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My daughter who is now a teen has had a level of intuition about people for as long as she can remember. She was picking up on something beyond what experience could give her. It doesn't mean it's "magical" or "supernatural", but for whatever reason she has the ability to frequently be consciously aware of something that not all of us are.
I agree, that has been my experience too. intuition is natural in that everyone has it, but in some people it is stronger and more evident. also what varies from person to person is whether we acknowledge our intuition, act on it, or value it.
I don't know. Perhaps we are born with intuition? I'd say it's likely since intuition often helps us to survive.
On three occasions I've known someone I loved was about to pass. Twice the death was unexpected and the person was thousands of miles away. When I was called and told the second time the person calling me said, "Prepare yourself. I have bad news." I said, "X died, didn't she?" It stunned the person on the other end...who I didn't know. She seemed relieved I already knew.
I've had strong intuition since I was a kid. I thought everyone had it. As I grew older I discovered mine was different from what most people experience.
I've had strong intuition since I was a kid. I thought everyone had it. As I grew older I discovered mine was different from what most people experience.
if you're willing to share, please tell us more, different in what ways? thank you
On three occasions I've known someone I loved was about to pass. Twice the death was unexpected and the person was thousands of miles away. When I was called and told the second time the person calling me said, "Prepare yourself. I have bad news." I said, "X died, didn't she?" It stunned the person on the other end...who I didn't know. She seemed relieved I already knew.
I've had strong intuition since I was a kid. I thought everyone had it. As I grew older I discovered mine was different from what most people experience.
Were there times when your intuition about these things turned out to be wrong?
We are probably more likely to remember the predictions we get right than the ones we get wrong.
if you're willing to share, please tell us more, different in what ways? thank you
I don't know about you, but I've never known ahead of time that someone was going to pass unexpectedly, or that a dangerous situation (like the incident with the truck tire Dew described) was about to occur. That Dew knew those things ahead of time is certainly different than my own non-experience with such things.
Were there times when your intuition about these things turned out to be wrong? We are probably more likely to remember the predictions we get right than the ones we get wrong.
Personally, I'm very careful to remind myself of all the many times a feeling I had that something bad was about to happen didn't come true (which, in my case, was pretty much always). It helps me to avoid working myself up into a state of anxiety when I'm having that feeling again.
what is intuition to you and what role does it play in your life?
Intuition is information from our true Self (what we experience as our unconscious). Our intellect does not have direct access to it because the link only exists while we are actively producing more consciousness. Unfortunately, what we experience as the "here and now" is a "delayed playback" through the recordings in our brain. Our life has literally already happened before we begin to experience it in what we see as the "here and now." This means our unconscious or true Self has access to our immediate future . . . but no direct way to communicate it to our conscious intellect. Since our intellect is dominantly left brain, those who tend to rely heavily on left brain processing tend not to notice or be sensitive to the right brain signs that are made available from our unconscious. Those who tend to pay attention to right-brain information (usually women, but not exclusively) are more likely to pay notice the signs. You must rely exclusively on your intellect, Pleroo.
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I wonder if people use the words instinct and intuition interchangeably?
I tend to agree with this differentiation.
"• Instinct is our innate inclination toward a particular behavior (as opposed to a learned response).
• A gut feeling—or a hunch—is a sensation that appears quickly in consciousness (noticeable enough to be acted on if one chooses to) without us being fully aware of the underlying reasons for its occurrence.
• Intuition is a process that gives us the ability to know something directly without analytic reasoning, bridging the gap between the conscious and nonconscious parts of our mind, and also between instinct and reason."
Funny you should say this.
I wrote a piece about these two several years ago. Today we see them as different things, yet I believe that they are the same. And is something we are born with.
In our modern world it is all about the logical. There for anything that is illogical, is disregarded or passed over (but we are relearning). Early humans used instinct just like all other animals. Ever have that moment when your hair stands up on end? A threat is near. That's a very primal function- so is that intuition or instinct? One in the same I say. Early humans did not have any social or religious taboo that now has us rejecting anything that might be deemed psychic. They for sure would have been more in touch and aware of 'intuition' as it was a major player in the game of survival.
Currently we reserve the term instinct to describe something more physical than what is part of the mind, those random illogical perceptions and hunches.
Intuition, when it comes to the psychic definition is specifically a 'knowing' without any reason or source to know. It is technically called claircognizance; meaning clear knowing. It's give. This term to help differentiate between the other 'clair' abilities. That 'gut feeling' is called Clairsentiance; clear feeling -as in a physical sensation, such as hair standing up on end. Or an unexplainable pain in a body part and later finding out someone close to you has injured that body part.
It can be difficult to trust ones intuition, as there is no logic supporting it. But when one does come to trust it and listen...much in life that is a headache is avoided.
Intuition is information from our true Self (what we experience as our unconscious). Our intellect does not have direct access to it because the link only exists while we are actively producing more consciousness. Unfortunately, what we experience as the "here and now" is a "delayed playback" through the recordings in our brain. Our life has literally already happened before we begin to experience it in what we see as the "here and now." This means our unconscious or true Self has access to our immediate future . . . but no direct way to communicate it to our conscious intellect. Since our intellect is dominantly left brain, those who tend to rely heavily on left brain processing tend not to notice or be sensitive to the right brain signs that are made available from our unconscious. Those who tend to pay attention to right-brain information (usually women, but not exclusively) are more likely to pay notice the signs.
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what is intuition to you and what role does it play in your life?
