Changing Paths challenge day 18: Intuition

Spidey sense, gut feeling: we might call these a sort of bodily knowledge, but they are key components of intuition.

According to this article, intuitive people have five characteristics: 

1. Tend to be more empathetic

2. Listen to their gut feeling

3. Take some “me-time” 

4. Live in the moment 

5. Are observant and deep thinkers

I do 4 out of 5 of these (I tend to ruminate rather than living in the moment, although I can be spontaneous).

Carl Gustav Jung identified intuition as one of four modalities of the mind and associated these modalities with the four elements: intuition is fire; emotion is water; thinking is air; and sensation is earth.

I think intuition is a useful skill to develop, and one that is likely to be blunted after being in a high control religion where you are constantly discouraged from independent thought, and gaslit when you challenge bad behaviour by those in authority.

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