Our weekly Intuitive Linked Communication class did a five-minute drumming session on this question: “What is the nature of instincts, habits, and intuition?” After I heard what everyone got, I asked them to type it up , and Dirk volunteered to concatenate them and send them back to us. Given that this does not raise privacy issues, I decided the net result is a post in itself.
I think this is of interest on a couple of levels:
a) the similarity of results,
b) the fact that everyone got their answers in the same way, by consulting guidance and reporting what they got, and, of course,
c) the material itself.
Here’s what we got, working together/separately:
Drumming:
What is the nature of instincts, habits and intuition?
Dirk’s session:
Though you sense there is a relation between these, and there is, it is not so strong as you imagine.
Habits we covered yesterday. And some of those are related to instincts and intuition. Many though have very different origins and are unrelated.
Instincts come mostly from the past experience of yourself, your threads, your parts and the interaction among them happening in the background – subconsciously so to speak.
They are a reflection of past experience overlain on current experience.
Intuition is a bit different. It can be very similar. But the major distinction is that intuition relies more on connection with ‘higher self’, connection to others, and even more about direct and indirect sensing of those things that are about to happen.
For the intuitive insights that do not rely on future memory, or anything like that, they rely in part on a pattern recognition similar to instincts and related to insight. They are projections of likely paths based on all of that and on connection to guidance.
For intuitive insights that are dependent on future memory, there is a strong filtering aspect to prevent you from always “falling” into a seemingly preordained future, and instead keeping you grounded in the present moment.
Paul:
Instinct or intuition is unlikely to manifest “purely,” that is, to be solely composed of itself. Just as, in Ben Franklin’s words, “Diligence is the mother of good luck,” so instinct and intuition can result from the cultivation of other qualities. If you learn to absorb sensory input before you judge, if you put aside intellectual rationalization—which after all is primarily a learned or education-imposed habit—forces are free to arise—when you get out of your own way.
For the group, this is a contribution to the question. Obviously there are many other aspects and points to be made and discussed.
Dave:
What you’re really asking is, what is happening below the level of conscious thought. The answer is… everything. The universe. All that is. You’re looking at instincts, habits, intuition as different things. What happens if you look at them as all one thing, emanating from the totality of you? [I assume this includes threads, higher self, sam, what have you]. Perhaps a more productive question is, what can I know now, below the level of consciousness, that can lead to living life more abundantly?
At some point, they mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect, measuring a cognitive bias to overestimate ability. I took that as a cheeky way to say, the veil is there to allow full immersion in the physical experience, enjoy.
Frank:
Instincts – innate habit. Habit – results of past choices. Intuition – manifestation of instincts.
That is, instincts allow faster-than-thought reaction to present-moment situations. This is because they rest on past habits – past agreed-upon ways of proceeding – among and within various strands. Intuitions are instinctive summaries.
We know this is difficult. We can talk later at more length.
Nancy:
Immediately you felt instincts had to do with safety and survival.
Habits are for comfort and rest periods between growth spurts.
Intuition is heart centered, coming from a more inclusive connection to divine nature.
Martha:
The 3 words are a semantic continuum. Intuition is in the moment guidance. Instinct is more historical. Maybe generational knowledge. Ingrained, reflexive. Can be a warning system. Habits are unconscious, usually. Easier to change than instincts because they start consciously. So you can use the conscious mind to stop them.
Jon:
They are basically each from separate sources. Habits being like programming in software. Instincts being hardware. Intuition being neither of those. But some input from spirit. They can all be experienced in a similar way. But they still have different origins.
Jane:
You remember some of the rough water times in your life. And you thought you were spending too much on 3D and not on your non-3D self. Consider it was when you were relying on the work ethics of an earlier self, like a thread. And you needed to refine that for the current line of work. That work ethic may have been just fine for the work that that thread was doing. And it was time to update it.
Christine:
Instincts intuition and habits – instincts and intuition resemble each other as they can both be nudges from guidance. Some instincts are built in reactions – hardwired. Guidance is always available depending on your vibrational opening or states. Instincts can also be learned like Pavlov’s dig.
Can I be aware of the difference between instinct and habits.
Put your energy there.
Dick:
Hey. You forgot about us. Well… where do you suppose they came from?