learn the truth about intuition keep watching
I'm Damon Cart this is life mastery gym and I teach people just like you
cutting-edge NLP processes and techniques so that you can master your
life and take charge of your destiny so if that sounds good make sure you click
that subscribe button right down here so you can get these videos on a regular
basis this topic always gets me into trouble because when I start talking
about intuition and I start debunking the myth about it people take this very
personally I've noticed that people have religious and spiritual light beliefs
about intuition of course not everybody but a lot of people do and so when I
start to explain or debunk the myths around intuition it can actually offend
and upset people so if you're one of those people you might not want to watch
the rest of this video but if you're curious keep watching also if you want
to just skip to the free stuff go down here to the description not only will
you find other videos that I've done on a variety of topics mostly around NLP
you'll also find a link there to an assessment which I'll explain more about
at the end of this video your intuition is not divine inspiration and your
intuition is not always correct so first I'm going to talk about what intuition
is not and it's not those things that I just mentioned which many people make
these assumptions about their intuition being infallible you hear people say
things like I always trust my intuition my intuition is never wrong
my intuition has never guided me wrong and also people link it to something
spiritual now if you want to link it to something spiritual I'm never against
that I think you can turn almost anything into something spiritual it's
okay if you do that but what I don't think is a good idea is to think that it
is infallible or that it is divine so that it is right no matter what we can
get ourselves into a lot of trouble thinking that our intuition is always
correct and not only that it's not always correct so
times that it is incorrect when you're into intuitions are wrong and you just
sort of block that information out this tends to make us more and more
delusional when you start allowing in certain things that are not true and
that are irrational when you open that gate it allows in a lot of other things
you can't just sort of pick and choose what you want to allow in you start to
then detach more and more from reality you don't want to do that I want to give
some examples as well and very very smart people even people who I admire
and who I've learned a lot from will often say things about intuition as if
it's always correct now he's listening to a coaching call
there's a group coaching call from a very well-known internet entrepreneur
whose name I'm not going to say here he's very successful as well I've
learned a tremendous amount from him and I was on this coaching call and
listening to him really get into the woowoo and again I don't really have a
problem with that I think if you want to delve into the woowoo think side of
things that's okay with me but he went a little too far in my opinion he did some
individual coaching he would bring people on and he started saying things
like what does your intuition tell you because your intuition is always correct
if you go with your intuition it's always going to be right and I stopped
right there and thought to myself most of the time when I go with my intuition
when I'm new to something my into my intuitions are completely wrong every
all of my intuitions about marketing and internet marketing and even sales before
I got into sales almost all of them were wrong when we get into something and
we're new at it we're a novice at it we go within the direction of what we think
is right but often we have to be we have to be stopped and corrected repeatedly
and we come back saying wow the biggest thing that I've learned about this is
that it's counterintuitive when we say that all the time as well so I want you
to think about it like this say you were playing chess and you were playing chess
against a grand master and I'm also assuming here that you're not a grand
master but you're going to play chess against a chess player who is holds the
title of Grand Master if you were playing against that first
and you went with your intuition on every move you made do you think you
would win no you wouldn't the Grandmaster would win now why
exactly is that I'm gonna explain a little bit later
the Grandmaster would win no matter what doesn't matter how good your intuition
was if you didn't practice chess as much as the Grandmaster did and you weren't I
didn't have an IQ of like 200 you're not going to win the same thing goes for
let's use something more physical like Brazilian jiu-jitsu I get into Brazilian
jiu-jitsu mm-hmm I went with my intuition because I had nothing else on
my first few classes and I got my butt beat I got submitted I got held down I
got pinned you name it because my unpracticed intuitions my uninformed
intuitions weren't up to par with the skill level of the people I was going
against because I was new to it and these people had been practicing for
quite a while so I went with my intuitions but I lost and pretty much
everyone else would too if they had never done Brazilian jiu-jitsu and
they'd jump on the mat with someone who has been doing it for a year or two or
even say a black belt you get a black belt on the mount mat with someone who
has never done it before that black belts going to win doesn't
matter how intuitive you are it doesn't matter how well connected you are with
your intuitions you're going to lose so right there that should tell you your
intuition can be wrong your intuition is fallible be honest with yourself think
about times when indeed your intuition was wrong and it's not to say it's
always wrong in fact your intuition is actually usually correct and I'll
explain why a little bit later as well now we know what your intuition is not
it's not divine it's not always correct so what is intuition intuition is almost
identical to conscious thought all of the cognitive processes that you use to
consciously think about things and solve problems and come up with solutions and
sometimes have insights through conscious thought and conscious
cognitive process your intuition really works the same way
it just works outside of consciousness the reason your intuition can feel like
it has some sort of divine quality to it is because when you are dealing with
something and your cognitive processes are working consciously you have
conscious cognitive processes that you're working on to your your attention
your focus is set on one thing at the same time your unconscious can also be
solving problems for you this is the beautiful thing about the unconscious
and this also happens when we dream your unconscious because your unconscious is
working out stress and is working out problems through your dreams and when
you're awake and you're conscious and you're focusing on certain things
your unconscious can still be working on different problems it could also be
working on the problem that you're consciously focusing on as well while
that's happening it's really all the same processes all the same cognitive
processes like I said it's just happening outside of consciousness but
what can happen is suddenly the insight the solution the realization that your
unconscious has developed through a process it's been processing all of this
suddenly that intuition are suddenly that realization the insight whatever it
is solution suddenly becomes conscious and you go whoa yeah it's like a ping
you just go I have an insight or I have an idea and it seems to come out of
nowhere because all of the processing part happened outside of consciousness
the thing that became conscious was the solution the realization or the insight
now this is feels wonderful when it happens right and I'm not knocking it at
all I've had tremendous insights to meet tremendous intuitions that have helped
me and served me so well but what I also don't buy into immediately is that that
intuition will be correct first of all I want to test it I want to run it through
my conscious cognitive processes to see if there could be any problems with it
and I'm going to test I'm not going to just jump off a cliff with an intuition
that I've had because my intuitions have been incorrect at times so how do you
cultivate intuition first I'm going to address why your
intuition is often correct because when we are using conscious thought processes
we can trip ourselves up we can overthink things we can overanalyze
things we can put too much emotion into it which emotions are good we want to
experience emotions we don't want to push emotions away but emotions don't
tell us a lot of good information about what's actually happening around us so
to make a very good rational decision about something you don't want to block
out your emotions but you also don't want to make that decision from a place
of emotion what intuition normally does is it it's working it's a cognitive
process that's working unconsciously which means it's you're not overthinking
it it's your conscious mind is not getting in the way of it over analysis
is not happening it's basically using what you've already know and not
second-guessing it and so it tends to work very fast and it tends to be
correct because it's not an over thought process but in order to have intuitions
that are correct most of the time you have to have developed a certain amount
of wisdom and skill level and you had you at least have to have a lot of
experience in that area in other words you have to dedicate a lot of practice
and attention and focus in a certain area so think about how you're able to
speak the language you speak naturally it's actually an intuitive process at
this point isn't it I'm not thinking I'm not overthinking or I'm not thinking too
much about the next word every next word that comes out of my mouth well why is
that because I've been speaking English for over 40 years and so now it's become
intuitive but I can't go learn a new language based on intuition which I'm
actually learning a new language right now and I can't just rely on my
intuition to learn a new language I have to actually sit down and consciously
memorize words I have to sit and listen to the other language and have it
translated until it starts to make sense to me and this is yet another reason why
your intuition is not always right if you try to learn a language based on
intuition it's never going to happen but you can sit down with that language
you can soak in that language you can fill your mind with that language by
watching movies by reading books by listening to podcast and so that's the
idea is that you're trying to fill your mind with as much of this language as
possible so that the words start to make sense and eventually you start to speak
it and then when you first start speaking in again it's not going to be
very intuitive it's a very frustrating sometimes and can even be a very
difficult process because you're having to use your conscious mind so much but
eventually you do get to the point where it becomes quite unconscious and you can
just talk without having to think about every single word or think of really
it's not so much a conscious and cognitive process anymore and I think
about driving the same thing the first time you drove it was not an intuitive
process you it could have been scary you had to think about all these different
things you have to you know steer you have to push the pedals with your feet
you have to shift there's all these things that you have to do and so it
you're using your conscious mind a lot that's why in the beginning these things
can be very tiresome but after a while what happens after years of driving it
becomes so intuitive that you can drive to work and not even remember having
driven to work why because it was all unconscious you can get into a car and
drive from one place to another that you often drive to like works you've been
doing it a lot you've been commuting a lot you don't have to think about it
consciously you can do it intuitively you just get in a car and go without
thinking about it and you can speed up this process of being intuitive about
things that you're learning you can take something you've already learned and
think about how you approach it and this is what we call modeling in NLP and you
can also model other people and model their approach so that you can speed up
this process of cultivating intuition now one of the things that I use pretty
much every day on my life and I use with my clients is the self-concept model
created by Steve andreas what Steve taught about this model is that we don't
want to be self-conscious when we work on ourselves we are conscious of self
we're working on ourselves for whatever it is that we want to do or create
but once we make the change we want to allow that to go into unconsciousness
again because to be self conscious is a distraction we're thinking about
ourselves but we're having to operate in the world and do things and that divided
attention is what breaks flow so when we work on a quality a quality you want to
install into your identity while we're working on it of course you're overly
conscious of what it is that we're doing and installing this quality but once
it's installed it will eventually you'll stop thinking about it and it'll just
become it'll feel like it's part of you and once its installed over time it
becomes unconscious which means it becomes even more powerful because you
don't second-guess it anymore when you think about times when you need to
perform where you don't want to be self-conscious you want to just be
focused and engaged and what it is you're doing say like giving a talk to a
group of people or some sort of sporting event playing tennis playing baseball if
you're self-conscious you're more likely to make mistakes and this is why
intuition is very powerful you want to have this skill built into you so well
that you don't have to think about it and this is what we call flow when
you're in a state of flow you're not self-conscious you are just going with
it and we when we've experienced those states and I'm sure you have experienced
States so flow it's almost like there isn't a sense of self there's more a
sense of doing and this is intuition at work but it's also intuition that has
been built upon probably many years of practice and lots of experience if you
would like to know more about the self-concept model that I've mentioned
here and you want to see how it applies to your life and how you can use it to
cultivate qualities that you would like to have as part of your identity in such
a way that it's completely intuitive and completely natural there is a link down
here in the description you click that link and it will bring you to an
assessment you just answer the questions in the assessment which will be based on
your values and what areas of life you want to work on answer those questions
and then we'll send you the results absolutely for free and that's the first
step in the journey of really getting to know yourself and really getting to
transform into the person you want to become so make sure you take advantage
of that free assessment and while you're doing that if you liked this video make
sure you give it a thumbs up and if you haven't already make sure you click
subscribe to this channel and click the bell so that you'll get notified when I
put new videos out last but not least if you can think of a friend or a family
member who would benefit from this video make sure you share it with them
take care