Q&A: Intuition and Feeling
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Intuition and Feeling
Question
What is the difference between intuition and feeling (for example, that one can rely on the senses for a religious feeling)?
How do you distinguish between these two categories (feeling and intuition)?
Answer
What do they have to do with each other? They are two completely different kinds of feelings. It’s roughly like asking what the difference is between two senses: sight and hearing.
As I understand it, intuition comes to us as a feeling. Suddenly you feel something, feel uncomfortable, or on the contrary experience warmth. A bodily sensation usually conveys bodily information, and intuition is unique because it is a feeling that carries information about your mental state, or about another person or an event.