call, a text, a conversation you have been avoiding or forgetting)
- Your home or living space (something broken, disorganized, neglected, needing care)
- Finances (a bill, a budget decision, something financial left unattended)
- Work or a project (a client, a task, a creative endeavor, something stalled)
- A boundary (something you are tolerating that needs addressing, a limit that needs setting or reinforcing)
- Your relationship with nature or the land (time outside, tending to something in the environment, presence with a place)
- An emotion you have not processed (something you felt and set aside, distinct from thought-looping)
If your body is going through something - a detox, an adaptation, a symptom - that belongs here in Category 1. Category 2 (Tending to my body's health) is the practical tending - what to do about it. Category 1 may lead you there.
▶Tending to my body's health
Open-ended question (ask your body, not GI): "What do you need right now?"
- Drink water (how much, when, temperature, adding lemon or minerals)
- Supplements (starting one, stopping one, adjusting dosage, timing of intake)
- Eat food (eating something specific, eating sooner, eating more, a nutrient the body is asking for)
- Rest (a nap, lying down, doing nothing, canceling something to make room for rest)
- Change a body routine (something that was working that is not anymore, a routine that has become mechanical)
- What time you wake up or go to bed (shifting sleep timing, consistency, honoring what the body is asking for)
- What you do when you wake up (morning sequence, what you reach for first, how you start the day)
- Exercise routines (type of movement, intensity, frequency, switching modalities, when to push and when to back off)
- Types of food you eat (dietary shifts, foods to add, foods to remove, noticing what the body responds to)
- Breathing (conscious breathing, alternate nostril, pausing to take deeper breaths)
- Posture or body position (how you are sitting, standing, sleeping)
- Hydration beyond water (electrolytes, what you are drinking that is dehydrating you - coffee, alcohol)
- Fasting or meal timing (when to eat, when to stop, spacing between meals)
- Something to stop consuming (a food, substance, or supplement that is no longer right for your system)
- Skin or body care (dry brushing, bathing, something topical)
- Time outside (sunlight, fresh air, grounding/earthing)
- Bodywork or manual therapy (massage, chiropractic, acupuncture - seeking it or adjusting frequency)
- Temperature (too cold, too hot, needing warmth or cooling)
- Sensory input (reducing screen time, noise levels, what you are exposing your nervous system to)
- Sexual health or intimacy (something the body needs attention on in this domain)
- Dental or oral health (often overlooked, but part of the body's system)
▶Taking care of something in my house
Open-ended question: "What do I need to give my attention to in my home right now?"
- Cleaning (a room, a surface, something that has been accumulating)
- Organizing (a drawer, a closet, papers, digital files - reducing disorder)
- Decluttering (removing things that no longer belong, donating, discarding)
- Fixing or repairing (something broken that is draining low-level attention every time you see it)
- Placement of objects (where things live in the space - does this belong here?)
- Aesthetic or sensory environment (lighting, temperature, sound, smell - what the space feels like to be in)
- A project in the home (something you have been meaning to start or finish - a garden bed, painting a wall, rearranging a room)
- Supplies or provisions (groceries, household items, something running low you keep forgetting)
- Something energetic about the space (a room that feels off, a corner that collects stagnation - for those who are sensitive to this)
- Your workspace (where you work from home - is it supporting focus or creating friction?)
▶Working on business or job
Open-ended question: "Which aspect of my work needs my attention right now?"
- Projects
- Relationships with colleagues or clients
- Skills to develop
- Decisions to make
- Financial considerations
- Communication (an email, a conversation, a boundary)
- Time management
- A goal to revisit
- Something to delegate
- Something to learn
- Your relationship to the work itself
▶Do a hobby
Open-ended question: "Is there a hobby or activity that would be good for me to do right now?"
- A technique or skill to practice
- Materials or tools to acquire
- Time to dedicate
- Something to study or research
- A project to start or finish
- Someone to learn from
- An aspect of the hobby to let go of
- A new direction within it
▶Something on my preexisting to-do list
No fixed subcategories - use these questions to explore:
- Is there anything on my to-do list that needs to be tended to right now?
- Is there anything on my to-do list that needs to be tended to differently than the way I have been doing it?
- Are there assumptions about what is on my to-do list?
- Does this item even belong on my to-do list as is, or does it need editing?
▶To Pause
Do nothing right now. Your system is processing. No subcategories. No drill-down.
Test periodically to find out when the pause is complete, then return to the menu.
▶Group 2 - Changing Your Architecture of Self
▶Something to let go of
Open-ended question: "What am I ready to let go of right now?"
▶Cognitive and perceptual patterns
- An assumption (something you have accepted as true without questioning - about yourself, about someone else, about how things work)
- An idea (a concept you are holding onto that is no longer serving you, an outdated plan, a mental fixation)
- A narrative (a story you tell about your life, your past, your relationships - that may no longer be accurate)
- A way of thinking (a habitual mental pattern, a default lens you see everything through)
- A belief (about yourself, about what is possible, about what you deserve, about how the world works)
- A perception (how you see a person, situation, or yourself - that may be distorted or incomplete)
- A reaction (an automatic emotional or behavioral response you keep repeating - the trigger-response loop)
- A conclusion (something you decided long ago that you stopped questioning)
- An attitude (a stance you carry toward something or someone - dismissiveness, cynicism, resignation - that has become habitual)
- Thoughts about your body image (how you see your body, what you believe about it, standards you are holding it to)
▶Self-protection patterns
- Guarding the heart (assuming people will hurt you if you take care of them)
- Fearing the foreign (rejecting what is unfamiliar before evaluating it)
- Busyness for busyness' sake (filling space to avoid what is underneath)
- The habit of bracing (anticipating the worst so you will not be caught off guard - living in preemptive defense)
- Control (micromanaging outcomes because trusting feels too risky)
- The belief that rest is earned (that you have not done enough to deserve stopping)
▶Relational patterns
- The need to be right (choosing correctness over connection, over peace, over truth)
- The need to be understood (exhausting yourself explaining, proving, justifying)
- Responsibility for other people's feelings (believing you caused someone's pain, or that you must fix it)
- Loyalty to someone who is not loyal to you (staying bonded out of history rather than health)
- The habit of comparison (measuring yourself against someone else's path, body, success, progress, spirituality)
▶Identity-level attachments
- An old version of yourself (who you were at 25, who you were in that relationship, who you were before the crisis - still referencing it as "me")
- An identity built around suffering ("I'm the one who had it hard," "I'm the sensitive one," "I'm broken")
- The need to have it figured out (believing you should know the answer before you move)
- Your story about what you deserve (a ceiling on what you will allow yourself to have - money, love, ease, health)
- Perfectionism (the belief that something must be complete or flawless before it is worthy)
▶Deeper structural patterns
- Guilt for having what others do not (believing having good things means others cannot)
- The conflation of love with sacrifice (believing that real love requires self-abandonment)
- The belief that change requires pain (that transformation has to hurt, that ease is suspicious)
- Shame about your own desires (wanting something good and immediately doubting whether you are allowed to want it)
- The assumption that your body is working against you (treating symptoms as the enemy rather than signals)
- Resentment you are calling something else (disappointment, frustration, "I'm fine" - when the actual feeling is resentment you have not named)
- A grudge (not the person, but the energetic holding pattern - the refusal to release what someone did)
- An expectation of how life should have gone (the unlived life you are still comparing reality against)
- The belief that asking for help is weakness (self-sufficiency as armor rather than strength)
▶Something to allow or accept
Open-ended question: "What is my system ready to allow or accept right now?"
▶People
- Allow/accept people to appreciate you
- Allow/accept someone to give to you without immediately reciprocating
- Allow/accept other people to choose freely without your involvement
- Allow/accept that friendliness from the opposite sex does not necessarily mean attraction
- Allow/accept yourself to be seen accurately by someone who sees you well
- Allow/accept a relationship to change shape without calling it a failure
- Allow/accept someone to be further along than you without it meaning you are behind
- Allow/accept someone to leave without making it mean something about your worth
▶Health and body
- Allow/accept that your body has an intelligence far deeper than you knew
- Allow/accept your body to heal at its own pace without forcing timelines
- Allow/accept a symptom to be information rather than a threat
- Allow/accept your body to need something you do not understand yet
- Allow/accept your nervous system to feel safe when nothing is wrong
- Allow/accept pleasure and ease in your body without waiting for the other shoe to drop
▶Self and identity
- Allow/accept yourself to relax when it is time to rest
- Allow/accept yourself to be good at something without diminishing it
- Allow/accept yourself to change your mind without it meaning you were wrong before
- Allow/accept yourself to want what you want without justifying it
- Allow/accept yourself to not know - and to be okay not knowing
- Allow/accept your Greater Intelligence to guide you even when your thinking mind disagrees
- Allow/accept that you are more than what has happened to you
▶Life on earth and reality
- Allow/accept that life on earth has been around for billions of years and will continue to evolve
- Allow/accept that you do not have to earn your place here
- Allow/accept that some things are working in your favor right now, even if you cannot see how
- Allow/accept that what you need might arrive in a form you would not have chosen
- Allow/accept that your past decisions were the best you could do with what you had
- Allow/accept that not everything needs to be understood before it can be trusted
▶Benevolence and Source
- Allow/accept benevolence to look kindly upon you
- Allow/accept benevolence to tend to something you have been white-knuckling
- Allow/accept yourself to recognize Source in the ordinary, not just the extraordinary
- Allow/accept guidance to come through channels you did not expect
- Allow/accept that you are being looked after even when it does not feel like it
▶Investing my internal precious resources
Open-ended question: "Is there an internal precious resource that I need to invest in an area of my life?"
- A relationship that is growing (a friendship deepening, a partner who is also doing the work, a family member who is showing up differently)
- Your own health or healing (not just body maintenance - this is the decision to devote precious resources to getting well)
- A practice that is changing you (spiritual practice, muscle testing itself, journaling, something you keep skipping that GI keeps pointing to)
- A creative project or calling (something you feel pulled toward but have not given real attention - writing, art, music, building something)
- Your work or livelihood (a business, a career shift, a skill you need to develop - investing attention and devotion, not just time)
- An idea (something forming that needs space and attention to develop - a vision, a direction, a possibility you have not fully explored)
- Learning something new (a subject or body of knowledge you care about but do not know enough about)
- Another person's growth (not necessarily someone you have a relationship with - a student, a cause, a stranger whose development you are meant to support)
- A community or group (a circle, a class, a neighborhood - investing care in belonging somewhere that reciprocates)
- Your home environment (beyond maintenance - the decision to truly invest in making the space yours)
- Your children or family (quality attention, not obligation - investing presence rather than just providing)
- Nature or the land (time outside, tending a garden, presence with a place - investing attention in reciprocal relationship with the earth)
- Your own joy (hobbies, play, things that bring you alive that you have deprioritized as unproductive)
- A boundary you need to maintain (investing the energy to hold a line you set - boundaries cost precious resources to sustain)
▶Divesting my internal precious resources
Open-ended question: "Is there something I need to pull my precious resources back from?"
- A relationship that is not reciprocating (someone you keep investing loyalty or care into who cannot or will not return it)
- An obligation taken on out of guilt (something you agreed to that is not right for you but feels impossible to leave)
- People-pleasing (investing attention and care in managing how others perceive you)
- A habit or routine that has outlived its purpose (something that used to serve but now just consumes resources)
- Worry or rumination (the single largest drain of precious resources for most people - investing intensity and attention in loops that produce nothing)
- Social media or news consumption (investing attention in content that depletes rather than nourishes)
- An old identity or role (continuing to invest devotion in being "the responsible one," "the strong one," "the fixer" when that role is no longer right)
- A job or career path that is draining you (not necessarily quit - but pull the emotional investment, stop giving devotion to something that does not deserve it)
- Someone else's problems (investing care in fixing what is not yours to fix)
- Perfectionism or over-preparation (investing intensity in making things flawless instead of finished)
- Resentment (one of the most expensive investments - devotion to an injury, paying attention to what someone did, keeping loyalty to the wound)
- Comparison (investing attention in measuring yourself against others - a resource drain that produces nothing usable)
▶Make a decision
Open-ended question: "Is there a decision I need to make right now?"
This is a decision NOW. Not someday. Not when you feel ready. Now. Deciding is a faculty - something you CAN do. The act of deciding itself moves the system forward.
- Something you have been putting off (a decision you already know is waiting but have been avoiding)
- Something new (a decision point that has just arrived - you may not have seen it coming)
- Which direction to go (two or more paths, and GI is saying: choose now)
- Responding to someone (a conversation, a request, a boundary - something that requires a definitive response)
- A commitment to make or release (saying yes to something new or saying no to something you have been tolerating)
- A change in course (the current path is not right and the decision to change it is the right next step)
- Something about your own identity (deciding who you are going to be in a situation - not reacting, deciding)
▶Do a therapeutic or health modality
Open-ended question: "Is there a therapeutic or health modality that is right for me right now?"
Distinct from Category 2 (daily body tending). These are modalities that work on the whole system.
- Yoga (any style - restorative, vinyasa, yin - as a modality for the whole system)
- Somatic practice (somatic experiencing, body-based processing, tracking sensation)
- Journaling (reflective writing as a therapeutic practice, not just note-taking)
- Breathwork (structured breathing practices - holotropic, pranayama, box breathing)
- Meditation (sitting practice, guided or unguided, any tradition)
- Parts work (IFS or similar - working with internal parts or sub-personalities)
- Acupuncture or acupressure (working with energy meridians)
- Massage or bodywork (therapeutic touch, myofascial release, craniosacral)
- Cold or heat therapy (cold plunging, sauna, contrast therapy)
- Sound healing (singing bowls, tuning forks, specific frequencies)
- Tai chi or qi gong (movement-based energy practices)
- Float therapy or sensory deprivation (reducing input to let the system reset)
- Dance or ecstatic movement (moving emotion through the body without structure)
- Nature immersion (forest bathing, extended time in wild spaces - distinct from "go for a walk")
- Fasting as practice (intentional fasting for system reset, not just meal timing)
- Creative expression as therapy (painting, singing, playing music - when done as release, not performance)
▶To Pause
Do nothing right now. Your system is processing. No subcategories. No drill-down.
Test periodically to find out when the pause is complete, then return to the menu.
▶Group 3 - Cooperating with Higher Intelligence
▶Being tended to by benevolence
Benevolence is already at work. This category has no subcategory list to test down.
Ask: "Is there anything I need to do to participate with being tended to?"
If yes, test which category on the menu it routes you to.
If no, your job is to not interfere.
▶Examine your assumptions about benevolence
From Lesson 5.5 - Exercise 1: Examining Your Assumptions About Benevolence
Step 1: Write down what programs or assumptions you carry about benevolence. What has your life taught you about whether the universe is kind, whether help is real, whether you are tended to?
Step 2: Ask your Greater Intelligence what to let go of. Use muscle testing to identify which assumptions are not true, which ones limit your capacity to receive, and which ones are ready to be released.
Step 3: Ask: "Am I ready for truth about benevolence?" If yes, ask what truth. If no, ask what needs to happen first.
▶Do a spiritual practice
Open-ended question: "Is there a spiritual practice that is right for me to do right now?"
Wait. Receive. Drill down to which practice, for how long, and with what focus.
▶Spiritual Anatomy practices
- Activate or tend to a chakra (test which one, what it needs, how long to stay with it)
- Work with a meridian (test which meridian, direction of flow, what it is clearing or building)
- Engage with your subtle bodies (etheric, emotional, mental, causal - test which layer needs attention and what kind)
- Tend to your energy field (clearing, strengthening, expanding, repairing boundaries)
- Work with your Heart Treasure (ask what your Heart Treasure needs, what it is developing, what it is ready for)
- Grounding or earthing practice (connecting to the earth, rooting, stabilizing your system)
Descriptions and diagram of these structures are in Lesson 5.5. Use muscle testing to identify which practice, for how long, and with what focus.
▶Conversations with benevolence
A conversation with benevolence is itself a spiritual practice. The cosmic questions in Lesson 4.2 are your models - they show you the shape of a question that opens a real exchange.
Use muscle testing to ask: "Is there a conversation with benevolence that is right for me to have right now?" If yes, use the cosmic questions below or the ones you built in your workbook as starting points.
▶Explore the Nature of Reality
Directed to benevolence. The asking itself is developmental - every time you use muscle testing to ask about benevolence, your system becomes informed by benevolence. The inquiry changes you.
▶The 16 Cosmic Questions (Lesson 4.2)
- Is reality one thing? Is that one thing the same thing for everyone? Or does it shift depending on the consciousness of the person perceiving it?
- Is higher consciousness available to people who have lower consciousness?
- Is it possible for me to become benevolent?
- Is it possible for my Heart Treasure to be so developed that it can be a healing force in the world?
- Do other planets exist that have intelligent loving beings on them?
- Is it possible for Earth to evolve from where she is now into a higher planet?
- Do animals evolve? Do plants evolve?
- Are there benevolent beings who are willing to dedicate their care, devotion, and attention to helping me evolve, heal, and advance my consciousness?
- Is intelligence something a person has, or something that moves through them? If it moves through them - where does it come from? What is its source? Is the source the same for all beings, or are there different sources of intelligence?
- When one person evolves, does it affect the people around them? Does the evolution of one person contribute to the evolution of humanity?
- The body knows things the mind has never learned. It knows how to heal a wound, how to fight an infection, how to grow a baby from two cells into a full human being. Where does that intelligence live? Is it possible to communicate with it directly?
- When a person lets go of everything they accumulated - beliefs, defenses, habits of perception - what is left? Is there something underneath all of that? Is it the same thing in every person?
- Grids of humanity are ancient. Can humans build new beneficial structures that exist alongside or within those grids? Can individuals participate in that building consciously?
- Love is a constant, always available, never withheld by the cosmos. People block it, but it does not stop. What IS it, structurally? Is it a force? A frequency? A substance? A being?
- Is there communication happening constantly between all living things that most humans are not aware of? If so, is it possible to become aware of it? What changes when a person does?
- Why human consciousness at all? What is the purpose of a being that can be aware of its own awareness? Is there something that human consciousness makes possible that no other form of consciousness can?
These questions are from Lesson 4.2. Each one is designed to open a real exchange with benevolence through muscle testing. You do not need to get through them all. Pick the one that pulls you and stay with it.
▶Build your own questions for benevolence
From Lesson 5.5 - Exercise 2: Building Your Own Questions for Benevolence
Use this five-point checklist when building a question to bring to benevolence through muscle testing:
- Presuppositions - What does the question assume is true? Are you comfortable with those assumptions? Would you get a different answer if you dropped one of them?
- Intentionality - What do you actually want to know? Is the question asking what you mean it to ask, or is it asking something narrower or broader than your real interest?
- Leading direction - Does the question lead toward a particular answer? Could you genuinely receive either a yes or a no?
- Feelings in the question - What are you feeling as you ask it? Fear, hope, urgency, curiosity? Is the feeling driving the question or is the question clean of it?
- Could you receive a no - If the answer is no, would you accept it? If you cannot receive a no, the question is not yet a real question - it is a wish dressed as an inquiry.
Build questions that are genuinely open. The quality of the exchange depends on the quality of the asking.
▶To Pause
After an exchange with benevolence, after a spiritual practice, after sitting with a question about the nature of reality - your system may need time to integrate what it received.
The pause is not nothing happening. It is everything you just engaged with settling into place.
