I'm going to start trusting my intuition over others' claims for the first time in my life

[belenen]

icon: "nascent (a painting by Michael Whelan of a person with long flowing hair and large breasts sitting naked and cross-legged inside a green egg, which is being held against the sky by giant translucent blue hands with pointy nails)"So today, at age 33, I realized I have never even tried trusting my intuition. After I realize something is a

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[slinkslowdown]

I think this is a great change and I hope you don't have much trouble in changing your habits--I know it can be hard.

I was going to say I never get intuitive feelings about people, but then I realized I do, when I do sex work. There's men I just plain stop communicating with because they make me feel unsafe--and that's only through e-mail communication. If e-mails make me feel unsafe, there's no way I'm going to subject myself to their physical presence.

My intuition also saved my mother's life about ten years ago.

I was out for dinner with friends after the last day of the school year. We were at a pizza place literally across from my apartment--I could see our balcony from the table we were eating at.

Out of nowhere, I had this intense feeling that I had to get home. I excused myself and bolted across the street and upstairs to our apartment. I found Mom screaming on the bathroom floor and called 911

[jeune_fleur]

My god that must have been really hard for both of you! It was definitely a good thing you trusted your intuition *sighs*.

[slinkslowdown]

Mom and I were both kind of used to dealing with medical emergencies. I grew up with a father who had poorly-controlled epilepsy and I had to know how to call 911/etc. since I can remember.

It was my first time ever having to do that for Mom, though.

[belenen]

wow, I am so glad that you paid attention to that intuitive sense! Good job you! That is beautiful and amazing <3

[belenen]

A 'pow' sort of sense in a good or bad or neutral way?

[belenen]

I hope to!

I can empathize with mental health stuff getting in the way of listening to oneself. Old coping mechanisms from childhood are what make it so hard for me to take my own warning signals seriously.

[bobby1933]

Data is for testong theories, not destroying them.

My spouse had great intuition, mine was lousy.

[belenen]

Good point about testing!

[meteorology]

I think this is a good decision to make.

Another part is that there is no good way to communicate about this. If I feel like someone doesn't know their own motives and that is what I am basing my decisions on, I can't notsay that if they ask why. But I can't really say it either because there is no way to say it that doesn't sound cruel or dismissive or (at best) super arrogant.

This has crossed my mind too and the best method I've found so far is just to say that it doesn't feel right for me. Which I know is very vague but at least it's truthful (in that it's about one's own feelings) without explicitly saying I don't believe you or I don't think you know yourself.

[belenen]

*nods* good plan, I think I could do something like that. *reflects*