What is Intuition, and can you cultivate it? Part One
The subject of these articles will be "intuition". So first let 's look at a definition of intuition: Intuition definition: 1- immediate apprehension by the mind without reasoning, 2- immediate apprehension by a sense.
Now if we examine these two definitions we can see that they are self-contradictory. The first says intuition occurs "without reasoning" yet the second definition says "by a sense".
So, which is it? Because if intuition begins with a (sense) as in the # 2 definition, then the assertion here is that we have some 'sensory capacity ' to be 'intuitive '.
However, sensory data needs processing to be used.
Hence, that processing is 'reasoning ' on some level (even if it is on a sub-conscious level). So we have the apparent contradiction between definition #2 and definition #1. Because definition # 1 says intuition is "without reason".
It seems that intuition is inherently hard to define. But consider what a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said about what was legally 'pornography '. The judge said, "I can 't define it, but I know it when I see it".
So, in regard to our intuition, do we know it when we have experienced it? Do we recognize when "intuition" has been a factor in our behaviors, our choices or our actions?
Let me relate a personal experience here that helps expand on this thought.
About 16 years ago I was teaching a RMCAT style, scenario based self-defense class with the armored
This author ascribes to the empiricism paradigm. This paradigm is similar to empirical knowing in that it is based on the premise that what is known can be verified through the senses, or
Perception is the process of making meaning from people. Misperception would be to perceive someone incorrectly.
An instinct that tells what a person should or shouldn't do. It is often referred to as a gut feeling that tells you whether or not something is alright. An example of instinct from the story was shown several times. It was shown by Nkwala when he didn't shoot the dog, (Sharp, 1958, p.85) it was shown by the villagers and those who were uncertain of the dog (Sharp, 1958, p.87), and it was also shown by the dog herself when she tried to protect the villagers (Sharp, 1958, p.89-90). An instinct is important for love and acceptance, an instinct may help to know whether it's safe to accept or not. Sometimes an instinct can help get away from harmful situations. From “The Test” it is shown that instinct is important for people to love and accept others or
I graded higher in my intuitiveness above sensing, I can see this at work in my life because it can be very difficult for me to make decisions on sensing. I like to examine all sides when it comes to a major decision verses everyday minor ones.
Perception: a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
1. How difficult is it to separate your observation of your behavior from your interpretation of it?
Sense perception is one way that allows us to interact and communicate with each other and the world. This is our primary way of knowing because our senses live experiences that we go through. Based on our senses we are to make interpretations of the world. For example, in class, each pair was given a box. Inside the box, there was one metal ball, but you had to figure out the structure or the form of a maze inside the box. We couldn't see inside the box, and we couldn’t touch the inside of the box. By using our sense of hearing and another way of knowing, imagination, we were able to make an educated guess of what the inside structure of the box looked like.
Intuitive (N): Her over-active imagination delights in the many stories about Boo, and is excited about new ideas. Her wisdom is astonishing for one so young when it comes to making connections between seemingly unrelated pieces of information. Scout draws an unlikely but profound parallel between Boo and “the Mockingbird,” and also who knows who he is without hesitation. She grasps the abstract and from it, draws a profound truth. Scout senses what is going on with the mob in front of the prison and intervenes, knowing instinctively how to distract them from their
“Intuition and concepts therefore constitute the elements of all our cognition, so that neither concepts without intuition corresponding to them in some way nor intuition without concepts can yield a cognition. Both are either pure or
Out of the different preferences, I found myself associated with characteristics of both the Sensing preference and the Intuition preference. For the results to return a slight preference for Intuition validates that.
Intuition has been a strong factor in my plans for after high school and it can be confusing for another to understand. It is true, “threads” are unknowable to outsiders. However, empathy is a way around the barrier. No one needs to understand everything, but humans need to be less narrow minded for everyone to flourish.
It communicates in different ways to each of us. Following are some of the ways intuition makes itself known. Emotions - Intuitive information often comes through our feelings or emotions. Our feelings are neither good or bad, they are simply messages to guide us in life. Linda Kohanov has wrote extensively about the emotional intelligence of horses and what we as humans can learn from them in her books.
The same function that gives unity to the different representations in a judgment also gives unity to the mere synthesis of different representations in an intuition, which, expressed generally, is called the pure concept of understanding. The same understanding, therefore, and indeed by means of the very same actions through which it brings the logical form of a judgment into concepts by means of the analytical unity, also brings a transcendental content into its representations by means of the synthetic unity of the