John's behavior was so odd that Helen began to have doubts about their relationship. Without realizing it, John was projecting onto Helen because his last serious relationship ended when his partner suddenly dropped him. What are good methods? Three methods for identifying true intuition are: Tuning into your body Focusing or meditation techniques Analyzing your images Tuning into your body Your body is amazing. In pure intuitions , you will have a profound sense of knowing.
In fact, entire scientific directions and musical pieces have been built upon a pure, split second, intuitive image, for example, the DNA double helix and some Mozart's symphonies. Projections , on the other hand, activate very different feelings in the body.
Often they are associated with the closing down of the heart, becoming anxious, fearful, or worried. Next time you intuit something, notice what happens in your body. Is your body relaxed and excited all at once? Or, are you more anxious and questioning the validity of your perception?
Of course, if you intuit the potential for a difficult event or outcome, especially if it relates to your health, you will naturally be concerned. Watch these emotions, too. Use your common sense. Get the opinion of a professional. With patience and a centered approach, you will learn in time what is true.
Wishful thinking is a little harder to distinguish from true intuition because it can also be accompanied by a sense of joy and rightness. The differences are subtle. With practice, you will learn that wishful thinking is often accompanied by neediness and a big investment in your image coming true. True intuition is accompanied by the quality of detachment. For example, you might see it as a beautiful outcome, but not feel as though you have to make it come true.
Focusing or meditation Willis Harman, Stanford researcher and President of the Institute for Noetic Sciences, stated, "Most of us are living on the periphery of our lives; intuition invites us into the center. Using the first method, Sarah focuses her attention on a soothing image that helps her create an inner calmness. When her worries arise, she lets them pass-by without responding emotionally or intellectually. This is rather like tuning out TV advertisements that don't interest you.
This is how Sarah treats her worries-she is not repressing them or denying their existence, she is simply not allowing them to disturb her calmness. Using the second method, Sarah creates an inner calmness by focusing on her breath. When worries arise, she examines them from this calm state. She is curious: what is this worry? Where am I feeling it in my body? How important is this worry in the big picture of life? As she repeatedly asks these questions, her worries pass by and Sarah realizes that they are not who she is.
She feels an inner state of calm detachment. Analyzing your images Since wishful thinking and projection are so filled with your history, your hopes, your ideas, and your wounds, it is important to analyze your images. Ask yourself these types of questions: Is this an image or a sensation from my past?
Did I see, hear, or in some way experience something like this in the movies, on TV, or in a book? Does this image have anything to do with my fears or worries? How much do I wish that this image would come true?
What should I do if intuition gives me conflicting input? Strong emotions -- particularly negative ones -- can cloud our intuition. Many of us know that we feel out of sorts or "not ourselves" when we're upset, and it may be because we're disconnected from our intuition.
The evidence isn't just anecdotal: A study published in the journal Psychological Science showed that being in a positive mood boosted the ability to make intuitive judgments in a word game. That's not to say that intuitive people never get upset -- but your intuition will fare better if you're able to mindfully accept and let go of negative emotions for the most part, rather than suppressing or dwelling on them.
News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost Wellness. All rights reserved. Here are 10 things that people in touch with their intuition do differently. Intuitive people learn to tune into their bodies and heed their "gut feelings.
They mindfully let go of negative emotions. Asked why they thought it was a fake, they could not give any specific reason. They all claimed that they had a gut feeling that something about the sculpture was not right. After many more tests over the course of several years, it was confirmed that the Kuoros was indeed a fake, and that its accompanying provenance documents were forgeries. How did some experts recognize it as a fake even without any tests to back their arguments?
Their decision was based on intuition. Intuition is not restricted to museums and fake Greek sculptures. In fact, intuition is a very common phenomenon that we depend on every day. Consider the following situations: have you ever felt like you were being watched, and on turning around, you found someone staring at you?
Have you ever thought about someone you had not been in contact with for a while, and then that person gives you a call on that same day? All these are examples of intuition. The truth is that people rely on intuition to help them make decisions in a number of situations every day. Today, there is a lot of emphasis on rationality and logical decision making , especially in our professional lives.
We are taught to carefully analyze everything before making a decision. The problem is that our intuition has been relegated to helping us with small decisions and emotional encounters. But should it be this way? Should intuition be regarded as a mysterious and unreliable process that we should largely ignore, or is it a great force that can help us make better decisions?
According to psychologists, intuition is automatic feeling of immediate knowledge, understanding, or awareness that neither comes from reasoning or perception. The knowledge, understanding or awareness appears suddenly. We cannot explain where it came from, and it usually comes with a sense of certainty that distinguishes it from making an educated guess. In less formal terms, intuition, sometimes referred to as the sixth sense, gut feeling or instinct, is the inexplicable feeling that helps us sense something that is not clearly obvious.
It is the nagging feeling at the pit of your stomach that tells you that something is not right. It is the little voice that whispers to you that something is right or wrong, that you should do or avoid doing something. It is the shiver that runs down your back warning you about something.
Regardless of whatever form it comes in, intuition has only purpose — to provide you with information you need at that particular moment. Intuitive decision making is a decision making approach that is less structured and more fluid compared to other approaches like rationalistic decision making. Rational decision making is sequential.
It follows a series of steps and analysis of facts and figures and relies on the conscious part of the brain to come up with the most appropriate decision. Intuition is the complete opposite of this. Intuition does not follow any series of steps.
Instead of itemizing parts of the problem, it considers the whole picture. Secondly, intuition does not rely on the analytical, conscious part of the mind.
This is why most people have a hard time explaining intuitive decisions or perceptions. Finally, intuitive decision making relies more on emotions and feelings instead of facts and figures. How does this happen? The human brain consists of two parts, the conscious mind , which we have control over, and the subconscious mind , which we have little control over. The human brain processes huge amounts of information, most of which is done subconsciously. Therefore, intuitive thinking, which arises from the subconscious, can be extremely powerful, giving us access to information that is not within the grasp of our conscious mind.
The subconscious draws from all our experiences since birth, our long term memory and any information acquired through associated learning. It finds patterns from all this information and then uses it to provide us with cues about the current situation. Since these cues seem to come from the gut, it is no surprising that some scientists refer to the gut as a second brain. Some people to have a more developed sense of intuition than others.
For some, their intuition is ever present and is always correct. For others, their intuition kicks in only occasionally. Why is this? Well, intuition is influenced by the following factors:. Experience : The more experienced a person is in a particular field, the more their subconscious mind will be able to observe and recognize patterns, which translates to better intuition. The stories are certainly seductive.
Fred Smith has an insight into the transport business and, despite widespread skepticism, goes on to create Federal Express.
George Soros senses in his bones a big shift in currency markets and, acting on that hunch, makes a billion-dollar killing. Robert Pittman has a vision of the future of on-line media while taking a shower and rushes to lead America Online in an entirely new direction. The reason such tales whether apocryphal or not have become business legends is that we want to believe in the transformative power of intuition. It raises business above the drab world of spreadsheets and income statements and turns it into something of an art form.
The executive office becomes a place of inspiration and vision rather than planning and number crunching. For another, it simplifies. We just need to relax, close our eyes, and let the magic happen.
Finally, it makes us feel special. But then they reach senior management, where the problems get more complex and ambiguous, and we discover that their judgment or intuition is not what it should be.
But our desire to believe in the wisdom of intuition blinds us to the less romantic realities of business decision making. We remember the examples of hunches that pay off but conveniently forget all the ones that turn out badly. Michael Eisner was responsible for the debacle of the EuroDisney opening, not to mention recent box-office turkeys The Country Bears and Treasure Planet.
George Soros lost a fortune speculating in Russian securities in the late s and then promptly lost another one betting on tech stocks in Its definition can be stretched to mean almost anything, from innate instinct to professional judgment to plain-old common sense.
Scholars of human cognition have shown that our thinking is subject to all sorts of biases and flaws, most of which operate at a subconscious level—at the level, in other words, of intuition. We naturally give more weight to information that confirms our assumptions and prejudices, for example, while dismissing information that would call them into question. The most dangerous of these flaws, when it comes to intuition, is our deep-seated need to see patterns.
But it can get us into trouble. When confronted with a new phenomenon, our brains try to categorize it based on our previous experiences, to fit it into one of the patterns stored in our memories. The problem is that, in making that fit, we inevitably filter out the very things that make the new phenomenon new—we rush to recycle the reactions and solutions from the past. That instinct, seemingly hardwired into our thinking by evolution, is extremely useful in life-or-death situations where fine distinctions are irrelevant.
The benefit of a careful analysis of the situation would be far outweighed by the risk of inaction. But managers are not cavemen. Intuition is a means not of assessing complexity but of ignoring it. The more complex the situation, the more misleading intuition becomes. In a truly chaotic environment—where cause and effect no longer have a linear relationship—the last thing you want to do is try to apply patterns to it.
The essence of such an environment is the lack of any discernible pattern in its evolution. Indeed, the human drive to find patterns is so strong that they are often read into perfectly random data. Moreover, human beings like to assume that cause directly precedes effect, which makes it difficult to anticipate the second-, third-, and fourth-order effects of path dependence. And sooner or later—probably sooner—your luck is going to run out. Just ask your average day trader. Impatient with ambiguity, the mind naturally seeks closure—that seems, in fact, to be one of the main functions of intuition—but an intelligent decision-making process often requires the sustained exploration of many alternatives.
You want to keep the process open as long as possible before converging on a final choice. Intuition presents another, even more insidious problem: It masks me-too thinking. We like to assume that our intuition is uniquely our own, a distillation of our particular experiences and insights. We live in a vast echo chamber, and the voice of intuition we hear inside our heads is increasingly the same voice that speaks to everyone else.
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