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How to Develop and Utilize the Power of Intuition in Oneself · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Those who wish to develop and utilize the power of intuition
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  in their own lives have to address their active mental
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  process so as to open up the receptivity to the higher
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  intuitive force and allow it to modify the action of the
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  mentality itself. There's a parable out of the
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  teachings of Jesus that says, essentially that one does not
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  put new wine into old bottles. This is relevant here as the
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  intuition cannot be jumbled successfully into the normal
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  mental process that is the standard known by most people.
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  It is also disconcerting and frightening to people when they
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  gain some silence of the mind, particularly early in the
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  development, and they fear they are losing their ability to
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  think or becoming somehow less competent.
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  This also corresponds to the continuation of the parable by
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  Jesus when he points out that someone who has drunk the old
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  wine does not immediately adopt the new wine, saying the old
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  wine was better. In his lectures on Raja Yoga,
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  Swami Vivekananda provides detailed analysis for observing
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  and monitoring the mind stuff and brings it to a state of
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  silence as a prelude to carrying out the subsequent steps to
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  eventually enter into one pointed concentration and the
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  trance of Samati. These steps can be seen as
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  methods to bring quiet to the mind, to open up the receptivity
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  for the influx of the intuition from the higher realms.
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  To do this, the seeker has to Orient himself towards these
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  higher planes of awareness, open up his receptivity, quiet the
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  mental process and chatter, and overcome the fear that arises
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  when the mind falls silent and the seeker gets the sense that
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  he is losing his ability to function.
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  Sri Orobindo described his own experience in achieving silence
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  of the mind through observation of and rejection of thoughts
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  before they could enter and take hold of the mind stuff.
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  There are obviously several methods to achieve the needed
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  state of quiescence of the mind. The seeker needs to adopt A
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  method that works for him. He also needs to be fearless.
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  The Mother observes. Quote.
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  When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be,
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  usually you concentrate your attention here, pointing between
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  the eyebrows at the centre, just above the eyes, the centre of
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  the conscious will. But then, if you do that, you
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  cannot be in contact with the intuition.
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  You can be in contact with the source of the will of effort,
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  even of a certain kind of knowledge, but in the outer
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  almost material field. Whereas if you want to contact
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  the intuition, you must keep this Mother indicates the
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  forehead completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped
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  as far as possible, and the entire mental faculty must form
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  at the top of the head and a little further above, if
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  possible. A kind of mirror.
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  Very quiet, very still, turned upwards in silent, very
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  concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can, perhaps
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  not immediately, but you can have the perception of the drops
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  of light falling upon the mirror from a still unknown region and
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  expressing themselves as a conscious thought which has no
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  connection with all the rest of your thought, since you have
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  been able to keep it silent. That is the real beginning of
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  the intellectual intuition. It is a discipline to be
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  followed for a long time. One may try and not succeed, but
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  as soon as one succeeds in making a mirror still and
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  attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a
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  precise form of thought, but always with the sensations of a
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  light coming from above. And then, if one can receive
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  this light coming from above without entering immediately
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  into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and silence
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  and let it penetrate deep into the being.
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  Then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous
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  thought or as a very precise indication.
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  Here Mother indicates the heart in this other centre.
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  End Quote. Reference.
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  Sri Aurobindo and the Mother powers within.
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  Chapter 21. Intuition, pages 159 to 160.