Intuition

Wrongness in the air

Thought and feeling opposed

Go with your gut

I’ve been reflecting on intuition as the knowledge that arrives before permission is granted to know.

Intuition is often dismissed as irrational, especially when it contradicts careful analysis. Yet it is rarely empty. It is built from accumulated experience, pattern recognition, and embodied memory, working faster than conscious reasoning can keep up. What it offers is not certainty, but orientation.

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The tension arises when thought and feeling diverge. The argument is sound, the data convincing, and yet something feels off. In these moments, intuition does not present an alternative explanation; it presents a warning. A sense of wrongness that resists articulation, but insists on attention.

Ignoring this signal is easy, especially in cultures that reward justification over judgment. But the cost often appears later, when consequences reveal what reasoning alone failed to register.

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To “go with your gut” is not to abandon thinking, but to pause and ask what your body already knows. Intuition asks to be tested, not obeyed blindly. It invites reflection, a second look, a slower step.

Used well, intuition becomes a partner to reason rather than its rival. Together, they offer a fuller form of judgement, one that is alert not only to what makes sense, but to what feels sound.