Each person may have his or
her own definition of intuition. This brain function is difficult to define—at least
with a definition that is recognized universally. According to Sophy Burnham,
author of The Art of Intuition,
intuition is the subtle knowing without ever having any idea how or why you
know it. Intuition is different from thinking, from logic, or analysis. It is a
type of knowing without knowing. Scientists believe that intuition is always
there, whether or not you are aware of it. An article published in the Journal
of Alternative and Complementary Medicine defines intuition as a process by
which information that is normally outside the range of cognitive processes is
immediately sensed and perceived in the body and mind as certainty of knowledge
or feeling about the totality of a thing distant or yet to happen. This
experience is very different from the processing of normal awareness that
occurs incrementally. Intuition is a sense of the whole all at the same time.
It can generate a positive sense of excitement or a negative sense of dread. In
working with women who have been date raped, I cannot count the number of times
I heard variations on a theme. For example: “When he picked me up, I had this sudden dis-ease about going on this date. Too bad I dismissed the thought.”
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