Does intuition trump intellect?

Steve Jobs thinks so!

How often have you felt something and just known it to be true? Do you trust your intuition? You couldn’t explain why, but you feel it deep in your gut. The more important question is how often have you ignored that knowing little voice because it just didn’t make sense?

Most of us do believe that intuitive knowing voice has value but we’re at a complete loss as to how to access it, how to hear it and we’re dumbfounded as to how to use it on demand.

How do we hear our intuition when it tries with all it’s might to get our attention? (click to tweet)

“There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence, combined with solid research efforts, that suggests intuition is a critical aspect of how we humans interact with our environment and how, ultimately, we make many of our decisions,” Ivy Estabrooke, a program manager at the Office of Naval Research, told the New York Times in 2012.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/19/the-habits-of-highly-intu_n_4958778.html

I know it’s happened to me more times than I care to count and some of it was so obvious I grimace when I think back at what could have been avoided, had I just paid a little more attention.

Intuition is awareness

Giving importance to that small voice isn’t really much different than accessing your inner observer. We’re talking about awareness here. A good practice would be to ask yourself the following question “if I were intuitive what would my decision be”? Then wait for your gut level reaction. That is strangely effective when trying to choose the correct path and I’ve often seen it lead my students and clients in a direction that turned out to be for their greater good.

Now on to Women’s Intuition. Do women actually have intuition that men don’t have? I don’t know for certain but I highly doubt it. I think it’s simply that as women we pay more attention to our feelings and that’s often how intuition is accessed. We aren’t as single minded as the male of the species as we have had to develop sensitivity to accommodate our children and to protect them physically and emotionally, while historically the male has been out conquering the beasts to bring us dinner. Try as we might there is a difference between us and maybe it’s time we celebrate that difference rather than trying to bridge the gap.

Understand the difference between fear and intuition

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How do we know the difference between fear and an intuitive feeling warning us of danger? (click to tweet)

This can be confusing and it’s really important to get this one right. After all you don’t want to pass up your perfect opportunity out of fear because you’ve erroneously felt there was an intuitive warning keeping you from moving in that direction.

Intuition can be known as an inner guidance, a kind of knowing or you might say an internal compass. We use terms like “A gut feeling”, “instinct”, “hunch”, and “just a feeling” to describe the way intuition influences our behavior.

Fear, or negative emotion can express itself through a physical reaction such as fight or flight, sweating, an adrenaline rush, a pounding or racing heart, etc. Fear may cause us to run away and hide and avoid where intuition is more of a gentle knowing the correct direction to turn. Don’t get me wrong a sudden burst of intuition may be felt strongly as fear and certainly should be looked at, but understanding the difference is important if we really want to properly utilize this amazing guidance system.

Enjoy your intuition

Let’s learn to honor, enjoy and actually delight in the wisdom of our intuition. Even as your mind argues with the voice of intuition allow yourself to get beneath those layers of logic.

One of our brightest minds Albert Einstein was a believer in intuition. He once said that it is our most valuable asset, and one of our most unused senses. He described it as

“a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance of something.”

Intuition is sometimes referred to as a gut feeling, sixth sense, innate wisdom, inner sense, instinct, inner voice, or spiritual guide. This of course ties in with our ability to access expanded awareness and our ability to tap into intelligence that is beyond what is believed to be within our personal intelligence.

Intuition and relationships

Maybe you have been a little lost- not sure of your direction? Perhaps your head has the upper hand; your intellect is dominating your intuition. Perhaps you have been burned in the past and do not want to trust your intuition. How about the intuitive feeling you have when you meet “the love of your life”? Does that scare you, is your head telling you, NO???? Society has imposed a lot of norms on us- we are expected to behave a certain way, live a certain way, even love a certain way, or a certain “type” of person. There does not have to be this conflict between intellect and intuition- we have to learn to listen to and process that inner voice. Never is this more true than in relationships. When you have an instinctively negative feeling about, say, a first date; it is your brain processing a lot of signals. BUT, one of the problems is we often go into relationships not really knowing what we want. This is where we can use the Law of Attraction to understand how intuition and intellect can work together. We attract what we are and if our energy field is negative our intuition will struggle to be heard- because we don’t trust ourselves- we expect a bad outcome. If we can reset our default emotion to happiness- then we can learn to trust our inner voice- it is not being overpowered by our inner critic.

The Law of Attraction can actually help us to find true love; develop our intuition and help heart and head to work together! Soon, I will be releasing a very special product specifically for those of you looking for love..so watch this space!