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Remove These Three Barriers To Access Your Intuition
How knowledge, thinking, and imagination can stop us from reaching our true potential
What Is Intuition?
Imagine: you step into a coffee shop. By default, your eyes scan the room, find the counter, and you begin to walk towards it. A person gets up abruptly to leave and bumps into you as they rush by — you emit a soft “excuse me.” At the counter, it occurs to you that you’re really craving a caramel latte, so you order that. As you leave, you remember a nearby park that would be nice to walk in while you enjoy your coffee, so you head there.
Was any of that planned? Did you have to think about how to find the counter or deal with the rushing person gracefully? Did you deduce that a caramel latte would be delicious or that the nearby park would be fun to walk around in? No — these things came to you, through intuition.
Intuition happens when our intellect is quietly in harmony with our natural instincts. Natural urges bubble up and seek to be fulfilled, and our intellect serves them by devising a path to fulfill them intelligently. At least, that’s how intuition usually functions, but it’s easy for certain things to get in the way and disrupt that process.
