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What is intuition?
Not to act on judgement, but to act on pure perception
Intuition is a direct channel for a clear perception beyond conscious reasoning or subconscious programming.
It is a way of knowing or sensing without explanations. You may not consider yourself being particularly intuitive, yet at the same time, trust your gut feeling.
The dictionary describes intuition as “thoughts and preferences that come to mind quickly and without much reflection.” It also refers to it as “to look inside” and “a quick and ready insight.”
Intuition may start with sense perception, from where you shift beyond the analytical mind to bring forth ideas, images, possibilities, and insights that take you out of a blocked situation. This process happens mostly without knowing, yet any person can do it consciously.
The difference between intuition, reasoning and instinct.
Intuition or a gut feeling is an understanding or knowing of a situation without specific data or evidence at the time; analytic reasoning is not part of the intuitive process. Instinct is an inborn, hardwired tendency. For example, humans have biological, hardwired instincts for survival and reproduction. Intuition is not rational. It does not always make sense. And so, rather than trust something that makes no sense, many people go the regular route of thinking logically and making decisions based on what their mind tells them is correct.
Intuition is not rational. It does not always make sense. And so, rather than trust something that makes no sense, many people go the regular route of thinking logically and making decisions based on what their mind tells them is correct.
How to use intuition in your life?
When you are aware (mindful), a more profound insight intuitively guides you towards an adequate understanding of abundance, love and happiness. By adding self-awareness, you already live your life’s purpose, clearly what to do and what you want.
What blocks intuition?
Intuition starts where reasoning ends.
The most common block people run into when developing their intuition is self-doubt. To unblock your intuition, you must be willing to trust yourself.
Emotional involvement and reasoning awaken the inner critic that separates you from intuition. The analytical mind works hard to make sense of things, which blocks intuition.
As we developed language, religion, politics, culture, science and economics, we began to rely more and more on what we were told instead of listening to the guidance from within.
Intuition is not an instinct. It’s a natural learning, the ability to acquire knowledge without reference, the voice of reasoning or conscious knowing. Intuition provides us with insights that cannot be justified by reasoning.
Research on intuition
New research shows how going with our gut feeling can help guide us to faster, more accurate decisions. Einstein is widely quoted as saying, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant“.
Research shows that nonconscious emotional information can boost accuracy and confidence in a harmonious emotion-free decision task while speeding up response times. Moreover, these effects were contingent on the predictive arrangement of the decisional stimulus’s nonconscious emotional strength and motion direction. These findings support the notion that nonconscious emotions can bias concurrent nonemotional behaviour—a process of intuition.
Intuition defined by experts
Great leaders make intelligent decisions, even under challenging circumstances. From Albert Einstein and Carl Young to Oprah Winfrey, many top leaders attribute their success to following their intuition.
Steve Jobs
Jobs touted the power of intuition and described its impact on his work at the helm of Apple. “Intuition is a very powerful thing,” he told writer Walter Isaacson, “more powerful than intellect.”
Jung
“The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect. The capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.”
Jung defined intuition as “perception via the unconscious.”
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Rudolf Steiner
“Intuition is the third of three stages of higher knowledge, coming after imagination and inspiration. It is characterised by a state of the immediate and complete experience of, or even union with, the object or person without losing the subject’s ego.”
Founder of Waldorf schools
Abella Arthur
“Intuition combines historical (empirical) data, deep and heightened observation and an ability to cut through the thickness of surface reality. Intuition is like a slow-motion machine that captures data instantaneously and hits you like a ton of bricks. Intuition is a knowing, a feeling beyond the conscious understanding — a gut feeling. Intuition is not pseudo-science.”
Dr Jason Gallate & Ms Shannan
“Intuition may be defined as understanding or knowing without conscious recourse to thought, observation or reason. Some see this process as mystical, while others describe intuition as responding to unconscious cues or implicitly apprehended prior learning.”
