Intuition is "the immediate apprehension of an object by the mind without the intervention of any reasoning process" [Oxford English Dictionary].

Intuition is one of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung's four 'psychological types' or ego functions. In this early model of the own psyche, intuition was opposed by sensation on one axis, while feeling was opposed by thinking on any more axis. Jung argued that, in a meticulous individual, one of these four functions was primary — most prominent or developed — in the consciousness. The opposing function would typically be underdeveloped in that individual. The remaining pair (on the other axis) would be consciously active, but to a lesser extent than the primary function. This schema is perhaps most familiar today as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

In psychology, intuition can include the capacity to know valid solutions to problems and result making. For example, the recognition primed decision (RPD) model was described by Gary Klein in order to explain how people can make relatively fast decisions without having to compare options. Klein found that under time pressure, high stakes, and changing parameters, experts used their base of experience to identify similar situations and intuitively choose feasible solutions. Thus, the RPD model is a blend of intuition and analysis. The intuition is the pattern-matching process that promptly suggests possible courses of action. The analysis is the mental simulation, a conscious and deliberate review of the courses of action.

An essential intuitive way for identifying options is brainstorming. According to the renowned Neuropsychologist and Neurobiologist Roger Wolcott Sperry though, Intuition is a right-brain activity while Factual and Mathematical analysis is a left-brain activity.

Four Types of Intuition

I’ll first list the three primary types of intuitive perception that are the most usually known; explore seems to specify that these three are listed in order from least common to most common. The fourth type is a term that has been coined in latest years.

1. Clairvoyant: the capacity to “see” auras, guides/angels, etc. in 3D or in a vivid hallucination within the 3rd eye chakra. This is the kind that is most used by movies and television to depict psychic abilities; sadly, this widespread depiction has given the public a skewed idea of what being psychic in fact means. Somebody who is clairvoyant first interprets information from the hypothalamus mostly through the pineal gland.

2. Clairaudient: the ability to “hear” voices of the guides, angels, etc. in a similar way to the way we hear in each day life, or within the mentality. Someone who is clairaudient first interprets information from the hypothalamus primarily through the pituitary gland.

3. Clairkinetic: the ability to “feel” the guides, angels, and beings in other dimensions; getting a physical sensation in or on the body to indicate that another attendance is making a connection. Someone who is clairkinetic first interprets information from the hypothalamus primarily through the heart center.

4. Clairsentient is a recently coined term: it is the ability to “know” information through “impressions,” without having the experience of seeing, hearing, or feeling first. Within the human body, DNA is contained within each and every cell; the DNA is like the “brain” of each cell. A clairsentient uses their entire cellular DNA structure as their primary form of intuitive perception, without first going through the more linear process of “unpacking” information from the hypothalamus through the other glands.

All of these types of perceiving information from outside the physical realm are valuable and viable—one is not more or less preferable than another—and many people already use a mixture of one or more of these abilities to express their intuitive gifts.

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