How Intuition & Logic Working Together Makes You Smarter

In this short coaching session, I discuss the nuance between intuition and logic.

I talk about how you can hone your instincts so that you can support yourself in your thoughts.

When we sync our intuition with our logic we tend to make better decisions overall.

Then we end up becoming more effective and just plain smarter.

Okay, in today’s session, I’d like to discuss the difference between intuition and logic and how and when to use them.

I think sometimes we misinterpret what intuition is, and sometimes we overuse logic.

Science has now discovered that those gut feelings that we all get are in fact backed up by biology.

Apparently we have sensors in our gut, in our intestines that can give the brain information about our environment.

This is also true of the heart.

So on a gut level, on an energetic intuitive level, we will pick things up before it’ll get to our brain.

Our body gets information before we can synthesize it through our thought process.

So, that number one, is important to know.

Number two, because intuition and these sensors are connected to our gut and our heart, we can get it easily confused with our emotions.

And that’s where logic comes in.

Logic is purely an analytical state of mind.

The mind loves to cut things up and dissect them and dig into them.

We’re all a type of amateur scientist and investigator in that sense.

It’s part of why mystery novels are so much fun to read.

The mind loves a puzzle.

So when it comes to logic, it needs to be used at the right time.

Since logic is meant to dissect something, you have to have an understanding of what you’re dissecting, first of all. Then you can get the information from it.

For example, in science class.

I don’t know if they still do this, but many, many years ago in high school, we used to dissect frogs.

So we knew we were dissecting a frog.

So we could examine it from that place of a certain level of knowing and understanding, which is what we need to do with our intuition as well.

Intuitively, we have to identify something first.

It comes into our field of understanding and recognition.

We get an impulse, we get a feeling, whether it’s positive or negative.

Then it’s like, oh, okay, well that’s telling me to stay away from that person.

We don’t really know why, but we do it because we know our intuition is looking out for us.

The W-H-Y is where the logic comes in.

To hone your ability to have your intuition and logic work together you’ve got to experience things.

There’s got to be a level of experience between intuition and logic before it becomes really effective.

Intuition always needs to lead and logic helps to fine tune what our intuition has picked up.

It’s a little bit like a spear.

If intuition is the spear, then logic is the sharpening stone that hones the very tip of it to make it very, very sharp and exact.

So, the spear will point us in the right direction. However, it’s logic that will make it sharp enough to truly pierce it and make it something that we can fully penetrate and understand.

So now, if we know that intuition is the spear and logic is the sharpening stone. There is that time in between where the spear’s in the air, so to speak. That is the time where we’re processing and experiencing what our intuition has alerted us to.

And that’s where a lot of things can go wrong.

That’s why we need a lot of confidence.

Confidence helps you determine whether the information that you think you’re getting from your intuition is in fact something real or not.

Confidence helps to guide the logic in the right direction.

So here’s an example, let’s say you have a fear of small, dark rooms. You may have been accidentally locked into a dark closet when you were younger, okay?

So now this is something, it’s not a phobia, but it’s something that just makes you uncomfortable to be in a very small room with no lights on.

And let’s say you’re at a party and you ask one of the strangers there, someone you don’t know, which way to the bathroom?

And this person says, “Down the hall to the left.”

You really do need to use the bathroom. Yet your instincts, your intuition is telling you that there was something odd about the interaction between you and this person.

Now this is the time in between intuition and logic where we are experiencing the information and sensations that our intuition is sending us.

We are now filtering it and processing it and experiencing it before we get to a point where we can understand it with some logical sense.

Right now, you don’t know why there was a weird sense to that interaction.

You make your way down the hall to the bathroom anyway. You get there and you realize that when you flip the switch, the light bulb has burned out.

So now you’re going to be in a dark, small room.

So now is the time where your logic can kick in and think, okay, it was a bit of a weird interaction with this person. Perhaps they knew the light didn’t work and they weren’t sure whether they should tell you that or not. Since they knew that you’re going to need to go there anyway and there isn’t really a choice.

However, for whatever reason, they decided not to say that.

So now we’re getting into the realm of logic. Now, it’s important to have confidence when you’re interpreting what your intuition is saying.

Sometimes our minds lead us down a road where we can justify limiting beliefs about ourselves and life.

And that’s not where we want to go.

That’s not the purpose of intuition. intuition is just information and how we interpret it will have much to do with how we move forward.

So make sure that your logic and your thought process errs on the side of self-support.

You’re using your mind and your logic like a great friend toward yourself when you do that.

Now you’ll start to listen to your intuition in a wholehearted way, if you will, instead of just passing it off, which we’ve all done.

Oh, well, it’s no big deal, or that doesn’t matter, or there will be some sort of justification for why we get an initial instinct or gut feel for a situation, whether that’s positive or negative.

And instead of just brushing off that feeling, we have the confidence and self-support to interpret it in a way that will benefit us.

So to move forward, that way we can move forward into bigger, greater things.

So I hope that’s been helpful.