Woman’s intuition: Why do they know what they know?

Is Women’s Intuition a fact, reality, or a trumped up catch-all for a reason beyond reason? This label of “women’s intuition” has been scorned, scoffed at, blamed, credited, admired, dissected, believed, not believed and mostly credited to women. Yet, it seems to be accepted as matter-of-fact, non-debatable even highly regarded and not to be questioned. To develop a woman’s intuition is becoming a more and more sought after skill (men included for the purpose of evading or not?)

Women’s intuition, which was once been considered weird and unexplainable, now has a new perspective. Call it assessment at first sight, but women can tell a lot about a man from a passing glance. Women tend to have these “intuitions” because they are more attuned to the emotions around them, they are particularly sensitive to emotions, and they are also good listeners. Woman are also (on average) more interested in people, a trait that plays a vital role. Intuition apparently comes from stored experience. As a person learns how to run a company, diagnose an illness, or play a game, he or she begins to see regularities and organize these patterns into blocks of knowledge—known as “chunking.” With time, more patterns are “chunked” and linked. These clusters are stored in long-term memory. Then, when a single detail of a complex pattern appears, the experienced person instantly recognizes the larger composition, bypassing plodding sequential thought. Both sexes store data, but women probably chunk more data about people. Then they use their well-connected brains to “read” minds. Intuition is a combination of instinct and connection to the subconscious self.

Women usually have a keener perception of this than men, but that doesn’t mean men don’t have any intuition. Sometimes, men are transparent on what they feel that’s why women can easily detect or pick up what they are trying to say (or hide). Intuition is direct knowing, or the perception that occurs when mind, body, feeling, and spirit are simultaneously active and integrated while being focused entirely in the present moment. This unification of awareness results in knowing what is real and appropriate in any given situation, with full confidence and trust, without need for proof. Call it radar but women have it, although at times women just use their common sense and not really intuition on finding out things that are hidden by men, they use their perceptive thinking all the same. Women’s intuition is recognized by everyone, yet men’s intuition is just as strong “Women’s intuition” was a popular term to explain certain things about femininity for those men who didn’t have a clue. Nowadays, with the decrease in sexual stereotyping, it’s generally recognized that intuition is a characteristic of men as well as women. What we commonly call “women’s intuition” is emotional intuition; and of course it is not limited to women, but our society teaches boys at a young age not to express or feel emotions, and therefore stunted emotional intuition among men.