Awakening Intuition Summary And Analysis

Awakening Intuition is a discussion video which covers a therapeutic practice developed by Dr. Frances Vaughan involving the psychological function of intuition. For the purpose of the discussion, intuition is seen less as just an instinctive feeling and more so as a tool used in addition to one’s conscious reasoning. Despite the initial notion that intuition is an uncontrollable human activity within the mind, Dr. Vaughan’s belief is that intuition is a flexible and useful tool that with time and effort someone can “make it more accessible, more available to us, and also more reliable.” She suggests there are simple steps an individual can take in order to focus their intuition including quieting the mind, using attentional training, and developing self-awareness along with ethicality, the development of morals or the principles of morality, in order to utilize the mind and become more balanced as an individual. …show more content…
The practical use of intuition and larger implications are a great focus for Dr. Vaughan. She uses the mind of Einstein as well as other mathematicians for examples of the practical use one can find trusting intuition. Dr. Vaughan insists that it “breaks new ground,” meaning that as an individual hones their their skill in using and paying attention to their intuition, new areas of focus will appear. This allows for the expression of new creativity and can lead to new areas of perception for the user, such as mathematicians who create new mathematic concepts to only later work them out and find them true. Techniques that Dr. Vaughan advocate lead one to believe that as counselors promote trust in intuition and individuals used their intuition, that society as a whole would flourish as the sub sets of humanity would take greater care of “self” and thus be able to assist one