What is Intuition?

Learning what is intuition will greatly help you to develop your full psychic abilities.  Many people simply don’t know or recognize their own psychic abilities because the skills come so naturally that they assume everyone must have these same abilities.

Here’s a good example of how we are simply not able to recognize our natural psychic skills.

When we look outside and see a tree in the horizon we often don’t have any idea that some people don’t have the ability to see out into far distances. We don’t understand that they can’t see what we see.

And the opposite is true as well. Some children can’t see what teachers are writing on the board at the front of the room. They are unaware that all the other children can see perfectly what they can’t. Intuition is just like this. We are able to see things that other people are not able to see but we don’t know that.

Understanding What Is Intuition

The short answer to the question is that intuition is the ability to know or perceive some thought or idea without going through the conscious logical thought process in which you come to a thought formulated conclusion.

Now there’s a mouthful. To put it a little more simply, Intuition is when thoughts or answers come to you, even when you don’t have to think about it.

Mastery and Intuition

The easiest way to understand intuition is to think about someone who has mastered some skill. The competition ice skater no longer has to think about each move she is doing. Her body has learned the feeling of the blades beneath her feet. It’s now her intuition that is guiding her subtle movements.

Or the master house painter that moves with grace and ease. Each brush stroke is done effortlessly with hardly an extra drip hitting the floor. His eye is able see and sense the stroke of the brush or roller in a way that most people cannot. 

He is using his intuition while painting. He no longer has to go through the conscious thought process of just how much paint to put on the brush or where to stop and end each stroke.

However, it isn’t always necessary to become a master of something in order to be able to access your intuition. It is entirely possible to learn to tap into your intuition once you know how it specifically works for you.

Types of Intuition

By coming to an understanding of how your own individual intuition operates you will then understand and acknowledge your own already natural psychic skills. From this point you can begin to further develop and refine those skills so that you can begin using them in your everyday life.

The different ways that intuition may appear in your life are also related to the different types of psychic awareness. Try to begin to see what way appears for you. As you begin to develop your intuition you can start asking Yes or No questions to see how the answers appear for you.

Feeling is one of the most common forms of intuition. This is often referred to as a “gut feeling” because you can feel physical sensations in the stomach when something doesn’t feel right or is inappropriate for what you’re trying to accomplish.

Vision is another common form of intuition. This can come in many ways. Some people will see the space around a person seem to change color when they know the situation isn’t right for them. Some people will have memories and those memories will have specific insights to the situation they find themselves in.

Hearing sounds or the voice of guidance is another common form of intuition. Similar to visions, this may come in the form of memories such as, “I can hear my father’s voice reminding me to...” And that memory is specific to what you need in the moment.


What is intuition? You could say that intuition is where all of psychic skills begin and develop. It’s your personal doorway into the psychic world that begins by going within your own self.

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