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allthatjaz -> Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 3:24:08 AM)

How often do you listen to your intuition/gut feeling?
Do you think intuition is over rated and perhaps a little paranoid? or do you believe its an instinct that should always be listened to?

I personally believe that people who listen to their intuition possibly fear more but are generally safer.



LadyPact -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 4:24:24 AM)

Cast My vote for listening to intuition.  I don't necessarily consider it being fear.  Instead, I consider it caution.  Something that I honestly believe that women in this lifestyle on either side of the kneel need to have in their arsenal.



JstAnotherSub -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 4:27:34 AM)

I always go with my gut feeling.  The time or 2 I didn't, when I was young, did not end well.



Edwynn -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 4:30:41 AM)



Funny, I had a premonition that someone would bring up the subject this very morning, and I had a hunch it would be you who sprang forth.


Seriously though, I don't quite see the association of intuition with fear, nor that there is an inherent dichotomy of intuition vs. logical assessment. 


In my own experience and to some extent in my observation of response/reaction of others to certain events, fear or worry clouds judgment of whatever derivation.

When I have little or no fear, the quiet intuition is more likely to be heard, and logical thought process has a clearer path.

Even though I had a good bit of fear when I was young, I noticed as I grew older that in most situations where everybody else panicked, I was calm and proceeded through the situation. After that sunk in I started wondering what I was worried about the rest of the time. Hard to explain exactly how, but something akin to intuition had to do with that calmness, and so it gave me motivation to train myself to that purpose. Even still, what little intuition I might posses I have no control over. It only seems to surface in emergency situations.






Phoenixpower -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 4:34:11 AM)


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ORIGINAL: JstAnotherSub

I always go with my gut feeling.  The time or 2 I didn't, when I was young, did not end well.


dito, though I am not always the best to actually listen to it....but I believe we have it for a reason and don't see it as paranoid or having too much fear about something...



LadyConstanze -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 4:38:35 AM)

I learned to listen to my gut feeling, I think subconsciously we pick up more than consciously, and the "gut feeling" is just our way of reacting to everything we pick up but can't "place" logically...



GreedyTop -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 4:44:22 AM)

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ORIGINAL: JstAnotherSub

I always go with my gut feeling.  The time or 2 I didn't, when I was young, did not end well.


This.
I dont think it is automatically a FEAR thing.. sometimes my intuition/instinct tells me someone/thing is absolutely safe.



kalikshama -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 5:06:30 AM)

Twice when my intuition was bothering me about a potential Dom, I looked them up in my county's clerk of courts. Each one had two domestic violence cases, both years apart. Needless to say, we never met.

Now I just listen to my gut and don't need to have it confirmed in a database.



subinlife -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 5:12:28 AM)

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

I learned to listen to my gut feeling, I think subconsciously we pick up more than consciously, and the "gut feeling" is just our way of reacting to everything we pick up but can't "place" logically...


This.
The one or two times I ignored my intuition it turned out really bad.
Has nothing to do with fear.



LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 6:19:53 AM)

I agree that intuition has little to do with fear and that people who listen to theirs are generally safer. I think that some of us are born with the ability to intuit & others take some time to develop it. It can be like an early warning system for some. I have nearly always listened to mine & I believe that it's kept me out of a lot of trouble in life. There have been times when my intuition has told me not to do something & I have gone ahead & done it anyway & it rarely is a good thing.



GreedyTop -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 6:21:32 AM)

*agrees with Linnea*



allthatjaz -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 6:47:38 AM)

Thanks for the replies so far.

Edwynn, I don't believe for a second that intuition has anything to do with premonitions. With intuition we get warning signs. We may not be aware that we get warning signs but we do. Take driving a car as an example. How often do we say to ourselves, 'I knew that guy was going to cut me up'? We knew because we had subconsciously seen a small warning sign. Perhaps he was driving hesitantly or perhaps we had seen him inch just a tiny bit in our direction. What ever it was that gave us that gut feeling, we already knew. I think drivers especially use intuition all the time to predict what other vehicles are going to do.
There is nothing magical or mystical about intuition and intuition always has clues.

I can think of a very good example of not using my intuition and that event involved fear. The fear was my intuition warning me that this wasn't a safe place to be but instead of listening to my fear which was warning me to get out of there, I chose to ignore it and put it down to me being a bit silly. I didn't want to appear impolite and yet there was something about this mans insistence to be helpful that was ringing so many warning bells.
I was given the most subtle of clues, his body language, his mannerisms and the feeling that he was too far into my space. At that moment fear was being my guide, telling me exactly what to do and yet I still kept telling myself that this was a nice guy and I was just being overly suspicious. In that particular case I was injured by this man. It was all carefully planned. The gentle voice, the reassurance and insistence that I needed his help and afterward I kept thinking 'but I knew I wasn't safe. How did I know that?' I knew because my intuition told me so. I ignored my instincts and allowed my judgment to become cloudy.










pahunkboy -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 8:08:15 AM)

Yes.  I think intuition has a place in decision making. 



WestBaySlave -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 11:28:32 AM)

 Intuition is very much a part of my decision-making process, especially when it comes to unseen danger. Sometimes I've followed it and been laughed at as suspicious and paranoid, but the few times I've ignored that "this person/thing/place is trouble" vibe I've regretted it. It's not that I think I'm psychic, I just think one can subconsciously make observations and conclusions one can't consciously articulate at times.



straponprincess1 -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 11:33:41 AM)

I go with my intuition more often then not.



allthatjaz -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 12:01:07 PM)


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ORIGINAL: WestBaySlave

It's not that I think I'm psychic, I just think one can subconsciously make observations and conclusions one can't consciously articulate at times.


Very well said.

We talk a lot on boards like this about meeting someone off the internet. We talk about getting to know them first, meet them in a safe zone, have a safe friend, write down their car plate etc, etc. All of these things are actions that have come from conscious thought but what if we were more in tune with our subconscious warnings?
There are numerous people on this thread that have said, the only time they haven't listened to that gut feeling they have regretted it. All of you saw a clue, a deterrent but that clue was probably so small that after the event you couldn't recollect what your subconscious picked up on. The truth is you knew and you chose to ignore it.

We often see threads on here were someone has blatantly had a gut warning but they still don't trust themselves enough to make a decision. When they come here and post their situation most of us can see the warnings and yet it seems that the op wants to be reassured that his/her gut feeling was wrong and that its ok to go right ahead.



Phoenixpower -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 12:11:16 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: allthatjaz
All of you saw a clue, a deterrent but that clue was probably so small that after the event you couldn't recollect what your subconscious picked up on. The truth is you knew and you chose to ignore it.


Ignoring that gut feeling doesn't mean (at least not to me) not being able to recollect why I had that gut feeling...I do know what the clues were but simply hoped to be proven wrong...but then wasn't [8|] Therefore I do value my gut feeling these days....apart from just that certain feeling I also learned during my time as a student to value the fact when I dreamed to fail my work at uni...as always when I dreamed it I got back a pass....didn't always happen to dream it but it gave me confidence when I was under threat to fail my placement, thanks to some folks in the team, to go there with confidence on the day when I received my assessors final decision, as I dreamed she would let me fail I was confident that she will let me pass....and she did [:)] I think that sometimes gut feelings as well as dreams are too much dismissed and I take both quite serious these days....



Lucylastic -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 12:12:57 PM)

I always trust my gut, if something just doesnt sound right, I explore more (if possible) to either add more info or decide, yes or no
sometimes its just an auto nope not happening, or maybe, look out
I may not always have been right(second guessing or finding out more), but Ive never been wrong.
On the other hand, Ive regretted a couple of times I was right:)



Jaybeee -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 2:29:32 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: allthatjaz

Thanks for the replies so far.

Edwynn, I don't believe for a second that intuition has anything to do with premonitions. With intuition we get warning signs. We may not be aware that we get warning signs but we do. Take driving a car as an example. How often do we say to ourselves, 'I knew that guy was going to cut me up'? We knew because we had subconsciously seen a small warning sign. Perhaps he was driving hesitantly or perhaps we had seen him inch just a tiny bit in our direction. What ever it was that gave us that gut feeling, we already knew. I think drivers especially use intuition all the time to predict what other vehicles are going to do.


Traffic planners and the Highways Police are very well trained in analysing "Vehicle language". If a car approaches a roundabout and slows down to an inordinate crawl, this is clearly a sign the driver is confused and consequently will change lane suddenly.

I undertake at least a dozen times every trip I make, and I've developed an instinct for the kind of situationally-unwary driver who will blindly change lanes without indicating or even checking his/her side mirror, and I'll either approach with one hand on the horn just in case they make the turn, or if the vehicle language is confused, flash my headlights and/or sound my horn.



lizi -> RE: Your thoughts on 'Intuition' (1/12/2011 3:15:42 PM)

Add me along with the group that is saying intuition isn't anything magic or psychic, it's a collection of data. As humans, we are constantly assessing things and collecting information on anything...the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell is about this very process. It's a fascinating read if anyone would care to try it, I recommend it.

Anyway, there's a mountain of information available to us on a continual basis but our conciousness only skims off the top of that- we have to do that or we'd probably be driven crazy by the neverending stream of info. I think it's good to pay attention to your intuition, I try to be mindful of what is going on around me so if any intuitive flashes come my way I recognize them and pay attention to them.



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