I am now working on my outline for this paper. What I want to portray in this paper is how and when to use intuition. To know how to detect and read the signals and to know which ones are accurate. Many people don't use their intuition because they feel that it has failed them. I believe people need to know how to read it in order for it to be accurate.

In the computer lab today I was a little stumped. I know that I want to do my paper on the way our intuition works, why it works, and why we should listen to it. I'm having a little trouble because there is so much information involved in it. I looked at a few websites that showed the benefits in trusting ones intuition and the many times that when people have failed to trust their intuition it brought them to a bad situation. I would like to find testimonials of people that have listened to their intuition and those that have not and see their reactions.

Unlike animals, humans have the ability to make judgements and use their internal resource. Can you imagine an animal reacting to their intuition with disdain instead of attention? No animal in the wild suddenly overcome with fear would ever waste their time on thinking. Instead of being grateful for the possiblity that our minds might be working and trying to save us, we rush to ridicule the impulse. We in contrast to every other creature in nature choose not to explore and even ignore our survival signals. Why do we waste this powerful gift? To spare ones feelings? The mental energy we use searching for the innocent explanation could be better used to find information that could protect us from danger.

Intuition

The topic for my research paper came to me when I was reading The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker. It is a book that teaches people to rely on their natural instincts and size up situations based on their intuition. This is a powerful book and I believe it is very accurate. I strongly believe that our intuition guides us to make the right decisions, and prevent us from involving ourselves in dangerous situations.