Intuition: Helpful… Sometimes

April 26th, 2017

By Jack Adam Weber

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Intuition: from the Latin “intuir”, meaning ‘knowledge from within’.

Intuition can be a helpful resource. It can offer direction, especially when the way is unclear, or when the path forward and towards healing proves circuitous. However, intuition is often glorified, often to our peril, if we rely on it exclusively and hold it too preciously. Intuition has its place, but — just like our thoughts and feelings — we might consider being more careful about the “truth status” we attribute to our intimations and gut feelings.

Intuition is not an infallible crystal ball of truth. It’s not an island of magical truth-bearing that lives in a precious, untainted domain of our soul. It is a rudder and way forward when we are unclear: a quiet voice, a sense of what is right, or what we need. Often, however, this voice can and should be informed and updated by all our other faculties, especially good reasoning, when possible and appropriate. The times it may not be appropriate to question intuition include when we can’t get reliable information through reason and direct observation, or when we want to take a risk without logical discernment, or when we don’t have time and need to act quickly.

Consider an example: getting together with a romantic partner. You might have the intuition that someone isn’t right for you, yet you convince yourself that it’s okay, using reason and justification. A couple years later, you break up and you might remember your initial gut feeling about him or her — that it was wrong from the get-go. You might conclude that you didn’t follow your intuition and resolve to follow your gut next time. But if you were to look at select days during the relationship when things were clicking, what might your perspective of your intuition have been? Different than your final conclusion that your intuition was wrong, perhaps.

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