Where have you been successful using intuition over rules?

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One of the most interesting discoveries I had when I realized I was an Aspie was how little I trusted my intuition. When I had decisions to make in my life, I would almost always use facts and rules to make the decision. While this has many benefits, I am now learning to trust my intuition. What I am realizing is that intuition has many benefits... it is quick, it often yields a result that feels like something I want to stick with, and it often yields creative solutions that logical step by step analysis would miss.

I'm starting this thread for people to share examples of how their intuition worked out for them. Creative solutions that you found by feeling into situations.

For me, I've been looking at several health clubs, trying to decide which to join. My old way of making the decision would have been to figure out what the clubs have to offer, compare with their price, and join the one that has the facilities I want at the lowest price.

But the new spin for me is that I'm now considering the atmosphere of the places, how it feels to work out there. I've realized that getting me to feel like going to the gym is probably more important than the cost. So I'm joining a gym that has bright friendly colors and lots of light, rather than the one that was cheapest but drab and depressing.

I call it a "gut feeling", because intuition "These people prefer to receive data from the subconscious or seeing relationships via insights?" which I don't do I go on "When introverted, thinking and feeling judgments tend to be subjective, relying on internally generated ideas for logical organization and evaluation."

I have gone against my gut feeling and found out I might as well stuck with my gut, I get it on some people and some I don't but normally I know where its going to go even when I tested out if it would go differently...

You're right on about that. There are two ways for me in which my intuition was definately there, but I disregarded it. One is in simple choices I always make, such as which way to go to get somewhere like shortcuts. There's the hunch you have of what's the 'better choice', but I chose to survey the situation and go with what appears best, not feels best.. and have ALWAYS made the wrong choice, lol.

The second is girls. Looking back threw my life now, I know that I absolutely did pick up on body language, voice tone, etc. with girls who quite obviously liked me. But at the time, none of that stuff is concrete enough so I just disregarded it and waited for more obvious signs, lol. Which pretty much never came, cause it doesn't get much more obvious than what was there.

I used to try and reason things out thinking that the best way to make decisions would be using logic. Then I read about Jung's personality types and realised that intuition was my primary function. I understood then that when I'd made decisions by logic, they just didn't work out and also I'd been ignoring the intuitive feelings to do/not do something.

I know now that intuition does work, took me a long time to understand that, LOL. The trouble with it though, is trying to explain to someone I'm making a decision with, eg, my hubby, how I've come to my viewpoint. It's tough trying to explain a decision by 'I just feel in my guts that this is the right think to do' sounds a bit vague, especially to a thinking type, but I stick to my guns now as I know it works.

Examples, well, I often know when a friend or family member is in trouble even if I've not seen them for a while. On a practical level, if I'm looking for something for the house maybe, or a gift for someone, I will get a 'pull' to go into a particular shop, even if it's somewhere I've not been before and I don't know what's inside. The thing I am looking for will be in there!

http://www.sol.com.au/kor/18_01.htm think this best explains a "gut feeling"


Gut feeling in my words…


I call it a gut feeling as it feels the same as been anxious, butterflies in the stomach, shock travels up the back of the spine and my frontal lobe feels like it is rocking forward and back with my temporal lobes, and then I feel what one would say when they hairs stand up on end they…

Sometimes I sense that someone is watching me and I can look in the direction it is coming from without even looking anywhere else I just look that way, also that one from other & my hairs stand up when someone sits next to me and it feels like they body is touching my body without even touching me…

Upon first meeting a person, I have this scarcely definable gut feeling about what they are like. I have no idea where it comes from, is it my picking up on something about them that betrays their feelings, or just some sixth sense. I'm cautious about trusting it, and I check myself many times and try not to make assumptions about that person at once, but usually, this first impression turns out to be right.

When I was in my second year studying English, there was a student who was a friend of mine, and she'd always ask me to look at some people and tell her what I think about them - as she put it, I was good at telling what people were like on first sight, while she couldn't do it.

This is odd because I obviously don't understand people too well, otherwise, and I know I used to fall into the trap of assuming everyone should think like me (unconsciously, but it was there). Weird how sensitivity and insensitivity to the same things may go hand in hand.

I hate when people let wishful thinking and deep desire equate or overcome gut feeling.

A gut feeling isnt an emotion.

I had a vending machine that made me 20 thousand dollars over 4 years. I had a gut feeling that I should get rid of it, and at the same time, it was my hearts desire that I get to keep that great income. I went with the gut feeling, and three weeks later, the club shut down.

Moral: Listen to your guy feeling, never to your heart. They are not the same.