Intuition?

[Barbara]

I had this feeling of fear,like something was going to happen.

[Michelle.]

Is it intuition or greater perception of the world you?

[cindybc]

Hi Barbara, in my own expereince I have found that If you were sensitive to other peoples energies around you to start with, once you are on HRT your sensitivety to the environment around you will increase your intuition to an even higher level then previously.

Cindy

[Miniar]

I had this feeling of fear,like something was going to happen.

Something will happen.
Something is happening all the time.

Acctually, I'm reminded of Slartibartfast's quote "No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that."

[Feever]

I have experienced episodes of intuition throughout my life.  There are times when I can just feel the "rightness" of things. 

My wife is aware of this and one day she asked me how much she got paid.  Without hesitation, I gave her a number.  It was correct to the penny.  How I did it is anyones guess, all I know is those numbers felt right.

In my first year serving in the Army, I drove past a particular house on post each day while going to work.  I always liked that house, and had remarked on it several times to my wife.  Our turn finally came around to move into post housing, (financially it is better for younger soldiers).  In Militarty housing, at least where I was, they assign houses at random.  You have no choice whatsoever where you live.  I was out training when our number came up, so my wife went to get the keys and adress.  Guess which house it was.  The one I had been admiring for more than a year.

Femininity has always had a "right" feel to it for me.

[Genevieve Swann]

I have heard and read that women are more intuitive thinkers than men. Men think logically. Everything has to proven before it is accepted as fact.

[Miniar]

I'd like to see that properly researched and logically/reasonable proven before we take that as fact. (Pun most certainly intended!)

[cindybc]

Hi Miniar, some research by the military has been conducted on people who were supposedly psychic, empaths, intuitives. The problem with this research proved to be in the inconsistency of these gifts. They cannot be summoned up at will especially if the test subject feels they are being pressured into producing results.

It is very much a random thing, like a feeling that is just there then gone. For some of us it may occure more frequently then others.

It can be inherent in both men and women, but appears that women are more sensitive to experiencing the phenomena of intuition. It has been postulated that intuition has been prevelent in women from primitive times, part of an instinct that has evolved and developed in time through child earing and and being the care givers.

Then again what I have stated above is theoretical.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/esp4.htm

Cindy

[LadyArwen]

Cindy --
You are right that everything you summarized is considered to be theoretical.  Yet it meshes perfectly with my own experiences with intuition.  It really does seem to appear only when needed, and then go somewhere else the rest of the time.

I am genuinely intrigued by one angle to the "women are better at intuitive thinking than men" discussion: are men in other countries more receptive to this type of thinking than American men?  The thing is, in order to be receptive to intuitive messages, you need to be in touch with your inner feelings.  In this country at least, men are expected to suppress (and ignore) both their feelings and their emotions.  As a result, I doubt that many American men even begin to understand intuition, let alone feel it.

How do people elsewhere feel about this observation?     

[tekla]

are men in other countries more receptive to this type of thinking than American men?

I doubt it, but I've lived and worked in other nations and find that most men around the world treat women worse than cattle, they are pigs.  Isreal might be the exception here.  But as a girl pal of mine says "All foreign guys want American girls till they get one."  As it turns out, most American girls are not going to pick your skid marked shorts off the floor and wash them, they are going to toss them out the window with you following.

I think that the innovation and invention of American men speaks volumes to intuition.

[cindybc]

I'm afraid you are correct about men tending to repress those sensitivities within their inner being. It's a shame, because I believe it would be such a better world to live in, if men were to allow themselves to follow their own inner instincts. 

There are some men who are in touch with the inner selves, you will find these men working at such jobs as ambulance attendance, doctors, therapists, counselors, search and rescue, Coast Guard, National Guard and even in drug and alcohol recovery centers, half way houses, soup kitchens, drop in centers, emergency aid workers, paramedics, fire fighters etc, etc. But then you will also find that women way outnumber the number of men in the many aforementioned occupations. I have spent 22 years of my life working at such outreach facilities as a social worker.

If one should ever ask you where do you find empathic and intuitive persons those would be the places I would suggest you look for them. God bless these kind hearted individuals.

If you also care to check out any number of intuitive and spiritual and any other number of sites dealing with the metaphysical phenomena on the web, you will also find that the number of women members also way outnumber the amount of male members on those boards.

Cindy 
Post Merge: May 23, 2009, 10:28:22 PM
"Hee, hee, hee," Chalk one up for the American girls. Should be more of those machete wielding A-Holes tossed out of windows.

Cindy

[tekla]

Hey I'd give the Canadians a break too, after all, they are just American's with health care and no guns.

[Eva Marie]

As an adrogyne i'm kind of in the middle here. I beieve that my ability to be in "the middle" helps me see all sides of an issue, and most times I can respond with a workable solution given the political climate and the players.

My current IT contract has me as an architect. And rightly so

[cindybc]

My hat with the long plume is off to you Riven_one, hon, androgynes never entered my mind, but of course I should have thought about our gently hearted fellows the androgynes. But of course there would be much more to perceive seeing it from both sides of the telescope. Feeling both sides of an other's thoughts and feelings inside, to know another's innermost personality and characteristics better then they are probably even aware of about themselves .

This I can identify with having been a sensitive for as long as I can remember, This was part of one of my awareness characteristics about myself that made me feel different and alienated from the rest of society. Since I Had those knowings I thought other people could do the same. That certainly made for a good dosage of paranoia. Now add this with my GID tendencies.

It sure made for me to feel that I had some very impossible obstacles to hurdle over. To have the ability to see, feel and hear things most others could not, can feel more like a curse then having been dealt what I see as two very precious gifts today.

Well is everyone here certain you want to mess around with intuition?

Cindy

[Cindy]

We tried this in my lab years ago.

If you take white blood cells, lymphocytes, and place them into culture with a mitogen ( a substance that makes them divide) you can measure their rate of proliferation. Six of us set up the same cells from the same person. The boys had to think guy things, footy & cars etc. The girls had to think girl things, babies, clothes etc; while setting up the expt. The result? Every culture was the same. As exactly as expected. But it was a fun bonding expt. Sorry if this sounds sexist it was deliberately done to have a bit of fun among a very clever group of people.

BTW I had a post doc ( this is 20 yrs ago) who was trying to clone a particulat gene. Nothing worked. A colleague made a pyramid over the culture plate in the incubator and that cloning worked. Does this mean pyramids are the incubators of Life. ROTFL.

Cindy