Building your intuition will make you smarter.
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"Sometimes, a corporate mandate or group-think or your desire to produce a certain outcome can cause your rational mind to go in the wrong direction. At times like these, it is intuition that holds the power to save you. That "bad feeling" gnawing away at you is your intuition telling you that no matter how badly you might wish to talk yourself into this direction, it is the wrong way to go.
Smart people listen to those feelings. And the smartest people among us - the ones who make great intellectual leaps forward - cannot do this without harnessing the power of intuition."
- Intuition is the Highest Form of Intelligence, by Bruce Kasanoff in Forbes
I know many of you have experienced intuitive hits before. A gut-instinct that helps you make a decision at an important juncture in your life.
We are full of these, and yet few of us actually know how to use these to our benefit, AND EXPAND THEM, to create the life we truly want. We are taught to only trust our intuition when it's really loud and even then, we may be uncomfortable favoring it to logic.
The core of the work I do with each of my clients is in building intuition. While I do believe some of us are clairsentient/audient/voyant/tangent/etc, I believe all of us, at our core, are empathic and intuitive beings. Not a single soul on the planet doesn't have access to this stuff in their bodies. And those who are willing to look at things they can't necessarily see in order to remove the layers blocking their discernment are one step ahead in honing and mastering this essential tool for growth.
When you inevitably shift from thinking you know, to realizing you have no idea, the only thing that can guide you is your intuition.