What is intuition and when should you trust in it?
Some individuals take pride in possessing a strong gut instinct, many years of their experience now guides and determines their important life choices. On the contrary, some individuals are reluctant to base their decisions on gut feelings; they often consider intuition as something instinctively biased and emotional.
Intuition is often mistakenly viewed as something developed all of a sudden. But in reality, it is something that develops over a period of time and is largely determined by a variety of factors such as past experiences, current knowledge, and professional experiences. It is generally defined as a sense of sudden realization, clarity, or surety about something without having a logical explanation or reason for this particular feeling. Intuition isn’t merely a thought, rather it is a strong uncontrollable urge that compels us to do a particular action either to avoid something, flee from it or pursue someone or some situation. This uncontrollable urge requires much effort to resist.
Gut feeling or intuition should not always be viewed as a haphazard, dumb, or whimsical phenomenon. Rather, it is a much more sophisticated phenomenon based on objective and subjective experiences. Psychologist and author of “Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious” Gerd Gigerenzer considered intuition as a manifestation of unconscious intelligence. It usually encompasses perception of what you had experienced prior, that has now become a part of one’s unconscious mind, a form of “information processing”. Intuition usually manifests itself through a variety of sensations in the body such as racing heart, nausea, goosebumps, choking sensation, sweating, and butterflies in the stomach, etc; It is a small internal voice to do a particular task.
Neuroscientific basis of Intuition
Many researchers offer a different explanation for this phenomenon. Our brain consistently gathers and processes sensory information received through the environment. Intuition is also linked with complex brain processes such as evaluation and decoding of nonverbal cues from the environment. These cues largely work on a subconscious level, which simply means we are not observing or registering them consciously. Our brain automatically prepares us to deal with such situations. My own gut instinct has helped me multiple times in life. Once, I had been walking through an area under construction, suddenly I felt a strong urge to walk through the opposite side, there was no clear reason behind this urge, but I can’t resist it. A few moments later, few bricks fell down right there where I had been walking. I gaped in distrust, with a racing heart and sweaty palms. I felt glad that I relied on my gut instinct that helped me to avoid any serious injury. But the question is “How did I know that would happen? This gut sensation was not something unusual, maybe my brain observed something subconsciously, or had read some nonverbal cues such as a sound of something falling during construction without consciously registering them. It might be I had picked up that clue and followed it without realizing it. This clearly symbolizes our brain possesses a lot more information to compare already held information with our current encounters.
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