Intuition, or “going with your gut.” How do you view it? Is it a valuable tool used in gauging a situation? Or does it bow before the irrefutable evidence of experience? In my book, Standing in a Field With Horses, initially intuition, even messages seeming to come from the horses, were dismissed as folly. Of course, the people who had been working with horses for decades had the right answers. Of course, I was imagining what the horses were saying. The evidence was in how well behaved and obedient the horses usually were under the hand of these experienced equestrians. However, as intuition blended with an accumulation of experience and research, it proved useful in finding new and different solutions to horse-human conflicts. Solutions that looked different than the traditional horse handling I’d been taught.
Intuition doesn’t operate well in a vacuum. We could “intuit” whatever we want about a situation, but without feedback it can quickly veer into fantasy. Intuition with feedback, however, is a significant tool for learning. I feel it in my gut when something might work out if I just tried this… and then I try it and it either works out or fails spectacularly. Lesson learned. Suddenly intuition is transformed into an experience. What have you intuited that led to a valuable lesson being learned? How did it feel in your gut? In your body? Was it accurate?
Only five more days until the launch of Standing in a Field With Horses on November 13th! I’m so excited to share the journey with you. Find it on Smashwords and Amazon Kindle.
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