Benefits of listening to your intuition

Intuition is a subject that is not very easy to explain, perhaps not very popular because it is not easy to study scientifically by its very nature. It is both abstract and metaphysical.

In today's society, we are faced with more options than ever before, and we often find it difficult to decide between these options. Beyond not being able to make easy decisions, we are also racing against time. We want to reach what is most convenient and functional for us in a short time, and in addition, we want to be happy with the decisions we make. These conditions actually make intuitive reasoning very important. In everyday language, we also express intuition with words such as intuition, intuition, clairvoyance, sixth sense.

It is actually quite difficult to agree on what intuition is. However, in the literature, there are different studies from many disciplines to understand what intuition is.

The time it takes to calculate costs and benefits in order to maximize the expected benefit, and the difficulty of deciding between many alternatives, shows how useful intuition can be. In addition, with a short attention span and a short working memory capacity, humans are prone to making a lot of mistakes. This is where intuition comes into play.

There are times when we all say "I felt what I should have done, I wish I had done that". Damasio draws attention to the many difficulties of making decisions with an emotionless rationality. He shows this situation on people with prefontal lobe damage. In his work with these patients, he points out how the lack of emotion causes difficulties in decision-making and how wrong decisions are made as a result.

So, what kind of emotion is the emotion here? According to Damasio, the human mind at the beginning of the decision-making process is not a "blank slate". The mind contains a myriad of images compiled from experience. Accordingly, depending on the circumstances surrounding the decision, a subset of the available images will be automatically activated. You can think of it as the brain opening a new tab. In fact, with knowledge from experience, the mind recognizes the pattern and tries to respond to it in the most appropriate way.

At such a moment, even before the reasoning takes place, when the mind senses the option with a bad outcome, the person mentions experiencing an unpleasant gut feeling in the body. On the other hand, if the option involves a positive outcome, the gut feeling is pleasant. In fact, if we think carefully, we all remember this strange sensation in the abdomen, we know it. It gives us an intense feeling to trust that intuition.

At this point, researchers do not agree on whether every intuition is correct or not, but they think that there may be personal differences in intuition.

Every day you have to make decisions without complete data or with seemingly contradictory information. What do you do? The answer to this question is "guess, insight, hunch, intuition, speculation, imagination, judgment, gut feeling, sixth sense, a feeling in the bones, good guesses - the use of intuition. They also suggest that people who rely on their intuition when making decisions make more profitable decisions than those who do not.

Awareness of bodily, emotional, mental and spiritual intuition at a conscious level can open the way to creativity, discovery, true happiness and connectedness.