Our Intuition

Have we forgotten to use our instinct and intuition? We prioritize logic and external validation over our gut feelings, which leads us to overlooking important internal signals and our decision-making.

This is more than likely due to societal pressures to be rational, looking at past experiences where intuition has led us stray, or simply not being taught to actively listen to our inner voice.

Modern Society, often, prioritizes, logical reasoning, and data analysis, sometimes leading us to dismiss our gut feelings as unreliable.

Many people are actively paying attention to their bodily sensations or emotional cues that my signal intuition.

Along with the feeling of being wrong. Past experiences were intuition has led to poor decisions can make us hesitate to trust our gut feelings again.

Certain environments often discourage expressing intuitive feelings that lead us to suppress them.

So how do we reengage with our intuition and start listening to our gut?

A mindfulness practice paying close attention to our physical sensations and emotions when making decisions. What is my gut saying? Am I am at peace with what I am about to do? I

know, when I am about ready to make a decision, if I focus on my gut and whether I feel uneasy or not, usually helps me make the correct decision. Along with a prayer and asking God to guide me.

Trust your gut feeling when faced with a choice, consider what you’re initial is, even if it seems counterintuitive.

We often don’t hear our intuition because we are so used to hearing from external sources. We hold ourselves accountable to impossible standards. That voice seems to drown out the more subtle tones of our intuition. 

The fact is that neuroscience has found that when decisions are complex, intuition is not just a hunch, but a reliable guide.

Intuition is an instinct that powers us, and is designed to guide us and can even save our lives.

We are wired for intuition.

The military has been studying intuition or got feelings for decades to maximize human performance. Military scientists are researching intuition because of a number of service members who came back from combat reporting having said their lives or lives of others thanks to their gut feelings that enabled them to avoid roadside bombs or other attacks.

We should always think our decisions through carefully and consult our intuitions. When we do, this will be pleasantly surprised by the outcome.

I believe we have blocked our intuition by having selective perspective. Our habit or unconscious blockages often restrict us from the kind of information we receive. To build up our intuition, we must overcome things like perceptual distortion and biases, and artificial constraints that lead us do you think inside the box, rather than outside the box.