10 things you didn’t know about intuition
Posted on December 10th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
Before we start, did you think that there were 10 things you didn’t know or that there could be 10 things about intuition which could be written about? Or even that it was possible to write about intuition like this?
Such things are indicative as to how we think about intuition in general, so…….
- People don’t think about intuition in the same way that they think about other things. Intuition is something which just ‘happens’, according to this line of thinking
, not something which can be made to happen.
- Intuition is not an abnormal aspect of being human. It’s the very thing which makes us human because it is the thing which allows us to tap into an area of our brain / mind / whatever which we couldn’t normally access.
- Intuition is responsible for some of the greatest creative bursts or breakthroughs. Think of music such as Mozart composed, or poetry such as Coleridge wrote, or insights such as the chemist Kekule had (the benzene molecule) and you have just the tip of the iceberg of creativity.(Go look such things up instead of me taking a paragraph for each example.)
- Intuition is not luck, although it can often be confused with it. Consider any incident where someone just ‘happened’ to be at the right place at the right time (either to avoid something bad or to receive something good) and you have an example of intuition at work. Not luck! (See number 7.)
- Intuition is one thing, but the ways of accessing it are many and various. And the ways of accessing it are often confused with intuition itself. Tarot cards are not intuition, just a method of accessing it. Feelings in the stomach are not intuition, just a way of accessing it. Intuition is the access to the information directly. How you get there is something else!
- Intuition by itself is useless. Intuition combined with action taken upon the information is amongst the most powerful aspects of human behavior.
- Intuition is always ‘on’. It doesn’t just flip a switch and give you a gut feeling and then go away. It is always acting in your life to help you, whether you want it to or not.
- If you don’t choose to use your intuition or to give it room to speak to you, it will fade away and you will have lost a very important part of your life. You will have become entirely rational. Sad….
- If you listen only to your intuition, you will have lost an important part of your life, your analytical function. You will only be reactive. Sad…
- People who proclaim that intuition is easily explained away are as bad as those people who proclaim that they know exactly how their intuition works. Neither knows what they are talking about. The people who use their intuition regularly in their lives are the ones to listen to, and they don’t say very much. They just get on with living more fulfilling lives.
Of course. I could be wrong!
If you think I’m even half right, why not trot over to the main site (at www.intuitioncenter.com) and poke around some of the ideas, articles and suggestions there? Could be fun!
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