“Back and forth, we must switch between intellect and intuition, between rational, objective knowledge and embodied paradox.” Christian De Quincey, PhD. Psychologist David G. Myers warns, “Intuition is important, but we often underestimate its perils." A number of personal development and high ability authors explain how intuition works and how to develop and use it... "Intuition plays a large part in the lives of a majority of gifted people." Elizabeth Maxwell, Advanced Development Journal.

Gut reaction, hunch, instinct, nose, presentiment, second sight – the ability to gain understanding outside the usual senses and rational thought can be an invaluable guide to enhance our personal development and help realize ourselves more fully, but there are also potential limitations and distortions.

Imagine yourself being handed a magic formula that’s so powerful that whenever you put it to work, the things that are best for you can be easily acquired. This sounds like the beginning of a fairytale, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. There IS a magic formula and it DOES bring exactly what is in your best interest through a simple, direct mechanism. The formula I’m speaking of is your natural gift of intuition.

My approach to transforming fear has two stages. First, take stock of what makes you afraid and distinguish irrational fears from legitimate intuitions. Second, take appropriate steps to heed protective fears and transform the others with courage. At times you may foresee real danger, but more frequently unproductive fears clobber you.

So, when you can be at ease with not knowing, you have already gone beyond the mind. A deeper knowing that is non-conceptual then arises out of that state. Artistic creation, sports, dance, teaching, counseling -- mastery in any field of endeavor implies that the thinking mind is either no longer involved at all or at least is taking second place.

Successful people make the kind of choices and decisions that lead to positive outcomes. It is based on information that goes far beyond what is learned and involves accessing accurate information from seemingly nowhere. This ability is intuition and highly successful people enjoy a higher degree of intuition than the average person.

By Sonia Choquette - "Being aware of, honoring and following the guiding wisdom of our intuition is the most reliable way to create lives that fulfill our deepest dreams and desires."

We come into life equipped with five basic senses -- touch, hearing, taste, sight and smell. But we also possess some more mysterious senses. One such little-understood sense - intuition - governs our ability to arrive at spontaneous "non-logical" decisions.

"What separates actors from nonactors is their ability to understand intuitively what a scene is about and then be able to connect it to what's inside themselves to bring the material to life.

"Intuition — automatic, effortless, unreasoned thinking — guides our lives. But intuition also errs, and false intuitions may go before a fall." By David G. Myers, a social psychologist at Michigan's Hope College, the author of Intuition: Its Powers and Perils.