Intuition: This Thing I Feel

Introduction:

Welcome my friend!

Today we'd get our conversation going with a short story about a man who was a guest on a TV game show.

So this show is basically about giving the right answers to the presenters' questions and earning more money for every right one until you reach the maximum amount.

Same way, you could lose money for the wrong answers until you get knocked out of the game with little or nothing.

Let's call this man Mr P.

Now before the game Mr. P had told the show host that he aimed at playing up to a certain amount because he needed the money for something really important.

“Good luck, sir” the host said; and the game got going.

A very smart man, Mr. P answered his way up the money tree very quickly.

However, before he could get to his target amount he had begun to run out of ideas with reason being that the questions got harder as the game progressed.

This was when the host and everyone else watching witnessed something remarkably outstanding.

Mr. P was still three (3) correct answers away from his target sum when he encountered the first question he didn't have the answer to but he somehow guessed the right one from the options to the amazement of the crowd.

Then he did the same for the next question and the one after, to hit his target amount, just enough to meet his need.

The host and the whole studio went wild in frenzy as everyone buzzed for him.

This man had instinctively played his way to his target amount with great belief when his knowledge seemed to have failed him.

Yet that was not the most interesting part.

Remember that one didn't get knocked out of the game until they gave a wrong answer which meant Mr. P could play to triple his money if he got the next question right or lose more than half of it if he got it wrong.

So the host threw the question and Mr. P once again went for an answer instinctively but because that was too much of a risk he agreed to walk away with the amount he already made.

After all, it was his target sum before the game even started.

So as the rules imply, the host had no choice but to oblige him with the following words;

“Congratulations sir, you've taught us all what a person can do by trusting their instincts and if you weren't already satisfied you would have risked more and would have tripled your money”

Yes! 

His fourth guess would have been right, which was just insane!

Discussion:

For the purpose of this conversation we'd explain intuition as the feeling we have about a particular thing even when we don't have enough information about it to make a definite decision.

It's the sixth sense that persuades or dissuades us from passing an assured judgment on a particular thing when every of our other senses says otherwise.

■ The Little Voice 

Have you ever felt something to be too good to be true?

Yet proceeded, only to get your hands burned?

Truth is, quite often, we get this feeling of uneasiness when we're doing something that would eventually cost us in the long run even if it feels good at the time.

Yet unfortunately, it seems ignoring this feeling and going on to bear the consequences of our actions is actually how we find out it was never good for us from the onset.

However, you'd agree with me that experience can be quite an expensive teacher, since we sometimes lose something we may never recover.

Which makes it better for us to trust our instincts, but how do we do that?

■ The Source Of The Little Voice 

From Mr. P's heroics we can learn a thing or more on how our intuition can be a correct guide for us if properly trained to whisper positivity and truth rather than negativity and pessimism.

In truth, while it would seem he was merely lucky to scale through, his attitude indeed showed calmness and confidence as he took one risk after the other guessing through answers until he hit his target.

…but it was more than just luck because the little voices that aligned him with the correct answers had a source, determined by a few things leading up to that point.

Things that include:

▪︎ His Knowledge 

Our intuition is mostly guided by what we know which is why it's important to be well studied or well traveled, gathering more information on places, people, behaviours, cultural dynamics, lifestyle and many other things we wouldn't normally know without exposing ourselves to them.

This helps because we can learn to view others and opportunities from a place of enlightenment and open-mindedness rather than from a place of ignorance and suspicion.

When we're uninformed about things we tend to be pessimistic because we're afraid of experiencing the same disappointment we did in the past even when the new opening is nothing like the other ones.

This is just fear and anxiousness and we can train our mind against it by learning more.

In the case of Mr. P his instincts guided him accordingly because he was a well studied individual whose knowledge had already brought thus far in game.

Therefore, even for things he wasn't quite sure of, he could instinctively lean towards the right answers having learned what “right” would typically look like.

▪︎ His Personality 

To be more instinctive sometimes requires a deeper level of sensitivity so that we can be able to hear that little voice.

When we're always active and caught up in the thick of things or when we're emotionally attached to a particular situation, it can sometimes be difficult to assess things objectively and firmly from an outside perspective.

This can be seen when we hold onto people and relationships that have become hostile and unfriendly towards us simply because we have history together.

This is unhealthy.

Proximity to folks that are subtly malicious to us sometimes exposes us to harm and other times wastes our precious time as we deal with unnecessary drama; and in some ways limiting their access to us is an act of self care.

Detachment and solitude provide us with the instincts to view things from a broader lens, casting emotions aside for better reasoning.

As with Mr. P, his personality allowed him to confidently lean on his instincts.

▪︎ His Goals 

From our story, immediately Mr. P hit his target amount he became unwilling to assume more risk, meanwhile that was something he had confidently done three (3) times prior in order to get there.

Until we train our minds to instinctively take on certain amounts of well calculated risks to match our lofty goals we'd continue to play life smaller than our potentials suggests.

Whenever we become dissatisfied with the life we've built we're challenged to sacrifice current comforts by taking the necessary right measures towards our breakthrough.

▪︎ His History 

Learning to trust our intuition comes from a history of making beneficial choices off it.

Although many of us have suffered the consequences of not trusting our intuition, some of us still ignore it till this day.

When we take a closer look at the losses we've had to bear because we refused to adhere to our intuition we can agree that perhaps it would have been better to have acted immediately then finding out the details later.

As we know, it's better to be safe than sorry and it's only by obeying our intuition that we learn to trust it.

The same way Mr. P gained more confidence in his own with every right answer.

■ What The Little Voice Is Saying 

Our intuition is the mind's antenna drawing our attention to something mostly in a vague manner but good enough for us to make a decision if we've learned to pay attention to it.

We can sense this when a business opportunity, relationship, environment and stuff like that feels off and likely harmful.

As God's children everytime we're faced with a decision he allows his voice to speak the right choice to us and if we're going to be wise enough to listen it's going to bring us the benefit of peace of mind.

This is how we know we chose correctly.

Summary:

As advisors or parents the responsibility of giving good counsel falls on us and we should take it very seriously.

As a parent when you tell your child that your intuition is asking them not to take that step, who is really speaking?

Is it really Godly counsel or is it your fear and parental protective instinct speaking?

Many times as parents we're guilty of holding back our kids because we think allowing them to put themselves out there exposes them to harm.

Yet, this could also mean we're standing in the way of their purpose.

As our partner's confidant, when they share their plans with us, do we discourage them from a point of truth or is it just our untamed intuition?

A good intuition is a product of a trained mind and everyday we work on ourselves we refine ourselves, evolving into better individuals with the wisdom for better judgment.

Listening to our intuition because we've learned how to hear from God.

Master Apprentice.

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