Thread: Women's Intuition........

I actually remember posting something a while back and because of the time difference i didnt get a reply and time was running out! and i just followed my gut and i was all good! So yeah you're right it seems that intuition is just ignored...maybe its because people dont trust themselves enough to make a judgement on whatever the situation is.

I watched a special once on woman's intuition, in particular. In the wild, a momma bear can sense its cub is in danger miles away, it can smell it, feel it and go save it. With animals, their instinct and intuition is so primal, they don't overthink it.. they feel it and believe it.

With humans, we have the same instincts naturally but we also have life experience, education and a certain social training that causes us to question our intuition, to attempt to rationalize away those gut feelings instead of following them.

How many times do we say, as you said cw : I knew it. I just knew it. In many things in life I think following our every instinct and intuition could/would be a mistake, we do have to think things through as well and have a sense of rationality, but at the same time if we listen to those feelings tugging at our gut more often it would probably save a lot of grief down the road.

I've always had a very strong intuition, I get a gut feeling about people the moment I meet them on whether or not they are inherently good or not. I wouldn't doubt I am wrong more than half the time. Sounds kooky I know, but I feel an energy from people, a vibe so to speak where I immediately put people in categories of someone that could hurt me or not. Be it male, female or animal. Maybe I am just a fraidy cat in general.

I've been put in situations in my life where my stomach told me to run, and I didn't listen, thought I was being stupid and rationalised my fears down to nothing only to be hurt, in some cases physically. Had I listened to those little twinges of "get out of here now"... things would be different.

I try not to live in fear and defintely refuse to live in regret of that which cannot be changed, only learn from my mistakes and try my best to be more smart and cautious in the future.

Last year I was assaulted by someone that I trusted, someone in a position of power over me that took advantage of the situation. The writing was on the wall weeks, even months in advance and I refused to believe it.

My gut told me something was off about them, so much so that I even had told some friends that I got a weird feeling about the person, they seem not as they should be... (I never really elaborated as I felt so stupid thinking what I was thinking) but I didn't allow that (I kept telling myself I was being rediculous) to stop me from putting myself in a very dangerous situation with the person.

How I see the world, and people in general will never quite be the same after what happened. I lost trust in humanity in general , I will never again think that someone is incapable of causing hurt or harm just because of their profession or social stature, which was an innocent and naive notion to begin with I suppose.

Besides alluding vaguely to the incident here, anonymously.. I have never confided in a soul what happened to me other than to my boyfriend, but even with him - although I told him the truth - I toned down what happened , as if he knew the severity of what took place I think he would have pushed me harder to press charges and all I wanted to do was forget it ever happened.

I can think of a 100 times that I should have listened to my first instinct and things would have turned out better than they did in my life. But I suppose I can also think of 100 things that if I HAD listened to my first "intuition" things would be worse. Sometimes its our guts talking and sometimes its past experience and fear rather than true intuition telling us to act/not act in situations.

All in all I've learned, I think, to trust myself more. If I feel something isn't right.. to proceed with caution if I do in fact proceed at all. I'll take the bad with the good and not live my life in fear - that is not really living, but at the same time I will listen to my body when it senses danger, and seek the safest route possible to travel on.