Listen to your Intuition

“I knew that was going to happen!” How many times have you said those words?

We all possess something called ‘intuition’. It’s an inner ‘knowing’ which can help us make decisions and even prevent us making mistakes! Do you remember those dreaded multiple-choice tests in school? How many times did you get the answer wrong because you changed it from your original answer. You probably soon figured out that you should always go with your first instinct.

Your brain, like a giant computer, stores all the data that was ever put into it. Unfortunately, most of us can only recall about 10% of it at any given time. You have experienced having a piece of information ‘right on the tip of your tongue’. The data is in your head but you can’t get at it when you need it. Some time later it probably pops up when you are no longer trying to remember it.

Well, sometimes that kind of information will pop up as a warning or in answer to an unasked question. We often call it a gut feeling or a premonition. Do you listen to it or just ignore it?

It’s very easy, in hindsight, to see where you could have prevented a problem by listening to your hunches.
But how can you learn to use your intuition to evoke warnings before it is too late to act on it?

Firstly, learn to listen to your intuition by spending some quiet time alone when you have a big decision to make. Secondly, never doubt your own common sense. When your inner voice says “watch out,” learn to take heed.

Useful words and Expressions:
Intuition – the unexplained feeling that something is true, even when there is no evidence for it
Figure out – solve a problem or understand a situation
Go with - follow (or keep to) a decision that has been made
Instinct – the natural way that a person or animal behaves or reacts
Pop up – if something/someone ‘pops’ up they appear unexpectedly
Gut feeling - is a feeling based on instinct or emotion rather than logic
Premonition – a feeling that something is going to happen (often an unpleasant thing)
Hindsight – understanding an event after it has happened
Hunch – a belief in something even though you have no evidence for it
Evoke – to cause an idea or emotion to occur
Common sense – natural ability to make good judgments
Watch out – a warning to be careful of danger or difficult circumstances
Take heed - listen / take notice