| Intuition means an instinctive awareness of an | | | | even if he hit it before and his guess often proves |
| impending event. You feel something is going to | | | | correct. |
| occur, though you cannot explain the reasons of its | | | | Intuition is synonymous with sixth sense, the third |
| occurrence. The impending event casts a deep | | | | eye or extra sensory perception. Scientists trace the |
| shadow on your thoughts and you cannot trace its | | | | origin of intuition to the unconscious mind, which |
| origin. It is a kind of unconscious knowledge. It may | | | | becomes more active in certain situations and |
| even appear as a vision before your mind's eye. A | | | | influences our thinking process. And since intuition |
| mother may feel that some thing ominous has | | | | may spring out of the unconscious mind, it becomes |
| happened to her son who is at the war front and | | | | difficult to explain it rationally. |
| soon thereafter she receives news that he has been | | | | Some people like psychics and seers are more |
| grievously injured. | | | | intuitive than others and they accurately predict the |
| Intuition quite often plays a significant role in taking | | | | course of events. The declarations of the psychics in |
| important decisions at critical moments even though | | | | quite a number of cases are termed "anomalous |
| all the rational arguments and evidence may go | | | | cognition". |
| against that decision. There are numerous examples | | | | The reason why the psychics and seers are more |
| of intuitive decisions taken in: | | | | intuitive is that they have honed their mind/intellect |
| - war | | | | to listen to their natural feelings. They have learnt to |
| - business, | | | | tap their unconscious mind in a more creative way. |
| - share market, | | | | Or, it may be explained that they have learnt to |
| - establishing new relationships, | | | | keep their active mind relaxed and still to enable it to |
| - treks, | | | | listen to the intuition emanating from the unconscious |
| - expeditions and so on. You postpone your flight for | | | | mind. |
| no ostensible reason and then find that a crash has | | | | Moreover, stilling and controlling their mind helps them |
| occurred in the same flight. | | | | to connect with the Universal Mind that is the |
| In sports and athletics, a baseball coach expects a | | | | ultimate repository of truth which appears in form of |
| hot hand meaning that a player will hit the ball again | | | | intuition. |