Intuition Magic: What Is Intuition? (Intuition 101)

In this track, Keziah introduces some key concepts of intuition, such as where it comes from, how it arises in our consciousness, and different types of intuition such as active and passive intuition.

Suggested next steps: "Trust Your Gut and Master Intuition" (audio course); Keziah also has a series of "Intuition Magic" talks and practices which you'll find on her profile.

Transcript

Hi, I'm Keziah Gibbons, This is Intuition Magic and today your invitation is to consider what is intuition? So one of my favourite and simplest ways to define intuition is when we know something but we don't know how we know it. And this comes across in many, Many of my courses. Typically participants, Once they stop and reflect on and consider this, Will realise that they're already using their intuition way more than they thought. So that's a reflection invitation for you too. And I like this quote from Patricia Benner and Christine Tanner who wrote an article called Clinical Judgment, How Expert Nurses Use Intuition, In the American Journal of Nursing in 1987. And here's what they said. Intuition is defined here as understanding without a rationale. Such an understanding is not a mystical or accidental human capacity. Intuitive judgment is what distinguishes expert human judgment from the decisions or computations that might be made by a beginner or a machine. So before we close, I wonder if you would consider for yourself, And perhaps you might even want to journal on this, What examples of intuition you can think of in your own life. So it might be a strong feeling you have that you need to check something. And often intuition comes to us as an unconscious processing of information. And I do have another video which goes much more deeply into that concept. But if we think of ourselves as receiving, And we receive something ridiculous, It's like 200 billion pieces of information in any one moment. That's sensory information, Stored information, Memories, Knowledge that we have current experience. There's too much information for the conscious mind to process. So most of it is processed unconsciously. And so once that information is processed unconsciously, Sometimes the results of that process will come to us, Come to our conscious awareness, Through and from our unconscious. And we'll just know something and we won't know how we know it. So that's intuition in a nutshell. Thank you for spending this time with me. I look forward to seeing you soon. Take good care.

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