Where does our intuition come from?
By emptychair
@innertalks (23739)
Australia
June 11, 2018 8:40pm CST
I ask this question here because of what happened to me this morning.
Just this morning in my garage, as I was seeing my wife off to her work, I had a thought come into my head to ask my wife if she had her logon key for work, but I ignored this thought, as it was only fleeting, and it was not strong enough for me to realise that it was important for me to say it to her.
And I thought to myself, even as I dismissed this thought, surely she must have her key, she has it every morning.
But, later that same morning, she rang me from her work, telling me now that she did not have her key with her, and she must of left it at home. She would have to tell her boss that she forgot it, and so he would note that she was at work, so she would still get paid, even though she had not clocked on for the day.
Another annoyance for her was that she could not use her locker that day either, and so she would have to keep all of her things at her workstation with her that day. Her locker key was on the same keyring as her logon key was.
I was annoyed with myself once more for not following my intuitional nudge.
Where do such intuitional nudges come from anyway?
Love lives on its own more or less until we connect to it by listening to its inner voice in ourselves. The voice of love is our intuition, as love is our soul self or higher self in God too. God is love, and our soul, and higher self, are a part of this love too, operating from love's energy in itself.
All of the usefullness of our suggestive gut feelings, or our intuitional nudges, are coming to us from love trying to help us, and to assist us to make the connectiveness of our life better, and more easily easy for us, without some of the hardships that non-connectivity always brings to us.
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If we ignore our intuition, sometimes then, we will feel the sting of a thorn.
Every experience usually has a beautiful useful aspect of it, but often it has a thorny underside too, which we might feel annoyingly so, if we miss seeing this, and making the connection to love, which usually allows us to not have to be pricked into learning our lessons of life, the hard way like this.
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
12 Jun 18
Hi Steve. That is beautifully said. Instincts tell us something inside to remind us that we are loved and therefore share that love to others. 
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
Thanks Louise.
It is very good if we can always follow love, but sometimes, having a human mind, and emotions, we place them first, instead of love.
It would be good if I could learn to step away from my mind, and take a step into love. I would then hear love's voice louder, and perhaps follow love more then too.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
@mlgen1037 One thing though, love never stops trying to reach us. It will keep trying and trying in ever new ways to get through to us, in fact, that is God trying to connect to us too.
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
12 Jun 18
@innertalks Always a pleasure, Steve. I think it is human nature to use our minds and let emotions get in the way rather than instilling love. We are too caught up with the things happening around us that love is pushed back until it tries to reach us.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
12 Jun 18
Researchers have found that intuition is a part of system and some people say and believe that intuition is data from your subconscious mind, based on past experiences and patterns, which is introduced to your conscious mind spontaneously..
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
Yes, that could be true in some instances of it, but I believe that our intuition can also come to us from a higher source than that at times too.
Albert Einstein, the great physicist, seemed to be able to tap into an imaginative energy field, which might have been a part of the collective unconscious mind, as some psychologists, such as Carl Jung postulated exists too.
I am saying that there is an energy field of love, which our higher self, is a part of too, and that we can obtain help and guidance from this field, when we tap into it, and connect to it.
Sometimes, when we love another person, as I do my wife, we are given guidance like this to help the other person avoid petty annoyances in their life, like in my example above.
We are all connected by love, and we are all guided by love like this to help others as needed like this too, I think.
I was just upset with myself for not speaking up and helping my wife here, this morning, to avoid this unnecessary disruptiveness to her day at work.
@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
@Jessabuma Yes, thank you.
I wish that I had spoken up this morning, but then, I wouldn't have been annoyed, and wrote up this discussion on here, so I guess writing it here, has made me feel that some good might have come from the bad, if someone else here, after reading this, follows their intuition, and does not ignore it, as I did here.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
12 Jun 18
@innertalks hehehe!!! Yes I agree with you.
You should always help your wife. I wish you all the best.
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@snowy22315 (208869)
• United States
12 Jun 18
What I notice is how when we ignore what the evidence is telling us, or refuse to listen to our inner voice how there can be dire consequences.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
Yes, there can be repercussions, but sometimes, we can still pick up the pieces, and learn something from our mistake in not following our intuition too, I think.
There are learning opportunities in both the good and the bad experiences, as love's light still shines behind everything I think, in some ways.
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@cherigucchi (15932)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
I hope I know the answer. I always have that as well and cannot find the answers myself.
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@cherigucchi (15932)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
@innertalks Sad to hear that. may be its time for you to take your intuitions into account. It is better to be safe than sorry all the time. Keep safe.
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@cherigucchi (15932)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
@innertalks That is the right thing to do. You should listen closely to it more especially if you think that it is sending you a negative sign.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
@cherigucchi Thanks, yes, the voice is always there in the background, but it is usually a quiet non-pushy voice, non-urgent sounding, just like a friendly suggestion to me.
I really must try to follow it more.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
Yes, better to say it as you said, even if it means nothing at the time to me, because it might mean something to them.
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@saritflor (3914)
• Hungary
12 Jun 18
Interesting question, for now I have not good answer for that, but I do believe though it has something to do with energies... strong energies.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
Yes, that is what I am saying here too. It comes to us from the strong energy of love that exists in our soul, or our higher self, and which is always trying to help and to guide us in the living of our lives here.
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
12 Jun 18
@innertalks Why did you receive the intuition and not your wife? 
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
@Starmaiden There could be lots of reasons for that.
Maybe she was rushing and in a mindset that couldn't receive a message at that time.
I believe that loving soulmates can receive messages for each other like this to help each other to walk along together on this life journey of which we are all a part of too.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
12 Jun 18
God does give us the inner voice, the gut instinct, but in much more practical form than we realize. People are constantly gathering information and storing it in their subconsciousness. They pull it up without ever realizing it. Some people do this better than others. Some only do it in association with certain people. You gather information about your wife, and yes, you should have said something.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
It was a public holiday here yesterday, that could have also affected my wife's memory routine, as it's hard to go back to work, after three days off.
This thought just spontaneously popped into my head, just as she was leaving, maybe also, some part of me resisted it, or dismissed it, as our overriding mentality archetypal thought here in Australia, is "she'll be right, mate."
Or maybe, I didn't want to hold her up, if she had to then go back inside to get the key.
There could be a lot of similar subconscious reasons that stifled me from speaking up, but like you said, I should have overcome all of these, whatever they were, and just spoken up.
This is what our intuition gives us the ability and chance to do, to not be always blocked by our subconscious processes, but to have the chance to jump past them here, and to do the right and loving thing in the situation, rather than being blocked by our mindsets of past behaviours, fears, and all of the other stuff accumulated there in our subconscious minds, preventing us in some ways, from our being of our best self.
We be our best self by being our full selves, working with our higher selves, God, and all life, I think, rather than just going it alone, with just the power of our own minds to help us.
@Shiva49 (28380)
• Singapore
12 Jun 18
Normally I act on my intuition though it may irritate others at times.
When we are concerned with others, we put ourselves in their shoes, and will instinctively connect with their reality.
Intuition has more relevance when we are traveling a distance and it helps us to doublecheck on what we could be overlooking - siva
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
12 Jun 18
Yes, thanks siva.
Sometimes, something like an intuition, can be more a compulsive wondering though.
We get a feeling, did we turn off the gas heater, did we lock the window in the laundry, did we lock the doors of the car, after we parked it in the shopping centre, or not.
Sometimes, we do need to discern between the two.
Sometimes, a real intuition might be happening, and we really should go back and check on it, the situation that we left.
How can we tell the difference between intuitional nudges, and compulsive wonderings?
We can discern this difference by the fact of if we are being filled with anxiety about the situation, or if we are more feeling a feeling of the energeticness of love speaking to us, from itself.
One feeling is a foreboding type feeling, the other is more a connective warmth of knowing truth deeply.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
13 Jun 18
@Shiva49 Thanks siva.
This disorder seems to run in families too a bit.
My grandfather had it. My Dad, as a boy, used to tease him, asking him, when they were already in the car, if he had locked the rear laundry door. He always went back to check on it again.
Then later on my Dad had it. He had it so bad that he had a notepad with him, where he used to tick off if he had done things, and at a later stage, he even needed my poor mother to sign his book too, as a seconder, that he had signed the book, that it was done.
My mother was always hopping up in the night to check things for him that he had forgotten to put in his book. He would nag her until she did this.
If he got up and checked it himself, he would not trust his own checking, and even when she got back into bed, he would keep pestering her about if she had really checked it properly.
I am just hoping that this family karma does not come down to me too, in my later years.
It wore my mum down over the years too.
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@Shiva49 (28380)
• Singapore
13 Jun 18
@innertalks Yes, we can easily slip into Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
When I leave for a long trip I do doublecheck to make sure that my place is safe.
I do that with important documents too.
I recall someone with OCD spoiling their outing telling his wife he did not remember locking the main door to the house!
It is always a challenge where to draw the line! siva
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@anamika161088 (11866)
• India
14 Jun 18
Our subconscious is connected to the universe in some way. Most of the time we don't get anything from the subconscious but sometimes it makes us alert of the happenings that might take place. It just take our consciousness towards subconscious which is actually hard to achieve.
I have known a person who knew that he would be dying in couple of days and it happened too. Though we all thought that it is just his age for which he thinks like that. Later we realized it.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
14 Jun 18
I wouldn't really like to get a premonition into when I will die, I don't think.
Some people claim that all of the subconsciousness's of us all add together to form something called a collective subconscious, which you could say, might be the subconscious of the Universe, and which we can all tap into, at times.
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