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allthatjaz -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/14/2011 3:31:44 AM)
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agirl, I think you made a good point when you said 'My *gut instinct* is borne from experience, it's useful , but it can also be a hindrance.'
I think some, not all gut instinct is born of experience. Certain experience is life can I believe, bring about a false gut instinct in future situations. I took a very bad fall one day when I jumped a bank on my horse. I knew before we landed that things were going to go wrong. My guts told me so or was it that I had pushed him momentarily too soon. Every time I jumped a bank after that I got that same awful gut feeling, even though we had approached and taken the jump perfectly. I had to learn to ignore that gut feeling but it never went away. If I had listened to my gut instinct then my eventing days would of been over.
mummyman321, you used the words 'heightened awareness' and that's a great way of describing what intuition is. Soldiers at war are on constant heightened awareness, wild prey animals are on constant heightened awareness and a mother with her little newly walking toddler is on constant heightened awareness. The normal man on the street of course isn't and so when heightened awareness happens to the ordinary man in the street its more striking. Its a survival instinct there's no doubt about that.
TheBanshee, thanks for your post. We watched a programme the other night on the affects of Ecstasy. Beside all the possible medical problems, the main concern was the loss of ability to see danger. They tested people under the influence of Ecstasy and put them in different situations. The tests clearly showed that people under the influence of Ecstasy had heightened awareness to music but lost the ability to have gut feelings.
Termyn8or, yep, we have been practicing the 'Pack' 'tribe' and 'gang' mentality for the past 5 million years and I doubt we are going to give it up any time soon. Our biggest threat to real non accidental danger is from our fellow man. The warrior man is more threatened with size and brute strength than woman. A friend of mine says that her husband always walks differently when walking through a crowd. Perhaps he feels slightly taller?
A woman's fears are slightly different. A mothers instinct is to safeguard and protect her child no matter what. She may become overly suspicious of innocent strangers who happily smile at her playing infant. She's on red alert because 'red alert' is a safer place for her child to thrive in than being complacent and unworried mother.
When we make a new friend we initially behave relaxed and jovial but once that friendship goes deeper we start to use a lot more intuition, I believe so anyway. We constantly pick up signals. If we didn't then we would just let anyone into our lives and trust them with our secrets and personal stuff but in fact we humans tend to be very fussy about how much of ourselves we are willing to reveal and that is all based on good or bad clues we are picking up from this new friend. They may be the tinniest of clues but they are significant enough to give you warning signs. I personally think that women tend to be better at this than men but then perhaps female friendships go deeper than male ones?
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