What is Intuition?
The dictionary defines intuition as: “The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition”. You can also use the words “gut feeling”, “hunch”, “innate knowledge”, “instinct”, “perception” or “sixth sense”. Intuition is certainly this indefinable “gut feeling” in which you simply just KNOW. However, that sort of vague description leaves me wanting to explore a deeper explanation.
Kim’s Definition of Intuition
The human being is a vessel that we have barely scratched the surface in understanding. We are capable of sensing a tremendous amount of information within every moment, yet most of us whittle this down to the five senses (taste, touch, smell, hear, see). We now include this sixth sense or “intuition” in our daily language. But what is this “sixth sense”?
The sixth sense, according to me, is actually just a blanket phrase to describe an enormous amount of perceptions. In a moment we pick up on millions of pieces of information. For example, how is it we know it is going to rain, if we don’t see it? We say we “smell it in the air”. Our beings are picking up moisture content, electrical energy, ionic fluctuations, temperature changes and atmospheric pressure changes. I would also venture to say that the water in our own bodies helps us to recognize the water cycles on Earth. We pick up energy changes, we feel the life force of the water, we sense the shifts in the Earth energies. Our emotional selves are triggered – we “smell the rain in the air” and remember the last time we smelled this. We feel rejuvenated and joyous, or we feel our own conditioning, dreading the rain because we might get wet. It has taken me 5 sentences to describe several perceptions we have in an instantaneous sensing of rain. I chose this more logical reasoning to show, that there really is something to this “intuition”.
So What?
The key is to hone our intuition, to learn how to use it and trust it, and to learn to understand it. Humans beings rationally trust their physical senses. It is possible that we have within us these “magical powers” or sensory perceptions beyond the physical, and we can use these perceptions to open our awareness and understanding of ourselves and our surroundings. Intuition is also tremendously faster. I read somewhere the intuition or unconscious mind processes ~2 million of thoughts per second, while the conscious mind or thinking only process 1 to 4 thoughts per second. Isn’t that incredible?
How Do We Develop Our Intuition?
That is a whole lot of writing to answer that one and try to explain. There are other articles on this website that will answer that in more depth. But in essence to develop our intuitions we simply need to make the conscious choice to start. We can start by acting as the scientist observer in our own lives. You can analyze a thought that you have and determine how you derived it. Did you rationalize it? Did you draw upon your past experience for this answer? Did you sense something different in your body? Do you feel the answer came from even deeper within you?
Self-awareness is the best tool in developing your intuition because your feelings, doubts, sensations, etc. help you understand and really are the intuition at work. The intuition almost needs to teach the mind to understand. Once this is accomplished, the mind then acts as an assistant to the intuition, supporting the inner knowing by interpreting it into logic so the physical/emotional/mental sides of you understand, and then you and your body can act accordingly.
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