Intuition: Where Knowledge meets Wisdom and Understanding
A form of Intelligence that still remains to be tapped into
This post has been inspired by a post about intuition by Andrew Lynch. The link is in the bottom.
When I think about intuition several things come to mind. The first and the foremost is this: we bought a house in 2006. We sold it in 2018. When we bought the house I was against buying it. This was because I had done the math and I knew we couldn’t afford it then but when we were planning to sell it in 2018, I was not willing because I felt strongly that the housing market would come back up in a couple years from then and it did. We undersold our house after 12 years of living in it and yet seven years later the price of the house we undersold has gone up by 76%. And I knew it would rise up like that. I felt it deeply and strongly within my veins.
When I decided to marry my husband, I felt strongly that I was making a mistake, I was taking a wrong decision. I knew nothing about him but I knew enough to feel this strong feeling that I couldn’t avoid but it seemed to have no basis, no logic. But now after years of struggles and patience and suffering, forgiveness and understanding, I understand why I felt so strongly then. And it was based on the fact that the few hours we had spent together talking on the phone with each other was a good enough sampling to tell me this truth. And this I know after the fact. But 23 years ago, this understanding was not there and I was unwilling to trust my own intuition.
Now I know intuition is an emotion based on intelligence and the behind the scene analysis of the subconscious mind that takes into account all the encounters we have had which we might have forgotten, that is our mind might have forgotten about but our nervous system doesn’t. And its intelligence creates this intuition for us from within us. And it’s either separate from our minds intelligence or it integrates with it in some form or fashion unbeknown to man as yet.
Same thing happened when Trump was about to be elected. I remember sitting by my husband that night on the eve of Nov 5th, 2024 watching Kamala Harris celebrate one last time that night thinking to myself in despair, oh isn’t this the last time I’ll sit by my husband in this fashion? And tomorrow all hell will break loose and sure enough, it did as I knew it would! Just like it did for Hillary Clinton in 2016 eight years ago. Nothing has changed. And my intuition has proved me right every single time it came!
In light of these moments I can say for sure that intuition is intelligence plain and simple but why is it that it happens only to a handful of us and not others? What kind of intelligence have we been bestowed that not everybody else has? Or is it that they are too much into the world that they don’t have time to think and feel along these lines? Either too anxious or too busy making money? I’m not sure about that! It’s almost as if we are Nostradamuses of the future. We have been bestowed with a supreme form of intelligence that we are able to tap into and produce results. But not everybody understands that. Or believes us when we predict certain events in the future. Now also, my prediction is that the housing market will collapse and go into the same kind of slump as it did when I bought my house and stayed down until I sold it again. But even I don’t want to believe it. But the feeling, it remains. As it had always been. Would anybody care to hear me out? It remains to be seen!
But even before that is going to happen, my gut is already screaming about so many other things. Such as severe famine, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, wiping out of whole communities and towns and cities going forward! Nothing good seems to be lined up for the immediate future.
My Intuition: it remains to be seen!
Peace ✌🏽
The post by Andrew Lynch which inspired this post:
Thank you, Shalini, I'm so glad the post resonated with you. You do seem to have a strong intuition, and I think women's intuition is generally strong than men's. I wrote a post about this but don't think it's up yet.
I think we all have intuition, and early education takes it away. Or, I should say, covers it up. You hit the nail on the head when you said that some have intuition, but not everybody else- "is it that they are too much into the world that they don’t have time to think and feel along these lines?" Yes, that is it, at least how I see it.
All is not lost. We can find it. It's there, we just need to peel back the conditioning, get rid of the overthinking, and become a little more emotionally intelligent so we can hear what we know to be true. I think the more trust we have in ourselves, the more we can trust that voice of intuition. Sometimes our thoughts and our emotions confuse us, so I think we have to get better at knowing when our brains and our bodies are lying to us.
Don't take my word for it, find out for yourself. I'm a man, and men have less of an intuitive sense than women, in general. I'm just trying to find mine more and more, and listen for it. Thanks again
Thank you for restacking my post dyraewulf