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Intuition is the power of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference. Intuition is unexplained feelings you have no evidence or proof of it.

“When you have a keen sense of feely feels that feel feely and you feel like you know things that you don’t know, but you do know because you are feeling them.” — Pinterest.com

“There is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” — Alan W. Watts

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” — Robert Collier

Hearing is an art! Listen carefully! Study constantly! We shall allow our intuition to guide us. Your insights and intuitions as a native speaker are positively sought. Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without resources to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation. Different fields use the word intuition in very different ways, including but not limited to direct access to unconscious knowledge, unconscious cognition, gut feelings, inner sensing, inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition, and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning. Intuitive knowledge tends to be approximate.

According to Sigmund Freud, knowledge could only be attained through the intellectual manipulation of carefully made observations. He rejected any other means of acquiring knowledge such as intuition. His findings could have been an analytic turn of his mind towards the subject.

In Carl Jung’s theory of the ego, described in 1916 in Psychological Types, intuition is an “irrational function”, opposed most directly by sensation, and opposed less strongly by the “rational functions” of thinking and feeling. Jung defined intuition as “perception via the unconscious”: using sense-perception only as a starting point, to bring forth ideas, images, possibilities, or ways out of a blocked situation, by a process that is mostly unconscious.

Jung said that a person in whom intuition is dominant — an “intuitive type” — acts not on the basis of rational judgment but on sheer intensity of perception. An extroverted intuitive type, “the natural champion of all minorities with a future”, orients to new and promising but unproven possibilities, often leaving to chase after a new possibility before old ventures have borne fruit, oblivious to his or her own welfare in the constant pursuit of change. An introverted intuitive type orients by images from the unconscious, ever exploring the psychic world of the archetypes, seeking to perceive the meaning of events, but often having no interest in playing a role in those events and not seeing any connection between the contents of the psychic world and him- or herself. Jung thought that extroverted intuitive types were likely entrepreneurs, speculators, cultural revolutionaries, often undone by a desire to escape every situation before it becomes settled and constraining — even repeatedly leaving lovers for the sake of new romantic possibilities. His introverted intuitive types were likely mystics, prophets, or cranks, struggling with a tension between protecting their visions from influence by others and making their ideas comprehensible and reasonably persuasive to others — a necessity for those visions to bear real fruit. Jung’s discerning between intuitive types and sensing types were later used in the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), used as polar opposites on the mind. Inner engineering creates inner mindset to inspire and empower by hearing others in good sense.