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Go with your gut — intuition is more than just a hunch, says Leeds research

Most of us experience “gut feelings” we can’t explain, such as instantly loving or hating a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings or “intuitions” are real and we should take our hunches seriously.

According to a team led by Professor Gerard Hodgkinson of the Centre for Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change at Leeds University Business School, intuition is the result of the way our brains store, process and retrieve information on a subconscious level and so is a real psychological phenomenon which needs further study to help us harness its potential.

There are many recorded incidences where intuition prevented catastrophes and cases of remarkable recoveries when doctors followed their gut feelings. Yet science has historically ridiculed the concept of intuition, putting it in the same box as parapsychology, phrenology and other pseudoscientific practices.

Through analysis of a wide range of research papers examining the phenomenon, the researchers conclude that intuition is the brain drawing on past experiences and external cues to make a decision — but one that happens so fast the reaction is at a non-conscious level. All we’re aware of is a general feeling that something is right or wrong.

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I’m highly intuitive and highly sensitive, which is a blessing and a curse. So I’m very interested in exploring all the ways we’re able to take in and process information. For example, I want to know if the heart’s powerful electromagnetic field contains information that others can sense and understand. I want to know if the earth’s electromagnetic field can carry information from one brain to another. More on this later!