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the caller without expecting any particular calls at that time.
Driving home from work, you have a “gut” or instant “knowing” that is not attached to any particular
emotion. You recognize that you should take another road home without any explanation for your
thoughts. You decide to take the road, arrive home safely and later find out that there was a car accident
that included five deaths. These are all examples of Intuition.
One dictionary explanation is:
“Intuition is an immediate form of knowledge in which the knower is directly acquainted with the object of
knowledge, which generally involves conceptualizing the object of knowledge by means of rationale and
analytical thought processes. “
Most cultures throughout mankind have honored and have been intrigued by powers of intuition. Some
philosophers consider the human experience of living daily to involve using intuitive thoughts that are not
formally recognized. Many Scientist are baffled what intuition means and what intuition entails in everyday
life. Partly, because many Scientists have broken ground in their research using certain hunches or intuitions.
Many theorists have studied and devised how intuition differs from other senses.
Using intuition differs from having opinions. Opinions are based on making conclusions about everyday
occurrences and experiences; intuition is a way of actually experiencing through objects and possibly
unexplainable incidences. Intuition is also different than instinct; although the two can be intertwined.
Instinct is usually a genially born ability to distinguish various elements or to categorize events for survival.
Example: Most animals have the instinct with their reflexes to turn away from a fast moving object such as a
baseball, before they may visualize it. In the same situation, intuition would be explained by the same person
who had an insight before that they should not attended this event, such as a ball game.
Intuition can also be defined by an intuitive that may not fully explain why he/she has a feeling or opinion on
a matter or event; however, the person may later rationalize an intuition by developing a chain of logic to
demonstrate why the intuition is valid.
Many people confuse and analyze their feeling of events: people and things based on their fear rather than
distinguishing if it was a true intuition. An example to differentiate fear vs. intuition can be explained by a
person may have a “fear” of traveling due to a post-traumatic stressor that preceded the event. The person
may have dizziness, feel sweaty and have a scared feeling to board a plane and he or she may attribute these
emotions to intuition as “Don’t get on this plane.” These symptoms may be related to experiencing anxiety
brought on by past history, and not merely intuition. In the same situation: the same anxious person may have
a sudden fleeing thought and warning that came out of nowhere not board the plane. The difference is that
intuition can hit a person out of nowhere, like rock. Intuition gives the person a message or state of
“knowing” on how to proceed with the event and usually given a feeling of “knowing” that is not
accommodated with any other emotions such as fear. The intuition or message stands alone.
Everyone human and animal have the abilities to develop his or her intuition. It is a skill that can be cultivated
and nourished with practice. Some people say they strengthen their intuitive abilities with meditation and
visualizations.
Here are some other explanations of how intuition can be perceived or experienced with various empirical
senses:
CLAIRVOYANCE (clear seeing or clear vision) is experienced when an individual discerns objects,
people, or situations, not with the physical eyes, but with an internal sense sometimes referred to as the
"third eye". Such "visions" concern something beyond one's physical view such as visualizing an event or
object a thousand miles away or in the next room. Some people receive intuition messages through their
REM dream states.
CLAIRAUDIENCE (clear hearing) is the ability to receive thoughts or information about a person or
situation through an auditory sense instead of a visual one. This information is actually inaudible to the
normal hearing range. It can be experienced as delicate sounds such as music, bells, or singing. It might also
manifest as a knocking, siren, or other attention-getting sound. Most often, it comes as a voice that is
literally heard either directly in the brain or through the auditory sense, as if it comes from beside or behind
the person.
This voice can have many aspects, at times sounding like the person's own, and at others taking on a change
of tone, volume, or pitch and sounding like someone else. It can take on an authoritarian tone or that of
warning, gentle prodding, or encouragement.
CLAIRSENTIENCE (clear sensing) is probably the most frequent way intuition manifests in our lives,
through hunches, gut feelings, or a sense of knowing without knowing how one knows. This "sensing" is
often accompanied by a physical sensation. The physical sensation can vary with each person.
This information comes to us in a variety of ways. At times, it comes as a thought that walks across the mind
in a natural, subtle manner. When intuition comes to us in this way, it is so much like the regular everyday
thought processes in our minds that we can easily miss it, dismiss it, or mistake it for our own ruminations.
There are many other different explanations and deeper explanations of intuition that can be referenced
from these sites below:
Referenced and Referred sites:
http://www.innerself.com/Miscellaneous/awareness.htm
http://www.awakening-intuition.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(knowledge)
http://samvak.tripod.com/intuition.html
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