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LafayetteLady -> RE: Domina Intuition (1/9/2010 6:32:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Politesub53
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ORIGINAL: LadyAngelika
PS & Peon - wouldn't that be experience rather than intuition?
Intuition is the apparent ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason, instinct, our gut as Solange said above...
- LA
Without trying to sound pedantic, intuition is the decision we make when entering a given situation. What motivates that decision is our experiences. I guess we could call it experience, intuition, gut feeling, all describe the same resulting action.
Actually, I'm sorry, but LA is more on the mark....
Main Entry: in·tu·i·tion
Pronunciation: \ˌin-tü-ˈi-shən, -tyü-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English intuycyon, from Late Latin intuition-, intuitio act of contemplating, from Latin intuēri to look at, contemplate, from in- + tuēri to look at
Date: 15th century
1 : quick and ready insight
2 a : immediate apprehension or cognition b : knowledge or conviction gained by intuition c : the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
I see the definitions, although describing similar things, to be two different "types" of intuition.
The first, is one's ability to quickly evaluate a situation and determine how to best handle it. Sometimes the "fight or flight" gut feeling would apply here. Yes, that intuition can be based on knowledge and experience, but also the ability to read body language and see the "big picture" quickly.
The second which is, I believe, more the type that LA is referring to can be more contemplative, and I believe will usually "kick in" when the first one sets off bells in our head. Kind of like how during a five minute conversation with someone you can walk away going "I just don't trust that person."
I believe that everyone has intution. The problem is that many people don't trust their "gut" or just simply ignore it. Like the wife whose husband has cheated on her for years. Yep, all the signs were there, she saw them, but because she didn't WANT to believe it was true, she ignored her gut feeling, her intuition.
Almost any article or book that one would read on intuition, more than anything else, encourages the reader to trust their instincts. Often though, people who trust their gut and go with their instinct are called "impulsive" by society and their friends, family, etc. will keep telling them that they haven't "thought things through." While a person could reach the same conclusion with careful contemplation, often what happens is that they begin to question their own judgement.
Look at some of the "new" submissive women who post questions. Their "gut" tells them that the guy they are currently involved with is wrong in what he is telling her, but she questions that instinct. Why? Because somewhere along the way, someone has told her that things are SO different in BDSM relationships that her gut couldn't possibly be right in thinking the guy is a loser. Instead, the post is made and those who have been around longer "confirm" that her intuition, her gut instinct was right and we encourage her to trust it more in the future.
What Peon seems to be referring to is attraction, which when we are young will often override our intution and instinct about people. Men are not the only ones who are guilty of thinking with the wrong brain. But perhaps what does happen as we mature and get older is that we are less apt to be blinded by raw physical attraction and start looking at the "big picture."
Because after all, when a person matures, in theory, they develop a bit more self confidence, and they learn to trust those instincts a bit more than when they were young.
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