Your intuition is part of you. It is not some outside entity or a spooky voice that lives inside your head telling you to pour maple syrup all over old Aunt Thelma and throw birdseed at her in the park on Sunday morning with whilst blowing into a bird whistle. Well, at least I hope not. Your intuition is simply a part of your consciousness that has access to information beyond the range of your 5 senses.
Your intuition helps guide your mind in the direction of your most dominant thoughts and deepest desires. So if you’re a creep then your intuition will probably be pretty creepy. But if you are a positive minded person with the best in mind for yourself and others, then using your intuition will help you make better decisions along those lines. However, your intuition is of no use to you when it is ignored. So, here are some simple steps you can take to begin to develop your sense of intuition.
Let go of the Need to Know Why
Remember, intuition deals with information your brain has access to beyond the range of your 5 senses. Trying to gain a complete logical understanding of why you have a certain “hunch” or “feeling” typically won’t work. While you would certainly want to check out your intuitive hunches by logically forecasting any foreseeable consequences such as safety to yourself and others, over analyzing and stalling can cause your window of opportunity to close, leaving you further confused and probably feeling pretty frustrated. So, once you determine that acting on a particular hunch is safe even if you may be logically uncomfortable with it, you must move on to the next step of
Taking Action
Like any other skill you develop or any muscle in your body, your intuition becomes stronger and more reliable the more often you use it. It may not always be right, but are you typically 100% right relying on logic and reason alone? If you could improve your decision making ability even 10-20% by learning to trust your intuitive instincts and blend them in with conscious reasoning, wouldn’t you consider yourself better off for having done so? What if you could do even better?
Learning to Trust
To develop trust in your intuition, you can start keeping track of how often it turns out to be right. It probably won’t be close to 100% initially. In fact, it may never reach 100% accuracy. Don’t be dismayed. Practically no one has gone through the trouble of tracking the accuracy of their “normal” decision making process, therefore you won’t have any basis of comparison on which approach is more accurate . Rest assured however that your conscious decision making ability isn’t quite 100%, else you wouldn’t have bothered to read this far into this post. The whole point of keeping track is to give your logical mind less reason to doubt intuitive responses because it now has some empirical data to latch onto. Feel free to skip this step if it doesn’t resonate with you. In fact, if you can skip this step you are probably one step closer to using your intuition effectively.
Summary
In summary, your intuition is a part of your consciousness that is able to see the whole picture, taking into account both sensory information and some mysterious spooky logic that makes people run around naked in caves chanting mantras to statues of strange looking animals while drinking a frothy homemade brew that must surely include eye of newt, hair of bat, and other such tasty things. 
Seriously, remember when I wrote that our 5 senses constantly filter out much of our reality so that our conscious minds can process the data effectively to accomplish the task at hand? Your unconscious mind has access to all the raw, unfiltered information that you were exposed to, and your intuition uses the data that was screened out in ways that are helpful to you and that you otherwise would have missed. When it picks up on some pieces of information that you had screened out or otherwise disregarded but that is of importance to you, it lets you know in the form of a feelng, a hunch, or a lingering thought. That’s basically it. Paying attention to, trusting in, and acting upon your intuitive hunches gives you more data to work with and helps you make better decisions. Well, that and channeling the space aliens from planet Kitmankoo of course. I gotta go, ’cause right now they’re telling me to go make some pizza. Yumm, pizza. 
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