Intuition and Premonition

Intuition: 

The power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference.

Premonition: 

 A feeling or belief that something is going to happen when there is no definite reason to believe it will.

Both of the above concepts have no scientific research to support that they exist.  Yet, you will find people across the globe who have experienced both. They may not admit it, but they have.

Intuition is accepted, while premonition is scoffed at. Why is that? Both concepts are based on knowing something without rational thought or conscious reason.

So what makes them so different? 

Intuition is knowledge based; I can accept that my brain can work faster that I can follow; leading to knowledge that I consciously didn’t give any thought to.

Premonition is event based.  Is it possible that my brain did the same series of leaps across my memories to arrive at a conclusion that a specific event will happen?  This one is harder to swallow.  Events are people interacting with the world.  People you have no control over, therefore, how is it possible know that a specific event will happen?

We learn from our own history.  We learn from our own mistakes and hurts. Yes, we learn from triumphs and happiness too, but the sharper lessons come from the unpleasant consequences of failure.

Should we dwell on those mistakes and hurts, continuing to poke at them like a half healed bruise, re-feeling all the ugliness? 

No. It happened.  You learned. (at least I hope you learned something)

Move forward.

But don’t forget.  Never forget.

Forgive and forget is a joke.  Forgive yes. But forget?  Never.

Hold a grudge like it’s the most precious thing in the world? No. that’s not healthy either.

It happened.  Do you know why?  Maybe.  Faced with the same circumstances in the future, would you make the same choices?  Maybe.

Hurt me once, shame on you.

Hurt me twice, shame on me. 

I’ve burnt myself many times.  On the stove, the oven, a campfire; regardless of the type of burn, it hurts.

A lot.

Yet, standing outside a burning building would I hesitate to dash in to save one of my loves? Hell no. In a millisecond my head and heart weigh all the possibilities and I make a decision before realizing I’ve actually made a decision.  

Physically putting yourself at risk is one thing.  Emotionally putting yourself at risk is quite another thing entirely.   

We don’t listen to ourselves. We continually ignore signs and signals from our hearts and heads because it’s all internal. Easily ignored and pushed aside.

We don’t stop to listen.

We don’t stop to hear.

We get lost in the sea of emotions and we don’t stop to breathe.

We get lost in the mucky mud that are the lows. 

We get lost in the starry skies that are the highs. 

  

You can’t un-know something.  You will always know 2+2=4.  You never forget how to ride a bike. Apply the same concept to your mind and heart.

Is it possible that evolution has given us the ability to unconsciously sort through our personal histories to guide us through the future?

Intuition and premonition.

Two very personal internal processes that we are afraid to listen to.

Afraid to believe the negative is going to happen.

Afraid that the positive won’t happen if it doesn't happen now. 

How could I possible know about what’s going to happen when I have no control over anyone but myself?

A slight uneasiness in your gut? Something not feel right?  

Listen to your heart.  Continue along your path, after all, you have no “real” reason not to. 

But.  Stop.

Take a moment - late at night, while you’re mindlessly folding the endless piles of laundry, or while you’re stuck in traffic, to look at those feelings. Why, in spite of all the awesomeness in your world, do you have the foreboding sense that it’s about to crash down around you? 

Then.  Weigh it.  

Continue on or make changes.

It’s just like the snap decision made before dashing into the burning building. Only, now, there is time to make a choice. 

You. have. to. choose. 

You know what? Even choosing to ignore the feelings is making a choice.

Not making a choice? Still a choice. You are choosing to not make a choice.

At the opposite end of the spectrum. It hurts so terribly when your head and heart scream at you that that, over there, is right......

.....but right is just not gonna happen.

You want to be happy.  But, unfortunately, you have no control over anyone but yourself.

So, stop. 

Take a moment. Then, let it go.   

Yearning, chasing, mooning over a right that is out of your reach is a waste of time. 

Accept that, yes, that is right. So right it hurts.

Every bone in your body knows that that is right.

Then, accept that right is not right, right now. 

There is nothing more agonizing than to see a right, walk toward it, and pass it.
without touching.   
Is that the only right that you will ever stumble upon?

Maybe. maybe not.

Remember two things:

timing's a bitch.

and

today is not tomorrow.