Do you believe in intuition ? Personally i feel intuition is important. Important to have and important to follow. Its common for people to think it is a female attribute which is completely false. True, some people have a stronger intuition than others but it has nothing to do with gender.
The term stems from from the Latin word intueor which means 'to contemplate' and it reflects implicit learning along with feelings and sensitivity. It also involved deep thinking and creativity. This is as close as one can get to defining it sense it is very difficult to define. Its instinct, the fact that it is difficult to explain is what separates it from assumption.
Assumption is the exact opposite since it has to be a rational process ( intuition does not ) and must always be tested in order to prove it right, but are mostly incorrect. Intuition on the other hand is almost always correct and is very valuable when it comes to the information gathered from it.
Apparently there is more than one type of intuition (I say apparently because it has only been my subject of interest recently).Two to be exact. Novice and expert, expert being the one we as human beings should be constantly working to develop. Like many other things in life , expert intuition requires time and experience. It uses our long term memory and contemplation from our previous years.
We aren't sure why this is true, but our intuition is extremely accurate. If something inside is telling you that something is off, take a break to relax and let your intuition do its thing. Our rational mind uses intuition in order to direct us towards the option which will keep us safe. Some people find it easy to explain intuition shortly after it happens.
If you find yourself not believing intuition is real and dismiss whatever little intuition you may experience then higher intellect is not an attribute you posses. Just because you choose to deny it does not make it any less right, your brain just doesn't have the capabilities to understand its true nature.
Examples? sure.
That hunch you get sometimes when your decision seems vital.
Every one of those times you ended up being right after all
Everytime you stuck to your guns knowing you were right, though you didn't why
knowing you should have stayed home that night you got pulled over and arrested.
By clearing your head and looking inside of yourself you can pinpoint your intuition. If you have been ignoring it now is the time to focus on strengthening and honing it. The director at Max Planck Institute For Human Development has developed his way of thinking to discard what Isent important and making a decision accordingly.
Intuition, in a way, could be thought as knowing and understanding collective intelligence. An example of this in our everyday life is the way a website is composed. After years of trial and error someone realized that by placing things in an intuitive way, people find it easier to understand and navigate through. By eliminating what was useless people were able to feel more comfortable discovering something that was brand new at the time.
There are various definitions that have been used to describe intuition. This is something that is vital to know if really trying to understand the subject of intuition. "Understandable without the use of instructions" is how a professor named Theo Humphries puts it. I personally believe in this first definition i mentioned. Disciplined intuition is what to strive for.
There can come a time that your intuition is affected by group thought outside of your own or desiring one outcome that isent necessarily the right one. This is actually the best time to focus, since that bad feeling in the pit of your stomach is your intuition. If one of the choices makes you feel uneasy in any way, shape, or form then that's the wrong one. Period. Whether it was the desired option or not. Seems simple enough no?
Intelligent people listin to this feeling. The smartest people we have- ones with the ability to break intillectual barriers in terms of our existence evolving- they have all harnessed the power of intuition.
In conclusion, always listin to this little voice screaming for you to stop. Or telling you to skip the trip. This is a really powerful attribute we all possess. It really is mindblowing that some of us ignore or brush aside this thought. I feel it is a huge part of my everyday life. If I think about living life without it I know I would be lost half the day. It seems stupid to ignore something that literally feels right. Thanks for reading.
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