March 11, 2012
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Intuition
Do you use or even believe in Intuition?
Personally I think it’s one of our best and most truthful ways of acting, but it’s also something that needs training and careful awareness to use.
Also even though I try to use it as much as possible and think of it as something of great value I’m still not entirely sure what it is even.
So what am I talking about when I say ‘Intuition’? Well for me it is that sense you get sometimes when you are about to make a choice or take an action, mostly it’s like almost an ‘itchy’ thought that most of the time you dismiss or don’t consider all that much.
But when I make a mistake and look back at the situation often times i’ll notice that I actually knew the right course to take, the one that would have resulted in me thinking back without regret but I actively didn’t choose it. For example recently I broke a Laptop I was working on. I’d intended to quickly put it on my home network by changing it’s domain to WORKGROUP which was the name of my local network…sadly I was unaware that this machine was on a remote Domain that once changed ment that all users and passwords for the system ceased to function.
The fix took over a week of pain and struggle and even once it was solved it wasn’t perfect, but I couldn’t help but realise that when I thought back I’d known not to change that domain, I’d even paused before doing it thinking this could be dangerous.
Now I had no actual experience with domains at that point, but still I knew and ignored it. So that sort of thing is what I usually think of as a missed oppertunity to listen to my Intuition.
But this leaves me with the question what is it? is it something divine? perhaps it’s your higher self? or it might even be just evidence of our true potential, we are able to record and even recall everything we have ever experiencd via things like hypnosis, so all that data is there perhaps intuition is the voice of that store of knowledge, there’s a chance it might even not exist atall and merely be a trick of hindsight.
Whatever it is or where ever it comes from if you start looking for it and trying to using it more you gain access to a really handy tool, it basically allows you to choose the right thing without knowing why…and for someone as lazy as me thats pretty much the best thing ever lol
So do you use Intuition?
Do you think it is of value?
And do you find that you tend to ignore it more often than not and then kick yourself later for doing so?
Comments (10)
When I play poker and cannot tell what hand someone is likely to have I use intuition.
@SolidStateTheory - :) good!
A good intuition must be seriously handy for poker.
Is it online or ‘real life’ poker you play mostly?
@SaintBlue1131 - Online for now. The closest thing to a casino is a dogtrack about 45 minutes away.
It’s nothing serious. More of like a hobby.
I think hindsight is 20/20. When I make a mistake and say, “I knew I shouldn’t have done that,” it was still just a mistake. Nothing mysterious about it.
I think of intuition as more of a guess. Sometimes I guess right; sometimes, not. More often, not!
That’s what I mean when I say that my subconscious brain is smarter than my conscious brain. Those things happen to me too, and it’s not just an after-the-fact sort of thing. I will often instantly come up with the correct answer to a problem but ignore it because I don’t know where the answer came from, then when I have worked it out, realize I had it right all along. I struggle a lot with my memory and thought processes, but my “intuition” as you call it, is usually very good. Somehow I still haven’t learned to trust it!
I think it is of value…I sometimes call it common sense. Grasping different facts and coming to the most likely conclusion. I think for example that it is common sense that if you are rude you hurt someone. Others might ask me for a scientific proof before they stop being rude.
Another form is understanding patterns but not being able to call them by name. For example most of us can tell by the way people smile and express themselves if they are honest or what their real intentions are. But I can only say that. An expert who can name rhetoric devices or muscles that should be used in a genuine smile is taken seriously whereas I am seen as crazy, even though i do have some knowelegde of these ‘fields’ from my expirience.
@SolidStateTheory - Well there was something in the paper here about several students paying off their student debts with online poker, so if you’re good at it it’s not nothing
@whyzat - Haha yea I know that feeling :/
But yea I’m never sure if it’s my mind just playing tricks, we take our memories as far more solid than they really are. When we look back it’s always with the mind we have now, not the one we had then.
@lanney - Yea I certainly hope it’s something real, because it’s really handy when it works out…super annoying when it doesn’t lol but it would be nice to have that ability and to train it.
@under_the_carpet - Thats a good way to look at it.
Love the way you explain stuff, it’s often very plain and straight forward, yet also personal.
@SaintBlue1131 - haha thank you
I think intuition is the result of gathering clues and reasoning, though it’s a very subtle process. I doubted mine when I thought a man was attracted to me, since it wasn’t appropriate for us to have that kind of a relationship, but then it turned out I was right. (Not that it really mattered in the end)
@naughty_virgin - Thats an interesting take on it
. But no matter what it is remembering back to time when you don’t listen is always sucky :/